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Just wanted to say that I remember playing your game as a kid on the family Mac IIci. Thanks for the fun memories, and best wishes.

Same, I just use my Passport Card when flying, which is a Real ID.

Most of the people I see buying Land Rovers probably need a side gig to afford them.

Same. Lack of RDS support is the only reason we aren’t using this.

You’re basically me. I was a daily NPR listener until the Trump era. If a never-Trumper can’t handle NPR abandoning all pretense of objectivity, that might be a bad sign.

Wish I could give this more upvotes. I was fully remote for more than a decade before COVID, but now I’m seeing all the same things you’ve written about here. It’s a huge regression.

Between this and the recent elimination of 401k matching, IBM is sending a strong signal that it’s not a place I’d ever want to work. Hard to imagine they will be able to attract or retain talent.

I’ve worked (burned out) under this. Eventually I realized that “debate everything” just meant the boss really loved to debate, because he could always “win.”

Personally, I don’t, for some (though not all) of the same reasons I don’t buy BitCoin.

This isn’t actionable, though.

If I’d bought Beanie Babies or Stanley Cups at a very particular point in time, I might be up 1,000% at another very particular point in time.

If I’d bought Bitcoin in 2021, I might still be down almost 50%.

None of this answers the question “Why would I want to buy Bitcoin?”

> And now maybe the "original remote workers" are affected, too.

I think there’s a lot to this. Those of us who worked remote for many years before COVID probably developed more efficient ways of working over time. Then the pandemic hit and we were suddenly vastly outnumbered by newly remote folks who didn’t actually know how to work remotely.

Thanks for saying this. I’m strongly considering leaving a job primarily due to the meeting culture. It’s just incredibly wasteful. We can spend weeks talking about things I would have knocked out in days in a previous role.

Won’t miss Steam, but Anchor Porter is quite good.

We walked a similar path. Fond memories of modding EV with ResEdit.

Wells Fargo, too.

Incentives, better than anything else, explain how the world actually works.

Same issues here on M1 MacBook Pro. Most of my company is Windows-based so I don’t think they endure as much pain.

Do you find that this creates a degree of background stress/anxiety? After many years of being a highly effective IC/consultant, I’m still trying to adapt to being primarily a manager with a software engineer title, and not sure how well that’s going. It can feel unsettling.

Good advice. I just did the 400 amp upgrade. Our 3200 sq ft house was still on 150 amp service from the 1980s, and going to 200 amps just didn’t seem to add much capacity relative to the cost. Was about $12K to go to 400 amps with two 200 amp panels.

Tons of top trims? Sure, but only because it’s the best-selling truck.

Nevertheless, the vast majority of F-150s (like mine) are XLT trim or lower.

Moreover, you might be surprised at how small the price premium is on F-250/350 over the F-150 in work truck trims.

I was seriously considering trading my ICE F-150 on a Lightning (even had my house electrical service upgraded), but at this point I can’t justify the price.

The Lightning has quickly gone from the everyman’s electric truck to something unobtainable for most.

Or in the defense of another. It wouldn’t make sense for a robot to take a life to save its own, but it might make sense for it to take a life to save your mother’s.

Not just British people. This American heard it (along with the rest of the variations) performed on my first date with my wife. It will always be a favorite.

As I was reminded this morning by the incredible colors of the sunrise over a fog-covered lake, photography is hardly about the camera at all, and mostly about the light.

Am I wrong, or does it feel like Elixir has lost momentum over the last couple of years? I'd like to spend more time becoming proficient with the language and platform, but it seems increasingly hard to justify professionally over something like Go, which usually does concurrency well enough when required. Are people having success finding Elixir jobs in 2022?

I agree.

After some frustrating experiences applying and interviewing for jobs at the kind of startup-sized companies where I’ve spent my entire career, and fearing that my age might be a factor (I’m about to turn 40), I applied on a job at a Fortune 500 and had an offer a few days later.

The pay, benefits, and work/life balance are excellent, to the point that I have some regret over not exploring this avenue sooner.

Oh, and now I’m younger than most of my coworkers again. I don’t think ageism is a thing here.

Indeed. One of the smartest human beings I know is a farmer. His breadth of knowledge is astounding.

Restaurants in my area are still having staffing issues, too, to the point that some are completely closed on random days they'd normally be open.

I have the same question.

They talk about the "meta fields" of a slice. Is the problem that these "meta fields" (e.g. slice length and capacity) are passed by value, and that by copying them, they can get out of sync between coroutines?

Cubase uses XML for config files (expression maps, etc).