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@jon_bois You made the right choice.

went to the store

@JAldrichPL I think you can do a lot when you drop literally everything else, spend the extra money to work crews 24/7, halve the number of lanes, and drop features like "has an underpass."

This is amazing for my friend on the other end of PA. But I would ask: why can't speed be more of a priority in all our construction projects? I don't expect 12 days for everything, but I'd like to see continuous progress on projects that shut down a thoroughfare. Time=$.

@aprotim @madebygoogle I have literally never used a phone case before. The Pixel 7 broke me. I slapped a leather skin on the back glass and it feels wrong, figuratively, but so much better, literally.

You've got to hand it to @madebygoogle. They have designed the pixel 7 to be the perfect phone for sliding off of literally any surface.

@durumcrustulum Cool Hand Link

gm how's the zelda where you are

@yourewrongabout I came for the pandering but stayed for the Showbiz Pizza references!

@__apf__ So you've gone public?

I'm apf there

hey I've joined like five twitter replacement sites and none panned out. but I gave in and tried out blue sky and it's pretty good, a lot of good tweeters have moved there. pleasantly surprised

@davidthewid I agree the "avoid the area" language could be better, but having lived in Charlottesville, I don't think it's unreasonable to alert people to safety risks when there's a protest. I'm not going to take my kids to dinner at the Porch if there's a chance they might get tear-gassed.

The public safety nightmare of falsely announcing a "building collapse" (!!) aside, CMU's endless "public safetly" demands to "avoid the area" serve to discourage people from protesting transphobia, but also paint protest itself as outside the range of acceptable free expression.

@durumcrustulum Oh no, someone's experiment must be getting a lot of alerts right now.

uh wut

@pati_gallardo I've been at Google for 11 years and I've used a stapler 3 times :p I don't think moving staplers is a real problem. if you want to optimize every minute of walking, forget the stapler, they'd move the candy bowl to my desk because I certainly do walk to reception for that

I wrote “I am alive” on a piece of paper, and placed it into a photocopier. What I saw next has shocking implications

@ddryan It comes from the phrase "to eat your own dog food" as in to do quality control on your own product. Most tech companies will turn on experimental features for employees or let them opt-in to early stuff as an easy way to get early feedback.

@ddryan The term is used for internal testing, so it's a bug that you can see it.

@__apf__ What's the R-value of that nest, and does it meet local code requirements?

The good news is that there is a sweet little family of chickadees making their nest in our yard. The bad news is that they are using our attic insulation to line their cozy, cozy nest

@JAldrichPL @jeanqasaur It was set at the PA-level before RTO started, so there was nothing to sync.

@AdamMBrady @jeanqasaur Curious: do you sync with the people you collaborate with most closely so you come in on the same days?

My takes on offices: ☄️ Remote-first isn't better or worse than in-office. It's just culturally different. ☄️ Remote-first requires being intentional about culture. But so does in-office. ☄️ Hybrid does't work. It has the downside of in-person and none of the upside of remote.

@JAldrichPL I think this is a legacy term from when ads were Mad Men-esque bits of copy and hand drawn artwork: magazine spreads, newspaper pages, etc.

Amused to discover that the industry lingo for a specific ad is a "creative." I guess making good ads does require creativity! But it would not have been the first name I would think of....

@__apf__ Residential water pressure is, like, 60psi or so. I'd rather do electrical than water any day.

our kitchen pipe is leaking. plumber is coming to fix it tomorrow. in the meantime, he assures me: "don't worry, it probably isn't going to explode or anything." I-- I did not know that was a possibility

@durumcrustulum The game made this feel way more upsetting. They layered on ludonarrative dissonance by eschewing any "press X to make the moral choice" and just forced you to play out Joel's decision without any choice. I wasn't going to leave Ellie behind, but damn, it was rough.

spoilers for The Last of Us if the conceit of the entire finale is they can't extract this parasite to use for vaccine testing without killing her, but actually it is in her arm and throughout her body because that's the way the parasite works, what the fuck