Great read, putting into some beautiful prose undigested feelings that have been stewing in my stomach for a while. Maybe I should find a cabinet that's worth painting the back of to me

There’s a reason a ton of software engineers (let’s be real that’s 2000 pounds so I only need to find ten or twelve) do woodworking on the side.

If you take it diligently and treat it as fun, you can make amazing pieces in only ten times the time it would take a factory - but you do it your way with your attention to detail.

And you can make the back out of good wood and paint it, too. Nobody will ever know; it’s your secret between you and God.

It's a great point. If you are interested, the book "why we make things, and why it matters" really resonated with me for this exact reason.

And if you do hand-tool woodworking it's cheap. More time consuming, but also harder to screw up.

I prefer metalworking, but the equipment is larger & more expensive. And you still need a workbench for a bunch of the finishing steps (hand filing, polishing, engraving, etc.) so some basic woodworking is very handy for making said workbench.

I'm thinking water

It seems biased that only GitHub was scraped, that seems like it would mostly exclude systems linked to other forges like GitLab CI.

I used gitlab.com CI a lot but then at some point all the restrictions started and now it is not worth it trying to figure out how much quota is enough, especially for small personal projects. I don't remember the last time I wrote a git lab CI yaml file.

I understand the sentiment but I can't bring myself to think valve is to blame or should be doing more. Getting a case of "Yes officer, I have an NO2 bottle in my trunk, but what it is plugged to is not actually the air intake for my car but something entirely unrelated, if you just take 2 hours to dig around and take it apart you'll also realize this"

Thats such a bad example. Ofc you can carry NO2 bottles plugged into something, if its not air intake of your car, and investigation should happen finding you not guilty.

… unless you plug it into your mouth

When you're accused of breaking the law, your accuser must prove you have broken the law. If they cannot, there are actions you can take to recoup your damages.

Valve can ban you for any or no reason with no means of recourse or refund.

Totally the same thing, yeah.

You're right that they're not the same thing. The government has a legal monopoly on the use of force. Valve sells games.

The ~12 levels of indentation and 5 layers of nesting are doing my head in personally but maybe my brainspace is too small.

I think this perspective explain the issue well: you pretty much cannot unit test this (unless you consider the whole function a unit). It becomes very unclear what each lambda expression is about, the deeper you get.

I don't understand how the points you qualify as "copium" aren't valid? People have owned and enjoyed classic cars for exactly these kinds of reasons. Not everything is about datasheet numbers and performance.

You can donate every 3~4 days in the US? In France I believe it is only once every 2 months for men and every 3 months for women!

edit: confused plasma donation with blood donation; it is still only every 2 weeks for plasma donations over here

HTML + CSS + JS :^)

I don't know your french level but perhaps you read your quote too fast because it says: "Mets qui vient après les hors-d'œuvre et AVANT le plat principal". So the "entrée" is the dish that comes BEFORE the main dish.

Perhaps you read GP's quote too fast? Because it ends with:

>>>> Par extension. Plat principal. Un repas composé d’un hors-d’œuvre, une entrée et un dessert.

"By extension. Main dish. A meal consisting of an appetizer, an entrée and a dessert."

There the "entrée" is clearly the "main dish".

Mea culpa, I did go over it. I guess as a native speaker the idea of calling a "Plat Principal" an "Entrée" is just so foreign to me I just cannot accept it... :-) Perhaps it is a regional difference

I see this misconception a lot for resigning France.

First, there are some "protected classes" of resigning that allow you to be eligible for unemployment right after you resign, for example: moving to follow your spouse, resigning less than 3 months after having been laid off, going back to study or... creating a company!![1] :).

Second, you are entitled to unemployment benefits even if you resign without "a good reason". The issue is that you can only request your benefits 4 months after having resigned. This leads to many people believing that you just do not get anything if you resign; because who wants to eat the 4 months of no income?

This 4 months waiting period is not advertised at all, and my complotist self believes it might be on purpose; if you don't know about it and don't request it, that's less money for the government to spend :^).

[1] Conditions apply (having worked uninterrupted for the last 5 years)

It's more complicated than that [0]. The fact that you have the right to claim unemployment benefit does not mean that it will be accepted, that it will be accepted quickly or that the benefit will correspond to what you would have had if you had been laid off.

[0] https://www.service-public.fr/particuliers/vosdroits/F34991/...

This is true; I can only speak from my experience and that of my peers but the hardest part every time was the "accepted quickly" section of your comment. I am also thinking the process is cryptic and uncertain on purpose to discourage people from even trying. Even though I have not personally seen requests get outright rejected, just drawn out to months.