They gave us the thagomizer. What more do you want?

It would fall at 2g, because two Earth-sized masses attract each other in that case. With smaller objects it’s just 1g, because the mass of, let’s say, a nice cup of tea is negligible compared to the mass of Earth.

The Star Trek universe is based on the premise that a peaceful, united mankind is acting as a benevolent, civilized partner and friend of all alien species.

But let’s be honest, we all know we would behave like the aliens from Independence Day - mercilessly conquering and harvesting alien worlds and spreading destruction across the universe.

With a melon?!

If I wrote a CRPG game, like an ASCII roguelike or something, I would totally include a spell that makes the target shit its pants. You could make that work, it would even be a useful thing in combat. Vampire lord misses a turn because he just shat his pants.

You’re absolutely right, and I noticed it as well, but I already had some upvotes. Also, I’m a lazy fuck and didn’t want to do another one.

People like to use it for AI, data science, machine learning (TensorFlow, PyTorch, Keras, …) and even scientific stuff (SciPy, SymPy, AstroPy). So it seems to be the right tool for some jobs, which is all that matters. Your job may be something entirely different and that’s absolutely fine.

(And no, I don’t use Python either.)

I think water polo is a bit cruel to the horses.

… or even Symfony.

Nothing. But that kid used it inside a coworking space.

I’m an old fuck and I started to code in the late 80s. Fast forward 30 years, I once had to work at a WeWork. One day, directly outside of my small office space, I swear to god, a fucking hipster kid with a Macbook under his arm practiced skateboard moves. That was the exact moment I started hating working in IT. It’s also what I think every Javascript coder looks and acts like.

IT'S SHOWTIME
  I NEED YOUR CLOTHES YOUR BOOTS AND YOUR MOTORCYCLE a
  GET TO THE CHOPPER a
    HERE IS MY INVITATION "ArnoldC is the best."
  ENOUGH TALK
  TALK TO THE HAND a
YOU HAVE BEEN TERMINATED

I’ve started working in IT over 20 years ago. In my humble opinion, one of the keys is being specialized on something that not everyone else can do. Become proficient in a certain area - devops, quality assurance, security, whatever.

On top of that, try and acquire a niche skill that makes you the type of employee that’s hard to find and replace. For example, banks are really desperate to find Cobol experts because most of those are pensioners now.

I know it’s tough, and I wish you had it as easy as I did back in the days, but it’s all I can tell you, unfortunately.

Wieso, hast du das zweite Huckleberry genannt, um dem ganzen eine literarische Tiefe zu geben? 😉

Wer sein Kind Finn nennt, hat die Kontrolle über sein Leben verloren.

I happily pay for software. ONCE. I have no idea if this software will be regularly updated and if there will be new features. How do we know the developer won’t abandon the project? And it’s a lone developer, apparently. Ever heard of the bus factor? Give me a license that enables me to use the product in its current form indefinitely, and I might consider buying it. But a subscription? No thanks. Who does this guy think he is, frickin Adobe?

Good software, but subscription plans are a deal breaker for me.