Battlefield Earth.

Terrible, terrible, terrible movie…

…but it was shorter than the book - so there’s that.

We should look into that. Sounds like an important distinction. Luckily ‘Wageningen’ doesn’t sound American so they might still have funding.

But not whales right? Because we have have loud, orange and completely trustworthy advice that ‘windmills’ drive whales crazy.

If you start a ‘permanent role’ with them, having already secured a next role, then it is unethical. That means you know, going in, that this is not effectively ‘permanent’.

However. Having already started with them, if you find a better role, there is nothing unethical about taking that unless it contradicts an enforceable employment agreement. Maybe the role wasn’t what you thought, or someone else has valued you more highly (in remuneration, working conditions or other benefits). It goes both ways and incentivising retention is up to the business - it’s the flipside of lay-offs.

Yes, unfortunately so. And it’s been going on a long time…

• October 2023
• December 2023
• January 2025
• May 2025

Drivers didn’t want to share the road with cyclists. But they also don’t want to lose road-space to cycle-lanes.

Sabotaging the lanes has been going on a long time, is quite regular, and seems to span a wide area - I expect there are several culprits. I hope someone gets caught… given the levels of frustration I also hope things don’t get ugly when they are caught.

Especially in Wellington NZ where we currently have an ongoing problem with people dropping tacks in the cycle-lanes.

Heh. I’ve been blocked from a programming subreddit for being ‘too directly helpful’. Apparently the dozen to-and-fro conversations weren’t enough to show that OP needed more concrete direction.

Hilarious if that sees me banned from the platform at some point.

Java can only eat RAM up to a limit. So while it is memory hungry, it won’t be randomly “eating all your RAM”. Rather, more predictably it’ll eat a lot more of your RAM than you’d like.

The scary one is where you complete your code and give the test suite it’s first full run.

…and it passes…

[Cue scary dramatic music]

Damn. Must have missed a test case, there’s no way that was correct first time…

For many YouTube courses definitely.

And for some University professors too.

But it won’t be true in all cases.

No. Unless there’s a bad update… Every few years.

Two children diagnosed using my school reports as background. All the signs.

While getting an adult diagnosis here is expensive and difficult, it’s probably inevitable.

I’ll get 'round to it soon…

Probably a Thursday. Never could get the hang of Thursdays.

Sigh. “Octarine” was just waiting for this moment.

If we’re very quiet precious, my love, maybe he won’t notice us down here near the bottom of the table.

And relative to other recent offerings, will it just seem better?

We’re that small country hiding just next to Aussie. Hobbits are good at hiding…

Just how many people, that aren’t Trump/Republican mouthpieces or geopolitical foes, really think Zelenskyy is the one who came off looking bad in that exchange?

Yet another ratings-topping embarrassing episode in this new season of America’s ‘great television’ show.

Shhh.

Ahh it’s good to see the US has regained its ‘punchline of the internet’ title after a short four-year return to merely being an embarrassing anecdote.