colonelp4nic

Are there examples of neutral news sources that you like?

Well, if the Republicans hate it, it's probably reasonable. Let's check the article. "It would require the Secretary of State’s Office to check addresses during the signature verification process and it would require signature gatherers to sign a declaration on each sheet of signatures they collect."

That's basically the smallest, least intrusive thing that can be done to prevent fraud. It's kinda wild that wasn't already in place, but that probably explains the ease with which unpopular, right-wing, corporate-sponsored initiatives have been ending up on the ballot 🙄

I just did it by thinking up this UUID: 4d6b3a08-e1b5-407c-bb6c-cbac830ff4bd

"the annual risk of a given person being hit by a meteorite is estimated to be one chance in 17 billion, which means the probability is about 0.00000000006 (6 × 10−11), equivalent to the odds of creating a few tens of trillions of UUIDs in a year and having one duplicate. In other words, only after generating 1 billion UUIDs every second for the next 100 years, the probability of creating just one duplicate would be about 50%."

Broadly, a person can only control their reactions to situations; they can't control others. It's part of establishing healthy boundaries. Your scenario would be an excellent topic to bring up in therapy because it's a real and recurring issue that probably has a lot of interesting depth to explore

Wow, no ambiguity or anything. Jesus Fucking Christ

I appreciate you (I'm too lazy to upvote)

idk if this is a programming specific question. It feels more like "perfectionism" or a low-level OCD. For the programming piece, using some sort of task tracking system might be helpful. For example, after a task has been completed (aka a solution was found), move on to the next predefined task.

Another vaguely related term: premature optimization

To add, here's an example of my OpenVPN config addition to ensure 192.168.3.* is accessible over VPN

verb 5
push "route 192.168.3.0 255.255.255.0 vpn_gateway"

I nominate this guy for Syrian Civil War expert

imo, this situation is way too complex for internet strangers to effectively help with. It's definitely worthwhile to seek out therapy to help process these feelings and to make a plan for resolving some of the deeper issues at play.

I'm literally a software dev working for a top company and I can barely use git on the CLI. I do all of my version control operations using a GUI, so there's no sense in gatekeeping any of that. This is true of both my work projects and personal ones. It's cool if you prefer the CLI, but it is absolutely not a required skill in order to have a successful and meaningful career.

To answer your question indirectly, I think you need to learn to stand up and protect yourself. Those are skills, and they're learned skills. I'm making big assumptions here, but I'm guessing your parents never taught you good boundary setting. A quote that's gone viral recently is that “[the definitive symptom of childhood trauma is] trying to get a difficult person to be good to us in our adult lives.” You probably don't believe this internally yet, but you deserve to be treated with kindness. Difficult people do not deserve you.

I love this book in particular, and it's widely available for free in libraries. https://www.amazon.com/Set-Boundaries-Find-Peace-Reclaiming/dp/0593192095