and converting them to modern languages: Basic Computer Games

Shantanu Narayen’s still not giving you a free license

cell phone providers can, they just won’t (would eat into their profits)

and most of the home internet sold as “unlimited” was a scam – if you started to get too close to some hidden value, they would start throttling your connection

• with the year being 365.24219 days you don’t get a lot of factors to work with (365 ⇒ 1, 5, 73, 365)
• there have been various proposals for perennial calendars – in a perennial calendar, months always start on the same day, have the same number of days, no worries about “last Thursday of the month” calculations for holidays
  • if you deal with the year as 364 days + filler, you get more factors to work with (364 ⇒ 1, 2, 4, 7, 13, 14, 26, 28, 52, 91, 182, 364)
    • fiscal quarters are always the same length and you get an extra day during the winter holidays
  • the easiest being something like a 13 month calendar (each month being exactly 4 weeks, 28 days) = 364 days + 1 year day + 1 leap day – this gets a lot of flack from religious groups because they don’t like the extra days messing with a 7 day week cycle
    • this keeps the 365 day year and uses the same calculations for adding in leap days
  • leap week calendars get around that by doing a 364 day year and then adding in a whole leap week to bring things back into alignment (you can do this yourself using ISO week dates and looking for week 53)
    • calculations for leap years are a bit more elaborate and don’t fit as easily into a simple mnemonic

• at the full-featured end, VSCode (OSS Code, VSCodium) has pretty much captured the market
  • for a while, Atom was a popular competitor until MS closed it down, you might have some luck with its successors: Zed or Pulsar
• mid-range, Kate and Geany have their fans
• deluxe text editors, join the Emacs / vim holy wars
• plain text editors, give up on extensions, plugins, etc. and just edit text

Olauncher

Elon decided Microsoft’s Tay chatbot was a guidebook …

Elon Musk removes blocking feature so he can finally see what his kids post

more of a miracle he didn’t copy Johnny Cab …

“krill oil contains particularly rich amounts of choline-containing phospholipids and a phosphatidylcholine concentration of 34 grams per 100 grams of oil”

“krill oil also contains an appreciable content of astaxanthin”

(as long as you don’t have a shellfish allergy) krill oil – specifically “Neptune Krill Oil” (NKO) processed

(easier for health insurance companies to double-dip this way)

The Many Lives of Null Island

you are acting extroverted to other introverts – how would you normally react towards daily greetings from an extrovert?

airport advertising has been overbooked lately

Tabasco

• there are currently two (?) fixes
  • “You memorized your BitLocker key, right?” – physical access to the computer to boot into safe mode, delete a file, and reboot
  • “Thoughts and prayers” – let the computer keep rebooting until it manages (somehow) to grab the fix in the lag or delays between reboots

being mildly inconvenienced for your ragebait is not censorship

• reversible fan
  • blow hot air out during the day
  • bring cool air in a night (night flushing)