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[methylatedspirit]

The fact that Twitter tags the symbol "$" as if it was a hashtag, because cryptocurrency. How will I write in borrowed and mangled Bash syntax if people think I'm referring to crypto with such names as "PERSON" or "BOSS" or "HOME"?!

[voliol]

Was in a hurry this morning and put my glasses case into my bag without first confirming the glasses were in there.

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[None]

Yeah, go get that checked immediately like. I was gonna suspect migraine aura, but that goes away after an hour.

[voliol]

My eyes are decent enough that I can get visual focus in exchange for a headache. Not good for prolonged reading, but it’s a trade I’m willing to make to complain about it on the internet.

That does sound bad, go get that appointment already.

[martinuzz]

Hmm pretty sus absence of typos voliol, I'll keep my blurry sights on you.

(i think i need to go to the eye doctor a spot appeared in my vision yesterday, right eye like 3 words right from where I focus, colorful if eyes closed an like 90% blurred if i look, cataract at 30?)

You didn't look into a laser by any chance?

[McTraveller]

Is the visual anomaly only in one eye, or both?  If one, it could be a CSR* esp. if you are stressed.

If both eyes, it's probably not your eyes but neurological, so definitely get that checked out.  I second that view that even though it sounds somewhat like a migraine aura, those only last on the order of minutes-hours, not days.

Spoiler: CSR (click to show/hide)

Central Serous (sp?) Retinopathy - I have this. It's like a little sparkly spot, it's due to a "bubble" under your retina.  They usually self-correct if you can manage your stress.

[martinuzz]

That, and you would have by now been gnawing at the stumps of your fingerbones to distract yourself from the agonizing headache.

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[nenjin]

Diabetic retinopathy.

This is a common condition for diabetic patients and occurs when diabetes damages blood vessels in the eye. This damage causes symptoms such as blurry vision, “floaters” and black spots in the field of vision, retinal swelling (called macular edema), poor color perception and even blindness.

So basically, yes, excess sugar consumption leading to diabetes or pre-diabetes can totally mess with your eyesight.

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[None]

Got chewed out by a senior coworker today for some work I put forward for review. Granted, the work was put forward as part of a learning exercise, so it's as much to be used as it is to be learned from, but I'm still pretty bitter at myself for it. I keep mentioning to my boss that the other new people tap me in for advice on stuff pretty often, and my confidence has led to me building up a larger pool of work to be reviewed (theirs has been addressed first), so I'm kind of afraid I've just built a tower of shit or left a bunch of stinkers in there and made more work for myself since I feel the need to revisit it all. Really, I should've paid more attention to my work.

Not that there's a clear measure of how much work we have beyond the work we've been writing, since all the other development lines can't figure out what we're supposed to test, re-test, when to test it, or where, as development environments get frozen to un-fuck and then someone decides not to do the thing to unfuck the environment making it impossible to measure the value of any testing done pre-or-post unfuckening. Most of the deliberation about this is above my experience/pay grade, so it's no skin off my back for now, but who knows, things could get crunchy.

I'm also a little bitter that the acceptance criteria we're writing work for tends to be vague or spotty; we have to write null cases for the acceptance criteria to catch weirdness by implementation, but we can't interpret/extrapolate what happens outside the acceptance criteria (which is sometimes the null cases), and the rule is simultaneously "if the acceptance criteria is vague, throw a defect at the development team and let them figure it out" and "don't throw defects at the development teams for things that are not explicitly in the acceptance criteria or they'll stop paying attention to anything you say when they come back and say it's intentional." Granted, there is some intersect where all of the above can be true, but I'm feeling a little chafed that frequently not all of the above aligns and it feels like instructions are conflicting.

It's all pretty ordinary work stuff, really.

[McTraveller]

I'm beginning to dislike the concept of "acceptance criteria."  The requirement text itself should be the acceptance criteria - if you have to write something else to define it, then the requirement is not up to par.

(My previous job never had the concept - you either satisfied the requirement or you didn't. There was no additional "acceptance criteria" defined.)

[Bumber]

You didn't look into a laser by any chance?

I did once. Vision improved greatly.