More comedic than dramatic, and more “highly unlikely” than “dumb luck”, but this one time I fell while skiing. It happens, I was a reckless kid as many are.

But this? This was on a flat, broad, almost level stretch connecting two pistes, and me and my dad were basically just cruising along. I don’t know what, but something happened and I face planted, stopping instantly.

One ski out to the side, the other… vertical? Stuck into the piste at a right angle, all the way from the tip to the binding… without becoming detached from my boot. The mechanism worked fine, mind you, it just hadn’t disengaged. There was no gash in the snow, no entry mark, just hard packed piste with half a ski sticking out of it like so much sword in a stone.

I understand what you say about needing to render every frame, but it’s possible to use a very slow frame rate for the gif (eg. 1 frame every 2s).

Even if it is eventually exposed as a hoax - that is, not as old as claimed or from a different or untrustworthy source - that works make the book no less of an impressive accomplishment and global mind fuck! 🤯 Whatever it really is, it’s a win.

You know, if you want to replace Slack, look into Mattermost. It’s foss but otherwise pretty much exactly what Slack does so well.

Sorry about the surprise prussians. I was never any good at typing on glass, I much prefer an actual keyboard.

The way your comment reads, you’ve been using Windows 3.11 these past decades. 😂

Dune II - basically the grandfather of every RTS game out there (and incidentally very, very different from Dune I): opposing forces, resource collection, tech tree, fog of war, et cetera. Or perhaps it was (not World of) Warcraft, it’s been too long and memory gets fuzzy.

Well then it’s good there are so many curves here…?

Well it goes away after you stop being an adult. Close enough?

I’m just sad and it’s nobody’s responsibility but my own to cheer me up.

Cars should just come with a big open socket up front, where I can buy (or build) my own infotainment system to install there.

…which is precisely what we used to have, before auto makers decided to insist that they should be enclosed in a swooping dash.

As a twin, some of our best stories are when these things happen unintentionally. Like, we’re just acting perfectly normal and other people get their neurons in a twist over it because to them it’s like some Matrix deja vu shit. 🤷😁

I’ll throw my hat in for Re-Volt or however it’s spelt.

There was a post the other day about yet another remake of our fire the steam platform (search for RVGL maybe); I haven’t looked into that but back in the day of Voodoo graphics it was so friggin’ fun to play, but single player and 8-player LAN.

I admire your logic and life plan.

But, “deserve … geese”? Need more data.

The trouble is that, apparently, “perfect UI” can mean “let’s take all the sidebar tabs, remove their text labels and make all their icons really abstract and in the same colour. Oh, and change their order, too, while you’re at it.”

Thank you from the bottom of my muscle memory and pattern recognition. Now, give us back our old UI that was actually meaningful, or at least make it an option if you insist that your “clean look” is more important than actual usability.

^(Apart from that, I love you JetBrains.)

I’m glad you ask about things you don’t know. You’re a smart person.

A dead name is a person’s given name, in the context of a person having transitioned to a different gender and also changing their name to match the gender they identify as. It is bad form to then continue to call them by their birth name.

Same. I wish you the best for your continued upward trajectory, friend. 😐🤜

What from, if I may ask?

Me, I’ve been on a multi-year roller coaster (more like haunted house ride, really, with the rattling and the spooks and the lack of upwards motion…) involving asking for help in what turned out to be the wrong place, causing me to lose my job, kids, spouse, dream house, future dreams, sanity, and damn near my life.

Still, I’m still here, still hoping for things to get better. You know, eventually.

On my old android phone, I have a beautiful 24 hour clock (app and widget) which is unfortunately no longer available in the play store.

Just saying, it exists if you know how to look for it. It was named, believe it or not, “24 Analog Clock Widget”.

I carry some because it’s no longer a thing. My card has only the information that I know will not change: my name, email address, and mobile phone number. On the back there’s a QR code (which contrasts the otherwise vintage look).

I hand out perhaps one per month so not super often, and many times the most appropriate thing to do is to simply tell people my phone number. But sometimes, especially when we’re in a situation where phones are not nearby, it’s quite effective to hand over a pre-made card with that info.

The average reaction is “Oh, cool” so even if they toss it once they’ve copied the info (which, tbh, is my expectation) it will still have made the exchange slightly out of the ordinary.

Plus, sometimes they’re useful to stop a table from rattling, or leave a message for someone who’s not currently present, and so on.

Right? For me, the realisation struck when we left the hospital: two people go into a building, three people come out. Carrying my baby daughter was such a crazy experience that first day.

^((nevermind the mathematician’s observation of “is one more person were to enter, the building would be empty again”))