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I'm still waiting for the day I see UML in a professional context. My undergrad teachers were all about it.

Similarly, I don't design software using design patterns, and I've had to discourage juniors from forcing them into projects where they don't add any value. But that's not to say design patterns aren't useful. They do exactly what you say, allowing your brain to recognise a pattern so you can remember or communicate it without having to go into details. Most of the time it won't be an exact fit for the ideal pattern implementation, but it's still easier to remember the variation.

I wish they were taught more as communication and cognitive tools than silver bullets for good software design.

In the real world there aren't even that many patterns. On a very large project you're likely to see the same patterns repeated throughout the system, because a good architecture doesn't add variation and complexity unless there's a lot of value to gain. You learn the default way, and then the diffs.

Living in rural Tasmania, trying to work on (often) 5 mbps down, with frequent drops, looking at the garden that produces fruit and vegetables faster than we can eat them... that agrarian lifestyle is looking mighty tempting right now.

I can see what they're going for. We have a good history of exemptions, and getting another one would be a big win domestically with an election looming. You might think there's no way it will happen, but we do hold some cards, so to speak. I wouldn't be surprised if in more private negotiations they're threatening to close Pine Gap or cancel other cooperative military arrangements.

Retaliatory tariffs just aren't our best option.

Stopping timers has always been like that for me.

Through trial and error I found the most successful command is "ok google shut the fuck up".

Just like Android loses features on every major version, and Maps is a skeleton of its former self.

In a company where nobody is incentivised to maintain anything, cutting features is the easier option.

She's there to take the blame when it all goes to shit.

Is this Jon Stewart's account?

I haven't had pav in such a long time. I reckon it's time I learned to make it.

Does chicken salt count as Aussie cuisine? Because who would ever go with regular salt if you're given the choice?

Edit: I just thought of another one, more a Tasmanian specialty since moving here: scallop pie. It tastes luxurious and basic at the same time, subtle and flavoursome, a bit of everything in one convenient package.

If you're on a steep hill, yes sometimes you need to use the handbrake to get moving. This had to be demonstrated when I got my licence, but to be fair some manual vehicles now have automatic hill start. Still a good technique to learn because it doesn't always activate.

That will be much more convenient when they need an incarcerated workforce to pick the crops.

It was pretty good before all that happened. I've moved on now though, because it wasn't going to improve and the culture was generally going in the wrong direction.

That bloody confirmation bias.

I was a model employee for many years. Every review was, "you're one of our brightest, keep doing what you're doing". Then I requested some accommodations for my chronic migraines, and they put me under a microscope. Suddenly I was still getting the most complex work because I was the only person they trusted to do it, but now it was an issue that I didn't churn through change requests as fast as other employees who only do simple bug fixes.

When I got diagnosed with ADHD I thought it would give me some breathing room if I told them. That just made it worse. Now I had to be on a management plan. Now every review was laser focused in churn rate, and completely ignored all my above-and-beyond contributions.

I think their long term plan was to either make me give up accommodations or leave, because they didn't want anyone else thinking they could get "special treatment".