This is my mantra. Maintainability is king. I can’t convince anyone designing our systems that this is more important than fancy 3rd party libraries that add some capability that only a couple of people will ever understand how to use, but will find it’s way throughout the codebase and be a thorn in the side of bug fixes and new features for years.

It isn’t absolute. English is always evolving. What starts as two words may merge over time into a compound, or may not, or may exist in some grey area where either is acceptable. In the case of redshirt vs. red shirt, I think of the former as an individual concept, and the latter as a red individual concept. More specifically, the concept of a guy from Star Trek who gets regularly killed vs. a shirt that is red. But until a compound noun is widely understood and accepted, unless you’re getting graded on your writing, either would usually be acceptable. As a native speaker, I couldn’t even tell you if “hot dog” or “hotdog” is the more accepted spelling.

I love the skull subtly lurking in the sand.

Also, we need you to come in to work this weekend. HAHAHA! Bajorans don’t get weekends off!

I nearly missed seeing the guy standing on the wing. That is a large sculpture.

Mass extermination, from the sounds of it.

How much did it cost?

“We just learned” is a bit of a stretch. Here is a Medium post from 2020, which cites previous interviews and Jon Ronson’s 2015 book “So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed,” that explains the problems with the infamous experiment: https://medium.com/invisible-illness/have-we-gotten-the-stanford-prison-experiment-all-wrong-fad09471e79c

Edit: Ah, title is straight from the Vox title, and that article is from 2018

Hurricanes could, and did, wipe out entire communities. It’s easy to forget how important the study of meteorology is, as well as how vital modern weather satellites are, in keeping people safe.

As one example of massive damage done in the not terribly distant past: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_Galveston_hurricane

Oh, I had one of these! It was amazing, until it stopped working. Sad day.

Sorry, I don’t understand?

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And just before posting this message, I got it. Nice one! I wish I could take credit for that.

I shouldn’t feed the trolls…

I suppose the better question is, what did he do right?

• Taunted Twitter CEO, culminating in what constituted a valid offer to purchase at a very inflated price
• Tried to back out of his legally made offer
• Fired the vast majority of staff that knew how to run the site
• Fired all of the staff in charge of ethics
• Stopped paying rent and other bills, despite having used the location/services
• Demanded employees devote their non-sleeping lives to the company
• Ignored all his other companies, from which he continues to draw paychecks (ok, maybe ignoring them is for their best interest)
• Failed to pay promised severance
• Change algorithm to promote his voice above all other
• Rebrand off of one of the most recognizable names and logos in the world

And these are the ones just off the top of my head.

But I’ve seen the episode where I’m supposed to smash that like button and ring that bell already!

The shadows are fantastic. I hope your coworker has a copy of this hanging in his home.

That’s an interesting thought. I hadn’t considered that as an option.

I haven’t heard of them before. Awfully reasonable pricing. I’ll check them out, thanks!

Do you know – do most people run cloud instances, or just a spare computer sitting in the closet collecting dust? I’d be tempted to looking into my own, but don’t want to spend a small fortune keeping a large EC2 just because it sounded interesting one weekend.