Random link I found.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/08/05/bangladesh-prime-minister-hasina-resigns/

Regular life has been upended across Bangladesh. Most of the garment factories that power the country’s economy did not open Monday. Flights into the capital, Dhaka, were canceled as its main airport temporarily shut down operations. Businesses shut their doors as hundreds of thousands of people flooded the streets of major cities, blaring horns, chanting and setting fire to vehicles and buildings.

Speaking to the BBC, Hasina’s son, Sajeeb Wazed Joy, said his mother had left for her own safety and did not have plans to lead the country again. “She has turned Bangladesh around,” Joy said, defending his mother’s legacy. “When she took over power, it was considered a failing state. It was a poor country. Until today, it’s considered one of the rising tigers of Asia.”

The protests that have gripped Bangladesh over the past month started in opposition to a government policy that reserves half of civil service jobs for certain groups but evolved into a broad-based opposition movement against Hasina, who has become increasingly authoritarian, rights groups and security analysts say. Since taking office in 2009, she has been accused of manipulating the country’s elections — including by suing and jailing political opponents — to maintain her grip on power.

At least 300 people were killed in clashes between the two sides over the past month, the majority “shot dead by police, paramilitaries and members of the ruling Awami League,” according to the International Crisis Group. Hasina showed little indication of backing down as the toll climbed, saying as recently as last week that the protesters were “not students, but terrorists.”

Yikes.

300 people died because of her.

OP, source?

I was hoping to read the rest of the article.

She left her pets?

What kind though? Like an alligator and a koala?

I can’t imagine fleeing without my doggo.

You can’t flip a sandwich toaster sideways though.

At best… You’ll melt the plastic sides of your toaster AND make a fine quesadilla.

Win in my book.

On the other hand, he was convicted, sentenced, did time and is now back in society apparently showing remorse.

He flew to England, raped a 12 yo, got convicted by the English for 4 years. He was deported back to Netherlands, they dropped it to 1 year.

This isn’t justice.

Oh my, I did a scan and yes… We have location meta data on our images.

Oh boy.

Yes. More than I care to admit. No. It never helped.

It’s even worse today, where the front line support starts with a defensive attitude now.

I’ve tried a bunch of different strategies. But as Im now in my 40s, I’ve learned that you always get better service with honey.

I started doing that Gen Z stuff of like, “Hey man. You are probably just doing what you need to do, and I’m hoping my issue is easy as fuck to solve. If not, I’m not here to give you trouble because the system sucks.”

There’s a great book called Verbal Judo which goes through how to deal with the suck. Its not for everyone. But for people like me who tend to blow up easily, it’s great for keeping your composure, getting to a solution without ruining your day (even if it isn’t what you want), and remembering the person behind the screen/phone is human.

I think I’m on the cutting edge of game releases, mostly focused on indie games. I have a huge Steam collection. This is also my nerd hobby.

Im subscribed to a bunch of game sales (like isthereanydeal) and casually browse steam pages every few days. I often play a genre then search for “games like X”. Lately it was metroidvania games. I found a game called Rabi-Ribi, which looks really uncomfortable to play. But the reviewers said to skip the dialog and ignore the loli, because it has really strong game mechanics. (And it does!)

Searching for indie games using steamdb with under 5000 reviews (lately I’ve been searching for games under 500 reviews), and checking them out.

I also make indie games as a hobby (nothing fancy!), so I like to look for inspiration from other indie game developers.

Lastly, Rock Paper Shotgun or Giant Bomb covers any big budget games I should know about.

Oh nice!

Then it’s really just a bad name. Volunteer ambassador implies a lot of other responsibilities.

Other industries call it like VIP or Insiders Club. And their responsibilities for being a part of it is to also share the excitement of the product.

I’m thinking they also want to future proof this.

The quantity of C devs are dying. It’s a really difficult language to get competent with.

For all of our sake, I hope humans are the final set of eyes before the code is used in prod.

I laughed because last week, I had to teach the marketing team why you shouldn’t upload your iPhone photos to the website. Each page has a nice 4meg high res photo.

Pretty much.

Better wag that finger even harder.

Nobody is saying Bitcoin to refer to that, ever. Come on.

I dunno man. Depends on if “Typical immigrants” is racist to you or not. (Spoiler: it is)

On Reddit, the UK subs got extra racist.

Maybe they’ve always been and I’m too thick of an American to understand. But top comments strongly hinting at violence was at the top.

Average Linux solution.

“Got an emergency? It’s so EZ. Just open up the terminal and copy/paste [long string of unreadable text]. Btw fuck windows.”

as a chronic documentation reader, the best advice i can give is to document everything Anything that the user can and will potentially interact with, should be extensively documented, including syntax and behavior.

I don’t know about that. I’ve read some terrible documentation that had everything under the sun. Right now in the library I’m using, the documentation has every available class, every single method, what it’s purpose.

But how to actually use the damn thing? I have to look up blog posts and videos. I actually found someone’s website that had notes about various features that are better than the docs.

There’s a delicate balance of signal vs noise.

I used to mock people who make YouTube videos that literally just walk through the documentation. Like bro, get some reading comprehension!

But then when I fumbled with some self hosting tutorials, those YouTube videos were the only thing that made sense, because they’re explaining why and how.

Sorry y’all.