tiredofsametab

For me, it’s their greed regarding old titles. I bought some older games on the Wii and/or 3ds stores. Well, those go away and you don’t get a license for that same game on the new system (even though, presumably, all the porting/emulation work has already been done). Little things like that

A quarter costs 25 cents (unless it’s a US quarter on or before 1964 which costs more due to its silver content).

I keep meaning to look more into how qr codes work. I always wondered if there were possible attack vectors if a bad actor exploited a flaw in the decoding of the image. My mind went to a zip bomb for no apparent reason (a tiny file that unzips to a massive amount of data on disk)

Cool! Do you follow Japanese spaceflight at all?

Not really. I tried interviewing as a dev on a satellite company’s site, but apparently they require that one be a citizen for various reasons. I did want to go see a launch when I first moved to Japan, but it worked out to be rather difficult and doubly so as I had no driving license at the time. I might have to look into it again as that would be pretty neat.

Doesn’t that mean chicken or bird or something? I

tori does mean bird, yes :)

How do people handle the “ple”?

プリーズ (pu ri (long vowel marker) zu). Final ‘u’ gets devoiced in most cases and, anecdotally, many who say the word a lot devoice the first one as well. So pureez with the quality of the u varying from non-existent to schwa to normal (kinda like oo in moon but shorter)

They’ll probably be no more ribbons before the machine itself gives up the ghost (provided proper maintenance)

I live in Japan so it’s on my mind. Tri would end up like ‘tori’ or ‘turi’ though a lot of speakers might reduce the o a bit in the former and the ‘u’ might devoice in the latter being closer to “t’ri”. “Triple” is a word that is used (mostly for baseball, I think) and some people do reduce the inserted vowel quite a lot.

I wouldn’t use ‘san’ because it doesn’t make sense outside of Japan (and, I suppose, close enough for Sinitic languages and those with loans from it). I went with ‘tri’ since it’s already a root meaning three (from Greek I think? I never remember which are Greek vs Latin).

Unfortunately that’s super not pronounceable in Japanese. Maybe Trici (though Japanese also doesn’t have ‘si’ and it would end up ‘shi’)? Triki?

Well, about 30 centimeters works, too, but neither rolls off the tongue particularly well, heh.

I’ve mostly killed imperial (well, US Customary) wolf by living outside of freedom-unit-land. Not so much intentionally, but my brain doesn’t like miles and the like anymore. I do wish a third of a meter had a standardized nickname because ‘about a foot’ (about 30cm) is something people use all the time (including those that have never known the imperial/us customary system).

I still sometimes bang out small perl scripts for things that are too annoying/complex for command prompt and shell scripts but not worth writing something in, say, Go. I never learned python which is probably why I never use that.

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I think experienced programmers may have a different route to a degree. A number of years in one language, for instance, including fairly complex production settings, etc. and having to transition to python for a new job or company or decision from someone higher up the food chain. I did it from a largely perl and PHP background for both Rust (a tiny bit of experience before, but not a super complex environment) and Go (zero to prod in a few months dropping in rewritten portions of the former PHP monolith). I can talk about memory usage, race conditions, etc. but would be completely screwed with anything internal to python or its quirks.

I don’t think it really makes sense to have a north as such. The only potentially exception I can think of is more of a definition of ‘up’ rather than north and pertains to hemispheres of bodies.

The very southern parts are more hilly as they never sat under a glacier and all the other water drains into the caves. Water doesn’t want to become ice and is scared those glaciers might come back if they get any ideas about northward expansion.

It’s supposed to rain here all weekend so working outside is probably out. I might finally do some gaming after months of not.

I need to get a new video edited and posted by Sunday afternoon.

So, based on

Every programmer knows that ‘A’ in [‘A’, ‘B’, ‘C’, ‘D’] would be the 0th item; the first item is ‘B’

You’re saying I can’t be a programmer because I speak English?

I’ve been a software engineer for almost 20 years now. ‘A’, at index 0*, is the first thing in the array.

* well, unless you’re using some language that actually is not zero-indexed. I think LUA is one?

Indeed, but I still do somewhat keep up with various gaming news, so it seems weird that XVI didn’t leave any real impression in my head unless I did somehow just totally miss it

I remember seeing a video at some point but not if it were cutscene/promo or gameplay

I might have to get to them at some point, then; time is the limiting factor now as I work 1.5 jobs and have all the normal home maintenance/work on top of that.