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Cake day: July 30th, 2023

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  • It doesn’t matter what it stands for. That’s not how acronyms work.

    You don’t say “yolwa” for “YOLO”
    You don’t say “Ah-ih-dees” for “AIDS”
    You don’t say “britches” for “BRICS”
    You don’t say “sue-knee” for “CUNY” (City University of New York) Etc.

    And if you want to argue specifically about G:
    You don’t say “Jad” for “GAD” (generalized anxiety disorder)
    You don’t say “joes” for “GOES” (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite)

    It’s not a hill I’m going to die on, I use both pronunciations, but the only argument I’ve ever believed for the proper one is that the creator pronounced it “jif”. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIF#Pronunciation

    Now let’s talk about “gibs” you heathens.









  • Not git, Perforce, but I used to have a guy on my team that would do weeks of work without checking in. 1000s of lines in 10s of files.

    I gave him shit for every code review, every time we had 1-on-1s, and while he was doing his tasks. Nothing got through to him.

    So I just kept dragging him back on check-ins. I’d nitpick the shit out of every line (and normally I hated that.) His stuff would inevitably break the build or be full of bugs anyway (duh) so I never felt bad that I was holding back his career since he was never getting things done “on time.”

    If you can’t/won’t break your work down into smaller chunks you aren’t a skilled programmer and/or don’t have respect for the people you work with who have to review your shit.




  • JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.catoAsklemmy@lemmy.mldeleted
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    30 days ago

    How often does this happen? What is it costing your friends? Are they sneaking it to you? Are they the purveyor of the establishment?

    In any case, if you were only going to spend $5, you don’t have to accept the full $20 worth of food/drink. You could say, “oh I was only planning on spending around $5 tonight, this is too much, but thanks.” Or if the somewhat direct approach feels awkward, max out your tip at what you were originally going to spend. If it’s not enough, they’ll stop giving you so much.






  • JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.catoComic Strips@lemmy.worldNazis
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    No, he’s still wrong. Even if he has been conditioned to ignore the term because of overuse of the term, he’s still wrong.

    The people who ignored the boy the third time he cried wolf were wrong. The proof they were wrong is that they lost their sheep. The moral of the story isn’t “don’t listen when little boys cry wolf three times and the first two times turn out to be false.” The moral is “don’t cry wolf when there is no wolf or people will stop listening to you.”

    So you can argue that the people who conditioned red shirt not too look were wrong, i.e. “the boy who cried Nazi”, but in this case red shirt is most definitely wrong.