brango

I'm surprised no one's mentioned the pick up community, AKA gaming (as in "The Game"). It's a good way for hetero guys to meet other hetero guys. A lot of people who stick with it are the type who want to better themselves in some way, which is quite inspiring. Plus, you'll learn skills to meet loads of girls as well, and it's up to you whether you choose to put in the time to have them as friends.

I know a lot of people who it's helped, and I've made some good friends through it as well. The social skills can also be translated to business/events so even if you're not interested in a stream of conquests, it can be valuable. It's the one thing I wish I'd found when I was at university.

Just talk about girls a lot.

One of the guys I met in a bar at a language exchange (good places to meet other hetero guys btw) even joked about this when one of my other friends came over ("Hey we just met each other but both agree she's really hot (pointing to a girl) so we're going to hang out, and go find girls."). It was cool because we ended up with a group of decent guys to hit the town with.

Someone else mentions homophobia. It's not homophobia, just making sure you're on the same page.

Actually, I've got to say, while there are guys to steer clear of, I made a few decent male friends gaming (as in "the game"). It's worth checking out (if you're prepared to work on yourself if you need to) since you'll meet a lot of guys working on themselves or with decent attitudes (just avoid the ones you don't like).

I like to think that in some small way, I helped make this piece of art :-)

The food industry plays all sorts of games. Ever seen what's actually in "pork" sausages or "chicken" nuggets?

Wouldn't it then be a drone?

I stand corrected.

That can fly themselves and perform accurate 3D manoeuvres.

It's not a tech issue, it's a business issue. Why give people bigger raises than they may otherwise ask for? That's just wasting money. It's the same logic for why you only get a good deal when you threaten to leave your mobile phone provider. They don't want to proactively reduce your rate or make it too easy to get a discount otherwise they might be doing it unnecessarily.

The squeaky wheel gets the oil.

With work, it's also about an employee's best alternative, and also the psychology of "well, you used to work for x, so we'll only pay you a small increase since that's obviously what you'll work for". It's as much the psychological aspect as anything else since it's difficult to decide the "price" of something without any reference (i.e. a new employee).

> of my own choosing

Billions of marketing dollars are spent influencing people to make them "choose correctly".

While some people may seek aloneness, I can't imagine anyone seeking loneliness.

In a hunter-gatherer society you'd have far higher chances of survival in a team/tribe. I don't find it surprising at all that feeling lonely (a desire to be part of a tribe) would have such a strong impact on mental (and therefore physical) health. It would act as a strong drive for the lonely person to change their situation, potentially improving their chances of survival and reproduction.

From an evolutionary perspective it's little different to starvation. In fact, you could define loneliness as "social starvation".

No one bothered replying to my issue and suggested fix. I'm not doing work without maintainers agreeing my approach. So no.

I'd want to because grpc doesn't support javascript on the web. REST is the defacto standard.

I am aware Google use gRPC in their SDKs and backends, none of which are JS web.

So yes, I want to build microservices with gRPC but expose them with REST for legacy/external clients.