#Strategies to Prevent

[gagande]

Strategies to Prevent Memory Leaks in JavaScript

[tfa-archived]

Still not used to this life or death situation stuff. That's good, 'cause I'm not either. You never get used to it.

[babybinko]

Happy Half White Boy Wednesday

[secriden]

Ok, genuinely asking cuz I think I missed something??

So the captain is using Kant (and Style) to get evidence, not on Fadel and Bison, but specifically because they want whoever is behind them, right? That's the whole reason for this ruse to begin with.

So, like, okay he's still the police and they're pretty sure there's going to be an attempted murder, so they have to be there to try to prevent it. But if they actually arrested Fadel and Bison, their boss would probably go to ground and be impossible to find.

(Especially if the captain/police don't know about the dysfunctional psudo family relationship that Fadel and Bison have with Lilly.)

So, did Bison and Fadel only get away in episode 6 because they captain intentionally let them go? Is he still hoping to use Fadel and Bison to get to their boss? (Was the motherfucker just a hilariously dramatic act for show?)

If so, why does Kant think he's done? At first I thought it was because he thinks the brothers have been caught, but he tells Style, "You have to get over it. You can't ever get together with him. Move on." which suggests that Kant thinks Style has the opportunity to try (ie. he knows Fadel hasn't been arrested yet).

Clearly, Kant understands that Fadel and Bison's arrest is an inevitability, that it's only been delayed because they're not interested in taking out only the people on the field. So he should know that Fadel and Bison not being arrested means the ruse is very far from being done.

Maybe Kant means it like: I'm done, I can't do it anymore, my heart won't let me lie to Bison again. ;A;

But even so, at this point (the day after the botched shooting), Kant hasn't discovered anything more than what he gave to the captain when the captain refused to agree that Kant was done the previous day, so like... why does he think he's done???!?

I'm just feeling very confused as to what, exactly, the captain's plan is now... Cuz surely the police know that Fadel and Bison are going to be suspicious about the undercover police presence at the charity event. Which therefore puts their moles (Kant/Style) at risk of not only being discovered, but being fed false information. Is the captain so confident in Kant (and Style's) seduction that they think Bison and Fadel will come back with NO caution?

Or am I just taking it all too seriously and this is one of those "accept the suspension of disbelief" moments? Should I just assume the police people aren't actually that smart? This is, after all, a comedy.

[wheucto]

i think DPA's going to straight up leave and prevent death as spectators instead

[trekwiz]

One thing that really annoys the hell out of me in Cities Skylines 2: bus roads are literally useless.

Ostensibly, they're for busses and city service vehicles only. But they're broken. They allow all traffic through them. Yet CO falsely considers this to be a feature, not a bug.

And people defend them with stupid comments like, "well, people break the law in real life. You're supposed to give them a better route."

No, people in real life aren't going to cause a traffic jam on a road they're barred from. You might get 1 or 2 people chancing it, not hundreds. Once you get 10, a cop or a camera will sort it out quickly.

And I don't want to troubleshoot that traffic. I'll get to it; removing service vehicles from traffic is the start of that troubleshooting, and intended to fix a specific issue before it becomes a problem. Especially since making mass transit move faster should also reduce that traffic anyway. I actively do not want to mess with the traffic in other ways if I'm trying to use a bus road; I really wish the game would stop being an asshole about it.

The road should do what it says it does. Let me get my busses and garbage trucks out of traffic. If a services-only road can't do that, it shouldn't exist in the game at all.

It's functionally no different from any other road, so why lie and say it does something else? There's no bigger frustration than when a game lies to you about its own function, because that never needs to happen.

I almost always lose interest in playing when I try to use bus roads and remember, "oh yeah, they're never planning to fix these."

[oldtestleper]

ok 10/10 episode, would have been 12/10 except frankly i don't understand why they couldn't have fully armed this ship that is absolutely crammed with drunk teens who, let me be clear, are studying to be, say it with me, ✨violent wanderers✨... like hold up. let the augefort students get in on this battle... fabian's the most popular boy in school and you're telling me every kid on this boat wouldn't be frothing at the mouth to go on a bad kids adventure

[chamerionwrites]

I am in fact deeply alarmed by the possibility of a second Trump term (and/or other similar cult of personality arising from the fascism petri dish of a society which the United States has concocted). Which is why I would like Democrats to spend more time governing as if they too are deeply alarmed by this possibility, instead of fulminating against Trump whilst lovingly cultivating the fascism petri dish

