Funny that they’re all in entertainment.

If you start taking small bullets to the head, you can build up a tolerance to taking larger bullets to the head.

A scripture so inconvenient that they had to spend a good chunk of the last 2,000 years contorting an explanation for why the obvious reading must be wrong.

Well, a plucked bird does look pretty different. Then again, fossilized feathers for dinosaurs have been found, so it’s not like we’re completely blind to that, either.

Praise be the MAGAMind Collective! We think so you don’t have to!

Even if you use plain construction pine with a simple design, it’ll probably last longer than you do. That’s what we did.

We had a bed frame from a “nice” furniture store, and when I saw it going in, I knew immediately it wasn’t going to last. Lots of parts with screws that were really shallow and would back out easily. They had to be shallow because the wood was so thin. Hard to tell when it’s at the store, but watching the delivery people put it together, it was obvious.

Did a few things to keep it together, but once it broke beyond reasonable repair, I made a simple platform bed frame and called it good. Has lots more underbed storage space and you could probably build a tank on top of it.

Why anyone would even start a YouTube channel right now is beyond me. Unless you’re planning to go full Louis Rossman and DGAF.

Who could have guessed that ahead of time? The industry is famous for seeing a successful new strategy and then driving it into the ground with a list of copycats. The strategy has made so much money before; why would it ever have failed this time?

/s

(Let’s all laugh at an industry that never learns anything tee hee hee)

Pascal’s Wager, as well as other “logical proofs” for God like the Kalam Cosmological Argument, never get Christians or other religious people anywhere they want to go. Even if we accept their conclusions as given, it tells us nothing about the nature of that god. They want their god to be the one, and that doesn’t follow from any of these. Which is what the comic in OP is getting at.

As far as the conclusions go, worshiping the Flying Spaghetti Monster is as good as any.

Yeah, those are mostly showing off. They’re not really what I’m getting at, either. I more want to challenge people to make useful things simply.

And yes, there are ways that JavaScript can be used to give users a faster and more streamlined experience. The web as it stands is so far past that justification. I swear there’s lots of “full stack” devs that haven’t a clue how to make a site without React.

They’re destroying humanity both physically and mentally, so I certainly hope so.

I’m unimpressed by the people who use it.

Aerosmith isn’t classic . . . goddammit.

Momma has a squeezebox daddy don’t sleep at night

I’d like full stack developers to try something. Next time you have an itch for a personal project, see if you can make it with no frontend JavaScript. Just some CSS and HTML forms. All templating handled on the backend. Just try it and see how far you get. Don’t worry if it looks like a GeoCities page.

Then try finding places where JavaScript would make it more responsive or better UX in some way. Does the back button still work? Is it actually faster? Does it provide any benefit at all?

Maybe it does, but just try.

Take a look at this video: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/zZGi0Y1EPmo

You can see here how the arresting wire–which carriers have used anyway for a long time–tends to be the thing that takes up most of the speed. The plane doesn’t slide against the runway so much as bounces a few times and stops.

There must be heat built up in the arresting wire system, of course, but no more than a traditional plane with landing gear doing the same. In fact, there is probably more energy transferred to the deck and the airplane skin than with rolling wheels, so the arresting wire system should have less kinetic energy turned into heat. All that heat is spread out more.

Also, not all of the energy is transferred as heat, either. Some of the momentum will make the boat go a little faster.

Important to note this is the Royal Air Force. Unlike the US, the Royal Air Force covers both land and naval based aircraft.

It’s a surprisingly good idea for carrier aircraft. The landing gear on carrier planes has to be extra durable because carrier landings are rough. Getting rid of landing gear would save a lot of weight and a big source maintenance.

Worked pretty well. The only reason it wasn’t pursued was because carrier aircraft do land on regular runways, and nobody wants to convert every single runway to a bouncy version.

How to win debates on the Internet 101.

In 201, you learn how to do it with more Latin.

AWS has a multitude of different offerings with confusing pricing structures. They have zero incentive to make them understandable.

That said, chances are your new company has people who understand this already and know how to manage it. Hopefully, they’ll put up some guardrails that prevent you and others from running up a big bill. I wouldn’t expect a junior programmer to know how to do this, but that’s ok as long as the company is managed right. Granted, that can be a big if sometimes.

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