Our property taxes increased a crazy amount as well. Went from a 3'ish percent increase to up 25%, and then again another 14%. Pushing back on the assessment did nothing.
The 2x Ramen is one of the foods I pack into my BWCA camping trips. We started with the standard ramens, started experimenting with finds on Amazon, and then discovered the wonders within our local Asian store. The 2x, for me, is just on the edge of what I can handle. I was not even aware there was something hotter.
You would not want to get the paste on your fingers and rub your eyes. No different then a proper hot chicken wing sauce.
Ironically, I don't think speed is where the Porsche shines. I've got an older C4 911 and the neighbor's Corvette is faster in a straight line. Not really slowing down on corners is where you see things change in favor of the Porsche.
The new vett is a lovely car and was nice to see an American company get something closer to perfect in the sports car market. It has over double the HP of my non-turbo Porsche and it is an absolute joy/monster to take around the track.
(World according to me, Porsche is too stingy with their engines, in the mid tier. I'm not the market for these new cars - but wonder if hybrid fixes the lack of HP)
It was not until I was married that I found out mayo even had an expiry date. None of my roommates in the university days used enough to actually work through a jar. It somehow made it fridge to fridge through multiple leases.
not by itself generally. it's too salty and acidic, and the supermarket stuff is often full of edta to boot, so bacteria can't get iron, magnesium, or calcium. mayo diluted with boiled potato is another story
also supermarket mayo is labeled as good for months, but salmonella (the usual culprit) can grow in hours. so the sell-by date wouldn't protect you there
Source? I mean obviously be careful with homemade mayo made from fresh, uncooked egg, but the store bought stuff is pasteurized and seems pretty stable.
Our kid was lucky enough to have the bullseye mark on her skin when she came down with a massive fever. Had not thrown out my medical microbiology college texts from the late 80's and sure enough - the picture matched up. She ended up getting some pretty serious antibiotics.
I really, really wish there was a human vaccination available for lymes. We treat our jacket and pant legs with permethrin when we are in heavy wood. That makes a huge difference for the normal wood ticks, so has become part of the normal routine.
It is amazing how fast 25+ years went by. I'm in this picture... and when I think about the jump from C++ to Java 1.1, going through the transition of EJBs to what would be considered modern Java, doing XQuery/functional development, and now Rust -- it really does not seem like a few decades have flown by.
Watched the death of our AIX systems (perhaps undead, as it really never goes away), the rise of PCs, the fading of Unix workstations. Desktop compute exceeding what could be done on my Cray time. The world circled back a few times: stand alone, client server, stand alone, distributed... with variations on a theme. Same is true about frameworks, languages, and development religions.
On reflection, creating new developers is a lot like parenting. You give recommendations, guidance, and opportunity. They still might footgun something, but you love them none the less. I'm proud of them and have launched some really solid Dev Leads over the years. So much satisfaction in shaping people.
The thrill of peeking/poking assembly as a youth is still there when I compile and the damn thing actually does what I set out to. Fixing broken is still very satisfying. Discovering that you can change a culture by leading was eye opening.
I still have no idea what I'm going to be, when I grow up. I consider myself fortunate.
> On reflection, creating new developers is a lot like parenting.
Indeed. This resonated with me.
Quite a few similarities between parenting and training people.
Sometimes you have to let them suffer a bit, suffering consequences so that they can learn, and sometimes you have to keep them from hurting themselves too much.
You also grow with them. Learning together from different perspectives.
After some time together, you see how your actions, not your words, shape their actions, even some unintentional or unconscious ones.
My favorite pager moment: Was part of a large consulting effort - lots of people. One of the execs was doing a demo of the system and they were playing DNS games with dev/test/stage/prod. They did a quick restart - which is when we all found out stage and prod apparently used the same credentials. About 30 seconds or so after the restart kicked off, about 50 pagers went off.
So much this. At one of the big tech companies, we needed a hard drive for something. It was going to be easier to buy a $5K drive array and shuck the drives than expense $200 on a single HDD. Trying to buy stuff 'outside your lane' was crazy.
Just got done with an experience where the company I'm at said - you have a corp card - use it - with the EVPs signing off on whatever for that event. Very much not the norm, but it was eye opening that they knew sometimes the red tape needed to be cut. I'm totally expecting to fight with accounting on a simple taxi receipt because it did not say where the pickup/destination was for a $20 fare the next time I do a 'normal' expense.
Supreme Commander is still pretty active, via the FAForever community. The original single player maps were converted to co-op. Lots of game modes, a new race, unit tweaks, new maps - very much a game that still gets love.
When the next steam sale hits, you only need the Supreme Commander: Forged Alliances game (Under $3) and https://www.faforever.com installer and it all updates lovely. Works on Linux, multi monitors, and a dozen or so players connecting.
For me, I found this was the open source project I used to keep my SpringBoot skills current. Nothing but positive things to say.
The stratux.me project was so much fun. Started off as a sub-reddit and just expanded. Take a simple raspberry pi, add a couple of RLT-SRD dongles, Bluetooth, maybe a USB GPS - and it replaced a $1k bit of kit. The ADSB information that people see on flightaware is available to us flying bug smashers. The stratux will tie into a tablet/moving map and provide tracking of nearby airplanes and weather. From a situational awareness, this is just huge.
