Voyager is so good. I need to rewatch TNG and Voyager again.

I still don’t know how Wine works and I’m a Linux advocate.

I will never buy another Samsung phone or tablet. I was done the moment I started getting notification ads from the Samsung store that I cannot disable.

Women still need access to birth control in order to remain autonomous, but this is a great point.

Fix it! Fix it! Fix it! Fix it! Fix it! Fix it!

This is what I need, an explicit reason that makes one choice better than another. If hyphens make for a smoother experience, then I’ll reconsider my default behavior.

Thanks for pointing out this benefit.

Now I use lowercase and underscores everywhere.

You wouldn’t know it with all of the crying they do any time a left-leaning policy position is shared online. You would think that they’re being bullied off of the internet.

I can’t even install Rust…

I see this every sprint.

Being able to take out the battery so that I can swap it with a pre-charged one. Those were great times. Then you can just throw the nearly-dead one on the charger.

This is identical to having the super power of being able to restart your phone to get a full battery charge.

I avoid all seafood for this very reason. With all of the constant deregulations and fines that are paid as the cost of doing business… the water just isn’t safe anymore.

“You just need to know where it’s coming from.” is what I always here. “Do you know that the crab or fish is actually coming from some safe haven of clean water and clean fish food? How can any consumer actually be certain of that when we know that companies will lie about that?”

Some people regularly try to “buy American” just to find out that some part or all of it was made or sourced from somewhere else. A company will lie to save a buck.

When you say “I don’t need X because I’m not pregnant” it looks like a contradiction when you say “I should avoid X even though I’m not pregnant”. There are specific reasons purely because of a person being pregnant that they should avoid or consume certain matter, so I see the blanket statement as overly simplistic (but not wildly outrageous).

When we had our recent child we avoided everything that had any chance of a negative impact (and it’s easy to do when the pregnant person is a knowledgeable nurse who takes care of pregnant mothers every day). Why take a chance, but it’s really “Why should a pregnant person take a chance?”.

I don’t know of any guidance about avoiding Erythritol when pregnant, but aside from that, the sentiment is generally reasonable but you’ll still end up avoiding foods that would only negatively impact a pregnancy. You can imagine the other side of that coin: are you taking vitamin supplements that are meant to be taken by someone who is pregnant? I would imagine not, but then the question becomes “Why not?”. (not trying to be hostile, just making a point)

I found this article that mentions how normal consumption levels are far lower than 6mM. https://www.fda.gov/media/182122/download

Is there a way to view the full paper? I’m curious if they properly isolated for people who are also overweight (the kind of people who would consume this artificial sweetener).

Unfortunately enough men exist that vote differently than women that they naturally become a voting block.

I’m sure Chuck Schumer will get to the bottom of this after he finishes his book tour on antisemitism in America while being completely tone-deaf on the absolute disdain many of us have for our tax dollars supporting a genocide in the 21st century.

This was a good blog post. I have started using approach #3 as well for just about every situation where I was originally planning on just using a enum type by itself. Inevitably I end up needing to apply shared state to all of my enums (create date, parent table ID, etc.) and this approach has really worked out very well. You can also add some convenience functions for returning if the kind is one of the variants (ex: IsKeywordSearch) to make if-statements easier to read (and a match on the type enum is overly verbose when you don’t need the properties contained within the enum itself).

This looks like the old logo died, laying in a pool of blood. I would like to imagine that they may be subtly acknowledging the end, or at least the art director is.