has dust changed

Dust. Dust never changes.

That image doesn’t look AI generated to me. GANs are typically terrible at keyboards.

Unbothered by typos. Moisturized. Happy. In My Lane. Focused. Flourishing.

And also ells, rods, cubits, paces, furlongs, oxgangs, lots, batmans… all with subtly different regional definitions (with regions sometimes as small as one village).

People used loosely defined measurements based on things like their own body parts or how much land they guessed their ox could plow on an average day. Things like mathematical convenience or precision were not all that important; being able to measure (or estimate) without tools was.

I actually went back to a light gray theme for my new Linux machine after I’ve been stuck with Windows’s options of “flat pure black with hairlines” and “flat bright white with hairlines” for too long.

I don’t actually need dark mode that much (except for coding) if a bright mode theme is easy enough on the eyes. Windows 10 is just so ugly that only the dark mode is halfway palatable.

If only the old themexp.dll hacks still worked I could have a decent looking desktop on all of my machines…

Then again, those 100 MB are usually mostly assets I want to look at or listen to. Certain websites contain 100 kB of text and pictures I want to look at and load 2 MB of JavaScript frameworks that add nothing to the usability of the site. Bonus points for automatically streaming a 20 MB video I don’t want to watch while I look for one sentence’s worth of information.

True, but those are not the people the men’s is making fun of. It makes fun of perfectly healthy people who decide they need gluten free everything because they heard that gluten is bad and they can’t do any research on how and why. Same with vegans who are only vegan because it’s trendy (and who probably cheat every other meal because a vegan lifestyle actually requires a fair amount of effort and learning about nutrition).

That name was legitimately chosen in my mid-teens for a short-lived troll account. I wanted something that sounded controversial without actually making a statement.

Then I realized that my old username sucked and just stuck with it.

40 yo you embracing the name again because you realized that agonizing over what random people think about a perfectly fine username isn’t worth your time.

(I could’ve made a picture here but I’m also not agonizing over what random people think about my laziness.)

Iirc Basic was the first, non-scientist friendly programming language.

COBOL predates it, having first been introduced in 1959. BASIC came about in 1963.

Not to be confused with the Wehrwolf, which fights back fiercely, and the Wärwolf, which would but isn’t. The Werfwolf, while very throwable, is right out.

As does C#. The Windows-specific parts are not the parts most developers will use these days.

People will put IoT into everything, no exceptions. Did you really think it would stop at thermostats and surveillance cameras?

Good point. I should really put on some Casiopea.