I remember a while ago - when, like in your anecdote, I mostly coded in bash - I had a dream that I found out people were invoking my scripts in a manner that essentially overrode settings that might (or, in my case, might not) have been set at the beginning of the script.
This never (AFAIK) happened in waking hours, but I was very offended in the dream.
A fact that I like to share from my personal history: I took four years to graduate from a two year college because I was taking every computer class they offered … Except that I skipped “intro to Unix” because when was I ever going to use that?
My entire career has been largely based on knowing how to use Linux.
Wow, haven’t seen your thorns in a while.
I liked vimwiki for this, except that it set expandtab and I could never find where.
Pretty much the one and only good thing about work forcing us to switch from Linux laptops to Macbooks.
DNS ad blocking doesn’t work on YouTube.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=kwfA1UB2Je0
edit: Yes, I realize the irony of linking YouTube here.
My previous house apparently only existed because the neighbor of the building in the lot before it objected to the sexuality of the owners of said building and threw a molotov cocktail at it.
There was only one casualty of that event. Sadly, it was a cat.
I don’t know how to respond to that.
Maybe you’re my old co-worker.
Regardless, I appreciate the detail! Thank you for elaborating.
I don’t have any experience with “CFD results” but the two sound similar to me. The ellipsis might have made it seem sarcastic, but that wasn’t my intent.
That’s … Basically what they said.
I once worked tech support for people who ran physics simulations. They said that sometimes they had to rerun the simulations if they didn’t come back accurately. I asked how they could tell if they were accurate.
They said it was based on whether it felt right. I still hate that response, but I guess I can’t come up with a better idea, other than doing whatever they’re testing in real life.
I always thought the library near where I grew up would be a near ideal environment during a zombie apocalypse. It was a repository of knowledge and entertainment, of course; it was in a fairly small city, meaning that while there might be more zombies than in the countryside, there wouldn’t be as many as in a large city - but there would be resources nearby; there was an armory nearby; there was only one relatively-easily-fortified entrance (to my knowledge); and it had a fully enclosed courtyard which, while it ended up being kind of depressing in real life, could give you a garden in a theoretical apocalypse.
The first and last were most of what I considered when I was a kid.
Hey, I think Futurama made a documentary about that.
As if the cats don’t enjoy your disdain.
I like that the answers you got are definitively “yes” and “no.”
I have three arms!
Recently I’ve been reading the book Eifelhelm, which features a character named “Okham.” Another character familiar with him says he’s met Okham’s successor and says “he used your razor.” It took me an embarrassing amount of time to realize that wasn’t meant literally. My first thought was that it was unsanitary, though the relevant part of the book is set in the 1300’s so I suppose that wasn’t a major concern.
I don’t entirely disagree with you, but I’ve boiled eggs. I’ve peeled boiled eggs. I’ve never once given boiled eggs an ice bath - I didn’t even know that was a thing until I saw a roommate doing it in my early thirties (though to be fair I didn’t have my first boiled egg until my mid twenties).
I’ve definitely peeled eggs poorly, as shown in the OP, but I’ve also peeled them nearly perfectly with no ice bath. I don’t know if it helps, but it’s not necessary.
The biggest issue I have with it is that I have Linux on all my personal systems and OSX on my work laptop and sometimes switch rapidly between them.
My fingers don’t seem to adapt as quickly, though, and I often press the wrong combination between them.