At work I literally just spent a half hour meeting with colleagues doing backlog management to clear out old bugs that were random one-offs and never came up again.

Pretty standard process.

I brought my 13 inch macbook pro to japan for three weeks last month for photo editing. i was able to pack up immediately by slipping it into my backpack laptop pocket.

Not sure the difference other than weight, but I wasn't carrying it day to day when i could leave it in my hotel room.

One thing I do is make friends with people who have dogs that get along with my dog on walks. We've seen movies, gotten food out together, etc. Or just intentionally walk around the same time to chat.

Also, hobbies. Try to find something you can be interested in that has meetups.

Could be sports, cars, books, quilting, chess. I've heard of photography groups that do photo walks or group editing hangouts at coffee shops.

On the other hand, it's also ok to be on your own sometimes. I love catching a movie at a theater on my own. Sometimes I'll go to the park without my dog just so I can relax at a bench or have a nice walk at my own pace.

Seen a doc about this before also. Some Japanese towns are super rural and may be many kilometers from typical supermarkets. Many don't even have the famous convenience stores. Trains may only run once an hour as well, if that.

So these mobile supermarkets are as convenient as it gets.

i'm not confident they know where i am at all. i routinely get ads on social media for places (super random US states, cities, etc.) nowhere near where i live (SF Bay Area).

there are plenty of positive things that can come from using a platform like Instagram.

That's what they said about facebook. That's what they said about twitter. Not once has it actually been true for me.

name at least 10 things; if there’s plenty, this should be easy.

sure.

* made friends to meet up with locally in the bay area from multiple hobbies (roadtripping, photography).

* made friends to meet up with in japan:

  * i've now made at least a couple dozen friends who i've visited for meals, road trips, baseball games. 

  * been invited by other friends to come and take photos at their events and workspaces (like one works for a famous car tuner shop in Saitama and they asked if I could take photos of the owner as he fabricated parts for his race car)  

  * made another friend who's an expat living in Japan who takes photos as a job for various tourism agencies/local governments who i've hung out with  

  * made friends while in japan with people who also have shiba inu dogs and we keep in touch between visits using IG

I could go on and on.

Discord for sure has way more features and use than IRC.

On the other hand, IRC lets me /ignore a user and my client renders channels without ever showing a hint of that user's existence.

Meanwhile, in Discord both ignoring and blocking a user still shows a "3 ignored messages" or "1 blocked message", etc.

There are always going to be pros and cons to one or the other.

I actually learned recently that you can ignore users in discord as well.

https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/28084948873623...

as i said in my comment, ignoring a user still shows they've put messages in a channel.

you missed the fact that most people either aren't signaling or do it right as they're already cutting in.

that's hardly safe when it's already tight with a safety buffer as it is.

provided they use a signal as required by law and taught in the drivers handbook, they'd likely be let into the new lane without any judgement.

Is this something you could add as a hot fix yourself and submit a PR for?

They said they don’t want that [1]. It’s not just me, several people have asked for it. Maintaining an extra fork just for that is also out of the question for most people.

[1] https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/14217

Today was the second time in a year I went into one and my crotch got flagged because of my pants zipper. nothing in my pockets. no belt. nothing hidden. etc.

I was then subjected to full pat down and a shoe chemical test as a cherry on top.

Might need to try convincing them next time to let me do the metal detector instead.

What's the point of this higher fidelity scanner if it can't tell the difference between a fly and a restricted object?

This podcast episode might be of interest. https://www.searchengine.show/a-perfectly-average-anomaly/

Derek Smalls?

Are you sure it was the zipper?

it's a guess from looking at the screen where the red square is placed right around that zone.

/r/bigdickproblems

Almost always my back sweat from wearing a backpack shows up on the body scanner. Then a TSA agent has to put their gloved hand on my sweaty back. What a shit job lol.

Whenever my backpack has been pulled aside for various reasons (large metal tools, too many loose wires, water bottle), I'll often get the bomb sniffer wipe.