Oh, look, I have extra time before I need to get moving. How much extra time? I dunno, probably infinite.

Though it can be used during the initial parts of a relationship to make it progress at a very fast rate. Imo it’s best to hit the brakes even if the other person isn’t abusive. And hit the brakes as in don’t rush to move in with them, get married, or have a kid, as I think ending a relationship because it’s moving too fast is just as likely to end a good thing as avoid abuse.

IMO detecting abusive people is best done by seeing how they react when challenged, especially by someone they might consider a lesser.

Thought it depended on what kind you get. The one generally available in North America is just strong liquor like bacardi 150 (though more of a zambooka flavour), but actual absinthe is made from some tree wood that is hallucigenic. At least, that’s how I understood it; I’ve only tried the boring kind.

Supply and demand aren’t lies, it’s more the free market is a lie, which allows the supply side to be manipulated to create false scarcity. It’s competition that’s supposed to bring prices down but the governments that are supposed to regulate the markets to allow competition instead use measures that look like they’ll make the bug players play fair but actually make it difficult or impossible for new players to enter the game.

Time that edge in so that if there’s a collision, it’s technically them running into you, and you’ve won. Except maybe for the occasional time the other driver wants to hurt you (by going somewhere and fighting outside of the vehicles, random weapons).

Lol some of my formative programming time happened on mIRC script. I wrote a battle.net chat client in mIRC script, ironically right when blizzard decided to make it for game clients only and I never did get to faking a game’s handshake. Other than that, it was basically just an IRC server itself, though I never tried connecting mIRC directly to it using the IRC side, just a mIRC script client that used the mIRC script sockets and would set up a channel window for whatever channel you went to.

I also had a DnD script where you could roll basic characters, equip weapons and armor, and attack each other, I think it was 3.5-based (or maybe just 3).

The bronze age copper industry was very unforgiving. You deliver reduced purity copper ingots once and suddenly there’s tablets all over the place telling everyone about it. Not that it affected sales; demand for copper was always high. But every single customer makes a comment about the purity.

I curse them all to be wiped out by mysterious alien invaders from across the sea!

Oh does he do it like chess engines where it seems like playing at a low level is still playing with an almost prefect engine, only it adds random “inaccuracies” that are mistakes no human would ever make, like suddenly hanging their queen with no actual intent behind the move other then being a random mistake?

Like “oh, a average user would have made a mistake by now, so let’s remove an important directory to simulate that”?

Yeah, that’s the frustrating part, it could be either way. Could be based on a heuristic analysis that recognized a pattern associated with malware (that may be based on the malicious parts of the code or maybe some big data algorithm associated otherwise innocent code with the malicious software and flags anything with similar code), maybe it’s just some string match (ie a bad attempt but maybe in good faith), or maybe they are using the malicious code removal tool to also targer code that the user wants but MS considers malicious to their desire to make money.

Iirc, it’ll say what it matches it to but from what I remember, the actual details remain vague. Like it seems to be at a “report information that sounds useful to managers” level rather than a “report useful technical information for engineers who want to understand what’s happening at a low level”. So you get malware name but nothing about what that malware does or how this current flag associated it with that.

Corruption. Soviet corruption was taking funds intended to buy x of y, priced at the cost of materials + labour + logistics for making x of y and delivering it to where it needs to be, but instead only buying (x - z) of y and pocketing the difference, but writing down that x were delivered, expecting that they’d just sit in storage anyways and by the time anyone figures it out, time, apathy, and incompetence will help avoid consequences.

Western corruption is starting a company to produce y and when a government orders x of them, x are delivered but are priced at the highest price the company can negotiate, possibly while the other side of the negotiation is feeding them info for a tiny portion of the money saved (or more likely less direct kickbacks, like the promise of a job offer after they finish their government position). All x of y get delivered but the price is significantly higher than what it costs to produce them.

Also R&D is priced in because it’s all done for the sake of making profit and must be recovered through the unit sales.

It used to be a source of annoyance. So many programs relied on undocumented behavior that MS couldn’t go back and change decisions they made that turned out to be bad ones without potentially breaking things for some programs, even if that decision should have been entirely transparent to end users. So there was a bunch of technical debt being carried in the OS itself, at least until they started adding compatibility layers that allowed the quirks to be moved to there and the OS itself to progress.

But then they started with the enshittification that made those technical debt days look so innocent in comparison. It was a time when MS cared about the quality of its products.

Though I do wonder how much of that “detects random files as malware” is actually detecting real malware hidden inside software that also does what it claims to do. Like “this removes game’s DRM and also installs a helpful little rootkit for if we need to help you debug something, DDOS websites we hate, or act as an annonymous proxy”.

One of those vegetable slicers, spelled mandoline. Image search for “mandoline cutter” but without the safety gloves or plastic thing, back of my finger went just a little too low and caught the blade right on the fingernail and it went through it like nothing.

Native plants are of course going to win out, they’re evolved for that location’s climate.

If that was the case, no one would care about invasive species because the natives would outcompete with them when humans stopped intervening. It all depends on the specific plants and environment.

Well that got a shudder out of me. Hope it isn’t as unpleasant as it sounds for you these days.

Though, if you prefer, you can also move your hand to the mouse. With the scroll wheel and good hand-eye coordination, you can get pretty close to the speed of a true vim exper–haha jk, they finished converting the entire source file from python to rust using a specially crafted regex by the time your hand reached the mouse and implemented a matrix view by the time you scrolled to the line you wanted.

And when you say that falling green symbols aren’t that impressive, they look at you in confusion for a moment before realizing what you meant and handing you a VR plug to show you what “matrix view” really means.

Yes, thank you very much, this actually solved not only my “can’t exit vim” problem but also my “humans keep getting in the way of my world domination” problem, though for that one I had to repeat the command 3549 times and output exactly what I was trying to do on the user’s console and every PA system I could access.

Also it would be cool to have a misaligned fingerprint. If you do crime, they might end up spending extra time figuring out if someone is trying to leave fake prints behind but isn’t good at it.

One part I’m still not very clear on is if the nail bed refers to the entire area under the nails or just the part at the base of the nail, where it grows from.

My incident didn’t touch that base but absolutely exposed some of that skin underneath. The regrown nail seems to be adhering well to that skin, too (that was my biggest worry, that I’d be left with a “bubble” of nail seperate from the skin underneath).

Probably anti overall, though context could change that. It’s just sea banditry and most bandits aren’t Robin Hood.

The digital version shouldn’t even be compared by using the same name, but if it was honest, then it wouldn’t work as propaganda (not that it seems to be working anyways).