This has been tried and tried again, and it never catches on. Computer interfaces that are completely detached from physical 3D space are just much more flexible and easy to use.

They also seem to think that continually spending money to do mundane things in a virtual world is not a problem for regular people who actually have to watch their spending.

If computer interaction benefited from being more ‘like reality’, then Microsoft Bob or any of the countless other attempts to create a reality- and/or 3D-based computer interface, would have caught on long ago.

Sums it up nicely 👍

Nornally first the capacitor and then the motor. The capacitor is there to absorb the power surge when the motor starts up.

Definitely the former. The difference is not worth the price hike for me. I guess it’s like with really high performance cars. I appreciate that a Ferrari f40 is in a league of its own and truly extraordinary, I just can’t be bothered to spend that much money on it.

I guess it’s the same with many things. The difference between low quality and high quality is really noticeable and usually comes with a substantial cost. But the difference in cost between high (even exceptional) quality and top-tier truly one-of-a-kind is usually very high, and not worth it for me.

I can’t even remember, (very) expensive food is wasted on me. I enjoy a quality meal, but the top tier stuff just doesn’t make any exceptional or special impression with me. It’s just good food.

Left because I was doing three jobs as one person. They couldn’t hire a replacement with that job description (surprised Pikachu face). My new job wasn’t as exciting as I thought it would be, so I got hired back in a properly defined job and that’s been working out fine.

Mark Felton did a 6 episode series on YT on how the alleged burnt bodies of Hitler and Eva Braun found by the soviets, are actually plants.

Not that Hitler survived the war or anything, they were just buried elsewhere nearby, probably in a civilian mass grave, to prevent the soviets from parading the real bodies around.

There are devices that will cool a drink (can of soda or a beer) to ‘ice cold’ ( I assume something like 5°) in 60 seconds. I guess this sort of answers your question? The full answer is probably not that it is technically impossible, but that the practical use is largely limited to drinks.

Found the sysadmin

Because I like small diagrams and schematics. Doing that in an app, especially on a phone, is tricky. And I find that structuring my thoughts on paper just works better than doing it digitally straight away.

De-escalate emotional tension. Don’t get personal. Don’t make sweeping statements or promises in the heat of the moment.

Belgium. Debit card most of the time. Covid was a turning point, as it popularized QR codes and this in turn led to more payments by payment apps. I rarely ever carry cash anymore.

A couple of things:

• commute time counts as work time
• no open plan landscape office
• no ‘clean desk’ policy but the ability to personalise your workplace
• dishwasher and general kitchen stuff not being a ‘shared responsibility’ but someone’s job.
• office being in a nice neighborhood with fun things to do after work or during lunch

My employer spent the past ~10 years de-personalising our offices, and now they wonder why people don’t like to hang out in their sterile ‘clean’ building.

Extra credit for being angry at your most loyal fans for ‘using your platform for free’

They looked at the numbers, concluded that 3d party apps were a fringe phenomenon that could threaten their control over the platform, and just killed them.

There are many possible revenue models that include 3d party apps and a more open API, Reddit just isn’t interested. They see Twitter as a shining example for some reason.

They priced it to destroy third party apps. There is no other reason for doing it the way they did:

• very expensive, suspiciously like Twitter, with no basis in real cost or a revenue model based on 3d party clients.
• a very short timeline so app developers have no time to implement the change
• claiming that 3d party apps were never the intended use of the api, which is a blatant lie.

Definitely illegal in the EU. You can even explicitly request Reddit to remove all your content (the ‘right to be forgotten’)

Behold, yesterday’s quick ‘n’ dirty Python project: https://github.com/toonvandeputte/reddit_archive