The way we build now is as cheap as will be safe. That’s why we have engineers, it takes pretty extensive education to make someone able to make a bridge cheap enough

Carefully, I expect

We have five levels:

• Dev
• Function test
• System test
• Pre-prod
• Prod

Do you want it to be a copypasta?

Yes, but a fan of so much that I may have heard of that before Vsauce covered it. Vsauce is much good though, all of them have some credit

See also ghoti (fish). English orthography only works by agreement, not rules

They must have known it would push you to Linux

No, it’s pronounced GIF

I was a non violent youth when I first saw an fstab, perhaps that got me thinking “F S tab”

Idiot. Using English letters to try to represent sounds they don’t normally make. It didn’t work for gif (pronounced commonly as gif instead of jif), why would they think it would work for them?

I work in government IT, and AWS is used there too. I prefer working with a team delivering a COBOL data cruncher service, though the build people have it easier when the job is just connecting a source to a sink in AWS

At least you can accurately point the finger at who’s responsible

I feel like this name addresses the problem of services claiming to be microservices when they’re not.

Does that even happen? cat is micro, sed is micro, systemd isn’t and doesn’t claim to be

I recommend against being an early adopter. I’m a bit worried being a slightly late adopter of folding phones – I waited for pixel 9 – since I have already warranty replaced the two month old phone once for a complete failure of the internal screen (they said it was water damage, I replied with their water resistance rating)

I expect it was an internal hack. Like a DOGE person left for the day with their terminal open and a federal employee took the opportunity to make it look bad for DOGE

The bad side of this:

• It’s going to be stupidly expensive to fix
• It’s going to take years to hire and train, or rehire lost staff to do the fixing
• People are going to lose services and probably money that they need
• It achieves nothing

The good side:

I have to keep a VGA connected monitor for my old machines - the oldest drives it at CGA. That monitor is an old LCD

BG3 follows tabletop RPG style. You can fight your way through or sneak your way through or talk your way through

Fail to talk well or sneak well means you get to try the fight method

At very least if sneaking fails you ought to be able to run and hide and sneak again with it a little harder 'cause they’re looking for you

I played BG3 at less than 15fps for a while, but upgraded my PC when the video card crashed on about half of the cutscenes and whenever fireworks were used at close range

Back in the days of CRT displays I had a 120Hz Trinitron, to pair with the video card and 3D goggles (which shuttered each eye in turn) to give 60Hz per eye

No way could that system or video card keep up with anything more modern than Turok 1 but it was nice for the couple of years it was good enough.

I wish I still had that Trinitron, I’d need a deeper desk though