BudgieMania

Legit the biggest, most transparent, most obvious, most blatant scam I've seen in the 25+ years I've been playing videogames.

If you bought into this game or believed in it at any point, you should not go anywhere without wearing oven mitts and arm floaties.

dude think about this stuff before you open the floodgates bro

need to sell the obligatory updated mini of course

small price to pay for one of the most improbable sequels ever I say

in certain parts of the world they really ingrained in us that roman numerals are the proper way to do it and it's very hard to shake off, apologies

Nah, not so much a failure on your part as a failure on the part of a society that elects to glorify people that "move ball good" or "say line funny" over the people that have built the pillars without which our modern society literally would not exist in the same manner.

To paraphrase Churchill "Never was so much owed by so many to a single man", NTP has been a critical aspect of XXIst century, from making highly complex clusterized systems work reliably to saving you the pain of adjusting the clock in your smartphone. If you have used even a single networked electronic device for a millisecond in your life, you owe the man some thanks.

Subscription-based services already change the agreement of a transaction too much in favor of the provider, because it goes from "convince me that your product is good enough to go through the hassle of obtaining it" to "convince me that your product is bad enough to go through the hassle of cancelling it". It is only fair to try to tilt it in favor of the consumer as much as possible.

I find Kbin's Collections feature a good fix for federation confusion. Honestly I think it should be the default type of view when browsing communities, you need to abstract the average user from federation as much as possible and leave browsing by instance as an advance option for those that want to engage with federation in detail

I was ready to go on a tirade about that but I think a better use of my time is to show appreciation for the excellent JoeKrogan username

When it comes to IT, it's important to keep things in perspective, there's a limit on how much it can be impacted. It may be able to give you the foundations of that Python code you need, but it sure as hell won't be able to make sense of the fucking mess that your organization has made out of the venvs (I won't either, but sssshhhhhh). I think most if not all of IT specialties have that kind of situation.

If there's anything my time in IT has taught me, is that any solution or paradigm change that gets introduced doesn't really outpace the difficulties and challenges that are constantly emerging, and more often than not they create their own positions without completely eliminating the ones they are trying to streamline/replace. You introduce Ansible to automate and streamline the configuration of your storage systems, you think the people that were doing the deployment and config until now are now obsolete... Joke's on you, you now need both the Ansible dev as well as the guys that were already in charge of deployment and configuration, because inevitably something goes wrong periodically, something needs to be adapted to the particularities of the environment, or any other number of other things.

In the short term, yeah, maybe some entry positions might be affected under the direction of directives with lack of foresight, but I hope that, in the end, it won't end up being as severe as we expect, or at least that there will be an eventual course correction.

Do not despair at 100% is what I'm trying to say.

Only like, 70%.

...~160 eurobucks

bought one for the meme at like 250+ and rode it down the next week lol

I consider it the fee for getting introduced to the world of investing, which thankfully has been much kinder to me since then (the fact that I limited myself to putting money on indices is, of course, purely coincidental)

I hope somebody pokes that professor's nipples