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This is why I got an accountant who set up the aspects of my side-hustle business I'm too stupid^H^H^H^H^H^H lazy^H^H^H^H busy to sort out. Yes I could have done this all myself but could I have done it myself the correct way from the outset? Not a chance. I would have screwed up some detail.

yeah. not easy.

33 strokes per minute. set to 10 resistance on concept2. proper form. go for 30 minutes.

I'm unconvinced this is an easy thing for an unfit individual. I'm fairly sure an unfit individual would only be capable of 2 minutes... at best.

CEOs should be experts in delegation otherwise they'll get bogged down in some thing they really shouldn't even be thinking about, let alone doing.

Letting go should be a common response, "How do I systematize this?" should be an almost instant reflex.

Side note: all this off-topic pedantry about octopi vs octopuses is an old discussion already resolved. It is clouding discussion about what the full implications of what it actually means to treat octopus (ha!) as sentient.

A twenty something wasting 5 hours is wasting future benefits of using that. The opportunity cost is horrendous. Multiples of any later hourly rate because of how early its wasted.

Addiction is often poor social connections and relationships. That's why isolation is so dangerous. Most addictions thrive in people who have poor interconnections with others. This isn't the only factor but its a big one. People operate better in tribes or groups of connected people.

I like this. I'd like similar for pizza as well.

The real joke is the fact that most Italians look at US coffee with a sense of either vague or specific disappointment. Does not matter what fancy name you come up with.

On the other hand you could try asking an Italian barista for a Latte and see what you end up with.

Or they could use instead use CSVs. What could possibly go wrong?

I can see the benefits of this collection of tools within an all-in-one monolith. Ease of deployment is a big benefit. I can also see the costs. As a stack its probably better in some ways than how a lot of other businesses operate as well as worse. There's probably a lot both ways.

The mainframe mindset might be a factor here as well. The giant mainframe where all the magic happens is still a thing to behold and this is definitely part of banking's history and present. Mainframes are beasts and are still far from any kind of obsolescence. A monolithic Bank Python with a standardised set of libraries etc would slot right in to that mindset and way of thinking.

The part about programming languages frequently not having tables is interesting. The closest as mentioned is the hash, but you lose so much in that abstraction eg the relational aspects. The counter argument then becomes the obvious: why aren't you using a database library, or in a pinch, sqlite? Rightly so. Why would you add relational tables to python rather than have a generic python database spec or a collection of database connector libraries. Databases are separate and large projects in themselves.

I'd still be overly disturbed if they were running some old python 2.5 or similar. Just saying. That would be a source of pity.

Hmmm. I'm not keen on giving my DNA profile to China. This seems like an unwise thing to do.

from Newsweek: "China is also getting the DNA of Americans by buying American companies. China's BGI Group may now have the largest database on Americans after acquiring Complete Genomics in 2013. This year, GNC, which holds customer profiles, was sold to a Chinese entity, Harbin Pharmaceutical Group.

Another Chinese technique is to offer low-cost "large-scale genetic sequencing" to ancestry and other businesses. Ancestry firm 23andMe's chief security officer says China is looking at the firm for its genetic data. There were, as of last year, 23 Chinese-associated companies accredited to perform genetic testing of Americans.

While Beijing is hoovering up American genetic data, it is prohibiting the transfer of Chinese data to foreigners. The State Council announced new restrictions in May of last year, and officials are stepping up efforts to punish genetic data transfers."

I'd not be thinking that this is a good thing. Especially the one-way nature of DNA data transfer to China. The fact they are outlawing the export of such data on Chinese citizens shows the value they put on their own.

The monitor I had wasn't capable of 1024x768. I got that custom resolution using a manually defined modeline determined through experimentation. It wasn't a simple VESA style display setting like the later 15" monitor I got. A flat CRT was quite a sight.

CDE? That's an acronym I haven't heard in a long time. Still being developed? Very nice.

Brings back happy memories of running oddball screen resolutions on X Window. 1000x800 I think. Definitely not 1024. Monitor couldn't do 1024. But it could do 1000. The 800 number is hazy but in the ball park.

One thing I did notice was the fonts. Those pixels.

Time to fire up CDE for some nostalgia.

Alternate cause of SkyNet: a distributed horde of unicode renderers become self-aware. Emojis become command and control codes.

Give it a few years and unicode will probably be turing-complete. For reasons... likely not good ones though.

Not unprofessional at all to leave this kind of madness the moment you find something better or, if things are really bad and you can afford it, tomorrow. If there was cost cutting and layoffs, how loyal would they be to you?

Plus, right now you are slowly (or quickly) burning out. That is not an acceptable result. They are incompetent and unprofessional. Employees should not be burning out due to bad work design.

There is a massive opportunity cost in remaining in a bad environment. You may last awhile longer but only if you adapt to it. Do you really want to adapt to where you are and get comfortable in it?

I'd be returning to the resume stage and put the feelers out into my network. Live is too short for this kind of nonsense.

But in reality I can't advise you more than this because I don't know the full story and basically can't. Hope this helped.