Honestly, I am a little scarred from snap.

Otherwise I’m agnostic on flatpaks - I’ve used a couple and they’re ok? They just remind me of old windows games that dump all their libraries in a folder with them.

On a modern system the extra space and loss of optimisation is ok, but on older hardware or when you’re really trying to push your system to run something it technically shouldn’t, I can see it being an issue.

But we already have dune video game at home.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune_(video_game)?wprov=sfla1

10/10 device - it’s a solid laptop though I worry about longevity (they’re a bastard to repair because the arts are all hard to find).

Upside is it’s the perfect machine for travel gaming!

It’s on my old netbook, it will never leave.

That thing is nearing 20 now I think!

Shit, I’m old…

Hey… Wanna go down the geometry rabbithole?

https://archive.org/details/introductiontono031680mbp/page/n76/mode/1up

It has points at infinity, area as a function of angle defect, a triangle whose angles sum to 0…

The big issues with age gaps is mostly down to protective probability. By 30 most folks are experienced enough at life to make up their own mind.

Hope it goes well for you both!

Truth is proof - I can neither prove the number of gods is >0, nor prove it is =0.

Thus cautious agnosticism (since the evidence suggests, if there is at least one god, then they really hate us).

Microcosmic example. Take 3 people - a newborn (A), a professor of biology (B) and a professor in philosophy ©.

You’re easily able to argue that both professors are more intelligent than the newborn (A<B and A<C). However, you’re unable to establish (in any meaningful way) whether B<C, or C<B; even B=C is out. This is because both professors have knowledge the other does not, so trying to meaningfully equate or order them in relation to one another is an act of futility.

This is a fun example of a partial order that most of us see every day (in a less extreme form).

Someone woke up this morning and chose violence.

Enshittification is apparently a journey, not a destination.

Adds to the ever growing list of copy-blight examples

512gb of ram you say? That’s legendary 3rd chrome tab territory.

Tricky one to weigh up there. It might not be that you’re lazy, you may well just be burned out, not working effectively (i.e. overworking yourself), or it could even be imposter syndrome. On the other hand, yes you could just be lazy, or you might just really hate your job. Hell, there have been times where I’ve felt unmotivated because our leadership team were just arseholes - sometimes a lack of motivation goes beyond just your own choices.

There just isn’t enough data in a short post.

Take some leave, go get checked out by a doctor, talk to a friend/partner, take a look at job ads to see if anything sounds better than where you are.

Either that or medication!

I abandoned hope long ago when I learned that excel was turing complete.

The darkness has already consumed me, there is no salvation from this sin.

Worse - pulling data from a web page, then using the power of pure jank to parse this input, and then invoking a sheet of reference string builders to construct formulae and execute them using too damn many @indirects nested into vlookups before finally adding in date aware data reveals, because no excel abomination is complete without trying to parse dates.

Or false regret, either or.

I’ve done things in excel that are an abomination in the eyes of the divine.

I have absolutely 0 regret.

That is not how you wake a sleeping student.

You do it by putting a sheet of complex questions in front of them, and then loudly saying “you may now turn your papers over, you have 1 hour to complete the exam”.

Jokes aside, if a student is sleeping in class, you probably want to have a word with the DSL to check up on them after class. Students only sleep if they’re exhausted or you’re really crap at teaching - get one of their mates to wake them quietly without drawing too much attention.