[sl33py-g4m3r]

compilation of SMT moments~~

sharing some SMT moments that I thought were funny~~

he did in fact end it thus~~ Put your agi away walter~~~ so says a comment on this video~~

Mot~~

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gonna really need to get used to or find humor in the bull crap in this series to enjoy it huh~~ tho good BS can happen too I'd imagine~~

I'll stop spamming and go to bed~~~ enjoy the chaos~~

the first one I thought was especially funny~~ and was the first one of these that I found~~ just the autotune cat thing~~~~

[bendover-productions]

Yes hehe, I do have a follow-up, because I AGREE it's so good!!! I just rewatched it for the first time since it first came out (I think?) and I was so charmed by it all over again! I kind of think episode 5 of that season is objectively one of their best episodes ever… I looove the way the teams splitting up allows for interesting interactions between all four of them, and I like the strategizing over the phone parts, I find it really charming. But yes I remember the comments on reddit and youtube being kinda harsh on that season when it came out, ESPECIALLY about Sam and Scotty. And I think youtube and reddit are just generally harsher on Sam, more so than on tumblr, but I just think they're misreading him soooo unfairly in this specific context!!! People were mad at how "smug" they were when their tactic was getting in Ben and Adam's way instead of capturing flags, but I found it very funny and think most of those people would have too, if it was happening in the opposite direction… Also that season just has incredible Sam vibes imo. He literally seems thrilled just to be travelling Japan and to be getting some jogging done. He's having so much fun!!! And the Sam and Adam 5D train chess moment that leads to them hanging out in a picturesque little town… Obviously incredible. And then them watching Ben and Scotty's trackers next to each other on the train later. And also, importantly, Sam's bucket hat… Literally what's not to love??? And as far as I remember they all describe the season as having been a lot of fun to film as well… One criticism that I maybe do get is that it's very much a high intensity game with fewer chill moments for both them and the audience, especially in the first round, so I can understand that not being to everyone's taste….. But yes, I think that season is sooooo underrated and I'd love to see them bring the format back! And I had that take rattling around my head for many days, so I thought I'd free myself of it by giving it to you :) I'm glad you also liked it <3

me + u....

as i’ve been powering through seasons i have been a little worried like. what am i gonna do when i get to the end and have to WAIT but hearing this is good because i feel like it confirms there's so much re-watch potential!! don't threaten me with a good time (rewatching jet lag).

i also love the phone strategizing!! charming is the right word for it. can’t remember any quotes precisely because my brain is a sieve but i just remember them yapping for a majority of the episode and i liked being able to see them collaborating even though they were doing different things if that makes sense? they got to be their own decision-makers within the unit which is interesting To Me in terms of strategy. which! i have not been on reddit or the youtube comments but :/ don’t malign my boy sam!! he might’ve done all that (been very happy to have thwarted adam and ben) but he doesn’t deserve it…*

i think it is very common for all of them to do that and it’s not malicious? it is maybe a little smug but one of the unique things about this season was how much they got to SEE each other after making moves. usually they’re facetiming across countr(ies) for five minutes and even then they do gloat a little bit about particularly good or thwarting moves. we just get to see in person the joy of coming up with a strategy that was successful [and perhaps ties back into scotty. scotty just wants SO badly to do well and not let sam down that to me!! it’s really important that they celebrate this (not)victory!! let scotty have success even if it’s not conventional!!] the other team didn’t think of because they all fundamentally think different ways. ben and adam are always more high risk high reward and especially in this game sam and scotty played a lot more defense so it feels natural to me to extend that strategy to the fact that after obtaining a lead he wouldn’t risk it, he’d defend it (thwarted ben and adam). if you’re already winning you don’t need to pull the goalie!!

but yes sam has a GREAT time this season and every time he gets on a super fast train he’s so excited 🥺 AND THE 5D CHESS!! the sam/adam scenic getaway means sooo much to me i watched it heart in my throat and also pen in hand ✍️ ✍️ ✍️

let it be said i don't think this season was the one that stressed me out so bad that i HAD to keep watching it? for sure this one was very tense but i think i exist at such a high state of stress at all times watching jet lag that this didn't even register as more stressful than normal. or i simply repressed all the stress i felt idk. it was simultaneously not a chill season (them getting lost and on the wrong trains right off the bat) but also very chill because there’s a lot of downtime on the trains? and we got choo choo chew!!! which is so beloved to me!!! there’s a lot to love about this season i think.

