It eventually gets absorbed by the pasta and makes it creamier. Unless you have too much water.

Nooo. You need the perfect amount of water so it reabsorbs it’s own juices. Succulent Cannibalism.

Microsoft has deprecated vbscript and it will not be shipped with future versions of windows.

Important Breakup Advice:

Make a list of everything you hated about being with them, focus on the bad feelings their behavior gave you.

When you get sad about not being with them refer to the list. It works surprisingly well.

I think it’s very cool. Let Reddit have them. We’re doing pretty good over here so far. The last thing we need is to be overrun by normies again.

The place I work decided to name all tables in all caps. So now every day I have to decide if I want to be consistent or I want to have an easy life.

Talk to a therapist. Not just you, everyone.

We all have trauma, talking about it can help you come to peace with it. Then it won’t be this cringe thing (or whatever negative emotion it invokes) in your thought pattern.

Ever since that article about VSCode collecting data yesterday, I don’t think I’m going to be learning anything new from Microsoft.

AutoHotKey AHK for short. Allows automation of nearly anything in Windows, and is better than most alternatives. The downside is it’s VBScript, which I believe is going he way of the dodo, and it has quite a few gotchyas.

However, on day one you can start assigning keys and combos to do common tasks.

Don’t like Caps Lock? Reassign it to open Chrome. Hate that you can’t lock the screen with your left hand? Make Win+S a command that locks the screen.

It’s free, has a huge community, and is truly amazing.

I’ve heard it’s as addictive as sugar. Be careful.

Even using absolute best prackies, developers are gonna find a bunch of stuff to complain about.

As a person who victimizes coworkers like this, I apologize. Thank you for pointing it out, and I will stop doing it.

Ned Kelly

Summarized from Wikipedia

Ned Kelly was a folk hero of Australia - think Bonnie & Clyde, Billy the Kid and Robin Hood combined. He was an outlaw of the lawless frontier of Australia in the 1800s and an activist against the growing organization of the Australian bush and the Squattocracy (settlers of the bush who farmed/grazed the land but had no legal ownership). He is especially known for his last stand against police, in which he donned a bulletproof suit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ned_Kelly

Analysis

sidneynolantrust.org

"Kelly is riding alone, across an open plain. The sharp sunlight delineates all the forms before us - the horse, Kelly’s gun, the distant tree line on this yellow sandy expanse. Everything is clearly and quickly articulated except for that famous body armour and helmet, which magically absorbs all light. Indeed, it is as if light particles are ‘bailed up’ and robbed by the event horizon of this formal black hole. Kelly’s helmet and armour become unknown volumes: both flat and a window into infinite space. Apollo’s order and sunlight is no match for a Dionysian Kelly, who in this instance may be simply riding, but if needed, he will dismount, disarm, endure 20 rounds of bare knuckle boxing and win.

This painting of Kelly is arguably the most well known of all Nolan’s works, and certainly the most recognisable of his initial Kelly series. Nolan depicts Kelly riding freely and, more importantly, for his own sense of freedom. We are given a vision of Kelly, the firebrand anti-establishmentarian, in a very precious moment. We are alone with him, away from the gang and all the transpiring drama. From this moment of solitude, we envisage our outlaw riding into his destiny.

Nolan’s image is a technical mirroring of its subject matter. It is also painted ‘freely’, in the spirit of our great anti-hero, Kelly. Nolan’s technique dances above and around the strict academic laws of volumetric illusion, typically achieved through tonal modelling, accurate proportion and perspective. Nolan instead plays the game of figurative representation in his own idiosyncratic way, subverting artistic convention in the creation of a very ‘modern’ composition.

The image has such a graphic intensity that it burns into one’s retina, and even deeper into the individual unconscious. Soon enough, this image of Kelly gallops directly into the collective imaginary of an entire nation and the primers of art history. The 1946 Kelly will effect a shift from being one of many representations of Kelly to possibly the most recognised artistic symbol of this man. Even in terms of other dramatisations of Kelly, can the film interpretations of Mick Jagger or the late, great Heath Ledger, or Julian Schnabel’s ‘plate painting’ of Kelly, ever come close to claiming the iconic power of Nolan’s 1946 Kelly?

A great mystery of the painting is the much speculated upon visor in Kelly’s helmet. To see directly through the helmet form (which we know from Nolan’s statements, was inspired by Malevich’s black square) is to enter a wonderful representational dilemma. Is Kelly hollow, or a ‘body without Organs’ as the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze would put it? Is ‘Ned’ constructed purely of mythic surfaces? Nolan would later famously state that every painting of Kelly was in fact a self-portrait. The transparent visor in the helmet suggests that we can all inhabit this empty armour and ask ourselves: do we have it within us to be so wild, so passionate, so revolutionary?

The see-through helmet also destabilises the otherwise clearly defined figure/ground relationship. Kelly is stark against the immediate surroundings, but this vivid nature is also within him. Kelly’s agency is extended into the sky through this very powerful pictorial device. To be simultaneously solid and transparent – a dark Dionysus framing Apollo’s light. Given Nolan’s great interest in poetry, I cannot go past images conjured in T.S. Elliott’s ‘the Hollow Men’ (1925). While this poem might not be comparable in thematic, as far as imagery goes the poet’s utterances of “shape without form, shade without colour…”, “The eyes are not here, There are no eyes here…”, “Behaving as the wind behaves” and of course, the poems title, are all evocative of Nolan’s eventual 1946 Ned Kelly portrayal.

We simultaneously look at Kelly and look through him, but from behind, as with Casper David Frederich’s Wander Above the Sea of Fog (1818) (this time on a plain rather than a peak). As with Frederich’s figure, we assume we are seeing what Kelly is seeing before him – a vast open expanse. However, instead of us simply looking at Kelly who in turn ‘looks out’, Kelly is looking back at us through the sky itself. He is there before us and already away, taking Nolan with him, into the afternoon, then evening, and into a posterity of open sky and brilliant stars."

https://www.sidneynolantrust.org/nolan-100/ned-kelly-82/

No offense, but I know how to read a stack trace, and yes locate a familiar file - if you’re lucky enough to have one listed therein.

My point is, there is no excuse for them being so terrible except that they’ve always been that way.

The important information should be brief and at the top. This is design 101. The same ideas that have driven newspaper articles and websites for as long as the two have been a thing.

You put the important stuff in big letters at the top, and the rest, if you need it, is beneath the fold.

Edit: just to drive the point home: I’m sure it’s not the packages I’ve downloaded that are causing the error, I am positive it is my code, so show me where my code had a mistake first. Then you can show me the horrible “wall of text” that is the stack trace so I can understand it better later, but 99% of the time, just seeing the line that caused the error is enough to know what the problem is.

Hey hey. JavaScript is easy. It’s when you get into virtual doms that debugging becomes a nightmare.

Can you give us an eli5 on sourcemaps?

It is 2023 my brother in christ! We deserve better error outputs than a stack trace.

1. Tell me what line in my file caused the error,
2. Tell me the values of the variables involved,
3. Then you can have the stack trace.

Why are we pretending like these error messages are acceptable in 2023?!

Yeah, but that’s some bullshit. I want to know what line in my file is causing the error.

And they know! They know what line in your file caused the error! They know the value of all the variables when the error hit. But do they show that? Fuck no.

Also the part where someone else wrote the code 20 years ago, and they haven’t worked for the co for 19 years. And now you have to find a bug that makes no sense, with no idea how he even compiled the code. You work on it for 3 months and every day someone’s riding your ass about it till they finally say well, let’s put it in the backburner.

Goddamn Windows 95