I’d be okay with that. Golf courses offend me. So much land wasted that could be put to better uses…like landfills, or cemeteries for the indigent, or nuclear waste storage. (Or housing, or growing food.)

Developer here: can confirm. (#4 is actually true.)

I think this is the answer. It can take a hen several months to start laying; meat chickens are typically harvested in six to twelve weeks.

In my county (midwest America) communication between lawyers and courts is still entirely by fax. I don’t know if that’s the case of other counties in my state, but it wouldn’t surprise me at all.

Developers. Yes, AI can sling a lot of code, but it can’t make business decisions and it can’t please a difficult customer.

I haven't but fucked if I know how.

And execs wonder why we torrent.

How is hurting a feral cat a criteria for what he is allowed to do? A coyote would certainly have no compunction, why should he?

Hypersonic deterrence have never been proven to work.

That’s a false equivalence, a hyperbolic statement, not worth consideration.

Live in nature for a domesticated animal is the same as slow execution. If that’s the plan it would be kinder to shoot it.

As long as it keeps me employed I am happy to move pixels all day.

Windows is just another ad platform, now.

No. Raised in the faith but never truly believed.

It’s logically dishonest to say “There are no gods.” How do you prove there isn’t something? Maybe you just can’t see it right now. Agnostic atheist is the only logical position one could take.

Best piece of advice I can give about learning anything (that doesn’t involve risk of injury): don’t try to learn everything there is to learn. Decide what you want to do and learn what you need to do that. Tell me something you’d be interested in doing…

“Not remotely interesting.”

Star Trek: Into Darkness

Arduino and hobby electronics. It started out as a continuous loop pad dye machine to save me having to dye fabric by hand, strictly mechanical, but then I wanted to automate adding the chemicals at the right times. Then it was keeping the dye liquor a consistent temperature. Then it was draining the trough automatically. Then I figured out I could design my own PCBs and have them fabricated. It just keeps going…

My degree is in technical theater. I love sets and lighting design, but costuming is where I landed thanks to the local Renaissance festival.