[shachihata]

i do have something intelligent to say about the game actually. i really like how the pacing's been so far... it hasn't felt super slow or super rushed at any given moment yet. the plot itself seems relatively straightforward so far, but that's to be expected again of the vibe/genre... and i'm not even fully convinced that it's going to be straightforward the whole way through because of the ambiguity of the main trio's backstories & lore (kabbu/leif especially) + the tensions re: elizant ii's goals, the wasps, so on. the depth of the world is just crazyyy i love how fleshed out everything feels... the history the kingdoms the Bug Politics of it all. i keep bringing up the fucking sandbox desert because it's such a good example of how bf teases its worldbuilding throughout -- it doesn't hit you over the head with anything, there's some forced exposition-y bits esp. about leif's backstory but the way the World Itself works is there for you to uncover and piece together mostly on your own.

i think some of the platforming bits are annoying (e.g. a lot of the honey factory) but it's outweighed by the fact that the dungeons are relatively straightforward. i think if they were more zelda-esque & involved more backtracking i'd be more frustrated (the perspective isn't great with the jumping/controls imo), but thankfully they are pretty much one-way paths to the end (with puzzles & fights along the way).

the linearity of the dungeons is easily counteracted by how open-world the map itself is. there's TONSSS of sidequests and particularly in between-dungeon periods you have a LOT of leeway to do whatever you want and finish things in whatever order you want and fight minibosses whenever you feel ready which i really really like. particularly like... i'm thinking rn of my playthrough, i'm technically "in" chapter 4 but i have like, again, a checklist of the 272739483930 places i have to explore instead of progressing the plot lol. there's a LOT of things they add to make even backtracking feel fresh -- the new npcs walking around old areas, the bounties, and so on. it's soooo much fun to me to go through and squeeze every last bit of dialogue out of each area.

speaking of. my god. there is SOOOO much dialogue and flavor text and Fun Things to read in the game. the writing in the game is so fun and every character has SO much personality i'm so crazily attached to the main trio it's unreal. it's really funny how leif keeps commenting on how nosy we are but I LOVE BEING NOSY!!!! I LOVE THEIR GROUP DYNAMIC!!!!!!! I LOVE ALL THE NPC DIALOGUE AND HOW THE THREE OF THEM HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY ABOUT EVERY NPC THEY INTERACT WITH AND AREA THEY ENTER the fact that each room has custom dialogue is just NUTS to me there is SO much to learn about the world and if what they're talking about isn't interesting/groundbreaking lore-wise it's just funny as fuck. god. i love it when games have The Characters in them it makes me lose my mind. anyway

[raffaellopalandri]

Book of the Day – Upstream

Today’s Book of the Day is Upstream, written by Dan Heath in 2020 and published by Avid Reader Press / Simon Schuster. Dan Heath is a bestselling author, speaker, and researcher known for his work on business strategy, problem-solving, and decision-making. He and his brother Chip co-authored several influential books, including Made to Stick, Switch, and The Power of Moments. His works focus on…

[delicatelysublimeforester]

Breaking the Silence: Creating Safe Spaces for All

[meisekimiu]

this level of hubris in open source is always so embarrassing. like grow up. wordpress is written in PHP. you cannot be acting so high and mighty about your product. and you don't even own the actual wordpress dude you own what... the commercial rights to its name? Personally if I were CEO of automattic I would probably carhammerexplosion myself out of shame.

[nerdierholler]

Did my first in person PT yesterday.

Good news: I'm on the right direction with my back. Forever grateful that my sister was able to get me started because I think if I'd been trying to manage on my own for the last month we would be in a bad place right now. I was basically doing everything wrong either by pushing too hard or by doing the opposite of what was needed because that's usually what I did for my back in the past. Still probably have a good month before I'm in the clear though. This is apparently pretty easy to re-aggravate. I will have to miss my grumpy stinky birbs (who are molting right now so extra grumpy and stinky) for a while longer.

Bad News: We worked on my knee which occasionally hurts when I bend it and nothing hurt yesterday, couldn't replicate the pain (it's very intermittent) but boy am I feeling it today. Not terrible, still walking around fine, but I am very much aware that my knee is having a moment in a way that I having felt in a while.

[visionsman]

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