Well, yes, though my direct manager isn't the worst. He's trying to protect me from other teams that might get pissy.

One of my friends is a product manager type and his analysis was basically "if stakeholders don't care it's not a problem, even if by any reasonable metric it is a problem". So. Here we are.

Sometimes I think we should replace gender with genre. There's lots of genres for books and music. Fantasy, dark fantasy, steampunk. Why not for humans too

I thought about it but people are so sensitive here. If they broke something and couldn't merge they'd probably raise a big stink, and then there's good odds the checks would be removed "because they're adding friction" or some nonsense. My boss has already warned me about staying in my lane.

These people have never done any automated testing of any sort. No linter. No unit tests. And they don't seem to want to.

Sounds about right.

I'm using GitHub actions at work because this place is extremely dysfunctional, and I can just add GitHub actions without it being a whole "research spike planning meeting impact analysis" six week journey.

I took it from "there are absolutely no checks and Bob broke the environment because he pushed up a change that's just invalid syntax" to... well, I couldn't make it block the build on failures but at least now when Bob breaks it again I can point to the big red X and ask why he merged with an error.

No television show will make you feel as you did when you were a child, watching star trek for the first time.

I was on some website the other day and I opened the browser console for unrelated reasons. They had a giant message there that was like "STOP. If someone asked you to paste something here, you are probably going to be hacked. Do not do anything here unless you know what you're doing."

Which, admittedly, is probably good advice.

Given how many people post questions about how to handle parties losing conflicts, I'd say yes.

Also it operates at the out-of-chatacter level. It's not the character conceding, it's the player. This allows for solutions like "they shoot me and I fall into the river, where I'll wash up somewhere by evening". It's not always an in-character surrender.

You can't really surrender to all things, too, such as wolves, zombies, or an avalanche.

Whenever it came down to "your character might die" I'd roll on the table. I don't want anyone to think I'm fudging.

I also really like Fate's "concede" rule. A player (not the character!) can concede at any point in a conflict before dice are rolled. They don't get whatever they wanted out of the conflict, but they get to negotiate where the story goes. Maybe the bandits decide to take you alive for ransom. Maybe they take your stuff and leave you to tell their tale. It's whatever the table thinks is best.

If they instead tough it out and let the dice fall, whoever took them out has the final say in what happens.

Is the backpack better than a cart? I have a big old cart (it folds) I use for large laundry and grocery trips. There's sidewalks here, though.

Javascript is a horrible language, but it is ubiquitous. You'll want to spend a little time on html and css if you expect them to do more than print output.

You could focus on TypeScript, which will help them avoid some of the worst things, but then you spend more time on tooling and it won't just run in the browser console.

Python is a reasonably popular language with a good standard library. It has fewer bizarre quirks like adding two lists of ints together to get a string.

I wouldn't teach C to a general audience.

Jokes aside, isn’t this also a phenomenon with finishing books and TV shows?

I've had the same thought. When I finish a really good, lengthy, book it feels similar to when you lose touch with friends.

Or just... Email.

My parents just email me pictures of stuff. It's fine.