procrastitron

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[–] procrastitron 22 points 4 days ago (11 children)

She’ll get even madder if you try to defend yourself saying “I can’t read your mind”…

because that makes it too obvious you weren’t listening when she explicitly told you what was wrong.

[–] procrastitron 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Your feelings are valid but the opposite view is also perfectly reasonable.

I would be proud of my wife for being so successful (or, I would have been while I was still alive).

There’s no shame in being in your partner’s shadow. It should be a source of pride and enjoyment instead.

To take an extreme example, look at Dolly Parton and her completely not-a-celebrity husband. Do you think that Dolly Parton’s husband is embarrassed that he isn’t famous or that he’s just thrilled to be married to Dolly Parton?

[–] procrastitron 2 points 2 weeks ago

You’re still making a no-true-scotsman fallacy: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman

Those people who call themselves Christian and don’t believe in Creationism appear to make up the majority of all people who call themselves Christian.

It doesn’t matter that their interpretation of the Bible doesn’t align with yours; they are still classified as Christian, and they don’t believe what you are asserting that Christians have to believe.

[–] procrastitron 2 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

You’re combining a no-true-scottsman fallacy with a strawman argument. I.E. “either you believe this easily debunked thing or you aren’t a real Christian”.

That’s not a valid argument.

Going further; it looks like your conclusion was completely backwards. I don’t know what percentage of people who consider themselves Christian are also Creationists, but there is evidence that it is a minority rather than the majority.

For example, a poll taken in the U.S. showed that for most Christian denominations, most of their members believed in evolution: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acceptance_of_evolution_by_religious_groups

Creationism seems to be most prevalent in the U.S., so I would expect the overall numbers to be even more tilted towards belief in evolution.

[–] procrastitron 8 points 2 weeks ago

There’s a reason they don’t call them “Just Okay Horned Owls”

[–] procrastitron 3 points 4 weeks ago

Not to mention the CCTV Spring Festival Gala (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMG_New_Year%27s_Gala).

This isn’t even remotely close to the biggest.

[–] procrastitron 2 points 1 month ago

It’s the format used in large parts of Asia.

[–] procrastitron 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The rest of your time will be spent in meetings and responding to emails.

[–] procrastitron 70 points 1 month ago (11 children)

It's already been two and a half days. The longer they go without catching him the less likely it will be that they do.

The fact that they are issuing a wider manhunt seems to back that up.

Given the publicity, I'm sure that they'll catch a guy, but I'm skeptical that they'll catch that guy.

[–] procrastitron 51 points 1 month ago

This is literally the first I’ve ever heard of it.

I doubt I’m the only one and I’m sure that at least contributed to the problem.

[–] procrastitron 1 points 1 month ago

Oncall shifts should not exist and their ubiquity is the most clear cut sign that software developers need a union.

No software developer should ever be responding to issues outside of their regular working hours.

If 24x7 support is actually critical (hint: for most products it absolutely is not), then staffing weekend and overnight shifts to provide that support is also critical.

If a company isn’t willing to do that then they’re really admitting that after hours support isn’t actually that important.

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