Yep typical ratings are oriented relative to the “average” consumer. But no person is actually THE average.

It’s a useful place to find out if something totally sucks though. That’s how I use it. 60+? Probably good, at least for some audiences. Less than that? Only if you’re already hyped or a fan of whatever thing it’s related to.

Boost allows you filter keywords. It’s not a highlight option, but it’s a couple taps to paste the text you want to exclude.

Typing long form stuff on a smartphone sucks

Ew siloing

Slappers only, no oddjob

Creepy guy got fired. Showed up the next day and confronted HR. Idk what went down but they had to call the cops.

Loved that book

Sounds like she was actually pretty unlucky

Yeah if you need even 99.9% uptime, the most downtime you can accept in a year is eight hours.

Alright who’s running the database on the same machine as the server…👀

He’s just refactoring it

Hated this in one past job. It gave me great joy to quit and work somewhere that wasn’t bean counting. But I can say that RescueTime with Toggl was pretty handy to track stuff. RescueTime would autotrack the time spent in different apps and tabs. Toggl allowed me to do a simple start/stop with a label for more focused work.

Sometimes I am happy about the increase in AI assisted coding specifically so junior devs won’t get as stuck without outside help. Very frustrating when they don’t reach out when they struggle, but at least they can privately copypaste into ChatGPT and get ideas. But, still requires a fine toothed comb when you’re doing the review to know if any toilet tier material sprayed out.

I need to see a man about a horse

On the gender controversy…the Olympics pool from so many humans that for many years now, you can tell just visually that top contenders are those naturally selected with genetic traits lending them unusual prowess in their sport. For strength based sports, more women with male traits rise to the top and vice-versa for men in more physiologically female dominated areas.

I like how that’s actually an image of Zeus from Age of Mythology

Another strategy: don’t write notes during class. Actually listen super intently to the instructor, and always ask questions when something isn’t clear. Sit near the front. Notetaking can be a distraction, even though it might feel productive at the time. It’s mentally exhausting if you’re in classes back to back, but I found that really intently focusing on what they’re saying and realizing when you get lost helps a ton. Because once you get lost, the rest of the lesson becomes a lot less helpful and you have to spend time studying by yourself or in a group later without the ingrained context of the rest of the subject when it was originally presented.

Obviously doesn’t work if the instructor is bad at teaching or you’re in a really huge class.

Multiple countries directly involved on the ground, generally.