Bougie_Birdie

The friggin' dogs in Resident Evil.

I have a kind of funny story about that. I was too young to be playing RE when it came out, but that didn't stop me from sneaking it out of my dad's collection of grownup games to try it anyway.

So there's this well known jump scare, probably in the first fifteen minutes as you say where you're running down a hallway and suddenly some dogs jump through these glass windows. I screamed, fumbled the controller, and was eaten by dogs. Might have been the first jump scare of my life.

So I hadn't hit a save point, so you have to start the game over. So I decide to just leave the mansion through the front door instead of going out that way. And you get a cutscene where a dog jumps through the door and you have to wrestle it away.

I still haven't played the game since.

But my wife and I are a big fan of the series, so eventually we decided to marathon them on the condition that she plays RE1. She's playing the remake and goes into the room where the dogs jump through the windows and I'm holding my breath waiting for it to happen. Only it doesn't.

So I'm a little disappointed, but I figure it's a remake so maybe they're switching things up a bit and going to put the jump scare somewhere else in the mansion.

Sooner or later you have to backtrack through that corridor though, and on like the third time going through this "safe" corridor the dogs jump through the window. She screams, fumbles the controller, and is eaten by dogs.

Seven-year-old me was vindicated that my adult wife also got punked and I'm not alone.

But why not get the drop pods to fly the ring to Mordor?

I'm definitely writing useless git commit messages

For work, I at least include the Jira ticket id

For personal stuff, it's sweeping features stuffed into one commit that barely describes what was changed

What an outrageous lie. Imagine if students had healthcare

I keep seeing this guy pop up in memes.

I've never seen Star Trek, but like... he makes me want to give it a go

My wife has ADHD and some wicked rejection dysphoria. I feel bad interrupting because sometimes it makes her feel really badly, but I swear she could talk for an hour without pausing for breath.

I definitely do the same thing when I'm talking about something I'm passionate about though, so like... live and let live.

Not that I doubt the locals or anything - and like, fuck Microsoft - but what kind of industrial waste would a data center have?

From the article, it sounds like the facility is still under construction, so I imagine there might be construction waste, but that's not really my field and I don't know what that looks like. Runoff cement?

Just so you have a heads up:

If you use yt-dlp like a regular user, you shouldn't have a problem. If you use it to download like a thousand videos at once then YouTube may block you out or rate limit you or something.

If that happens, or that's your use case, then you may need to use a VPN

Imagine learning divination magic to be able to detect copper wire

Also Canada, my optometrist has never given me a problem asking for my prescription. However, they don't measure the Pupil Distance (PD) which your lens fitters might require.

This measurement is the distance between your pupils in millimetres. It can be measured with a standard ruler. Mine is 69 (nice)

My optometrist explicitly does not measure the PD because the glasses shop they have adjoining doors with will do it for you. We often just measure ours at home because it's far cheaper to shop for glasses online.

I work in software, so I guess we use a whiteboard instead of a blackboard. There are tons of options for virtual whiteboards that have features which sound like they'd meet all your needs and more. One big plus is that you can virtually collaborate, which is a big argument for working remotely.

However, given the choice, I'll always pick a physical board to write on. This might sound like a personal preference, but there's some solid reasoning behind it.

You see, when you want to write or draw something, your brain has to do some kind of neuromancy in order to transform that thought into an idea that can be shared with and understood by other humans. When you write physically, the process is very kinetic. The idea starts in the brain, then is sent to the hand to write it out, and is verified by your eyes for correctness.

When you want to write that same thing digitally, there's more steps involved in subtle ways. You have to decide which tool is best, move things around with your mouse, know which keyboard commands will translate to the thing you want to do, etc. Many of these steps are far more abstract than picking up a marker, and for this reason there's a higher cognitive load in transcribing digitally.

Depending on what you're doing, that higher cognitive load can come back to bite you. A lot of my whiteboard time is ultimately spent on reasoning out a complicated system, brainstorming, or trying something new. In these cases, you want your cognitive load to be as low as possible because you want to be able to use it for the task at hand.

However, that's not to say that there isn't a benefit to the digital tools. Collaborating with remote colleagues is difficult without a virtual tool. You also typically benefit from having an infinite canvas, which means your board is always going to be as big as you need it to be. If you already have technical drawings or specifications or whatever you can also easily copy/paste them in.

So all this to say, I guess the way I look at it is that physical and digital boards are separate tools. You want to use the right tool for the job, and in my evaluation the physical boards are still very useful tools.