Every country of more than 100 million people must split in half .

And repeat.

twine

twain?

Ha! I got that during a particularly caffeinated Quake2 match filed with some lucky hits.

Since you can’t open the case and salvage much, engraving the case is a solid measure to confirm ownership.

Never trust a tech worker, they decided long ago to sell out the species and the planet.

As a tech worker, I resent that comment.

As someone who volunteered time over 20 years to maintain a well-used open-source project, I think your comment is a cheap generalization that shows remarkably low forethought.

As someone who knows what a comma splice is, though, I guess it’s all good.

usecase

Not a word, my dude. When your spell check wants to put a hyphen or space in, let it.

Never tell the emacs haters why ctrl- and alt-stuff is just so familiar to the rest of us.

I don’t think I’ve blocked anyone.

I do go through and block any subs I’ve been banned from, temporary or permanent. If I wanted posts I couldn’t interact with, I have incognito for that.

I do radiogarden, all day, with a favourite junk pop station. I need the noise because my home office can be deafening sometimes.

that one [piece of] software that you are using

Zero-k, the successor to the Total Annihilation game from 1998.

I used emacs today, in bash, with a host of other commands like xargs and sort. None of it was fucking Systemd related, like systemctl, nor raging because network manager took a nap on my server, so it was a great day.

It’s like you neither read the article, nor do you understand how software works.

That’s a bit of a reach.

Being actually mean is stressful.

Wow. Paying your kids’ bills in college is so great if you can manage.

We had a lineman up here get attacked by a cougar. Fought off the cat with a 4-inch pocketknife, got himself out of the bush and to a highway before getting a ride to the hospital.

Absolute badass.

Palmetto bugs.

In NJ they were 3 inches long, sleek and black and abhorrent. Ugh!

My old boss, as a child, adopted three orphaned kits.

He’ll confirm there’s nothing illogical about fearing those little thumbed miscreants.

How did this happen? I apologize for my mistakes and back it up with changed behavior, and Ive never hit him. He is his own person, and I am his safe person. This also means he sometimes will take his anger out on me. I dont take anything he says personally, because he is just a kid, expierencing emotions he doesnt yet know how to regulate. So, not taking his comments personally.

Fantastic. Humility is a great combo while still setting boundaries and guiding development.

Aida on Freakin’ Broadway in NYC. I’m not a theatre type but I was in the area for a few years, and the performance was everything I hoped to see in a real broadway play; but I was a little disappointed to learn people do not dress up - biz-casual at least - to see a show.

be prepared to take a (minor) paycut and/or not work on something “shiny and impressive” in exchange for a better working environment.

I can confirm this is an excellent plan. Anecdotal as it is, I traded a fast-paced job with great people and terrible management for a slower-paced job working on things that do not interest me at all, with excellent peers and fantastic management. The change in working environment (and recognition of WFH as work) has made a huge difference.

My pay cut was 3% initially, but the rate increases of the new job has outpaced that of the old, and it’s a few percent in my favour now. I’m pleased and relieved, and I hope its boring self can continue for a few years while I derive satisfaction and joy from interactions at work, and accomplishments and leisure outside of work.

I’m not watching some guy slooowwwwwwwwwwly report on some issue.

Is there a version where a writer wrote words? Even if it’s not a writer - or a proficient one - I’d still take words.