LoriHC @lorihc@social.cleverlibre.org

My team is hiring;

https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/200503910/photos-apps-and-user-experience-software-engineer

Not disclosed in the job description: you might have to work with me which might or might not be considered as a benefit. 🙂

Another entry for the “Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names” list, this time from Iberia

Not all heroes wear capes. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/10/22-year-old-firefox-tooltip-bug-fixed-in-a-few-lines-offering-hope-to-us-all/

Just a reminder that we don’t have to argue with people on the Internet when they’re wrong.

I hate drivers that creep up to crosswalks so much. It’s so easy for a driver to slip their foot from the brake (or clutch) and hit a pedestrian. Just stop. You can wait a few seconds.

Read this one:

How not to cover Trump's 2024 campaign

“Even if the press is not interviewing Trump or another politician — such as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is too afraid to face reporters one on one — this strategy of having hard evidence ready and using it well has become essential to reporting on their statements and campaigns. Again, we are now annotators.”
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-10-07/donald-trump-2024-campaign-president-media-press-ron-desantis-primary-election

"You're doing protesting wrong. Here's how to do a protest..."

You're doing protest critique wrong. Here's how to do protest critique: do the ideal protest your damn self or shut the fuck up

@alexkgellis This is one of those baffling situations in which, because it's a blind curve, I do clearly take the lane. Yet many drivers pass me anyway, even though that means pulling fully into the opposite lane--and potentially into the path of on-coming traffic.

I've seen so many narrow escapes from head-on collisions.

Truly a head shaker.

“Amsterdam is preparing to lower its speed limits to 30km/hr [18mph]. The city will install almost 5k new speed signs, adjust 170 traffic lights, and take other ‘infrastructural measures.’ It is also launching the slogan: ‘We drive 30 for each other.’”
https://nltimes.nl/2023/10/02/amsterdam-preparing-lower-speed-limit-30-kilometers-per-hour

This is just disappointing. Men need to do better.

Men Overran a Job Fair for Women in Tech | WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/grace-hopper-celebration-career-fair-men/

Apropos of nothing I would like to make it known that the longer you let things live in your head rent free the more likely you are to randomly jump to conclusions where people are out to get you, regardless of how smart you are otherwise