Chahk @ chahk @beehaw.org

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I enjoy city builders like Cities: Skylines 1 and 2, or Foundation. I hate the initial crawl when you start a new city and have to micromanage everything because budget. I almost always play with unlimited money cheat enabled. It's just more relaxing that way.

MP3s are quite compressed, meaning a lot of data is thrown away in an effort to have smaller files. The quality of audio is sacrificed quite a bit though.

Lossless formats retain as much data as possible as to not impact the sound quality, but at the expense of larger files. The OP says "smaller" because that's in comparison to the raw uncompressed sound data stream. But they are larger than MP3s because MP3 is a lossy format.

File size used to matter a lot in the past when digital music players first came out. My first player had 128 MB storage, for example. At 3-5 MB per song that would fill up quickly. Nowadays larger storage of portable devices is more ubiquitous, with even the cheapest phones sportiing 32-64 GB, and more. So people prefer audio quality and don't care as much if each song takes up more space.

Roku Ultra 4800R.

Oh there was plenty of blame to go around. I wasn't exactly fresh out of school either. I had "extensive experience with SQL Server" on my resume by then.

Look at mister fancy pants over here with a database tool. Back in my time we had to use Query Analyzer uphill both ways.

Attention to the the detail.

What's the opposite of "critical thinking"? Biased befuddlesness maybe?

Riker, his seat mounted.

My first week on a new job I ran a DELETE query without (accidentally) selecting the WHERE clause. In Prod. I thought I was going to get fired on the spot, but my boss was a complete bro about it, and helped with data restore personally.

Everyone at that company was great both professionally and personally. It's the highlight of my 30+ year career.

Did you mean "target-rich environment" or "target: rich environment"?

Oh no. THAT was the bad thing...

I forget who said it, "The poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires."

I tweaked my back replying to this comment.

Are you saying that an actual car wreck was better than FnF movie? Because I totally agree.

Ever seen what happens to a rubber band that's been sitting unused in a drawer for 5 years? Same thing.

How dare you utter His name incorrectly, pink-skin!

For now.

Google is working very hard on sabotaging all other browsers to a point where if you want to do anything online (watch video on Big Media platforms, use banking websites, etc.) you'll be locked into Chrome and it's derivatives.

"I'm not a racist, but ..."

Surely to be followed by some extremely racist shit.

You can ...

For now. Until everyone gets used to it and suddenly the option to opt out disappears.

Maybe it's the opposite - mental health and depression cause Internet!

/S