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A cat that goes outside more than 0.0% has a drastically-reduced lifespan. Feeding it encourages bad habits that may get it killed.

Ultimately it's not yours and you have no idea its status, needs, allergies or history. There's a risk to you (rabies, roundworms, heartstrings) but the risk to the cat is way more severe.

If it has a shaved patch then it's seen a vet recently.

Leave it alone.

Twenty things Mozilla the company killed and they didn't mention ITS OWN NAMESAKE APP. It's didn't 'evolve' into Firefox: they split the baby in half and cut away the connective tissue.

Nope. We shed a lot of mentor-types in the great layoffs after Y2K, and a generation of nerds ran without any oral history and then taught that to their successors.

What they don't know they don't know is not only What best-practice is, but Why best-practice is. And there's little demonstrated effort to adhere.

I look over installation docs that do Very, VERY bad things, for instance. Build processes with no artifact validation, a toxic cargo chain, builds in prod, and so much more.

I can't blame the devs, as they didn't learn better. I blame the c-suites who canned the pricy experienced nerds who were also raising their successors properly.

Now we get to re-learn all that at great pain and hope to regain some of what we had before the next board of defectors guts another carefully-rebuilt culture of adequacy.

Nah. A good team will desert a bad company. And if their main interface is some pencil-pusher with a DENIED stamp, they'll be a good dev for a better company soon.

See, that's okay though. The MSP who can't read PDFs being filtered out is kinda okay. Been there, ain't going back.

In 5 steps it violates ISO27002 3 times.

I'd say any setup result is purely accidental on the way to something far more exciting.

I like how when someone basically says "Don't be the vegan at the party", you double down with the thing that most pushes buttons.

It's good at removing doubt.

Yeah, I've spent some time with a similar proselytist. My cousinas are all vegan, one of them a crusader. After that incident she's not on my friends list any more.

But you be you.

Imagine what smartphones would look like if they still had to be powered by AAA batteries.

That's a false comparison. We have Lithium and NiMH batteries available off the shelf for common things that aren't phones. The technology is available for a COTS phone battery replacement, as long as it matches a common form-factor.

And if phones can't work around a common battery form-factor but yet all look like fucking candy-bars, then I call bullshit.

You’re talking to each other’s ears, not tonguing them

Shrews were tamed like this.

what the hell is the deal with people that walk around in public on speaker phone, with the phone held 2 inches from their head

Like they're eating a pizza or they're some reality TV episode?

It's because they're stupid. Just stupid.

Engineers and designers spend their days optimising the mic and speakers for people holding the phone LIKE A PHONE and these halfwits hold it like a slice of pizza, shouting over the loudspeaker that we all can hear but they can't because they're shouting.

Like an idiot.