Kinda sounds like you’re describing Tor

Last time I visited SF, there were so many moments of “wow this is a poignant visual metaphor representing this hellscape”. The one that stands out most was cryptocurrency billboard above unhoused people in front of a store where they automated out all of the customer-facing workers

I’ve lived in some real shithole parts of the rest of the country and visited plenty of others, absolutely nowhere has been as outright dystopian as the SF Bay Area

Several years ago I remember hearing from a comrade that youtube’s upper management is full of ideological fascists, so that sort of thing never surprises me even though it’s always horrifying

Oh no, I don’t think I ever had! It’s too bad most of them are lost, but the ones they recorded are cool as hell

Pictures At An Exhibition is my favorite piece of all time, and The Great Gate At Kiev is such a perfect anchor for the whole series, gives me instant chills every time I hear it.

Mussorgsky’s St. John’s Eve on Bald Mountain is another favorite of mine too.

Other than removing the ability of bigots and wreckers from hindering discussions or silencing users by burying posts with downvotes, as barrbaric said:

One healthy side effect is that it encouraged participation in discussions — if you think a take is bad enough to deserve a downvote anyway, you just need to do so in a way that associated with your user account (usually the nifty emoji.) If others disagree with your assessment, they’ll reply with why, and it starts a discussion. Now people need to post their dissent publicly.

I was apprehensive about the change when it was originally made but came around on it really quickly, it really made it much more pleasant and friendly to participate in the community.

When you’re writing such a small program, there’s an upper limit of how good “good code” can be.

The funny thing is enough candidates flub getting a working solution that writing something that does what it’s supposed to puts you in the upper 80% already

yes this includes the digital pregnancy test and the parking ticket validator

if a game can’t run on everything people have run Doom on, i don’t want to play it

Love to see it

Worst one since I cut ties with my family was my worst-ever flare up of stress-induced GI issues that turned into intermittent vomiting episodes lasting from christmas eve until I went to the ER on new year’s day a few hours after midnight, ruined a little roadtrip my fiancee and I planned. Plus my work had just switched (worsened) our health insurance providers (effective at midnight jan 1) so getting that sorted out was a nightmare too.

Ones with my family idr, really. The norm was a mess of alcohol, gaslighting, and badly-veiled contempt for everyone (present, not present, unfortunate enough to be a stranger passing by, etc) usually with extremely disorienting travel involved. Even the cyclical vomiting is preferable.

Night in the Woods every fall, self explanatory

Lord of the Rings: Return of the King around Christmas, because my sister and I would do coop mode during our winter breaks growing up. It’s not an every year thing but every few years I’ll pull it out for that and play with my wife

Disco Elysium in late Feb early March to line up with the vibe of the game

oh big +1 on Betrayal, probably my favorite game too. The exploration component is so much fun

No offense taken, I just wasn’t expecting to get read like that lmao — I guess having to operate Other People’s Servers really causes a certain kind of (recognizable) cynicism

Others have rightly pointed out that these abstractions can sometimes negatively impact muscle memory, but IMHO this only really applies if you work as devops or sysadmin

I feel both seen and called out lol

heard there’s women there

an easier approach to start with would just be to namespace them all with your initials when you set them as aliases, like rk-update, rk-scrub — then you could tab-complete them instead of doing rk --help. way less to maintain (unless you’re adding aliases from a bunch of different sources, in which case you may have bigger problems)

They want you in debt so you’re forced to work, and so that they can grift interest money off you. According to their system it’s irresponsible to not have debt, and it’s also irresponsible to ask what their magic number is.