I wouldn’t necessarily agree. Addictive behaviors aren’t usually related to a need for the thing in question, but a replacement for something else.

I definitely did have a porn addiction at one point, maybe still do, but I think it stemmed from a lack of self-respect. I’ve had very few girlfriends and not many more dates in my life so I did feel like I was unattractive and destined to be alone. Porn was kind of a way to get the thing I thought I’d never really have: a sexual relationship. I still had issues even after marriage, even though we were sexually active, because it was just habit at that point. Over time I’ve come to see my wife as the main “cure” for my sexual desires and I usually prefer to think about her or look at naughty pictures of her when I masturbate (she can’t be DTF 24/7, especially while she’s working). I still look at porn from time to time but it feels very artificial when I do and my thoughts usually drift back to her. I did get some advice, not really therapy, over the years and its been very superficial so overall I’d say I kind of dealt with it myself.

I’d still say therapy is a good avenue when you have an addiction, because it usually does destroy relationships and I think deep down we all do crave them, whether romantic or platonic.

As far as improving your corner of the code goes I would say a consistent style is important but having 500 lines per function is not a style. If someone will complain about efficiency (function call stack etc) then someone needs to identify what parts are truly time-sensitive. It’s likely not the entire codebase.

Wrangling a monster code base really requires a product owner. If one person doesn’t own the application as a whole then there’s no hope of consistency in the first place.

Or at the very least, so long as its http driven, put a proxy in front and on the backend break up common features into microservices. With a proxy the consumers will have pretty much no idea they went from talking to one service to a dozen.

It’s been the hardest thing for me to instill good testing practices in devs. In a function with 23 paths devs usually burnout and only do 9 or 10. Most never consider that making the function smaller is an option.

They convinced enough people that crime was rampant because of illegals when crime was down and immigrants (illegal or legal) are less likely to commit crimes.

If you can keep these from being multipurpose then name them what they’re for. If they’re multipurpose then just name them something totally unrelated. I name apps at work occasionally and if you try to get specific (e.g. network-configurator) you pretty much doom yourself to start using it for something that doesn’t match the name.

I don’t know if I’m just paying greater attention but I swear I’ve seen more of these fucking things on the road lately.

Totally rational point of view and not at all cult-like behavior. /s

24-hours starting from…

When Trump talks about bias or fairness negatively he always means there isn’t enough rich, white, male favoritism for his liking.

This is why Musk wants to buy OpenAI. He wants biased answers, skewed towards capitalism and authoritarianism, presented as being “scientifically unbiased”. I had a long convo with ChatGPT about rules to limit CEO pay. If Musk had his way I’m sure the model would insist, “This is a very atypical and harmful line of thinking. Limiting CEO pay limits their potential and by extension the earnings of the company. No earnings means no employees.”

The only shred of truth to the assertion that schools allow kids to use litter boxes was a Colorado school district that provided buckets with cat litter… for potty emergencies… in case of an active shooter event.

Only in America.

Front or back, getting stabbed is getting stabbed.

You are surrounded with workaholic, misogynists. My company gives full pay for 12 weeks for mothers and fathers. Several of my coworkers, mostly men, have used their leave in full (usually 9 weeks together and the other 3 broken up). Nobody ever looks down on people for taking leave.

Maybe they would take all of it if it was for full pay. Ya’ll motherfuckers need a union.

But the military doesn’t get paid during a shutdown.

Also…

A shutdown just means no one is there to stop them

Nobody is stopping them! At best they get turned away on one day and welcomed with open arms the next. Their job gets only slightly easier if they meet no resistance and I could even see it being made harder if they need access to something and the ones with the keys or passwords isn’t there.

Trump: Do it or I’ll fire you… revoke your… sue you… investi… pull your funding! Wait, who is this again?

Seattle, WA to DC is over 2750mi (~4425km).

Virtue signaling. Should’ve dumped your Tesla when Musk turned Twitter into ground zero for Nazi resurgence.

If beattheshitoutofmytesla.com was a thing I’d do contract work on my weekends.

If Schumer was interned in Auchwitz he’d offer to tune up the ovens so people would burn faster and suffer less.