having a take so bad someone sends you a copy of a macro book with a "educate thyself" note is incredible, no notes

To an extent: contrast Calgary's success in annexation vs Edmonton's experience with St. Albert, Sherwood Park, etc. Both clearly much more successful than most US counterparts, though.

robust social democracy + abolition-democracy = bouieism

To what extent does their assured salvation affect their ability to connect with their parishioners, though?

same for regular expressions. i almost never write my own regexes anymore, because there are so many different dialects. my #1 regex advice still applies: every regex must have unit tests. just. for. the. regex. i even let the llm write the tests, I just make sure I like the behavior.

That's a good starter set.

Honestly, using the regex-generator/testing websites is better than memorizing all the dialects, let alone trying to debug why your precious hand-crafted regex isn't working on this one weird edge case.

*sigh* So much of my life, wasted in retrospect.

Rob Reiner made and did a lot of things that mattered a lot to me and I kind of thought for a long time that he was a Type of Guy there were a bunch of and turns out, no, there are like maybe six of that Type of Guy and they just have insane work rates and they all hang out