The original Xbox controller for the North American release. I swear it was made for Paul Bunyan it was fucking massive.

I get where you’re coming from with needing an official diagnosis for work accommodations, but none of your friends are really going to demand to see a doctor’s note, so why would personal relationships depend on an official diagnosis?

The same reasons as from a professional experience. Yes they aren’t going to pull the doctor’s note but neither is work IMHO. What it does is provide more weight behind your words of “hey I’m not just googling this shit. I’m not just an insufferable asshole looking to validate that I am. I’m actually working with a psychologist.”

Friends, just like coworkers, etc. care less of the diagnosis. They want to know you’re working on you because I’d argue writ large people want to see you succeed. A self-diagnosis can help but it doesn’t give you access to all the tools you may need to succeed so from the outside I would argue that official diagnosis matters. It means you now have someone else on your “team” be it a GP or a psychologist or whatever helping you navigate things.

Self-diagnosis doesn’t help with relationships IMHO either and I mean that both from a personal and professional perspective.

Why you might ask?

YMMV but for me, I am an open book. Having the diagnosis meant I could talk to bosses when trying a new med, or explain to them when struggling. Knowing the diagnosis means you immediately diffuse an aspect of a challenge. For me, that has been immensely valuable.

Edit - wanted to add a common counterpoint is don’t let work know because you can’t predict people who will use your honesty against you. I will argue assholes are assholes and you can’t live your life at the possibility someone will be a dick. Most people are good people. Trust on that.

11 years old at this point

https://youtu.be/RK5l_0bm6ko

It’s gonna get real scary. Military is watching climate change like a hawk. It’s real and what you said is going to lead to insane destabilizing factors we aren’t prepared for.

YATTA!

Delicious irony

Woz was always the better Steve. Those who know know.

That’s why when you bought you always rolled one with the dealer and smoked together

If they haven’t yet, they need to start emigrating north ASAP before the borders start shutting down (and they will).

And the disgusting irony that the ones being punished are the younger generation. I’m GenX. I apologize to my kids profusely for the mess I had a hand in making. It’s not getting fixed until it gets a lot worse. I’m scared for the future.

As a Canadian I am scared shitless for a future when a deranged America threatens us for our fresh water.

The world is fucked. This is just the beginning. Europe is also prepping for an increase in migrants from northern Africa.

People are going to die in the millions and unfortunately a lot of them will be poor and brown which means collectively we won’t give a shit.

I mean when you look at the shit hole we live that makes no goddamn sense… Yeah it’s Perl.

If you’re American pray to some rich fuck to clear your medical bills. Imagine the collective circle jerk if it was Saint Elon? The dick riding would be insane! Hahaha

I think the most disturbing thing here is that clearly the Holy See has a bias for JavaScript and/or PHP. I’m shuddering at that thought.

God works in mysterious ways 🌠 lol

I literally lol’d. A religious person can explain this to me but does the old testament not poo poo praying to anyone who is not God?

Fucking Catholics man. How many saints they up to? It’s it ballooning again after the great purge a while back?

I stand by what I’ve come to the conclusion on over the last little while. The underlying problem is the Jewish diaspora has not healed from the historical persecution they face. That is quite frankly everyone’s problem. What they’re doing is 100% wrong but when taken in the context of “hurt people hurt people” it makes sense. I don’t know the path forward, but I do know it’s not going to happen without some very brave leaders in the Jewish community to step up and call it like it is.

Ive also been mulling the idea that Palestinians needs to charter their own Truth & Reconciliation to lay it all out in the open.

To assholes yeah. I grew up in a pretty rural area and still drive through some holes in the wall regularly with traffic lights where I’m stopped and there’s no traffic in miles. I still stop because that light is there for a reason. To save lives by enforcing some consistency in the rules.

The other angle is the majority of Devs are just… Not good…

A good Dev in the situation you mention will design the solution needed now not the one you hope for later.

I’m saying this as someone who has been mired in scope creep and over engineering solutions many times in my life because “what if 5000 people need to use it at once?!”

In most cases all you need is a database, a single thread and a simple API. Build it and then as the problems come grow with them. Try to take into account issues of scale but realize you can’t and shouldn’t solve every scenario because there are too many variables which may never exist.

Meh. No different than how you can make a programming language and then have it compile itself. It’s weird.