Python.

• It’s pretty easy to get going.
• the debugger is very good. Being able to put a breakpoint and interactively fuss with it is so much better than print statements and crying
• you can (and should) use type annotations, but they are optional
• it’s on most machines already, but you don’t want to fuck with the system install of it. On Linux and Mac you can use pyenv or similar if the system came with a version you can’t use. (Don’t teach anyone python 2.)
• the standard library is very good.

You could also do JavaScript, as that’ll work on any modern browser. However, JavaScript is a deeply cursed language. It’s really bad at like every level.

I don’t recommend it unless your top priority is “it is definitely available everywhere” and “these are future web developers”.

120 feet seems pretty far. I guess you could shout, awkwardly.

SCP to prod, or ssh in and copy paste. Devops only removed write access to prod machines this month, and people complained. (No, we don’t have docker)

I think they used Amazon CodeCommit for a while, but I don’t know what that’s like.

I’m getting a friend a box of adhesive googly eyes.

This almost makes me appreciate my current job, where most stuff has been in place for years and any changes take forever.

It’s kind of a bummer that it’s going to take like six months to add a linter, and they only started using git like last year.

I assume that many of them think they’re “not like other girls” and thus an exception.

You can feel attacked, then think about it for a moment and react in some other way.

Tech bros are some of the stupidest people on earth. Hubris plus money is a bad combination.

Many people need to accept that they are not perfect, and be open to learning. Instead, many people lash out. Gotta protect their ego.

I’ve tried both. I think part of it is friction from little behaviors that I expect to be like Google sheets but aren’t. I don’t even know what they are until I hit some keys and excel does the “wrong” (but probably reasonable) thing.

It’s funny that many so called Christians don’t seem to follow the core of the religion.

I feel like Google sheets is a better experience than Excel, at least for my personal usage. I’m not enterprise though, and not trying to run it like a database or anything crazy.

It’s also “No one tells me what to do. I tell you what to do.”

Colloquially, racism means prejudice based on the perception of someone’s “race” (ie: ancestry, physical characteristics such as skin tone).

That covers things like assuming a black man knows about gangs and rap based only on their skin color.

There’s also the institutional level where individuals might not really think or feel anything about race, but it still is a factor. Stuff like closing polling places in predominantly black neighborhoods, or individual police officers who are given a quota and only assigned to black neighborhoods. Housing in the US has a long history intersecting with the idea of race. “The Color of Law” was a pretty good read on it.

Wikipedia puts it nicely:

Racism can also be said to describe a condition in society in which a dominant racial group benefits from the oppression of others, whether that group wants such benefits or not.

That seems like how it is in the US too.

“Racism is only a thing very bad evil people do. I’m not an very bad evil person. Thus I cannot have done racism.”

Not every law is just or sensible. “It’s illegal” is a far weaker claim than “it’s morally wrong” or similar. People conflate the two.

Games work better on Linux than you might expect. Check out protondb for specific titles you’re thinking of. Most things I’ve just hit “play” on steam or heroic and they work n

This is a bit of a self reinforcing problem. It’s not magic that makes hardware work on windows. It works better on windows because people put time into making it work on windows. They didn’t do the same for Linux because there’s fewer users there.

I’m sure you can imagine the scene that’s like

Eng: “I don’t know if it’ll work on Linux. I want some more time to test it”

Boss: “how many users we have on Linux?”

Eng: “a few hundred”

Boss: “yeah no, just ship it as is”

But the good news is as more people use Linux, that conversation changes.

It can get pretty crowded in some places at some times. Major transit hubs like Penn station, herald square, times square, all get pretty dense.

I’ve been working from home so I don’t need to go to the busier parts at often.

Neither. Cutting down a healthy tree for a little ritual seems extremely wasteful to me. I don’t care much about Xmas so I don’t have a fake tree, either. I do have lights up in the apartment, but they’re up year round. I like the colors.