My wife and I used to tag-team. Only one person got to lose it at a time. As soon as one person got that distant, exasperated look, Parent 2 jumped in and Parent 1 could go cool down, watch a show, have a drink, or take a bath. If solo, we’d use distraction and humor. If too much, you stick them in a playpen with toys and let them self-sooth.
If it’s any consolation, they won’t remember diddly-squat of anything that happened before ages 5-6.
That last one was just people shooting at magic suits.
My first tech job out of college, I was told to go talk to “Dave,” the guru old-timey programmer and learn the lay of the land. He turned out to be this crotchety old guy, with low tolerance for idiots, but a soft spot for someone who actually paid attention.
A few months in, I was told to go fix a feature in the company’s main product which was sold to power utilities. This was a MASSIVE code base, with a mix of C, C++, assembler, and a bit of Fortran thrown in. I spent a week poring through all the code trying to figure things out. Then I hit a mystery workflow that didn’t make sense.
I walk over to Dave’s office and ask a specific question. Now, mind you, he had worked on this years ago, and had long moved on to new products. He leans back in his chair, stares at the ceiling, then without looking at the screen once tells me to go look at such and such file for such and such variable, and a list of functions that were related. I go back to my desk and damn if it wasn’t EXACTLY as he described.
Now, I’m probably as old as he was then. I don’t remember what I wrote an hour ago. No matter what I build, I’ll always be in awe of Dave and what he could keep in his head.
Getting less programmer_humor and more “I didn’t get the promo” angry vibe from this.
So many ways…
Still locked out, but posted a comment upthread that you may want to consider.
Just had a thought… here’s a prime example of one of the stated advantages of the Fediverse. If you get locked out of one account, you can move to another instance.
Question is: do you get to carry over your profile, subscriptions, followers, comments, saves, up/down votes? Or do you have to start from scratch.
Because if it’s scratch, somebody should change the “Fediverse Promise” so users know what to expect.
I’m guessing I know the answer, but this could be something Voyager could handle. Maybe even for a sustainable fee 🤔
Also, if you logout, you can’t log back in. Sounds like it’s getting blocked at the server end.
Not a formal audit, but a more recent review of the protocol: https://soatok.blog/2025/02/18/reviewing-the-cryptography-used-by-signal/