As a man who is awful at picking up on hints, this is definitely the way

Thanks. Never got around to that one - yet

I had an mp3 player in 2003 that was basically just a usb stick with a minijack, two buttons, and a volume control. When inserted into what was essentially a battery case, it worked as an mp3 player. When inserted into my PC it worked as a USB drive. I loved the simplicity, and in a pinch I could use it for other files too.

128MB, iirc

I think not knowing how to cook is common when young. Today in my early 40’s I’d say I’m pretty decent, but I was useless in my 20s.

What got me started was necessity due to all of a sudden having kids. Trial and error.

What clicked was when I learned that being a half-decent cook didn’t mean knowing recipes by heart (although I’m sure many do), but more generalized approaches that work well for various ingredients. If you know them oven temp for various stuff, the rest is mostly just preference when it comes to flavoring, and that’s something you learn to measured with your heart over time.

Is that a reference I’m not getting?

Ganymede

Spring 2012.

This survey ship I worked on needed updated navigational data from us in the instrumentation room from time to time. It was an old ship with an old auto pilot system, and the simplest way was to copy over the data and sneakernet it up to the bridge.

Then fork the last unshitified version. You don’t need to build a fork. You just fork it, and worst case scenario is that you have a version that didn’t go to shit.

I used to be like this too. It was a side effect of usually working 12 hour night shifts five weeks straight, a few timezones away. Readjusting to a new sleep schedule was a side effect of sleep deprivation at first, but it slowly became a useful skill instead.

What’s the significance of Aldi in this context? I think I’ve been there once, maybe twice…

Moose is to cow what duck is to chicken - similar, but more gamey

I imagine that after 20 minutes it sounds like a combination of rusty chains and someone driving over a pack of oreos

I’m OK with those, as long as there’s a reasonable delay between the updates. It let’s me know if I can do chores such as shopping and laundry while I wait, or I have to sit glued to my screen.

Heavier, actually. The area where I grew has a lot of farms everywhere, so it’s usually done with a tractor, and the forests usually have a tractor road nearby.

These days ATVs and UTVs are more common.

Same. I have what I need, much of what I want, and I don’t really have many expensive habits.

Personally I prefer the default “waiting for someone to pick up”-sound so that I know the call is still active. And if it takes more than a minute, maybe a voice confirming “yeah, this is taking a while” with my position in the queue. Do not:

• Whoever recorded the voice made the right kind of noise to make it sound like someone is answering
• Update me with queue position unless the queue position has actually changed.

That way I can do whatever while waiting, including listening to music of my choice.

My least preferred option is a voice telling me how important my call is, how much they love me, and how they will do anything they can to get to me as fast as possible except from hiring more people to pick up the phone.

Also, did Cisco change their default on-hold music for the first time in decades? I wrote this while on hold at them to have a support ticket resolved.

I grew up in a tiny village where “everyone” had at least one hunting rifle, so I may be biased but I think it’s fine as long as it’s done in a sustainable way.

The main game was moose, and there was a strict quota every year about how many of them could be killed. And I can confirm that it was sustainable as it was still moose everywhere (to the point where I remember sitting by my PC one day, playing Quake, noticing there was a moose outside of my windows, eating apples on the lawn.

It’s going to be a golden era for litigators.

Despite never being a fan of guy-in-rubber-suit-trashes-miniature-city-movies, I somehow know who Mothra is.

Upvote for the superior chocolate. Kitkat is awful.