That headline would be super fucking cool if it meant something slightly different.

He leaves out that the “box of scraps” was essentially a complete selection of all the parts used by his company to make their weapons. He was basically given a couple each of every Lego set ever (already assembled !) and then tore them apart to make one big thing. It’s impressive, but it’s not like he reinvented modern technology from scratch. I’d call that “vibe engineering” at worst.

They hate to hear it.

I call everything a script. Makes the Java devs real mad. Makes the PM’s super confused.

MCU Hulk was created when Banner was tasked with recreating the super soldier serum. I’ll give them credit for NOT running with “everyone gets super soldier serum”.

Kinda sorta, they had the Russian version that wasn’t as good. No one ever repeated the kind of success Cap saw, (that I know of)

Work memory unlocked:

I once was tasked with a metaphorical trip to the basement to fix Cthulhu knows what in the Old Code. Thing was built on top of an ancient CLI tool that consumed and returned SOAP XML. It was terrible.

I spent a month untangling that mess and even pushed a fix to the tool. About a month later I get a phone call from someone asking me if “I was the guy who fixed the tool”. I said yes and was immediately offered a job to take over as lead dev on that team. Sensing a trap I politely declined. Dude sighed and basically said not to worry, it would have been miracle to find someone the day before he quits.

Felt like this:

movies no, comics yes.

that’s pretty cool. I’m too weird to say hi to famous people 😆

Awesome! yeah, there’s a variant where you can seal the jar, but for the most part exactly what you said is the norm. I’ve had mine for roughly 5 years now, but I added shrimp and trim it back about once a month or so . I don’t even feed the tank more than a few times a week.

You should look up “Walstad planted tank”. An all plants aquarium you don’t ever have to mess with (except to trim if you want to)

or return values for properties that don’t exist, and only get created on access!

I love python.

I made the same suggestion you did, all I changed was that the city pay for and implement the changes instead of handing out money to random people in the form of loans that may or may not get anything done.

Why not just have the city mandate the upgrades and then implement them? It’s probably not that big of a problem for everyone involved.

The Republicans puppet him into walking back the most insane shit while they continue destroying every institution they care to. Nothing gets better. We get slightly worse predictions about what the fascists in charge are going to do next, but it’ll still be terrible.

Yeah, that’s about the level of ordinance I’m talking about, just aim that gun-foot at the other gun-foot and you’ve got the right picture 😆

I was once on a team that would filter out staging-only bugs in bug triage meetings. The team would only ever fix a bug if it was found in production. It was exactly as foot-gun as it sounds.

Managers when a tester does this in a planning meeting, asking for more time to write better teats: 😠

Managers when a staff level engineer does this in a post-fuckup root cause analysis meeting telling everyone what went wrong: 🤤

Managers when the tester points out it wouldn’t have happened if tests for it had gotten written:

Working people stopped working together. Unions used to fight for the masses but that all died when people started listening to conservative lies and giving them power. Right around the 1970’s.