I know it’s not the point of the article but seeing a person in a trench/ditch with no reinforcement and no slope makes me so nervous.

That’s a bad way to go if it collapses.

https://www.osha.gov/trenching-excavation

The more I look at it the more it may not be quite 5 feet requiring it. Here’s hoping so.

As you command

The Chaser by John Collier… that ending … still gives me chills

Line go up. That’s all the matters. Every quarter it must go up.

If we have to gut the “machinery” that will make us money tomorrow in order to make it go up today then that’s what we do.

Some kind of activity tracking like a Fitbit right?

You could actually see the internal layout of the base from the paths the thing recorded via GPS points.

And if it’s not loud enough put it in a small metal pan or bowl, and place that inside a partially opened dresser drawer. Amplifies it quite a bit in addition to your suggestion to physically get up to turn it off.

Crazy Tuesday… the day we eat at Crazy Joes Taco Palace.

Thanks for the suggestions. I’ll check them out.

Cat: this is a nice place and I like you. I want to make sure you’re eating.

Here, take this

What a mess… sounds like the devs got burned by various Unicode edge cases RTL, etc

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Oof. That sounds horrible

Is it because of the lower case Latin æ since it’s technically one character even if two bytes?

And that’s why Belters shouldn’t cross into gate space while watching a show. Too risky to have the ship go Dutchman because the entities can sense your embarrassment.

Has hissy fit
*Adds herpetologist to resume

Sounds like it’s actually using XSLT or some kind of content validation. Which to be honest sounds like a good practice.

Im so excited. That’s why I’m reading through them again.

Then mistborn, warbreaker, etc.

Rereading the Stormlight archive right now after finishing the last book.

Man I wish I could find another book with that energy. Murderbot diaries has some of the serious/comedic aspect but not at the level of DCC. Same for hitchhikers guide. Close, but not quite the same.

It’s not a waste of time… it’s a waste of space. But it does allow you to “enforce” some schema. Which, very few people use that way and so, as a data store using JSON works better.

Or… we could go back to old school records where you store structs with certain defined lengths in a file.

You know what? XML isn’t looking so bad now.

If you want to break the AI ask instead what regex you should use to parse HTML.

Sorry Odette, with your limbs gone you don’t have much of a choice. However, we will have a prime broadcasting spot for you.