Got_Bent @ Got_Bent @lemmy.world

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By tenth grade I had been commissioned to write some software. When I completed it, I walked away from all of it because of the social stigma. Didn't touch a computer again for ten years. I won't say I regret that because walking away led me to other life adventures, but I will say I regret the circumstances that drove me to do it.

I had to go look up when those things came out (1977) because by the time I got my hands on one in 1982 in the school library they were already little more than toys even when compared to the luxurious Vic 20.

I know we played some games off cassettes on them. I feel like Oregon trail was one of those games, but I'm suspicious of my own memory because I know I was playing that on my Apple 2, which I think had joystick driven hunting on it.

God I'm getting old and can't remember the finer points anymore.

I do remember that other kids bullied the HELL out of me for carrying one of those plastic boxes full of floppies with me at school. Not a good time to be a nerd back then.

Money laundering

It's gonna be unbelievably dystopian if this guy weasels his way back into office. No policy other than unhinged vengeance.

Looks like it was in an "exclusive" area of an F1 race. Best I can tell, it's just a vehicle to keep the unwashed masses away from the privileged and their playground.

Yeah, when I became aware of that one, it got watched in a private tab in a different browser

I gave up on those years ago because I couldn't fight through the endless roving bands of feral children attacking the food the second it would come out.

Where's the next Kent State? The weapons and armor are much bigger this time.

Bartender, I'll have a screwdriver.

So you take a bad beer that's been sitting in the sun for a few months. You know that smell?

Ramp that up a few orders of magnitude to the extent that it seizes up your breathing and makes your eyes tear up to the point of near blindness.

Looks like he lives in the US. He'd better be careful if the Cheeto takes power. Donny would love to send him to his Russian piss buddy in the Kremlin.

Ken Paxton about to sue the feds in 3...2...1

I lived in Korea for a while where they also do the ten thousand thing. I got used to it for numbers up to about ten million, but then would get quickly lost.

Since everybody was making a couple million won a month, knowing numbers that big was necessary.

Considering that you're probably making something like $1,500/mo in some place where rent is $3,000/mo I'd say take every discount you can get.

I briefly looked into doing a doctorate. The economics of it turned me away right quick.

I was struck by the address. That's right outside Dallas Love Field in a pretty run down area, which happens to also border one of the wealthiest neighborhoods.

They've since moved quite a bit east to an enormous campus.

I am so much NOT a dev, that it took me a minute to even register what you were trying to say. I thought of a college classmate whose name is Dev.

I too have had my time in hard physical labor.

But you do you. Enjoy your Internet sanctimony.

There's also the little detail that I'm not a dev. But let the guy have his moment I guess.

We need a national Mitch McConnell ban.

Username really checks out here

Oh no. My car warranty is about to expire, isn't it?