“Two tiddilywinks of cum” has been stuck in my brain for years for no reason.

I kept finding myself coming back to No Man’s Sky. Just peaceful dopamine from numbers go up

Pay doesn’t have to be monetary. Would you do volunteer work for building a billionaires next house? Volunteer at Amazon to pack boxes? The pay for volunteering is a satisfaction that you are doing the “right thing” and helping people/communities in need.

It’s to justify the building of the ballroom that they now “need” to keep everyone safe.

Yes, you are technically right. Little too much hyperbole on my part, but the bulk modulus of solids in typically in the tens to hundreds of gigapascals

Static pressure on it’s own doesn’t really “do” anything though. You could have the thinest piece of solid material with 10 million atmospheres on either side and the material doesn’t care since forces cancel out. Difference in pressure is where shit goes pop or crush depending on the direction.

I’ve been begging my wife for a minivan. You can fit whole 8x4 sheets of material in them! Wanna buy a tree? Lay that thing down! Friend moving a small couch? Smash that baby in there! Anyone who thinks a pickup truck is a better work truck than a van just is afraid. Pickup trucks are really only good for bulk materials like mulch/dirt/stone/etc. Most of them can’t fit a sheet of plywood without propping it up. Minivans can hold like 10 sheets flat with the added bonus of keeping them out of the elements.

I rented a Jimny in Aruba and took it off road. Was one of the most fun driving cars I’ve been in.

Something else I didn’t see in the comments so far is the NFC allows for unique transaction codes each time and thus doesn’t reveal any information. A static QR code could be “stolen” if it isn’t regenerated each time for security purposes.

Not sure how the system currently works but if the QR code is the same code every time that opens you up to someone just taking a picture of it and scanning it again later to charge you. I’d hope it’s unique each time cause otherwise that’s a huge step back

Seconding goodr. Decent polarization and sturdiness for a very reasonable cost. Do have some issues with scratching but when they cost less than dinner at a restaurant I don’t feel as bad about it.

Learn to code switch if you intend to become any sort of leader. Different folks need different strokes to get them to where you need them to be, and learning how coworkers process information can put you in a better position to communicate with them.

Also helps bridge the gap between coworkers who may be talking past each other because they process information differently.

This works going up the chain too. Get to know your management and how they process information as well. Tailoring your reports/slidework to their needs will go a long way in getting them on your side.

It doesn’t matter how powerful or pertinent the information is if it’s in a undigestable format. I’ve seen game changing information be scoffed and useless information praised wholly based on how it was displayed. Looking at you, MBAs…

In summation, know your audience. Turns out what they teach you in literary classes is actually useful.

Pigs are genetically really close to humans, so there’s a lot of nasty stuff that can infect pigs that are transferable to humans. Probably way more cases of people getting parasites or diseases from pork than other protein sources in times past.

Tears of the Kingdom does use the same map but adds verticality that is not in BOTW. I think that is forgiveable since it honestly feels very different in playing.

Beyond Compare is also available on Linux

I’ll call it XMLlamascript

I will die on the hill that XML is a superior config format and people are just afraid of it cause they see the advanced features (that you don’t need to use) and think it’s too complicated.

The fact that you consider it so black and white tells me you aren’t thinking critically. Yes, the patent system can and has been abused over its long life. Literally every legal system has and will be. That’s how it goes. The struggle is how to come up with a system that minimizes the loopholes while not entirely crippling the things they are intended to protect.

Without some protections on human creations you end up with a war of who can steal the most ideas vice who can make the new best thing. You end up putting resources toward protecting your ideas and keeping them entirely secret, which arguably is worse than a public patent everyone can review and be inspired by.

I’m not arguing that they have no downsides, I’m arguing that the position of “it’s all bad, get rid of it” is reductive, at best.

Patents give an incentive to actually do the R&D for new products and projects? How would you feel if you spent millions of dollars and 15yrs designing a product and then some random dude just buys one, reverse engineers it and undercuts you? It basically disincentivizes anyone from doing any innovation since the game theory would be to just wait for someone else to do it and then take it for your own.

I feel a paper spiral bound book has a sense of finality to it that digital never will. You can’t half ass a section and be like “I’ll clean this up later.” By committing to a hard copy you are committing to a completed work and not some poorly formatted wiki or markdown page no one wants to read

The Yocto project supports PowerPC as a compilation option so you could build a lightweight distribution from source that way