Try a Spectre t.v. they’re made for digital signage. I got one and hooked it up to a media server.

Absolutely my favorite characters. I really like the lonely mountain comic where they make a dragon dildo.

Ah yeah, not the case in my area. Rent for an apartment is about twice as much as a mortgage.

You’re missing a few advantages to owning-

• If you have to move, you can often get the money that you spent on the mortgage back, or even make a profit.
• A mortgage is generally cheaper than rent.
• While some may not be interested in renovating, it’s a relatively low-effort activity that pays for itself if you sell the property.
• Can have a garden

Clear case of demon possession.

That pointing arms going to get tired.

Fucking hell.

That, to me, seems like an ideal use case. My only reservation is that I think it would be bungled in implementation, then pushed without enough testing and validation, then hacked due to the bungled implementation, and then rejected forever because it was hacked once lol

I find the actual technology very interesting. At one point I wanted to create a distributed research journal, and I spent some time trying to develop a trustless, immutable ledger that didn’t have the high overhead that most blockchains have for proof of work. It was extremely cool, but nobody gives a shit unless it has coins lol

I look forward to 20 years from now when it gets resurrected and used for interesting things that don’t involve cryptocurrency.

My partner and I have founded a company that uses custom AI models trained on research to (partially) automate the process of peer review and replication. We can identify mistakes and some types of fraud in research to aid reviewers as well as extract methods and equations from papers and automatically verify findings. If you know anything about the state of research right now, those are some incredibly large benefits.

I used to have a power shell script that a coworker gave me that would uninstall a huge number of services and apps on windows, change a bunch of config settings etc.

I’ve always wished there were a way to roll out a stripped windows release as an open source project without getting sued.

I didn’t get the impression that those hoops were artificial. They aren’t providing support for it, but that’s different from actively obstructing people.

I switch between Jerboa and Boost depending on which one is throwing errors today.

Ah, didn’t see that one. My bad.

Sweet, we need more non-English programming languages. I’m surprised that existing programming languages haven’t been translated yet.

Rust, hands down.

I didn’t say that it was my primary skill, I mentioned it as a factor. If you have some bias against a worker learning how to communicate clearly and present themselves well to stand out in an interview and get a higher paying job, then you’re an idiot.

Honestly, I don’t think it’s just money. It’s a baseline of support that means you never have to worry about your kids eating or having new clothes, coupled with a vast social network. That network is made up of friends, coworkers, people who went to the same school as you, your parents friends and coworkers, your extended family, and just random-ass acquaintances who go to the same fucking gelato place as you.

I’m a good software developer- I interview well, have broad experience, and pick things up quickly. I’ve repeatedly leveraged my contacts from school, their contacts, and even people I’ve dated in the same industry - to get jobs and opportunities that my family couldn’t provide because they’re desperately poor. It’s absurd how many opportunities I’ve gotten that way. I’ve seen equally talented developers grind along in shit jobs because when they look for work they do it by applying to hundreds of openings on indeed or wherever instead of hitting up all of their current and past acquaintances and asking if anyone is looking.

Now draw the same comparison, but between someone who has a network of contacts that are wealthy, and me. That’s why these people can do what they do. They might be smart, they might work hard, but at the end of the day, they’ve got access we don’t.

(Edit to add conclusion)

What obsession?