I don’t think pew pews are real yet. Biathalon uses bang bangs. Or maybe boom booms. Jury’s still out.

I skipped that step and went straight to cameras in the toilet pointed up.

One step closer to a solar powered laser beam guitar.

I don’t think you were hostile, you just have a different experience than others in this thread. At my workplace we design hardware and make embedded systems. Depending on which part of the system you’re working on you’ll either never leave Visual Studio or exclusively use the unix command line. Both groups are absolutely serious professionals. Not every workplace is like mine; most will have only one of the two groups.

The one near me plays the 4 bar “Westminster Quarters”. It plays one bar for each quarter hour. The full song on the hour, and bangs out the hour.

Still better than Duke Nukem Forever.

The neuter pronoun (“it”) doesn’t work for humans in English either.

Warning: my music nerd’s about to come out.

I’m in my 40s, and have been playing music since single digits. I still remember the order of lines in the staffs with “Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge”, “FACE”, “Good Boys Deserve Fudge Always”, and “All Cows Eat Grass”. I did teach my kids “Good Burritos Don’t Fall Apart”, though, since they seem to like burritos.

My internal math nerd agrees with the grandparent though, for some reason I just remembered the order of operations and was confused when my kids came home with PEDMAS. But to be fair, I use the order of operations every day at work, so 🤷. I’m also one of those people who will insist on using parentheses everywhere there’s more than two terms, though, so take from that what you will.

1982 was 43 years ago…

That’s correct. I do do similar things professionally, but never with games. VAC always worried me.

Along that line of thinking, I’d be nice if there were a “cheating allowed” sandbox option. A VAC enabled game mode where cheating is explicitly allowed. Cheat in it, no harm done, people get to experiment, VAC gets to learn about potential cheating methods they hadn’t considered, and nobody gets banned. Do it outside the sandbox and down comes the banhammer.

It’s well over a third by mass…

Really Star Trek in general…

You mean Star Trek? But where are the suffering people?

On the planets in the Cardassian/Federation neutral zone…

Split the repository? It’s not an unreasonable thing to do.

That said, FreeBSD’s repo is 2ish GiB, and Linux is 3, LLVM is huge too. Not unreasonable to want to mirror those.

I thought it was named after Lieutenant Broccoli of Star Trek fame.

Better than Brussels sprouts. Anything is better than that hell.

Mine will tell me the measured pressures of all tires. But only if at least one is low. I haven’t found a way to get it to just tell me the pressure in any tire if it’s not throwing an error at me.

Dear Mazda, you have a full user interface in your vehicle. Why can’t you let me see the tire pressure from just a menu option?

TIL I live North of Canada!

Thank fuck my grandparents were completely independent until they got very sick very quickly and died.

Two of my grandparents passed before I was born, of rather aggressive cancer. The other two lived completely independently until age-related illnesses got them in a matter of weeks.

I kinda hope that’s what happens to my parents; they’re in their mid 70s now and doing just fine on their own. My sister and I only need to help with with the occasional thing, like fixing stuff around the house that takes a decent amount of strength to do, or climbing ladders.