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Starting my speech at the Omelas city counsel with a child acknowledgement statement

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- Ursula K. Le Guin, 1973

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i’ll be looking at paleolithic cave paintings and i’ll get fomo like damnnnnnnn i should have been at the cueva de las manos feeling up the rocks with grug and ugga fuuuuuuck

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Starting my speech at the Omelas city counsel with a child acknowledgement statement

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Women want me. Fish despise me. Even docile ones will attack me. I am not welcome in their holy places. Flowers don't care about me, but aggressive ones will attack me. I am not welcome in their holy places. Frogs-

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There's an old programmer proverb, "Everybody has a testing environment. Some people are lucky enough enough to have a totally separate environment to run production in."

So yeah, you probably do want a separate production and test environment. And the test environment should be realistic, so your tests tell you something about production. But it shouldn't be too realistic. For instance, you don't want to accidentally charge people's credit cards for real during tests.

So yeah, you probably don't want the actual payments to go through in your test site. And real products shouldn't ship when orders are made on the test site. But you still have to be careful about the separation. For instance, you don't want to accidentally leave the test site accessible to the public.

And you really don't want to accidentally paste links to your test environment into a google ad campaign, thereby paying money to trick willing customers into making fake orders with real confirmation emails, that redirect them to paypal and all that jazz but nonetheless fail to charge them or send them orders.

All this is to say, I have recently been doing some uncompensated labor helping a company to debug how exactly they fucked up my wife's birthday present.

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Rainer Maria Rilke in a letter to Lou Andreas-Salomé, published in Rilke and Andreas-Salomé: A Love Story in Letters

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When all you have is two slices of bread everything starts to look like a sandwich

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SISYPHUS GETS A 9 TO 5

[spoilers for all of severance season 1. words by northernlion, brain worms by me]

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maybe i like my tech a little bit inconvenient

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Clara Benador by Fee-Gloria Grönemeyer for Numéro Netherlands February 2021

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balding guy in a dirty tshirt with visible plaque on his teeth and bad bo: hey sexy where’s that smile? can you make my day and smile for me, i love redheads but i love redheads who smile even more, can i try and tell you a joke and get you to laugh? if i make you laugh will you smile for me?

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processing grief by getting new clothes

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Actually no one should be having sex. All of us are aged-up minors and the passage of time is inherently problematic

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Recent Acquisition - Ephemera Collection

C.A. Roberts Seafood, Norfolk, Va. National Bank of Commerce, Hampton Blvd. Office, Norfolk, VA. 194_