In the mid 2000s a lot of projects and companies needed perl experience for some reason. And not a whole lot of people knew it in my area.

There was a lot og legacy code around, because perl has always been good at “hack something together” for when anything functional is better than nothing. And I’ve always been good at that sort of stuff.

I’m no longer freelance as I picked up some other niche skills that resulted in me now being in a corporate structure with over a million employees. But I’m shielded from most corporate crap, it pays really well, and I still get to make dirty hacks in perl.

Also, my career has caused me to realize how much important stuff around the world relies on some idiotic code snippet someone wrote “as a temporary fix”.

Can someone please explain this to us smoothbrains who never finished school? I see a for-loop on the left, and some sort of integral on the right, but that’s about it…

The important question is whether that also includes turbofans, or if that is a separate code. And what about turboprops? Ramjets without fan bypass?

export DISPLAY=:0; xeyes

Doubt it. The universe never cared, so there’s no real why.

Boss makes a billion
While I’m just a wage slave
That’s why WFH
Is done in a goon cave

I was thinking that too for a while, but upon switching to dvorak my typing speed picked up surprisingly quickly.

On that note, I never bought into the meme about it being possible to type faster with dvorak. It might be true in theory, but in practice the bottleneck is fingers and old habits. I type around the same speed with dvorak as I did with qwerty. The main advantage to dvorak is that it’s much more comfortable.

I had a realization around 2012 that I would most likely be using a keyboard for a living for the rest of my life, so that’s why I started experimenting with alternatives to qwerty.

Does dutch have ß as well?

Also, noggie keyboard is alright for normal typing, but once you get into more geeky computery, some characters are awfully placed. ’ " / { > just to name a few. That’s why I started using US layout to begin with, and I later migrated to YS Dvorak because I’m that guy (PS: You should totally switch to Dvorak, bro)

One more: super + q to change cooling/cpu/gpu schema. Quick way of swapping between “nice and quiet under the couch laptop, streaming to the TV” and “ultra-hurricane GeForce 8000 cataclysm gaming-mode for playing Tetris”, or when I want something in between and/or portable.

Super + ctrl + s = super-save. Starts an rsync of your entire drive to somewhere remote.

Basically, hitting compose causes the next two keystrokes to “combine”. For example, / + o = ø, as well as the other letters that are useful to us with extra letters in the alphabet. In addition to that it provides a myriad of other characters such as copyright, trademark, just to name a few.

Caps Lock remapped to compose. Much more useful, especially for those of us who sometimes need to type “other” letters, but prefer US dvorak keyboard layout.

A prop gift in a store after holiday season. It was just about tiny enough to fit in my pocket. Imagine my disappointment when I tore off the wrapping paper and found a cube of Styrofoam. I was like 5 at the time.

Single-use plastic, yeah. Things like Tupperware will stick around unless we go back to using asphalt for food preservation.

I think we’re going to see single use wax-paper or similar displace the plastic and Styrofoam for your delivery order.

Yeah, i tend to agree. It was fun and refreshing. It was just kind of… forgettable.

Yup, that’s the one I was thinking about. Excellent clip posted by an excellent lad or lady. Thank you.

I might as well give some examples:
Hugh Jackman - PE teacher (someone link that interview clip, please?)
Harrison Ford - Carpenter
Maynard James Keenan - also a carpenter, coincidentally
Bob Ross - air force sergeant
Stephen King - English teacher

Everything is a .wav, you just lack the frequency hearing range.

Back when /dev/dsp existed, you could pipe any data to it, and it’d treat it like PCM data. Wav files sounded like they were supposed to. Everything else sounded like… well, also like they’re supposed to, i guess.

Yup. That’s the main reason why 5G is so bad for you.

Hands apart is for capacitive prayer transmissions, but most religions nowadays use inductive transmission where hands together help form the inductive loop through the hands. It is also important to not pray while laying down, as this changes the polarity.

Fun fact: the electronic symbol for capacitor represents two hands held slightly apart. This is because capacitive prayers were the most common back when the capacitor was invented.