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Typical African war: Rwanda (pop 10 million) invades Congo (pop 100 million), installs a puppet government. New Congo leader rebels so Rwanda invades again. Rinse and repeat

Makes perfect sense. Actors are selected from a population you live in. If you did a production of Shakespeare in Uganda most actors will have black skin, if you do it in Ireland most actors will have white skin. That’s part of what acting means - representing a character that’s not you.

Reading historical fiction is different - first it’s historical so it has to follow what really happened. And we know what those people look like. Second it’s written so you have to imagine characters. Imagination has to follow certain patterns or stereotypes you already know about the historical period.

Doesn’t matter. It’s not about the number but their roles in the story. The core racist belief is that some races are inferior. If you make a person of the “inferior” race a protagonist = woke.

Btw, I hate having to say this, making protagonists black doesn’t make a show good on it’s own, you still have to tell a good story.

It can’t be repeated enough: never pre-order a game

That’s the correct way to do it.

The wrong way to to do it is: moving to another team requires you to go through the full hiring process. Any lateral movement, for example backend engineer -> fronted engineer is treated as if you’re a junior starting a completely new career.

Well, that’s the thing you could have it if you invested all the money that currently goes into highways. The amount of money is always limited (everybody hates taxes for a reason), so building large quantities of both is impossible.

Roads are always going to cost more in the end, but they’re easier to build incrementally. Boiling the frog situation.

Even if policy of your local government changes (which is at least a little up to you) you will still have to suffer the current situation and keep driving for a while before a better system is built. But that’s no reason to throw good money after the bad.

Unless there’s another bus for the other 50% of the travel. The point of a public transportation system is to be just that - a system. To get from anywhere to anywhere else.

It’s insane how much write-only documentation is produced by big companies. Usually there is some kind of regulatory reason - like some documents have to be preserved for 40 years. Luckily it’s not mandatory to keep paper archives any more (if you live in a sane jurisdiction of course) .

Beer. I’m boring.

And also I don’t want to get wasted, so something long with low alcohol does it for me.

It’s not even about the quality of individual people. The organizational structure of large companies encourages pointless work.

Internal mobility and cross department collaboration are frowned upon. So you get many people doing duplicate work, new ideas don’t propagate, and even if someone has an idea it’s quickly shut down.

The only way to achieve anything substantial is to be both: 1. assertive and energetic, and 2. at the correct level of hierarchy. And make no mistake even if you pull a miracle there will be no reward. Maybe a 3% raise at the yearly review.

Sorry for the rant, I currently work in a company like this.

I think it’s a bit of both. The light blue color used is so called “complement color”, meaning it’s exactly the opposite on the color wheel to the Coca Cola red. Black and white pattern suggests to our brain to play with contrast. And of course we all know Coca Cola from all the marketing.

Btw, After staring at it for a while I can kinda switch between red and white at will. Anyone else?

That’s just so impractical. The point of business travel is to get something done. For that you need your devices, and access to relevant data and systems.

Setting up a clean device for every trip where you cross a controlled border is such a hassle it wouldn’t really pass in any company. Well with the exception of defense companies, I could understand them being paranoid enough.

Maybe we just met a second speaker of the infamous bird/dolphin language

Just reminded me of an argument trying to explain that arithmetic with floating point numbers is not always correct to a coworker who was a mathematician just starting in software dev.

In a mathematicians mind the fact that an arithmetic operation can produce inaccurate result is just incomprehensible

Cold calling. And other proactive forms of sales when they seek you out and actively keep trying to convince you that you need their product.

Bonus points if the sales person is unable to actually explain the product and keeps talking about “we don’t sell products we sell solutions”

Ok, now you have to explain for those of us who are not birdologists

Is water cooling for PC gaming still a thing? It’s been 10+ years since I followed any trends.

Cauchy - “you can’t have a party without me”

I think it’s because writers take care to make the pronunciation guessable form the spelling. English is infamous for it’s very inconsistent writing rules, however there are “rules”. More like heuristics, but usually it’s possible to write a word in such a way that others can guess the pronunciation, unless that specific word already has an accepted official spelling that is different.