tiredofsametab @ tiredofsametab @kbin.social

Canadian-American software developer living in Japan since 2015. Into garde

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I mean, LOAF was a thing (Linux on a Floppy) that had basic functionality even as most distros were downloaded or on CD. I can't imagine anyone still develops it, though.

The term of a US president in the early 1980s.

I responded to the wrong comment. Sorry.

A "niche" is not a "nitch"

for just the number of possible games.

for just the MINIMUM number of possible games. (lower bound)

Buy in bulk.

Buy lots of dried beans, rice, etc. (living in earthquake land, I like to keep our canned goods fairly stocked and just rotate out old ones only).

Buy from farmers markets when available, frozen veg when not.

Buy whatever the supermarket is trying to get rid of. In Japan, I end up with mystery seafood a fair amount, but just about anything is fine fried or in a stew.

Stay away from things out-of-season and pre-prepared foods.

Use any space you have to grow something. Even in my Tokyo apartment, I was growing herbs and chilis.

The above helps. I think everyone has some thing they don't want to give up and that's fine. When I first got out on my own in the US, I ended up surviving off of whatever I could get at the restaurants I worked at and boxed, instant mashed potatoes from the dollar store.

For the Koreans I met who moved to Japan, the work culture can be less bad, as can be working at certain companies despite where they graduated from. My sample size is small, though, and I am neither Japanese nor Korean.

Yep. When I was young, we had a stove in my house for heat that burnt coal or wood. We mostly burnt coal in it.

As a General American speaker, all three of those are the same vowel for me, but I don't think that's true in a lot of the world (and also not in at least part of the US).

I've been a software developer for well almost two decades now. I started in tech support and worked my way up. I originally majored in music in university. I dropped out, took some tech classes, but decided college life was not for me. I worked in restaurants for years, and finally got back into IT starting as low-level tech support in the early 2000s. I finally got my bachelor's degree (to get a visa to live here in Japan more than anything else), at age 34.

I would lean toward Option 1. Some of our AI and ML folks can do really neat things in Python, but have issues making it work with anything else in our system. There are also other languages that are getting more libraries and abilities to do what has long been in Python. If you go for option 2, I would supplement with other languages, database, UI, etc. for making a more well-rounded portfolio.

That said, my question is: what do you want to do? What do you want to make and build, or is it just about the money? This kinda informs the answers to what you should do.

Higher levels of IT often involve continuous education to stay competent and competitive. You will be left behind if you don't at least keep up vaguely with new technologies, methodologies, etc. Some people enjoy that part, but it is something of a chore to me.

I'm a xennial, but I went from being more into religion than my parents, getting people to come get me and take me to church until I had a car and more, to Atheist (with a weird neopagan interlude in my early 20s). Both sets of my parents, on the other hand, swung back more to religion to some degree or another (though both have at least one parent that is more into what they think the Bible says vs what it actually does).

I certainly recommend taking breaks from the internet every now and again. I didn't really have the internet until sometime in highschool (it depends if you consider AOL before the WWW addition "the internet", though I guess we had BBS and such before that). When out on my own, we couldn't afford a monthly dial-up subscription, so we didn't use it that much. Certainly, no internet in my pocket until I was into my 20s, and certainly not full browsers, etc. like today. Maybe that makes it easier for me, but I don't know.

I think "rogue-lite" or something like that is a better term for what I like. I'm currently playing "Against the Storm" is one a coworker recommended recently and I'm enjoying so far. Spelunky 2 was OK. There are probably a couple other's I'm not remembering at the moment.

I was thinking 2000g (i.e. 2kg) balls, unless 2000 is a descriptor of a particular type of tungsten.

hugely wasteful and bad for the environment (in addition to all the potential health issues).

They partner with an enemy of the US who now gets a presence in mainland North America at the US's doorstep making infiltration to the US, etc. even easier.

Well, that's something I'll want to turn off, though all they'll get from me is random appointment reminders and confirmation codes.

Did they arrest all of her parts that they found individually?

I wonder who this "Secretary Dee" fellow is.

Yep. I think my age (I'm in my mid-40s) and being an adult when I played them or they came out has a lot to do with it. I think having less free time and a number of issues I deal with makes it harder to enjoy certain types of games (this is not to say young people don't face their own stresses and issues!)