Well I wasn’t expecting to get called out quite like this today

Had to look this one up to understand it.

Given the spread of expertise in this community, I think that’s probably the experience of all of us at least every other post

Cocktopus

Why the fuck did I never think of this—I was out there buying floppies like an absolute rube

Holy shit, I did my equivalent of this class over 2 decades ago and I remember this bloody joke.

Whoever wrote that book has got a lot of mileage from it

Edit: oh the screencap is older than a decade lol

Fun fact, I read that GRRM still writes using a DOS copy of WordPerfect

Even more odd is there being a Brit in charge of Amtrak

Isn’t there a single qualified American that cares about trains?

Everyone keeps telling me “you’ll understand when you’ve got one”

I’m thinking that’s a pretty irresponsible gamble

That’s a weird emoji to use for elixir

GIGO

…I feel like openssh has a much larger attack surface than a simple binary.

If you’re going to this extent already, you may as well jump on the run0 approach systemd is introducing.

oh no, I can hear rumbling

The crazy thing is they are basically selling the same models this whole time too

You don’t need to be skilled in something to get enjoyment out of it

Likewise you don’t necessarily get enjoyment out of something just because you’re skilled in it.

Because my brain is fundamentally incompatible with imperial measurements:

500psi is equivalent to about 35kg of weight stacked into a centimetre square (so 35bar / 3500kpa)

I’m kinda in the same situation as you, hundreds of hours in rimworld, but DF hasn’t clicked.

I’ve only given it a couple of goes though, and honestly if I think back, I don’t think rimworld really clicked for me initially, so part of me is just running on the assumption I’ve not sunk enough time into the game to get comfortable with it really

I think one of the big differences is with rimworld you can kinda ignore 95% of the stuff in the game on your first few goes, and I think that makes it a bit less daunting. There are still bits of rimworld I’ve still not touched, but every playthrough I knock a few more things off (still need to really give a sanguophage run a proper try, for example). With that approach it becomes a gradual skill gradient that keeps you interested

With DF my initial reaction was a bit of a baptism of fire. I got the impression you need to interact with a lot more of the game’s systems to even get off the starting line.

If I really sat down and gave it another few runs, I know I’ll probably fall in love with the game

Proving once again that the people who throw toddler tantrums over a piece of fiction for being “woke” are genuinely the morons we all think they are.

This always messed with me as a kid because for no reason I can come up with, xylophone made sense as the metal one and glockenspiel made sense as the wood one

It took more effort than it should to unlearn this

void

Does that not put JS (node) back on the table?

I’d say it’s the low level language doing the heavy lifting, python or JS in this scenario are just front-ends.

Hell, I think FORTH has C bindings, that’s not power, that’s mental illness

IIRC JavaScript + TypeScript is the biggest demographic of engineers in the industry if you go by GitHub stats

I suppose you could call that power in a way