"As Vasa passed under the lee of the bluffs…a gust of wind filled her sails…the ship slowly righted herself as the gust passed. At Tegelviken, where there is a gap in the bluffs, an even stronger gust again forced the ship onto her port side, this time pushing the open lower gunports under the surface…water continued to pour in until it ran down into the hold. The ship swiftly sank to a depth of 32 m (105 ft) only 120 m (390 ft) from shore.

Vasa sank in full view of a crowd of hundreds, if not thousands, of mostly ordinary Stockholmers who had come to see the ship set sail. The crowd included foreign ambassadors, in effect spies of Gustavus Adolphus’ allies and enemies."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasa_(ship)#%3A~%3Atext=The+gun+ports+were+open%2CGustavus+Adolphus'+allies+and+enemies.

i make my own noodles thanks to babish.

babish is cool.

or was when he taught me about noodles.

okay I trust your judgment because you admitted:

“it doesn’t start out the best”

I’m finding it difficult to get past that first interaction between Shakespeare elitist alien and Picard.

when you say start out, do you mean like the first episode, or the first season?

cuz I’ll just skip the first episode and go back after I kind of care about the story and characters and find out what they talked about.

Methalodon

haha, those outsider questions are always so funny to hear.

like no matter what job you do, people always have two or three questions that would never be asked by anyone familiar with the profession even for a day, but every single person who has never been a _______ feels compelled to ask.

That’s a really good point about your developing skill set too, locksmith seems to be one of those future-proof jobs, knock on wood.

I hadn’t thought about that, but I’m glad you brought it up.

I see, yes, that’s an extremely helpful answer.

Knowing that the programming functions themselves are fairly universal under the layer of syntax that briefly broadly defines a programming language is clarifies my understanding of programming as a whole.

now it seems less daunting to choose a first language to learn.

“when you start doing it for a job, it becomes less fun”

Yeah, that makes a lot of sense to me.

Somewhat related - I love teaching, like every part of it, but I still had to be real careful about getting spoiled and complaining about the parts of the job less fun than others. Many teachers I knew got to the point where they spent more time complaining about their jobs or than they spent teaching per week. I think for a lot of English teachers, our life improvements were so drastic and sudden that anything remotely irritating or troublesome, even commonplace work occurrences, ballooned in our minds to tragedies since the rest of our lives had become so easy. If we had still had our old jobs, where we were struggling or overworked, those “tragedies” would have been minor nuisances at most.

All that to say I agree that anything becomes less fun after it becomes a job, and I would have to practice awareness to make sure I didn’t spiral when I got even momentarily tired of dealing with parents or creating a class schedule.

You sound like you have a good perspective on your work, though.

Ah, very cool, congrats!

Do most programmers focus on one or two languages, whatever is relevant to their job or are you supposed to learn as many as possible?

What is the driving force behind programmers learning different languages?

got it, always gotta keep efficiency in mind. That problem-solving sounds like a lot of fun. I helped a guy get into his truck he left his keys in last year, and we ended up using a wire and bending the truck door just enough to unlock the doors from inside.

i like the idea of buying simple padlocks just to practice picking myself, a friend and I did that in college as a hobby but i haven’t got back into it yet.

You sound actual to me, no imposter detected!

I did start teaching in China through that ad without any certifications or experience, which is fairly common.

A lot of countries, China included, just require a native or fluent English speaker for a teaching job.

I’ve been to about 30 countries so far; most of Asia, western Europe, india, morocco, I’m in Panama right now.

work isss work.

still, I’m glad to hear you’re in a more dynamic situation than before, I vastly prefer some excitement and novelty to break up the work day.

have you ever met a lock that defeated your efforts?

Ha, that’s great!

Lockpicking must be a sight more rewarding and exciting! Congratulations!

only if the corporate citizen promises really hard we can trust them. like a super promise.

really good article with a couple surprises in there.

"some people speculated that, because of the political pressure against it, its release must have been an act of resistance by someone within the IRS. But the open sourcing of the program was always part of the plan, and was required by a law called the SHARE IT Act. It happened “fully above board, which is honestly more of a feat!,” Given told 404 Media. “This has been in the works since last year.”

Vinton told 404 Media in a phone call that the open sourcing of Direct File “is just good government.”

“All code paid for by taxpayer dollars should be open source, available for comment, for feedback, for people to build on and for people in other agencies to replicate. It saves everyone money and it is our [taxpayers’] IP,” she said. “This is just good government and should absolutely be the standard that government technologists are held to.”"

thanks, I appreciate your input.

got it, thanks.

is the one in Florida known for anything in particular?

lots for me to think about here, thanks.

I didn’t even know there was a floridian Panama City until yesterday.

I definitely don’t know what it’s famous for or how culturally relevant it is, do you think anyone outside of US Americans would think of PC Florida before the Panamanian Panama City?

I do mention the Pacific Ocean, which feels like a solid identifier.

you know what, I don’t think I like writing the word Panama twice so close to each other, it feels like I’m making a mistake.

since that’s a bad reason not to be more clear, I added a Panama in the body paragraph for clarification.

no long coati claws though, just little raccoon hands.

I also assumed they were a different species since they’re so thin, but so far everybody I’ve talked to says they are mapaches, raccoons, and I can’t find any other species online that looks more like these animals than raccoons.

as far as the locals and search engines say, these are sleek Panamanian raccoons.

it really is.

I walked around for hours today constantly surprised by the abundant healthy greenery in the middle of a very modern, built up city.

fascist top-down government that rules without checks and balances stripping away civil rights through exploitation of the vulnerable using fear-of-the-other propaganda and outright lies to further centralize its abusive, selfish control over society while a small dedicated decentralized band of civil rights activists fight the expanding power and influence of the dark side.