When I was a kid, about 4 or 5 years old, I was at the barbers getting my hair cut. The barber was making small talk with my mother and I. He asked me “what do you want to be when you grown up?”. I panicked, nobody had ever asked me that before. I’d never even considered it. I didn’t have an answer. I assumed I’d have more time to ponder that in the future, but he is asking me now. I was a very nerdy know-it-all kid who always had the correct answer ready for any question that someone would ask me, but not this, I didn’t know what the correct answer was.

I wanted this barber to like me, he was a popular and well known barber in our town. I didn’t want to make something up the he disapproved of. So I said the only logical thing. “I want to be a barber when I grow up”. He was shocked. He said no kid has ever told him they want to be a barber before, and it’s an odd choice, be he was still pleased, so I did a good job.

The only problem was, now I had said that, I thought it was locked in, and I couldn’t change it anymore. So for a couple of years after that, whenever anyone asked me what I want to be when I grow up, I looked resigned, got sad and reluctantly said “a barber”.

Then when I was 8 I finally worked out I could change my choice, so I changed it to Chef, because I loved food and enjoyed cooking.

Now I’m neither a barber nor a chef.

To be exact, Tim Berners Lee invented the original HTML specification, the HTTP communication protocol, and a proof-of-concept browser that implements both of them. These three things were required - on top of TCP, IP, Ethernets, that already existed - to build the Web.

I had a friend who for a long time absolutely refused to upgrade to an SSD. Every couple of years he would add more RAM, upgrade to a newer CPU, and regularly upgraded to a newer Graphics card. He also hoarded a lot of data, so was always buying new 1tb or 2tb HDDs for his movies and games. I explained how his HDDs where his performance bottleneck for years, but he couldn’t see past the price-per-gigabyte barrier. He greatly prioritised drive capacity over drive speed, and couldn’t comprehend how his storage devices would affect gaming performance. He also had some odd opinions about SSD longevity and reliability. He honestly thought they were an elaborate scam or a PC industry conspiracy.

That was until his most recent upgrade. His new CPU necessitated a new motherboard. He got a new mobo with and NVME SSD. He only used the NVME because the board came with fewer SATA interfaces, not enough for his HDDs, and he thought the board forced him to use NVME to boot from.

So he literally upgraded straight from sata3 5400rpm HDD system drive to a PCIe Gen4 2000+ Mbps NVME system drive. Skipped the era of 2.5" SSDs and SATA SSDs, and Gen3 SSDs entirely.

He was commenting excitedly for days about how fast his new build was, and attributed the enormous performance improvement entirely to the new CPU.

And her brothers, Jaxson and Braxton.

I had a similar conversation with my wife a few weeks ago. We were watching the hydraulic press channel, where they were compressing water to very high pressures. When the water inevitably squirted out of the chamber, it turned to steam. My wife said yeah that makes sense, applying that much energy to compress the water would increase its temperature, so it wants to expand to become steam. Then I thought about it a while, and said wait, according to first principles of thermodynamics, shouldn’t compressing water lower it’s temperature?! The turns out the real world is correct, I was wrong.

Scrubs

My guy, they have medication for your condition.

This feels so familiar, I think I’ve done exactly that in the past.

Good point, but I don’t make handmade pasta at home either.

One time I found a packet of Buldak half-spice flavour. They were the sweet spot for me, allowed me to use all of the flavour sauce packet, with half the spice level. They were the most delicious version of Buldak I’ve had. The next best one is the black bean flavour, because it is at least adding something interesting and good, unlike the awful cheese flavour and fake carbonara flavour Buldaks.

The inclusion of Pimpley is what gives away that is satire.

The best thing that can happen to avocado is to be turned into guacamole. I’m like you when it comes to avocado, could take it or leave it, but I go nuts for guac.

Agreed. That’s why I always order something cool like gnocchi when I go to an Italian restaurant. It’s much harder to make that well at home.

Wait… I thought the significantly higher than average percentage of Aboriginal people in Moree would cause the population to be less racist in general. Your experience implies that is not the case.

Clearly OP has never used PC-DOS, MS-DOS, Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10, Windows 11, MacOS, OSX, or AmigaOS, all of which do not come with a C compiler installed out of the box. Even Ubuntu does not have gcc or build headers installed in a default install (must install build-essentials package first).

Well, it uses AI to insert extra frames in between the real frames. So it doesn’t just look like AI content, it is AI content, spliced between every frame of your anime.

Yen?

This is nothing new. I worked at a small computer shop in a small town between 2005-2007. The owner treated memory as a commodity. He checked national ram module prices daily. Buying low, and selling high. He sometimes adjusted the module price on a per-customer basis.

I get that it’s much harder to do that with online stores, where prices are published to multiple places, and for chain stores where the price needs to be consistent between locations.

Scrubs and Stargate SG1 are my cozy shows.

Search for “low-code app frameworks”, there are a whole bunch, they fill the same niche now that Access once did (though these tend to be cloud based, not local sqlite). Baserow is a great open-source example.