IF THEN MAYBE...

When they can do transparent aluminum, I’m in!

edit: yes I know there’s a ceramic material called ALON, which the manufacturer calls transparent aluminum because it contains aluminum oxynitride, but I don’t think that’s what Scotty meant. ALON is about 30-35% aluminum, same as the amount of lead in leaded crystal glass, which isn’t “transparent lead”.

snot?

Securing the db is more of an ops thing.

LOL not necessarily, especially in software.

Yeah it’s still broken, but at least it’s back to old broken not new broken.

Trump invents AI Superhighway, Greatness ensues.

To me it’s weird that people have issues with this. My wife and I, married 35 years, share each other’s locations because if something bad happened we would want to be able to find each other. I don’t even give a second thought to, “…and I can make sure she isn’t cheating on me.”

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Found Hank Hill’s neighbor, Dale.

I just used a free online thing called PDF2Go to split a giant PDF into 4 smaller files. It let me directly download the resulting 4 files without signing up for anything, and they work perfectly on my box (linux mint). Tbh I don’t think the UI is super intuitive but I just googled “How to split a file on pdf2go” and found clear instructions. It has a lot of other tools I have not explored.

Not affiliated with the site in any way, sharing because Adobe is so freaking expensive. https://www.pdf2go.com/

I avoided this issue by embracing the completely non-controversial “become a contractor” work schedule. When you’re a temp they specifically want you NOT to work overtime without prior authorization - because they have to pay for it. And as a software dev I was always treated identically with employees, except for a few special things like some company meetings and offsite events - which I didn’t want to attend anyway. And I got paid almost twice as much hourly than I would as an employee. Sure, I had to buy my own health insurance and didn’t get paid time off, but when you double your salary those are non-issues. But what about job security? LOL what about layoffs? My job security was that there are always contract jobs everywhere.

Reminder: authority only exists because we let it.

If in-person tabletop gaming is okay here, my group is about to start one called Don’t Tell Mom & Dad, an RPG in the vein of Stranger Things. You play a bunch of kids having supernatural adventures around their town.

As it should be. Airbags should go off when you crash, not when you drive near the edge of a cliff.

Never give up! Never surrender!

I would have gone with hammer.

Wow, I never even heard of TOML. Very interesting - thanks!

edit: after looking at it a bit I think I’ll actually try using it. But I find it ironic that the website for something billed as “for humans” and “easy to read” is done in light gray text on a white background. The CSS class they chose is even called “light gray” LOL.

I woulda tried them on JSON. As long as they use an editor that keeps track of nested brackets I think it’s much more natural than XML.

Better make sure the wheel isn’t under copyright tho!