I think it’s a punk bar themed around the late Motorhead frontman, but I only walked past it a couple of times

There’s a Lemmy bar in Reykjavik

I wonder how many people are in the middle of that particular Venn diagram

Yes, silly engineers that don’t like being held to unrealistic estimates and deadlines; typically the ones that arise at the start of a project where there are still who-knows-how-many unknowns to find.

Waterfall is the most effective tool for software engineering in a world where the whole world stops once you’ve planned and only starts again once the project has finished—i.e. a fictional world that doesn’t exist. Literally every waterfall project I worked on back in the old days was derailed because something happened that wasn’t planned for—because planning for everything up front is impossible and planning for anything more than a handful of eventualities is impractical.

Agile and subsequent methodology comes from realising that requirements will change and that you are better off accepting that fact at the time than having to face it once you’re at the end of the current road.

Agile does not mean engineers talking continuously to the users, engineers are hired to do what they’re good at: engineering. Understanding user requirements and turning that into a plan has always been product’s job regardless of methodology, in agile and similar it’s just spread out over the duration of the project, not front loaded. Agile isn’t “make the engineers do every proficiency”.

A software engineer was not involved in this if waterfall is painted positively.

I think the last time I heard an engineer unironically advocating for a waterfall IRL was about a decade ago and they were the one of the crab-in-a-bucket, I-refuse-to-learn-anything-new types—with that being the very obvious motivation for their push-back.

You get used to it, I don’t even see the code—I just see: group… pattern… read-ahead…

Honestly, I make an effort to learn some basic phrases in the language of any country I visit, in no small part to simply not get put in the same category as those who don’t bother.

That and some of the more fun holiday memories I’ve got over the years started by me fumbling through the local language—as you say, most people are magnitudes more friendly if you don’t give the impression you think everyone should speak your language

It’s funny, I got into my current relationship around the time the apps started coming out so I’ve never really used them, but I remember people were praising it as a lot safer for everyone involved.

And tbh I can see that being the case compared to the older school approach of nightclubs being majority populated with people actively trying to find someone to sleep with

This brings me some more questions tbh

Like how is he remembering the previous loop?

What of him gets sent back?

His brain? His whole body? His thoughts are a product of the chemical and physical state of his brain and body, so gotta be his body to some extent

In the film he’s shown learning not just knowledge but new skills requiring dexterity you assume he doesn’t already possess

Could he work out in the gym and have the physical benefits in the next loop?

I’m starting to think the film might have a couple of plot holes

Not really in a situation where I can watch a video without potentially annoying someone right now, but

A municipal mesh network isn’t a bad idea, but I worry about what security measures are in place, effectively securing a wireless network with hundreds of independent stations feels like it wouldn’t be trivial.

And surely this will need a WAN gateway to the internet somewhere, so it’ll only be as reliable as the route to that uplink.

This might have all been addressed in the video though, I’ll see if I can find an article about it.

Groundhog Day

Infinite time to do hobbies and no lasting consequences to my actions? Where do I sign up!

Also I viscerally hate the idea of being watched 24/7 so the Truman show would be probably my worst nightmare

… Where’s the far left stuff? I’ve literally seen none of it

Why? If they’ve not done anything wrong, they’ve got nothing to hide

Truly and harrowingly sadly:

Conservative voters hate trans people simply because they’re told to

Conservative politicians tell their voters to hate trans people because it distracts the voters whilst the politician robs them (of their rights, their potential or simply their actual fucking money)

It’s currently trans people because the previous victim roster of gay dudes and middle eastern people just isn’t cutting it any more.

And a decade or so ago it was LOLCODE that had me mildly concerned for the wellbeing of my peers.