What if it's coming right for me, and I have let everyone know that it's coming right for me by shouting "IT'S COMING RIGHT FOR ME!"?

The problem is not with the controls fundamentally, it's with the low quality controls. A glass touch surface has merit: it's extremely easy to clean and keep clean, you're never gonna get boiling pasta juice in there and corrode the contacts or whatever. It's just that the manufacturers use the worst, most pathetic sensors that stop working as soon as the surface gets slightly moist. My own induction stovetop is pretty bad in that regard, but my parents' significantly more expensive one is perfectly fine. The control part of the glass surface never gets very hot either.

Point is, it's pretty good when done right. But they often don't do it right.

The down force is unrelated the jets. They said the car could have up to 10 jets and none of those were pointed upwards. The car has some fans that suck the air out from under that car which then sucks the car down onto the road. It's nearly 60 years old technology that was first used in F1 to great effect. There's a car currently in production that uses it. Porsche very recently unveiled something like that too.

So how does it work? If it's painful but it doesn't hurt, then it's, by definition, not painful. "It's excruciating but you can't actually even feel it" doesn't really make sense to me. My bullshit-o-meter is not happy with that.

I got fired when the company decided to downsize.

"How is that dumb?" you ask? That happened less than two weeks after I was hired. The boss man's speech indicated that that was the result of a long deliberation by corporate. So if you knew there could be layoffs any moment, why the fuck were you hiring?

As far as I know it's dangerous play, because you'd be making it impossible for anyone to challenge the ball without things getting dangerous. You're supposed to defend the ball by using your athleticism to fend off your opponents, not by using medieval battlefield tactics to force a siege.

I've seen password managers fail to detect password fields because the frontend devs thought whatever stupid piece of React crap they vomited from their keyboards was better than using standard html fields for their intended purpose. It's not very common, but it happens. Credit card fields are also a big mess for the same reason. Half the time bitwarden's best guess at auto filling those results in some absolute soup that makes no sense.

I'd also like to take this opportunity to send my warmest, most sincerest fuck yous to all the UX designers who think it's a good idea to fuck with navigation. Don't prevent me from opening shit in a new tab. Don't just scroll the page up to the previous h1 when I try to go back. Who the hell do you think you are?

I stopped doing frontend work when responsive design became important. Super unpleasant work. Now I'm happier at the backend where I don't have to worry about how my shit looks on the 7 million possible screen sizes people are likely to use. Life is more peaceful here.

Ad blockers don't protect you against dumbass frontend devs who serve 5mb png files to be stuffed into 600x400 boxes.

Ah yes. The Playstation 1 Spider-Man.

I fail to see the problem with this. It is their property you are renting, and they are telling you to not fuck with it too much. Looks very reasonable to me. And all of those can be detected without any violation of privacy too.

Manually optimizing the code I wrote in C, so that it runs noticeably slower and has all sorts of stupid bugs that weren't there before. All in a good night's work.

Logitech, in their infinite wisdom, coated the hand contact surfaces of their mice with this soft rubbery plastic material. That material feels nice to the touch for like a year, but it's an absolute filth magnet. Constant contact with skin oil and general human filth rapidly fucks it up and it becomes a disgusting mess in no time. Thing's very difficult to clean too because it holds onto crap for dear life and it's such a pathetically fragile material that any remotely not-gentle application of force while cleaning will permanently and visibly dent and dink and tear the surface. The result is an absolutely horrendous circus of holes and wrinkles and other assorted visual damage.

I hate, hate that material. With a passion that burns hotter than the sun. My MX master is a wonderful mouse but the state of its exterior disgusts me now, after like 6 years of ownership. I try not to look at it or think about it.

Isn't that whole "community" mostly just one clearly unwell person?

Plenty of brands stopped offering manual variants of plenty of models. IIRC BMW practically begged people to stop asking for manual variants, saying it just does not make any sense to mess with the supply chain and the production line and the car itself just to put an objectively inferior transmission inside it.

Qatar 2022 should be proof enough that they probably will, and in huge numbers. Football fans don't care. You could host the world cup in literal hell and the tickets would still sell out.

I once had a problem with Vodafone. I tried calling customer support but, to the surprise of absolutely nobody, the automated answering machine got me exactly nowhere. It also refused to connect me to an actual human being. So I went to my nearest Vodafone store. They said they aren't allowed to do anything except create a support ticket in my name. I said yes please do that. They said okay, someone will call you soon.

Someone did call me very soon. The lady said she was calling from Vodafone customer support, is this Herrvogel? I said yes this is he. She hung up immediately. The end.

This still smells though. Why is the raw, plain text password string getting anywhere near database queries in the first place?

The only reason I accept to not let these people pass is if it forces you do something unsafe, like throwing yourself over to the next lane and slamming on the brakes to match speed with the other cars. Otherwise just give them the lane and let them be a reckless ass somewhere else away from you. Safer that way. It's not your job to enforce traffic rules.

This scene makes me irrationally angry. It is truly one of the worst, laziest "just flail your arms at each other" choreographies out there. It's not the only one of that kind of lazy movie fighting, but this one bothers me extra with how it doubles down on laziness with that chair. The dudes never even try to get close enough to hit the other. Someone like Jackie Chan would have found a way to creatively use that chair and turn it into an interesting concept for a fight that's enjoyable to watch but that fat fuck is just sitting there doing nothing. That fucking Ponytail Michelin Man. His music makes me wanna pour acid into my ears too.