We are closer to the 2060s than the 1960s.

This year, 1975 is as far away as 2075.

I answer most calls but rarely get them. When it’s a scam, it’s usually the “play a recording and only use a real person if they push 1 at the end of it to talk to a real person” type. I’ll either hang up quickly or if I’m feeling bored and trollish I’ll hit 1 and pick apart their plot holes (like if they say there’s a warrant or my package is being held, why the fuck do they need to ask for my name?). Then they get frustrated that I pushed the button when I clearly know it’s a scam and hang up. I think the reason it’s rare that I get those calls is because they also put me on a “waste of time, don’t call” list or something like that.

Unless it’s java.

They choose to be low value when they get bitter about their assumption they are low value.

I’m glad I had someone I wasn’t attracted to pursuing me early on because it led to the realization that giving in to that bitterness would just seal my fate when I was feeling down about rejection. Part of the bitterness was wanting someone to say, “hey, no, that’s not the case” and date me to make me feel better, but from experiencing the other side of it, I knew there wasn’t anything she could have done to make me into anything other then friendship and the more she pushed, the less I’d be sympathetic, not the other way around.

Things didn’t turn around right away when I realized that, but it was an important part of the “don’t be unattractive” rule. There’s more to it, of course, but being whiney and bitter is pretty unattractive to most people, I’d guess.

I bet its looked something like:

1. Developer in large company was frustrated with how much time was spent just communicating rather than doing.
2. Comes up with a new system for effective communication and organization.
3. Doesn’t get much traction at current company because of inertia.
4. Eventually starts his own company or joins a smaller startup where they are open minded because they haven’t developed their own system for that yet.
5. Less time spent communicating and organizing because it’s a smaller company but confirmation bias gives credit to new system.
6. Many companies adopt “proven” system.
7. Large companies end up in same or worse boat because things still need to be communicated and disagreements still need to be resolved through discussion or orgazational power.

Though just a guess, since my only “experience” with “agile” has been seeing people complain about it. Plus experience working in a large enough team to have experienced the communication problem and to understand that a part of it is with so many meetings that are often irrelevant to the work any individual is working on, the default often ends up being tune most of it out until it’s their turn to speak, so they often end up missing relevant stuff anyways and any big meeting is mostly a waste of time.

It’s been at the point for a while where I appreciate loading screens that want a button pressed afterwards because otherwise it’s just a frustrating hint of a hint that I don’t have time to read.

Even if a lot of the games I play don’t need a lot of power to get a decent fps, I appreciate the low load times.

I had to spend an annoying amount of time finding all of the settings to make it so that my windows machine would never wake up on its own, spread out over an even longer period of time because some of them aren’t easy to trigger on my own so it was a matter of trying something and then trying more things if I find it awake on its own again.

Even disabling the wake on mouse movement was a pain because it doesn’t properly label mice and keyboards and doesn’t have a global setting. I wanted to keep wake on keyboard but not have it wake if my mouse moved a nm because a butterfly flapped its wings too vigorously as it flew by the closed window.

After I installed Linux, I went to do the same thing there only to find it already had sensible defaults set.

I forget where I heard or read it, but there was an anecdote about a guy that worked for Toyota engineering in a department that would purchase competitor vehicles to disassemble them and see what they were up to, like what kind of innovations they were adding. They didn’t bother with chryslers because the most they’d gain was new ways to design a car to be difficult to maintain or repair.

My friend had an early 00s intrepid and would always bring up needing to remove the passenger tire and wheel well to replace the battery any time car maintenance was brought up.

Oh yeah, wasn’t he also like only a km or two from a settlement or something like that?

For depth of field, our eyes don’t automatically do that for a rendered image. It’s a 2d image when we look at it and all pixels are the same distance and all are in focus at the same time. It’s the effect you get when you look at something in the distance and put your finger near your eye; it’s blurry (unless you focus on it, in which case the distant objects become blurry).

Even VR doesn’t get it automatically.

It can feel unnatural because we normally control it unconsciously (or consciously if we want to and know how to control those eye muscles at will).

Tbf that could have been done by tenants who figured the landlord would use that damage to argue they should lose their entire deposit despite not costing nearly that much to repair properly.

Not that it wouldn’t be plausible that the landlord did it themselves or hired someone who didn’t know what they were doing but were willing to do it cheap, like Ricky.

Glass would also be better for heating it to melt crystals.

Don’t forget the part where some shitty Roman senator visited Carthage and was outraged that they were still living better than the Romans were instead of in squalor despite the large tribute they were charging.

I’m really curious what history would have looked like if Carthage’s oligarchs had been willing to support Hannibal during the decade or so he was doing what he wanted and destroying Roman legions about as fast as they could raise them. Not that I would have expected Carthage to be any better, but maybe things would have been different with another regional power standing in the way of Rome taking the entire Mediterranean and ruling an area so large that Constantine wanted something to unite his people so that Iberians might be willing to go die in wars in the Middle East.

Jedi kill the other ones left and right, pretty much on autopilot while having a conversation. Whenever these guys show up, they at least take them seriously.

With an alternative method involving a page in settings that only existed between may 2015 and feb 2016.

Maybe some self-building ones that also act as a carbon sink.