Any quality phone will / would “under promise and over deliver.” What I mean is, you lie about being at zero charge when you really have one or two or three percent left to give the user time to get to a charger. This is better than turning off because it allows time for circumstances that don’t allow the user to plug into a charger. Having a bit of breathing room means that one can call emergency services while on the way to plug in, for example, rather than being screwed because it’s a ten minute walk home.

alias ..='cd ..' #: up one directory
alias ...='cd ../..' #: up two directories

You’re fine. I used to think I hated kids until my friends had kids who were awesome and I realized that I hate bad parents. These kids are too young for anything to imprint. You’re right that they’ll dominate the conversation out of necessity. You don’t want to put yourself in such a situation for someone on your periphery of interest and that’s fine.

People complain that you’re a bad person for not being terribly interested in her life, but she’s not a part of yours and you’re entertaining the idea that maybe you could have a nice time. As an introvert, I think you’re doing a good job of remaining open to the possibility that there could be a solid friendship forming. Even if not that, at least it might be a nice time once.

Others are being assholes. You’re fine.

I don’t have advice for how to position that you only want to meet one on one, but I don’t think you’re a bad person for wanting that. It’s not like I would want my buddy’s 14yo kid to come to record night this weekend. He’s a nice kid, but this is time for the middle-aged men to hang out.

I don’t use Latex, but I have a ton of O’Reilly books and the Orly made me laugh hard.

I missed so many opportunities because of shyness.

I appreciate people who have a sense of humor about themselves.

All Yesterdays is exactly this. The first half reimagines dinos from how we traditionally view them (leaning into things like feathers and a t-rex sleeping) and the second half reinterprets contemporary fauna based on their skeletons to demonstrate how wrong we might be about dinos. It’s a great coffee table book.

Omg, this made me chuckle in the best way. This is the most accurate comic I’ve seen in a bit. When I got an IT job, printers were so alien to me because I hadn’t had one in many years. They’re stupid and I hate them, but what are you gonna do.

I’m amused by the one dissenter who downvoted both of us. Hey dissenter: a ton of people agreed with our takes and only you disagreed. This isn’t a forum for you. Go find a place where people share your views.

I laughed more than this deserves, but I also love thinking about language and that was pretty good.

Deify and worship him. Archeologists in the future will find this pin and think that this was a full religion with lost texts. There’s a possibility that the stupid thing that I just said becomes real.

They taught us that drugs were evil and done by bad people. The first time I smoked pot, I realized I was lied to and wondered what other drugs were like.

I’m so proud of my little hunters when we play with toys that simulate prey. They’re so fierce. Larry will become fierce. Good job, hunter! Good job, good job!

Or, like take your family on vacation or anything else more useful than a fancy car. Build memories rather than flaunting wealth.

You will lose my friendship when you waste a bunch of money on a lambo.

Way to stay classy, M$.

Thanks! I was suddenly ashamed that I’d never thought of this until you pointed this out.

I hate it so much. Just stick to jpg.

Automation is a common reason to program outside of a job. I created tools to scrape websites, control my home entertainment system, and nerdy shit like pulling stats from my router. Someone who does a podcast that I enjoy created a thing that lets him know the state of their garage door via an LED (open vs closed). Silly stuff like this is really about scratching a personal itch more than it’s about solving life issues. It’s fun for some people and probably not fun for others.

This was funnier than it had any right to be.