“that’s a shame, you should have considered it when you last downsized the workforce. I’ll be back in a month”

The article:

STILLWATER, Okla. (KFOR) — The Oklahoma Highway Patrol says they arrested a man in Pawnee County earlier this week for allegedly stealing a truck so that he could drive to his court date for a stolen vehicle possession charge.

Kody Adams was reportedly at a Stillwater gas station asking people for a ride to his court date in Pawnee County.

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OHP says that when Adams couldn’t find a ride, he “borrowed” a LifeNet ambulance supervisor truck that was left running to make it to the courthouse.

An OHP Trooper caught Adams walking in at the courthouse and arrested him after he allegedly admitted to the theft. Adams was taken to his court date, then back to Payne County.

According to OHP, Adams’ court date in Pawnee County was for possession of a stolen vehicle.

I have felt vertigo in high places in regular 3D games like Minecraft. I have to sit for VR Ghost Busters

I can’t imagine how immersed I’ll be in more immersive VR

Which standard does Canada use?

I have a friend who’s a new PM (in scaled agile). He isn’t up on expectation management.

We have a process where we request data from another agency which takes “from 7 seconds to 12 days”

And of course he tells people that. And of course they hear “7 seconds”

I have told him that if the SLA is 12 days, say “less than 12 days”

Indeed, however the Americans stand out in the anglosphere

They said 1st as an abbreviation of first (it’s a normal abbreviation 1st, 2nd, 3rd … 7th abbreviate first, second, third … seventh)

If you want to be both wrong and confusing

If you want to use correct English and be clear don’t use ordinals: Say “index 0, index 1” etc

Save ordinals for contexts without indices: the first time through this loop, the last record"

Calling index zero the first is correct, but risks misunderstandings such as in the op comic

That is why many call index zero the zeroth index

First and 1st are certainly different symbols for the same concept

The spelling for the index before the first is zeroth, no need to insert an extra vowel

Americans also index their building floors from 1

A two storey American building has floors 1 and 2, where elsewhere they might be ground (zero) and 1.

Blame the restaurant for having a table identified as zero

Good luck standardizing English

0th (only first gets the -st ending; only second gets its end)

I think the number of people with little care for those outside their vehicle has increased. At least a chunk of it is due to the vehicle design - it’s hard to be aggressive in a 1970s car, it’s easy in how separate you are, how isolated from people outside, in an SUV

I love the way they evict themselves

I’d do it differently.

I would fund a massive advertising campaign preaching equality, fairness, and cooperation

I would use the tax system to weaken the cycle of intergenerational wealth (the ultra wealthy spend borrowed money which is settled by their estate on death; I would tax bequests to banks; I would tax inheritances above a pretty high limit.

It would take time. The aim would be to have a much more level wealth distribution

Australia heavily advertised multiculturalism and anti-racism during the '70s and '80s and then stopped. It seemed effective. We had one not very racist generation.

So it’s big and diverse ecosystem with multiple standards to choose between

The problem isn’t that it’s missing something like cpan, it’s that there are ten incompatible ones to choose between

Remind me not to learn python. If I get into microcontrollers I shall use their C++ like language not micropython ;)

I really like the ability to dig up code from twenty years ago and just run it

The worst is when the password manager (KeePass in this case) is in quick unlock mode in its default configuration “enter the last four characters of your password”

Me: like I can remember how my password ends. Just let me type the whole thing