Haha, yeah, the surgeon was all excited to tell me how mine was abnormally long, and that’s what saved me from worse consequences despite the rupture; she had never seen the appendix sorta wrap in on itself to contain things.

pain tolerance is a funny thing. I’ve gained mine from years of dental operations, and unfortunately in this case it led me to vastly misjudge the situation. Thankfully my wife gave me a stronger pair killer and at 11pm told me to get my ass to ER pronto. Which saved me.

It was appendicitis. 24h of pain. Had started rupturing.
I thought it was constipation.

(in my defense, neither my obgyn wife nor the emergency doctor on the phone were sure because I had precisely zero of the usual symptoms)

Year?

Sure, but I’ve a guy working with me who’s supposed to have ten years xp in the tech we use, and he’s pretty fucking useless.
Meanwhile the young front-end dev who didn’t know any of our tech turns out to learn everything we throw at her after one explanation. Pure tech eval would’ve meant throwing her away after reading her cv.

Telling me your blood type or astrological signs is as useful as telling me your certifications and years of experience, these days.

Because Duolingo isn’t enough. I had two years of Rosetta Stone before I went to China. It was just enough for me to survive, but it was not enough per se. Duolingo isn’t any better. It’s been useful to keep my skills, get some vocabulary, but it isn’t enough!
You need to actually practice.

It’s funny to read the reactions and the people not understanding that programming questions are not enough to judge you. We need people with functioning brains and that usually means problem solving skills. And sometimes the problems are fucking idiotic! Nobody cares about the light switches. We want to see how you think. We want people who don’t give up if they can’t look it up.

You think you’re hot shit because you learnt the latest trendy language? I’ve wasted entire days with people like that because they couldn’t be fucking arsed reading error messages and figuring things out by themselves.

Oouuuch! I hear you though 🫂

I’m a little surprised you don’t curse in klingon. Seems like a great language for it no?

Rachel?!

À complete mystery. We probably need more AI.

That’s user error. “Everything is working fine on our end. You figure it out, champs”.

Lucky you! She wrote quite a few of those Meredith Gentry novels if you like that sort of things. She was doing bit lit before it was a thing, really :)

It’s kinda amazing how she started as an Ann Rice wannabe but then the erotic angle took more and more of the novels and then the Meredith Gentry series started pretty much full on porn right out of the gate.

Now? Laurel K Hamilton was writing A Kiss of Shadows in (checks notes…) Two fucking Thousand! You kids are way behind!

That’s probably what the urban planner who didn’t put a pavement where people are clearly walking would say ;)

The heart wants pavement eh?

Certainly would be a vibe to see the puppet’s video on that set while you’re trapped in that contraption.

It’s called the third hand for a reason!

Nice apartment! I see you even hot parking space. And how’s the rent?

I believe abstention is different from being there. They are diplomats who represent their country, some of which don’t have an official position on certain topics. While I wholeheartedly agree that politicians not showing up to work should be punished, this is a slightly different issue.