This is simply a symptom of not being experienced in or knowledgeable in the topic of the conversation.

Not being knowledgeable, or not being smart, is unrelated to IQ. Knowing a great deal about a topic or field is not the same as having a high IQ.

I absolutely loved him in Parks and Rec. He was always my favourite character. But that’s probably because he was just playing himself.

Everything I’ve seen him in after parks and rec has been bad, and I agree he is not a good actor.

This is the correct answer. I wouldn’t assume I’m the murderer, I’d assume I’m the second victim.

Oh dang, last year I left a job I was in for 8 years, where I was writing software for scientists and researchers (or attempting to). You do spend a lot more time in meetings discussing your software than you do actually writing code. And those projects have the bad habit of being cancelled three quarters the way through, because funding gets pulled, or the researcher just leaves, or quite often they find an off-the-shelf software product that is a better solution.

I suppose the same can be said for authors.

You could be an author who writes epic fantasy novels. Or an author who writes high school text books. Or an author who submits science journal articles. Or an author who writes video game walkthroughs.

See, at my job it’s the other way around. I am responsible for:

• Solution architecture
• Cloud architecture development
• Cloud infrastructure design and implementation
• Data model specification
• Database schema design
• Database administration
• Data cleaning and data review
• ETL
• Server administration
• Web framework developer
• Frontend developer
• Backend API developer
• Mobile app developer
• Documentation author
• Troubleshooting
• Maintenance

Also I have involvement in: Stakeholder engagement, user education and training, project management.

I do the work equivalent of around 3 full-time engineers. So to keep it simple, we call my position just “senior software engineer”. I like your idea of disambiguation to better communicate exactly what you do, but I don’t know what you’d call me.

One time someone said to me “Happy Birthday”, on my birthday, and I said “Thanks, you too”. It wasn’t also their Birthday.

I’ve had this. It tastes like guilt and regret, but somehow it works and it’s not bad. I’d have it again.

I’ve been using the tree-style-tabs plugin for the last 4 years, because I like vertical tabs, and nesting it provides.

But now that Firefox actually finally has proper vertical tabs, and tab groups, I can move away from tree-style-tabs (I don’t use any of its other features).

Clarification of the title; He was never our leader. He was the leader of the opposition, the leader of the conservative party, but never Australia’s leader.

And to add insult to injury, he lost his own division. He is the first leader of the opposition in the history of Australia to lose their own divisional seat in the election.

Yes you’re right, they do. But 10 years ago when I was studying, my university (in Australia) was not on their list of valid academic institutions.

I still have access to my uni email address, and earlier this year I found indeed I could use it to get access to a free Jetbrains student licence.

Jetbrains have gone the opposite direction unfortunately. The latest version of PyCharm came with the announcement that PyCharm Community is being discontinued. Instead, they will provide just one PyCharm (the closed source one) formerly PyCharm Professional, that can operated in a Basic (Free) mode, or a Pro (Licenced) mode. Also, some features that were free in Community edition will be moved to the Pro mode in the new PyCharm.

It doesn’t affect me personally because my workplace pays for a pro subscription for me, but I used PyCharm Community for 4 years during uni and I’m sad it’s going.

Same. All my life I didn’t like being around kids, being in places with lots of children, being with nieces, nephews etc. I found them loud and unpredictable, like belligerent little drunks with attention seeking problems.

But then I got married, and we had kids, and I suddenly don’t mind anymore. Probably an evolutionary adaptation. But there are still certain kids I can’t tollerate, but that’s more likely the parents fault, not the kids fault.

This is a good one. I’m keeping it to use for others, thanks.

These are some rules of mindset I’ve given to others in the past when trying linux-based operating systems.

1. Don’t try to apply the same computing and productivity patterns you’ve learned from Windows. Don’t try to force Windows concepts onto Linux OS, you will confuse yourself and get frustrated.
2. If something doesn’t work the way you expect it to, doesn’t mean it’s broken.
3. Just because something doesn’t behave the same as in Windows, doesn’t mean it’s worse. It’s probably designed that way for a good reason.
4. If your daily work routine or gaming life revolves around the use programs developed specifically for the Windows platform, you’re gonna need to invest time and effort to try to recreate that in Linux. It may not even be possible to fully replicate it. And that’s not the fault of Linux, it’s not designed to be a drop-in Windows replacement.
5. Everyone has their own taste and preferences. Just like some people prefer driving a manual car and some prefer auto. If you try Linux and hate it, that’s okay, that doesn’t make you bad or wrong, but keep in mind that those who do prefer Linux are not weird or daft or wrong either.

Also the “cheddar” that is normally found in USA is really just another heavily processed American-style cheese with a different color. It’s very different than an English cheddar or a vintage cheddar.

That’s a cool idea. I’d like to start doing this. I hope my knees can cope, I’m very heavy.

The majority of dust particles on the surface of your desk is dead human skin cells. That’s the part you’re missing.

Yes. And their socks are too.

My daughters share school socks, because they are all the same colour and shape. So I guess this concept isn’t too unreasonable to do it on a whole family level.