Oh wow. Congrats… I guess? Glad that your wife has access to good care for that condition.
I’ve been in the ER for something that… well I won’t say, but it was of interest to the attending folks. Next thing I knew, there were two grad students in tow, eager to learn stuff that you only usually see in a textbook. I recall feeling strangely proud, and more proud than embarrassed (oddly enough). It was a weird experience.
So… this sent me down a little rabbit hole. I just want to advise you all, fellow lemmings, to be good to your back from here on out.
As the annulus weakens, at some point you may lift something or bend in such a way that you cause too much pressure across the disc. The weakened disc ruptures while you are doing something that five years earlier would not have caused a problem. Such is the aging process of the spine.
That makes sense. Tigers are just big cats - they’re all kinda jerks to each other (let alone other animals), but I suppose that comes with being an apex predator.
As a (perhaps unintentional) slip, “an insensitive” works rather well here. Gatekeeping your field in a forum of open(ish)1 information exchange is just categorically “not nice”.
Personally, I would have opted for a portmanteau like “incentsitive”.
1 - Paywalls notwithstanding.
The only good bug is a dead bug.
Java itself is kind of blissful in how restricted and straightforward it is.
Java programs, however, tend to be very large and sprawling code-bases built on even bigger mountains of shared libraries. This is a product of the language’s simplicity, the design decisions present in the standard library, and how the Java community chooses to solve problems as a group (e.g. “dependency injection”). This presents a big learning challenge to people encountering Java projects on the job: there’s a huge amount of stuff to take in. Were Java a spoken language it would be as if everyone talked in a highly formal and elaborate prose all the time.
People tend to conflate these two learning tasks (language vs practice), lumping it all together as “Java is complicated.”
$0.02: Java is the only technology stack where I have encountered a logging plugin designed to filter out common libraries in stack traces. The call depth on J2EE architecture is so incredibly deep at times, this is almost essential to make sense of errors in any reasonable amount of time. JavaScript, Python, PHP, Go, Rust, ASP, C++, C#, every other language and framework I have used professionally has had a much shallower call stack by comparison. IMO, this is a direct consequence of the sheer volume of code present in professional Java solutions, and the complexity that Java engineers must learn to handle.
Some articles showing the knock-on effects of this phenomenon:
Yes, but “Proto Indo-European” doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue. /s
Looking for bread tumors?
Oh no, I have to press up 200+ times if we’re counting all the detritus and failure in my command history.
There is an advantage to this approach though: fewer errors. You’re plucking a known working command from a list instead of manually typing a (possibly) broken version of it. Worse yet is when it’s a command where typematic mistakes cause unintended side effects like data loss. So, mashing up 100 times can be pretty smart, especially if you’re not a great typist.
Upvoted for the dancing and singing emoticon. Nice art.
This man is a menace and must be stopped.
Eh, I’m used to it.
Completely relevant song for your living-fossil, crab-based browsing: Clutch - Slaughter Beach
Background:
This is fine.
Good fences make good neighbors.
Corollary: server-side commit hooks make good teammates.
The one thing we can really say for sure is the gravity tech is everywhere and apparently crazy reliable.
I love holding this fantasy nonsense up to scrutiny. I just falls apart in the most humorous way possible.
For instance, here’s a checklist for technology mastery in a galaxy far, far away:
[x] Artificial gravity
[x] Practical FTL travel
[x] Practical interstellar navigation
[x] Energy weapons capable of destroying things at _any_ scale
[x] Energy shielding
[x] Laser. Swords.
[x] High energy physics in general
[x] Self-aware artificial Intelligence
[x] Multicultural society spanning many worlds
[x] Psychic powers, telekinesis
[x] Pocket-sized SCUBA gear
[ ] Materials capable of resisting laser swords
[ ] Functional galactic government
[ ] Counter-intelligence for said government
[ ] Basic spycraft for said government
[ ] AI that's good at lie detection
[ ] Spaceborne capital ship battles, asymmetric warfare
[ ] Large space-stations without critical weak points
Both.
The Millenium Falcon landed in a bay that was oriented with the N/S axis of the station, but was accessed on the equator. So the interior of the station has a gravity well with “up” pointing to one of the polls.
The surface cannons, surface towers, and trench defenses were all radially oriented with “up” pointing out into space, like you’d expect on a moon.
This also suggests the station was littered with gravitational dead spots and areas where you’d have to carefully transition from one gravity well orientation to another. No wonder everyone is wearing a helmet.
My wild-ass guess here is that some filtering effect is in play. Secret service people that can perform at that level, with a clean enough background, can absolutely move on to a better (and less lethal) job if they want1. This is a position where “will you take a bullet for this president?” is absolutely front-and-center for the interview process. Also, it doesn’t take a brainiac to see that this President has a tendency to attract violence, which is not ideal for anyone with that security detail. So, trump got the best security he could possibly get which, due to his repugnant personality, are probably not the best in the business.
1 “Our new company head of security is former Secret Service, can you believe it?”
So, “what in the isomorphic fuck” covers all the bases?