I’ll put Kirk’s virility up against Han Solo’s any day.

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Yes, I do block the rude.

I’m not trying to be like some HOLY MOUNTAIN that no unclean things can ever touch.

I’m just trying to keep myself free. I’ll use people’s stuff. If that starts becoming bondage, I’m out

Bill Gates stated: “One thing we have got to change in our strategy – allowing Office documents to be rendered very well by other people’s browsers is one of the most destructive things we could do to the company. We have to stop putting any effort into this and make sure that Office documents very well depend on proprietary IE capabilities. Anything else is suicide for our platform. This is a case where Office has to avoid doing something to destroy Windows.”

That Wikipedia is a gold mine of evil.

I’m retired and doing hobby projects in Python and java, so I get choices (including not playing) but wtf, big tech figured out how to take over open source?

That’s particularly evil.

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Ding ding ding ding ding!

Like, just BRAND NEW, leaning baby programmer!

Nope, not that. Haven’t earned the name ‘programmer’ at all.

Just a guy who is starting to learn and is probably going to abandon learning but is going to try anyway and is trying not to fuck up in the beginning! Guy.

Plus I’m 63. So learning anything at all is like nailing boards to sand.

Maybe I learned it, but that was last week. Can’t expect me to remember last week shit.

I think (absolutely IMHO) Reddit commenting is more confrontational. Sure, we have that here, but on Reddit I would get slapped down often, because I’m not that smart and I make mistakes. My clumsy way was chum in the water for the sharks.

Not here. I feel like people here, EVEN WHEN THEY GET MAD, can be spoken to, even apologized to, and together you can be okay. Not agree necessarily, but not ugly or unkind.

I’ve seen a few new people here try the “smack em for being stupid” technique, and mostly it gets them downvotes and criticism. I really love that about being here.

It feels much safer for the sensitive.

So wait.

GitHub is Microsoft?

EDIT: Okay, fuck that. I was just getting all set up there but not now.

I am trying to decide between PyCharm and VS Code for my Python IDE. I was leaning toward VS Code, but they’re Microsoft too, aren’t they?

BUY THE DIP!

I BELIEVE DIGG IS VERY INEXPENSIVE AS WELL!

Absolutely. The National Assembly voted the guillotine, “the most gentle of lethal methods.”

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9930870/

A couple of observations from the schematics:

1. Wheels on the side of the blade mechanism! I thought it just slid!
2. Springs? There are springs?

Calm down, calm down. I didn’t say it was ineffective. Quite the opposite actually.

As to “technically challenging,” you had to build the damn thing; as opposed to throwing rocks at someone, or tossing them off a building.

I don’t think the 18th century was the idiot-land you think it was.

It takes an engineer making calculations? Thanks for helping make my point ☝️

I just meant family, friends, a non-threatening person who was keeping things in check when you spin off a little bit too far.

It’s a wild world, but sometimes not THAT wild.

Ahem. I’m not sure coffee accounts for all that.

Do you have outside eyes on you, helping you see if you’re going too far sometimes? We can all use some perspective now and then

Because that was a pretty distant shore.

It’s gonna happen!

It’s Gonna Happen!

IT’S GONNA HAPPEN!

Um, guys, it turned out to be kind of the opposite of what we expected.

I mean hell, it can’t be helped. The colleges charged whatever because the government guaranteed the loans.

The banks approved the loans without any real credit check because the government guaranteed the loans.

People accepted the loans because they weren’t counted against your credit rating and the repayment terms were incredibly flexible.

Now all that shit’s out the window and hell’s about to break loose.

• Colleges will shut down
• Banks will be insolvent.
• people will lose their life savings and their retirements.

This shit is getting very real.

It’s another case of our government letting vulnerable, dangerous shit just sit there (like abortion legality based on a supreme Court ruling rather than a law), until someone did something exploiting that vulnerability and then it’s all “OH NO! WHO COULD HAVE ANTICIPATED?”

Well mf, that was your job. Not mine. Yours.

You are so quotable!

All i know is, i somehow am still here, with a clear goal: Doing all in my power so no one has to suffer like i do

I do not feel pride, but also no shame about it all. But it defenetly gives me confidence and reasurance.

“I have been threw so much and gotten threw and out. I can withstand this too”

A heroes journey! May the road rise up to greet your feet! May your shoes not wear out and your bread not grow stale! May the sun shine on your steps and may you find fresh water when you are thirsty!