Okay so NASA lost a $327 million Mars probe because said was transmitting trajectory corrections in the SI Units of Newton-Seconds, but the home base software was interpreting and calculating it as Pound Seconds.

Remembering that there was endless amounts of scientific equipment aboard that took years to make, and the whole enchilada took 10 months traveling through space before it could even crash.

Oh there’s lots I have to set the record straight about and there’s lots I could talk about, but without being asked a specific question that would just leave me to write an open-ended essay and I’m not up for it right now

Certainly, I’m always happy to share with inquisitive minds.

Is there any particular question you’d like me to address?

I spent 20 years as a producer, developer, and project manager in the lottery and games industry.

Trying to explain how lottery and games work to people and have them hear me makes me want to cry.

I asked her how she felt about nitrogen on her lawn

She exploded. I WON’T ALLOW IT!

I said what do you think most of the breathable atmosphere is made of and what do you think comes down with rain that makes your grass grow?

You know how well that went.

Idiots like my sister.

She once sternly advised me “I won’t have any chemicals in my home”

Try growing up in the late '70s early '80s, when adult behavior at social gatherings was almost a contest to see who could get the most obliterated-drunk, both men and women, and “one for the road” wasn’t just an expression.

I’m of the children of that generation, and when we were young we modeled our socializing after that, going out for the night involved getting hammered, didn’t matter who you were.

I’ve become quite relieved to see that in a last decade or so, the drinking culture of social gatherings is largely gone Even in people of my age range.

Of course, there’s always one or two out of 20 people that are 9 drinks deep within a couple hours and not realizing that nobody else is consuming.

The plan is in place not for toxic drinking culture, but to deal with those people. Once the precise amount budgeted for the first few quality drinks is gone, that’s when you bring out the low-bottom budget cans of expired beer, still on the plastic ring but with 2 missing and they are only basement cold.

Alcohol that you are supplying at an event. You should always have a good case of beer or wine, or spirits, or the appropriate refreshment for your honored guests, but anything beyond 1st/2nd round should be the cheapest hooch on the planet and it should run out fast. Every social gathering seems to attract booze hounds that will suck you dry, no need to pay premium dollar for their habit.

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That’s an excellent point and it’s one of these elephants in the room that people can’t see.

Does anybody wonder why there’s virtually no male kindergarten teachers? Convicted before the crime as if women have never acted inappropriately towards children?! I mean for fuck sakes my own mother sexually abused me.

If you’ve ever known any male nurses, they will tell you the stories of being outnumbered 30 to 1 at minimum, and then facing constant sexual harassment, abuse, and career suppression because of their gender.

And my own story, I work in a system of power, the healing sector, which is dominated by women. And as the one guy they’re trying to do the right thing and serve men, we face nothing but abuse. It is driving me out.

It’s insane, I even made a complaint to the director who of course is a woman, and she effectively denied that it was happening or could happen.

I told her I don’t even want people not to think these things, everybody who is in their own place of trauma has to get their shit off their chest.

All I wanted was a place where men didn’t have to hear this crap.

And that’s being incredibly neutral in my opinion because there are a lot of opportunities for men to talk about just how insane and shitty women can be. But I don’t want to talk about those things, I just want them to stop shit talking men especially their own clientele.

I wouldn’t say nobody, but I would say the people that dominate the area I’m trying to volunteer and work in.

I work in a healing center where there are 29 women on staff and 1 man.

I cannot get these people to understand that as much as they want to push forward social movements, which I very much agree with, this must not come at the expense of men who are trying to heal.

I will literally have counselors co-facilitating with me, who want to make every point about how women are oppressed, pushed down in the workforce, face issues.

I’m not in denial of those, but no man coming into a healing environment to work on themselves, be vulnerable, and explore their own journey, needs to hear how much men are shitty.

What’s your logic here?

So you disagree that Baldur’s Gate 3 has performance issues, and that means that this game doesn’t?

The article says that 24 frames per second is what you can expect. I would say by most standards that’s pretty low performance.

Look man, Vista was a complete piece of shit in every measurable way.

Even if you hand wave away the fact that most important hardware/software didn’t work with it and yes you could get stable hw going…

And give it that the gadgets were pretty cool, akin to my widgets on Android…

The entire thing was a misbegotten disaster of design and implementation. And from a business perspective, they rammed it down everybody’s throat a year before it was even remotely ready. Hardware partners, manufacturers, software developers, not just end users got fucked hard. Most people ended up with steaming lumps of shit that could open a web browser if they were lucky, and maybe use their recipe software.

People forget what Apple was doing with the Mac UI at that time, and Microsoft, decided to sell the sizzle of that, forgetting that they don’t know how to do that. And it was such a internal cluster fuck It was literally never going to be finished unless it got shoved out the door.

It was one 1/2 baked idea layered on top of the next.

And you know it.

That’s a very interesting fix on a rare bug.

Can we get this guy to figure out why the fuck the URL rollover in the bottom left will not go away unless you shrink the video, roll onto a different link, then full screen the video again?

I’ve tried every change to userchrome.css that I can find and none of them fix it

I had not heard about this and was completely confused.

So turns out they are releasing this game under the exact same name as the stinker from 2014. Dumb move imo.

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Because you start with an overall plan and the constituent parts, then it’s a skill game to prepare them all in the appropriate time windows, and with appropriate skill.

Because of the variability inherent to cooking and ingredients, it’s also our real-time challenge of figuring out what’s going wrong, and how to get it back on the rails.

It’s extremely satisfying to understand the different aspects of preparing food, herbs, vegetables, meats, etc, and then using that knowledge to make something so tasty that people’s eyes bug out when they eat it.

I find it extremely satisfying to take something that people consider to be not tasty, and just with a little core technique, make it into something they can’t even believe they are tasting.