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I'm hanging on because I love my kids. I look forward to a day when my suffering ends.

I have a Lenovo Legion 5 laptop and I love it. I use it for all kinds of dev work running Windows 11 and WSL. It's technically a gaming machine but the appearance is understated. I…

It's just human nature. This is the health equivalent of trying to turn lead into gold. It's my unproven opinion that the negative effects of these treatments are understated and t…

It would work if people would actually do it. It 100% works. Human nature is such that people would rather take a drug than change their lifestyle. I've done it myself but it requi…

The Thing and Alien are my two favorite movies. Silence of the Lambs is up there too. Not movies but I've rewatched X-Files and Twin Peaks repeatedly as well.

It's 100% real in my experience. I delivered twice the goal my manager set and got a 1% raise. Since then I've scaled my effort way back. Work is a necessity, not a priority.

That's true but let me ask you, why then was Christ crucified? The Bible says to obey all authorities except in spiritual matters over which it (the Bible) claims they have no auth…

History is full of examples, IE the Protestant Reformation, when the Catholic church was insisting that the only way to know God was through a priest, and reformers, who insisted t…

Google is essentially useless. If I really want to find something, I'll try Yandex nowadays. For the most part, I don't even search anymore. I just suffer with sites I've had bookm…

Ironically, I'm involved with a startup developing fart monitors as we speak. I'm certain it's going to be a huge market. /s

Your ideological position on should win a war is irrelevant. We're discussing the ethics of using automation to kill humans.

Who do you think the robots are killing? There are countless videos of drones blowing up Ukranian and Russian soldiers. Drones are being used to kill humans.

In 2017 I put in 200 applications to get a single job in the span of about 2 months.

My tastes have changed a lot but I still do gaming. Now I'm playing Minecraft with my kids and I have a server where a bunch of their friends can join in and build stuff. I'm not i…

There's a fake ass "goals" system. I was supposed to save my company $500k off of our massive cloud budget. I ended up cutting $1,000,000 by optimizing services and deleting old ju…

I'm in the same boat. I just don't care about EMACS, don't like it, and there's little incentive when I'm just playing around. It's a shame because Lisp is really fun and interesti…

I started coding around 10 years old in 1994. I'm starting to feel old.

I love Affinity and I don't love Canva. I'm hopeful nothing much changes but I'm not holding my breath. I'll pay a subscription over my dead body.

I'm 40. I've been programming for 30 years. I get turned down for jobs all the time but it's almost always during the coding interview where I get asked to solve some brain teaser …

I sit on the deck with my macbook. I have to sit in the shady part of the deck to see well enough.

A forklift with the brain of a Roomba

Thanks for replying, sounds like what you're doing is pretty cool. Did you publish short stories on KDP as well or did you wait until you had longer pieces to publish?

Release your blog as an Electron application please.

How did you get started? Also what is the average length of your stories? Do you focus on a specific genre? I've been interested in writing for ages but I'm such a perfectionist.

My monitor stand is all out-of-date technical books!