emptyother @ emptyother @programming.dev

A classic nerd from Norway.

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Refusing to choose sides? She chose the side of the civilians, isn't that a valid side to these people? Is the only choice in which side should get to slaughter the others?

No one can agree on what woke actually means

Truth. Word trends take some time to spread around the world, and by the time it reached me it was used mostly as a derogatory term. I could not figure out what it meant from context. Initially I thought it was related to red-pillers because it was used by the same kind of angry people.

I had to look up the definition eventually.

I'll bet (without knowing for sure) Roddenberry's idea of the Federation didnt start out as a police state. But like with currency, it is hard for many writers to imagine humanity evolving past the need for policing our own and enforcing laws.

Can't LGBT+ be included unless its meaningful? I dont like that "pandering" argument. It is too easy to misuse, too subjective.

I want them included in bad shows as much as in good shows. I want a random background person to be gay just as much as an important character. Best case would be if we didnt even raise an eyebrow on seeing a LGBT+ character and rather critizise their acting or plot instead of blaming "pandering". I dont hear anyone call forcing a unecessary romantic straight subplot into a plot for "pandering".

The fourth planet has a few advantages.. Like theres no people there. No war despite being named after a god of war. And it has robots!

Wouldnt work. How would they keep the birds away without those fans?

Spy v Spy, Star Trek'in edition.

When has that ever stopped them?

Deleting the content of that overlay folder seems to have worked. Just don't delete the folder itself or it complains about it missing.

I've always felt theres multiple sides to Microsoft. Theres devs making a damn good and simple product. Then comes the enterprise devs that over-engineer the product. Then theres the marketing coming in and try to buy up competition or bundle the product with other products to force it on people (MS way of advertising). And THEN the suits either ruin the product for money or shutting it down for not either making enough money or for not helping their enterprise products make money (like for example VSCode is a product that helps MS make money on Azure).

Browsers. Firefox hasnt given me reason to doubt. Yet. And I find that odd. Still uses it. Because every other big browser have given me reasons.

Generally "free" stuff from big companies is giving me more and more the heebie-jeebies. Even if they have good reputation. But there's NO WAY I could ever pay for everything I use. Nor donate to every deserving person who has given their free time to create and publish FOSS.

Just within software development:

• JS (I'm using TS everywhere now).
• Php (old project I'm hoping we're getting rid of).
• VB (old code was somewhy written in VB).
• MySQL (feels like Oracle doesnt really care about its C# connectors).
• SQL-queries directly in code (I'm pushing as hard as I can for any kind of ORM, but somehow my fellow devs doesnt find it as practical).

Demons and Wizards

Oh. Damn. I've been listening to those songs for a decade.

I hope nobody would willingly try to beat that.

I've fallen asleep behind the wheels before. No amount of coffee, sun, cold air, or noise managed to keep me safe those few kilometers back home.

Only 15 years ago? Jeez, that game feels ancient by now. The kinda game us old nerds bring up whenever kids brag about FarCry 3 and up.

I hope I'm not the only one who loved the gun jam mechanics? Or the way a NPC friend could drag me out of combat if I died, and only give me a basic pistol? Gamers today are so inconvenienced from setbacks and accidents outside their controls. Losing equipment just doesn't happen anymore. And if it does, its called a survival game or survivor mode.

I spend 60% of my life in front of it, might as well splurge on quality and comfort.

(Bad decision A: Spending almost 2/3 of my life sitting on a computer. Bad decision B: Using money on computers that I SHOULD save up to eventually affort a house loan)

I didn't mean it that seriously, but I can see it wasn't taken as lightly as I hoped. Sorry, I should have done better.

As a kid I understood that space travel was currently extreme sport and how damn brave (or crazy) one had to be to risk ones life for science in that way. But that was in the 90s and not in US. We were taught about it early. Still didn't end my hope for colonies on Mars soon.

Friends, family, and even people you briefly meet, rat you out. Often without them even knowing by sharing their list of phone contacts.

No, you heard wrong. We're good at googling, not coding.

Eh.. They chose to use the email protocol to send each emoji?! So external users or third-party clients (or school and work accounts for some reason) will be spammed. Won't a bunch of gmails get marked as spammers then?