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I think we agree. I hate it, and I can't stop it, but also I definitely won't participate in it.

Life is short and I like creating things. AI is not part of how I write, or code, or make pixel art, or compose. It's very important to me that whatever I make represents some sort…

I remember we had an Epson colour printer that we got just after we got married: it was able to print photos, and this was a great feature, except that this would run through ink l…

I guess it depends what you mean by "working". In addition to being a software developer (my day job), I also write and publish poetry, reviews, and non-fiction. These pay very lit…

You're thinking of Slack. Slackware has been around since the very early days of Linux.

Should have been a .nu domain!

That was how I did it, too. Monthly, I'd archive posts, to allow archive perusal by months. I wasn't tied to any particular software. I got hosting with friends who set up their ow…

I've had to get up very early to deal with production issues at work (sometimes between 2-3 a.m.), and I actually find those hours very peaceful - just the hum of the heating/AC an…

I run FreeBSD on my desktop, and I was surprised by how easy it was to get set up, and how quickly it detected everything.

In the late 90s, Sourceforge (and Freshmeat) were really good places to get software. But even in the early 00s, it felt dusty and dated.

To be fair, I had almost eight years of French in school (Canadian), and the best I can do now is read it semi-fluently. Languages have to be used or they're lost. I spent a year l…

Dollars do not literally make the world go round. The world literally goes around because it was formed from a disc of swirling matter, and the lack of inertia and forces that woul…

I just finished Aurelius' "Meditations" last month - my family has a small, leatherbound copy that was a gift to my great-grandfather for Christmas, 1924. I found it particularly r…

There was definitely a feel of do-it-yourself, especially when installing Linux meant either wiping a partition, or trying to resize an existing one with very primitive tools. I re…

The iron ring is a Canadian engineering tradition. The original ones were made from iron from a bridge that collapsed and killed a lot of people. It's worn as a reminder of what a …

Xerox 8086 with QBasic for me. 640k RAM!

You probably don't need std::for_each anymore. With C++11, you can do the following: for (const auto& element : collection) { } What's wrong with ? I use it all the time for sort, …

Still heavily used in games and finance! Though, you're right about MFC.

A quote I've always liked, from "The Writing Life" by Annie Dillard: "How we spend our days, of course, is how we spend our lives."

I also do some Gosu coding, besides other stuff. You must also be a Guidewire user.

I used to have an HP with this problem as well. Eventually I managed to get my files off the computer, and then promptly bought a new, not-an-HP laptop. Never again.

It's a conspiracy theory to help out devs in Saskatchewan, Alaska, and Hawaii.

I'm originally from Saskatoon, and remember a day around 2004 or 2005 where it was in the -40s, -62 with the windchill. Once was enough - I can't imagine "more often than not"!

I had an HP laptop that I bought around 2009. It lasted a year before the insane heat issues started; I agree with you completely regarding the engineering issues. In the end, I en…

Me too. I use it daily, and am both amazed and confounded by it. Powerful and frustrating.