Twos on that mate?

Yes, in short, because I like them.

For better or worse, booze is a big part of British socialising culture, so it’s unusual if someone my age (mid thirties millennial) has never drank, but a couple of my mates have gone tee total in recent years.

Why do I still do it? Beers with your mates whilst enjoying a beer garden or watching the footie is a pretty enjoyable way to pass the time. I’m also a bit of a nerd with it all so I love trying new beers, there’s been a huge renaissance around beer variety over the past decade-ish, so there’s always something new to try. I’ve gotten more into wine and cocktails in recent years too, and there’s a rich well of variety in there to experience too.

Smoking tobacco I generally avoid now, it’s nice to have the odd one with a beer but I’ll probably only have a few a year now. I regularly smoked last in my 20s. I occasionally have ended up with a vape in my pocket after a big night out, but I don’t really like them much flavour wise.

Weed is something I still enjoy, it helps me clear my head, relax, and kinda be more present with whatever activity I’m engaging in, if I’m smoking with mates it can often be a pretty hilarious time. However, it’s easy for me to slip into habitual use with it especially though, I don’t really seem to get much in the way of acute negative effects beyond tolerance, so I try to be mindful to keep it in check these days. I’ll probably try and relegate it to a treat for when I visit somewhere like Amsterdam in the coming years given the downsides of smoking (I’ve got a vape, but I basically never choose it).

FWIW I’ve heard that Gen Z is differing their consumption habits significantly from previous generations. Less drinking alcohol in general, preferring non-smokeable forms of tobacco/weed.

Oh, great, my work uses Palo Alto VPN software to manage access to internal systems that I need to do my job

“Mildly interesting” is not very close to my reaction to this at all, rather something closer to “particularly concerning”

As well as making something accessible for users that might otherwise have difficulty, it also makes image content more searchable, so you might benefit yourself from it one day.

Well yes, that’s why people do drugs.

Usually doing it forever runs up against other problems like paying for it, holding down a job or health problems

Now that’s brat

We achieved perfection with the Atari Jaguar and have strayed from its light further every day since

Also shout out for the NegCon

Final unironic answer, the OG Xbox duke is the ultimate layout, maybe the 20th anniversary version

role is never instantiated, so the… privileged…logs… will never be called

Edit: Actually no logs at all, I read the null as undefined on first skim

Alegria*

No project is too small for tests

Tests double as your documentation for your intent

Take it from me who has 20+ years of personal projects behind me, the ones that I’ve kept around are typically the ones that have some form of test suite.

It’s easy to build on something if you know you’re not breaking something in the process

It would have to be parabolic and yeah as you suggest you would either need a big robotic rig to aim it or you would have to be very very obvious with your intent to damage given there’s pretty much only one specific place a given parabolic mirror can be to damage something else.

No, once you know it’s not going to happen you need to do what you can to let the idea go.

Holding into it is just tying an anchor to your happiness that will only get heavier.

Honestly this is the reason TDD is most important for personal projects.

If it’s your job, the code isn’t getting merged without decent tests. Yes you should probably write them first so you think about your implementation properly, but let’s face it, many tests are written after in practice.

If it’s something written in your free time, you’re just not writing those tests most of the time if you didn’t write them up front.

What you describe is simply not possible with a passive material. Funnily your example of something shooting lasers is probably the only thing that could come close to actual damage

The most you can do is one of those adversarial patterns that just confuses the white balance and autofocus. There is nothing you can do to affect someone shooting in manual mode

If you could damage a camera by pointing it at something, the manufacturer would fix the issue before selling it, because no one is buying a camera that does.

I think I’ve seen software swaps for the actual presses in most situations where I’d want to.

I think the only time I consider doing something is when I’m playing a Nintendo game on non Nintendo hardware, so my MiSTer or on retroarch and both support swapping Nintendo to western style. If I’m holding a Nintendo controller, muscle memory makes it not really a problem for me at least

If you mean the actual physical buttons, I’d just say blank buttons are better than labelled ones in general, most popular controllers have blank mods that are pretty easy to do if you have a screwdriver with the appropriate bit.

Yep

Americans call them pillbugs or something like that

None of those have had much success in creating social networks that suck people in quite like the others

Not to say they don’t have their own problems, but the bulk of problems with social media come squarely from meta & twitter.

Meta and twitter cease to exist tomorrow and 99% of the issues are solved IMO

The fediverse is social media and it doesn’t have anything close to the same kinds of harmful patterns

I had that demo disk

It was the first one of the millennium

https://powerlineoeupsmfanclub.fandom.com/wiki/Euro_Demo_54_(OUKPSM54)

Everything on it was amazing to me at the time