You can do just that. Before you begin the quiz, there’s a link to skip the quiz and directly enter your preferences.

I’m not from the US, so I don’t know how accurate this is, and I also don’t know if this thing has ever been updated (I found it a long time ago), but there’s this tool that might help with deciding: https://www.whereshouldilive.co/

I mean, if the words “Israel” and “interrogation” are in it, it pretty clearly conveys what you just described.

I’m using Qwant. Works better for me than DuckDuckGo.

Oh there’s a lot.

• When I was a kid, parents and teachers used to teach, if you have sore muscles a day after an extensive workout, you need to work out even more in order to reduce the soreness. In fact, however, you need to rest those muscles.
• I thought, pepperoni was pepper. (Like bell pepper, just smaller; similar to chilli). Then my girlfriend enlightened me after a confusing conversation, that pepperoni was a kind of salami. And then recently, at a company event before ordering pizza and after a very confusing discussion of what toppings we order, it turned out pepperoni was actually a kind of a salami, but not everyone agreed. So by now I’ve learned that pepperoni is neither of them. It doesn’t exist. It’s listed on pizza menus, and when you order it, you’ll get something for sure, but you won’t know in advance what it would be.
• This isn’t new, the realization was several years ago, but fits this list nicely: I thought, perfume was something for women. It turned out, there was perfume for men too.
• Parents used to teach, if you read in the dark (on paper, not on a screen, I must add), you’re ruining your eyes. But if you think about it: wtf does low light do to your eyes? By that logic, you’re constantly ruining your eyes while sleeping.
• For some reason I used to think, you could simply delete related entities bound by foreign key constraints in postgres, if you ran the query in a transaction. Once when I finally needed to do this, I learned the hard way I was wrong.

There’s a lot more than this, probably I’ll update this comment in the future. Or not.

I find it weird to look at my thumbnail video, so I almost never do that.

1. If I have the chance, I don’t even enable my webcam. It depends on the workplace…
2. Generally, I always look at my notes, because I’m unable to keep all the necessary things in my mind while talking.
3. If no notes are needed for whatever reason, I just look at others in the meeting.

If I look at myself, that happens maybe at the very beginning to check what’s in the picture, but I always hate looking at myself.

Milk chocolate without any nuts.

At first I wanted to say sushi, but basically anything I order online, because they’re so expensive. But during those few occasions I really feel like royalty.

I set the timer on the dishwasher to finish approximately when I get home after work. However, that day I didn’t really know what time I would get home, as there was an after-work BBQ event.

When I arrived at home and stepped into the kitchen, the timer showed 0:00 and shortly afterwards it switched off.

My proudest achievement in like two years.

I don’t understand the motivation in these kinds of attacks.

It’s easy: Houthi terrorists are backed by Iranian terrorists and Muscovy terrorists, and all they want is more chaos in the world. That’s what terrorists do.

And do Israeli people actually approve of this genocide?

There are! FediTips usually shares some channels on Mastodon that they consider interesting. It’s worth looking their posts through: https://social.growyourown.services/@FediVideo

I respect everyone’s wrong opinion.

I’d rather pick that, than starve to death.

I can’t imagine stopping to work. If I retire, I’ll have no money. I cannot count on pension either.

But I have an IT job, it’s just sitting in front of the computer all day; it’s not like a physical job I wouldn’t be able to do at old age.

Water; yes.

1000 Terabytes (TB) = 1 Petabyte (PB).

Or: 1024 Tebibytes (TiB) = 1 Pebibyte (PiB)

Or: 1024 Terabytes (TB) = 1.024 Petabytes (PB)

Or: 1024 Terabytes (TB) = 1 Petabyte (TB), 24 Terabytes (TB)

But: 1024 Terabytes (TB) != 1 Petabyte (PB)

End of the day, nothing you can do will change what’s happening half way across the world, so why let it change you?

I beg to differ. Here are a few things you can do. I agree these won’t make an impact, but if enough people are willing to do these, it could work:

• Donate money if you can afford it. (Just carefully check where you’re exactly donating to.)
• Promote non-propaganda, factual information. Muscovy spreads disinformation through social media and propaganda websites using their trolls. So why can’t ordinary people step up and upvote, share, publish, and promote factual information? Sure, the algorithms of social media platforms favor the disinformation, but again, if enough people are willing to overcome what’s happening, I believe, it could make a change.
• Promote education. Only stupid people can be influenced by the far right propaganda. Unfortunately there are way too many stupid people.
• Just do what you’re good at. If your profession is irrelevant, that’s fine. But if you happen to be a hacker, or want to become one, go ahead, and fight online scammers and trolls. Are you a software developer? Wanna be a web developer? Create something that has an impact if you have the free time and interest. Make it open source. Encourage others to join. Again, if you have no affinity for this kind of stuff, it’s totally fine.
• Do your research and vote on elections.

In my opinion, this kind of mindset of “you cannot do anything, get used to it” is a very demotivating and harmful piece of advice. Because that’s what’s been going on all this time; everyone being ignorant, while evil people never stop doing what they’re doing.

Exactly.

Also, besides the fact that over this time PHP transformed into a whole different language, most of the concepts the author is dissatisfied with, are just nuances.

There are a few valid points as well.

Overall, if I were to use a scripting language for web development, I would 100% pick PHP, as that’s the best suited language for the job. Nowadays, however, I go with Rust because I wanna squeeze out as much performance as I reasonably can.

For single use scripts and smaller tools on my desktop, I used Python in the past, and then I learned Ruby. I’m sticking with Ruby for these use cases.

I feel sorry for the author of the article for working at such a company.

This person happens to be working at a company, where they’re not even taking Scrum seriously. What they’re doing, is in fact, not Scrum.

When it’s done correctly, it does make the team very productive and even enthusiastic, but - since it’s a teamwork - a great team is needed for that.

It’s true that it isn’t easy to do Scrum right. It is in the Scrum guide too: easy to understand, but hard to master.

I did have a chance to work in an amazing team at a great company, where the leadership, as well as our Scrum master were determined to stick to the Scrum guide as much as possible (way too many “Scrum” teams make an alternate “Scrum” for themselves, with which they’re essentially ruining it).

In our case, we didn’t start out perfect either! We failed most of our sprints, but the management still believed in Scrum, and sent the whole team to a Scrum elevation training each year. Even as an introverted person, I have to say, they were really fun and they were good as team building events too, besides the training itself. We always returned to the office with greater enthusiasm after each training, and our enthusiasm always lasted longer and longer. At the end our team was like a “rock star” team at the company, the management, the leadership, our scrum master, all of them were proud of our achievements. We never failed a sprint again, and we also put the necessary overtime in when it was needed.

Those were the good times. Unfortunately I haven’t managed to work in such a Scrum team again, and everywhere where I had an interview, they always had their own version of “Scrum”.

Most likely the author of the article won’t read this, but my message is, if you think, Scrum sucks, then in reality, your team (and maybe your company too) sucks.