Notices by Sean Heber (bigzaphod@mastodon.social), page 4

When the kids were very young, Christmas shopping was fun and easy. We could get goofy things and they'd chew on them or whatever and it was fine. But as they got older, it has become more stressful because they want specific things that are often expensive (or impossibly expensive) and the odds that they change their mind about what they *really* wanted in the time between ordering and Christmas is very very high and then it ends up being disappointing for them or something and what can you do?

Time for some SG-1 (season 10) and a nice steaming mug of Irish hot chocolate.

It’s a bit confusing whenever SG-1 and Atlantis reuse actors for different characters a season or two apart.

Seems legit.

Sheppard: “He's worse than Dr. McCoy!”
Teyla: “Who?”
Sheppard: “The TV character that Dr. Beckett plays in real life…”

Ranting online about stuff often brings out a lot of "this happened to me too" stories that sometimes shed light on things or, at the very least, provide for a moment of commiseration. That's the main reason I do it. I mean, I'm not going to change the mind of a national chain of home improvement stores by ranting on Mastodon. I'm not going to change their mind by calling customer service, either. Or leaving a review on Yelp or something. There's little anyone can do except commiserate, tbh.

It bugs when I see serious comments about programming topics prefaced with something like, "I've been doing this for 10 years," followed by some ridiculously strongly stated opinion declared as an immutable fact.

Where do people get this confidence from? I've been professionally programming nearly 30 years at this point and I don't ever feel confident enough to assume I know *anything* for sure.

In fact, the older I get, the less sure I am and the more I've forgotten.

Boost if you're old enough to remember ZMODEM.

@hacks4pancakes shocking!

I am currently neither hip nor with it.

It’s been thick and hazy and smokey outside all day today and I can even smell burnt wood in the air. The AQI outside is 165. As far as I know this is from the wildfires in Canada, I think? I’m in Iowa.

Every year I wish Apple would post the WWDC sessions videos earlier than 10am pacific time. It feels like I end up wasting half the day waiting for them to show up.

@ole this explains SO MUCH. Holy crap.

Does Safari keep track of the random passwords it generates? Every now and then I sign up for a site and it doesn't seem to detect that I'm making a new account and so doesn't offer to save my credentials. I get to the next screen and now I've lost my randomly generated password!

@Gargron it looks very blue there!

I have this feeling that's been stuck in the back of my head and bugging me for years. Perhaps I've just become an "old," but I feel like there's some kind of disconnect between what I used to enjoy about programming and what programming has become.

The troublesome thing is, I still struggle to figure out what the issue is, exactly, despite thinking about it almost everyday as small frustrations pile up throughout the day.

Social Media: A place where someone can post a video saying, "don't watch this, it's demoralizing, disgusting, and will leave you with nightmares where you question the meaning of life itself" and the post will have 2 million views within 10 minutes.

I can't explain how great it is to not have to care about Twitter.

@Gargron congratulations to you both!

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