Belkin are awful.

Oh, weird, to get the demo one needs to have already bought it?

Guys, that’s not how demos work.

I find vague variable names exhausting. It adds not inconsiderable mental overhead when reading code, at least for me.

Is ran?

Some fast food travels well. Much of it doesn’t. I am baffled as to which idiots are ordering some of this garbage.

Seems like an odd place to post this but I’ll bite.

Even the things I love doing involve work. If I want to do some sewing I still need to tidy up before and afterwards, for example, or spend time pinning stuff (and then taping up the numerous stab wounds). It’s a bit reductive.

Instead I try to get paid for things that require minimal emotional “work” from me - that is to say, things that don’t leave me sapped of energy to work on my passion projects. I don’t dislike what I am paid to do but I’m not super enthused about it. That means that when I’m done working I’ve still got the creative juice to work on stuff I actually want to do.

If instead I have to spend my working days pushing myself through stuff then I tend to be left with nothing in the tank, even if I still have time left at the end of the day. Instead I get paid to do something I’m good at but that doesn’t usually involve extended periods of advanced problem solving or frequent uphill battles of effort (there’s always a bit, of course, it’s not a perfect solution!). That isn’t to say what I do is easy, but much of the stuff involved is stuff I’ve been doing for twenty years so is comparatively easy for me.

The notion of having this many lanes in a built up area is insane to me.

What a soundtrack!

Now I’m thinking about the old e-penis hardware algorithm scripts for IRC!

APNG wasn’t officially part of the spec?!

I love Cold War era “throwing technology at the wall to see what sticks” projects. So many ideas were tried and often the ideas themselves weren’t bad but something else was a limiting factor (e.g. our level of material science technology at the time). Even so, they’d often get a lot further than one could reasonably expect, which is rather cool.

Sounds like me trying to do stuff in Windows these days.

I don’t like man pages though - it’s very rare for me to find their content useful as they always seem to be written for a skill level way above mine.

…and I’ve been using Linux since 2005.

In that case you should go for it as you’ll know pretty quickly whether it’s fun for you.

I think that depends more on your income level. Is $30 a lot to you?

It’s about £22 to me and whilst I’d say the game is a lot of fun (I played through it in 2019, I think, on my Xbox One X) I personally wouldn’t pay that much for it. However I spent a long time poor, so I’m rather price sensitive even though I probably don’t need to be quite so hesitant any more.

The whole point of that site is to compare sizes of cars. Plug in whatever you want to compare: https://www.carsized.com/en/cars/compare/mazda-mx-5-1989-roadster-vs-ford-f-250-2023-4-door-pickup-crew-cab/

I enjoyed Wasteland 3 a great deal too.

I rather enjoyed Gears Tactics a few years ago.

Without proper consequences their behaviour will continue.

It turns out that maybe having a gentlemen’s agreement for how things should work was a bad idea.

Mmmmm compiz. Wobbly windows, spinny cube virtual desktops, take me home!