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Great points! I agree with everything you said here with exception to the point about it not being a monetary solution. I've built an "extremely" janky coop for almost no cost in the past. At one point I got absolutely sick of eggs because there were so many than I ended up trading neighbors for other goods. The whole thing ended up making/saving me a ton of money in the end. Let me reiterate how unsafe this coop was however... it was as spacious as it was dangerous (very).

I’ve been listening to SomaFM since 2000! Legendary station.

/me reinstalls electric sheep


Agree completely. I loved Tears and didn’t once think it looked bad in any way. It was a very clever game and made me feel like a kid again. That’s what I’m looking for in a Nintendo game. I’ll jump on my PS5 if I want to be wowed graphically.


Pick up a phone and call a lawyer. If any lawyers have already hit you up about this, talk to them.


Once You Try a Three-Day Workweek, It's Hard to Go Back


This sort of snarky response fails to consider the actual benefits - for both the employer and the employee.

Often by the end of the week, people in complex positions are well past the point of diminishing returns - pushing them harder may work in the short-term, but it's a recipe for burnout.

It's better to have someone operating closer to their peek performance for longer - even if you sacrifice a day overall.


As I've been working for myself, this is exactly what I've noticed. The exhaustion and stress of pushing myself "another day" for "just another feature" is absolutely not worth the burnout that comes immediately after.


Oh no man - that's just regular exhaustion.

Burnout's more insidious and pernicious than that - and it takes far more than a few days of rest to get over it.


2 days off for the weekend just isn't enough to fully recuperate once you're in the burnout zone.

I think if I were to be fired I would like to take 2-3 months off to build up before I started looking for a new job, but that's only possible due to having some savings I could tap into.

Back of the napkin calculations say I would need about $4,000/month liquid cash to not be in danger. Add another 1 month barrier in and I would need $16,000 on hand to take 3 months off assuming that I got another equally paying job almost immediately.


More like "once you try an 8-hour workday, it's hard to go back."


That was decades ago. Now aim for 6!


Yes, and when we're productive enough to do it, it'll probably happen.


I, for one, am okay with sliding down a slippery slope towards a world without labor, if such a thing can exist.


Who's the Bozo Doofus maintainer? https://yhbt.net/unicorn/LATEST. I love that we can still see Unicorn in action. I rarely had problems with it back in the day.


Private equity playbook


I unfortunately switched back to Chrome last week after having used Firefox for years due to not being able to use sites I frequent. I constantly ran into issues with Heroku, GCP (go figure), and a few financial sites I'd log into regularly.


I know it’s mentioned elsewhere, but this does it for me:

* Try the same site in a private window (assuming plugins are disabled when in private)

* If on dev or nightly, try those sites on the regular release.

I haven’t bumped into anything in GCP that fails to work on ff, though likely don’t use the console as extensively.


What do those sites say about the problem when you report the error to them? Do any of them acknowledge their error?


did you check if you have any funky plugins enabled?


I remember hacking on the same Ruby projects as you, then running into you the same way in the Erlang world. Man, that was almost 15 years ago! You’ve built some awesome stuff along the way… congrats, and keep hackin’!!


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