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You have to weigh it against "If I had behaved like they did, would I be happy with myself?"

This sounds very much like a few programmers I know/knew except that the alliances and relationships were between bits of code and/or infrastructure.

Agreed.

EDIT: _Mostly agreed_. Religion never proves itself. It just demands that you have faith.

Happy Birthday!

Also, if I may be so presumptuous as to offer a suggestion: try contacting someone from earlier in your life. Many times, people are lost in their own world, their worries and problems and life just happens as it always does. However, they are very likely to be happy to suddenly hear from an old friend. I have been on both sides of this and it was ultimately a good experience. In one case, I also happened to have contacted someone at an opportune moment and saved them from self harm.

Again, a very happy birthday to you and I hope that, this year, you find joy in life.

By definition axioms can't be proven but they are assumptions which we take for granted upon which we build science. However, in science, the axioms are such that they can be observed and discarded if we ever find them to be false. This is where it differs from religion.

If you've come to the comments before reading the article, please do observe the URL before clicking on it. The page (because of the title) might be flagged by keyword filters in workplace proxies.

I invite you to try different climates around the world. It is not at all unusual to be drenched in sweat from just walking outdoors for most of the year in many parts of the world. I do agree with the rest of your comment, however.

While getting scratched now and then is part of life for someone who raises cats, it is not normal to have one's cats scratch guests unless the guest has provoked the cat. It is not hard to teach them not to scratch and bite. It can still happen accidentally but it should never be a regular occurrence.

"Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance"

It's not about Zen or motorcycle maintenance. However, it _is_ a book that will make you think about the nature of work and how one way of looking at work collides with another.

This is an exercise that I recommend: https://drcolleencarney.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Const...

This is called "worry time" and it has helped me in the past.

Another article describing it is here: https://healthypsych.com/psychology-tools-schedule-worry-tim...

It's not a silver bullet but it's a useful tool to have in one's toolbox.

I don't know how you consider it "lowest hanging fruit" when beef is so tasty.

My current diet, I do not wish to state. However, I was a vegetarian in some phases of my life. If motivated enough, I could be a vegetarian for life. However, it would be a folly if I were to start believing that everyone can make sacrifices of this kind. For some people, giving up on things they like to eat is very hard. For some, giving up on using their car is hard. People can do different things to help and not everyone needs to do every single thing. An extreme approach is not practical and it's next to impossible to "sell" such an idea.

Much like the scarecrow, I chased after wit. Presently, I came upon a singular fact: the Tin Man's quest is Noble and mine vain. Being considerate, compassionate and sensitive towards the fellow man is the only way forward.

Good form deadlifts.

If they are not all water soluble, you might be taking too much of one (or more). This is not always safe.

For the future, if you use yubikeys, yubico authenticator is a drop in replacement for google-authenticator and you can save your google-auth setup on multiple yubikeys. So, even if you lose one, you still have it on another. Then it is independent of the phone. Also the yubikeys themselves can be used as 2FA for google accounts. However, sadly, you can't set them up on firefox the last time I tried.

Ensure you've eaten well.

Pick a drink which has a taste to your liking. Relish it while you drink it.

Drink a glass of water between drinks.

Stop after a couple of drinks. This is much easier if you've done the above.

(This may turn out to be rubbish advice but there may be a good idea or two in there.)

Does it also bother you that a lot of people tend to say "amount of people" instead of "number of people"? I think of cannibals talking about their food whenever someone says "amount of people".

Exactly! And of course this ought to go further and only the desperate are ultimately deserving of that job. They won't even demand safe working conditions. They'll be grateful for the opportunity. It's not slavery if the employer doesn't "own" that person.

"looked it up wrongly and did the wrong thing"

"Everything is slow, cumbersome"

You may want to evaluate if this is going on even in other spheres of your life and see where the crux of the problem lies. Unless this is how you always were, these are symptoms of something else. Perhaps you need to figure out what is bothering/troubling/ailing you. It could be inadequate rest or something entirely different. Find someone who can look at things objectively and can help you sort this out - perhaps a therapist, doctor or a trusted friend?

While I detest the notion of science being religion, often I too have thought about your first point (thus I did make it a point to vote your comment up in the hope that more people will see it). Ultimately science does rely on one core aspect of things being taken on faith: that what we observe today will also be so tomorrow. It is in theory possible that everything is random and it's just a coincidence that all the laws of nature that man has come up with seem to hold up so far. At any moment, the universe could go haywire and perhaps we were wrong all this time and it's just random? This is possible of course but not a useful model for man in his attempt to understand the world.

I hope you are being sarcastic.

While there are reasons to complain about the current state of the internet, it _is_ an achievement of mankind which has transformed the world in many ways.

One aspect of placing yourself in their shoes is to feel how they feel. Another aspect is to see what they understand from what you are trying to explain. This requires a different kind of skill - of trying to see things from the perspective of different context, culture, skill, knowledge or language (do these words mean the same things for them?). It is this aspect that I had in mind and from your answer I get the impression that you meant the former instead.

If you are able to put yourself in the shoes of the people to whom you are explaining something, the rest will follow. Consider what they already know and how you can bring them to your point by starting with something familiar and known.

If you have that point covered, the rest is "thinking clearly" and "expressing oneself clearly". These require practice as much as placing yourself in the shoes of the audience.

It's not needed to sustain the business but it is needed for those who invested in it and would like to cash out on a higher valuation - which typically is achieved through growth.

I use it but chiefly because the regular gmail does not work for me with my browser configuration. For many operations, the mouseclick does not work at all. The basic HTML version at least works.

It's not good form to post such information publicly. Also, it probably is in violation of a few confidentiality clauses you signed. On top of that, this also violates the author's privacy.

Please consider removing this.

I'm afraid I disagree with your last statement. It is possible that perhaps I've just been so fortunate that all the people I've ever come across are mostly similar in what they want from life. It seems to be the same all over the world: general well being, safety and security of their family and their future.

People disagree on priorities and not everyone's incentives are the same but I've never felt that by default people are bad. I'm no scientist (or sage) and just an average human. So, this is just how I see things and not based on expert scientific inquiry. Make of it what you will.

There is no better way to deliver humour than with a straight face. Well done, sir!

To be honest, I don't know where this comes from. It is of course possible to do what many would call "overly clever" things with templates in C++. However, in modern C++, even the unappealing syntax is mostly hidden and it is such a pleasure to use the standard library or to build something like it. C++ strongly subscribes to the principle of "if you don't need/use it, you should not pay for it" (in terms of performance). Given that and the constraint of backward compatibility, it does a pretty solid job of providing a kind of generics for a systems language. If those constraints do not apply to someone, they may perhaps be able to find something else which suits their needs better.

I do concede, however, that it is a real struggle to learn enough C++ to get comfortable with it and not feel like there are too many booby-traps for one to feel safe with it. So, whenever people ask me if they should learn C++, I discourage them unless they are going to need it for their job, or they intend to go into game development, finance or some such thing.

Anyway, I think I've begun to ramble. If you'd like to try and see the thought process behind how C++ came to be what it is, "The Design and Evolution of C++" is an _excellent_ read and I couldn't recommend it highly enough.