Have you tried bringing presents?

What a class act, declining the nomination because it wasn’t their first game, just the first under the current pseudonym.

Probably a rule that’s intended to prevent self-promotion, eitger over-zealously written or over-zealously enforced.

Just that “power plant” I think most people associate with large enclosed facilities that house power generating equipment, which doesn’t quite describe wind and solar farms. Hence that most people refer to them as “farms”.

Shite, I’m pretty damned sure I updated like a week ago. The updates always pop up in the main menu of the app, and they often mean a fix for google’s latest anti-adblock measures, so I usually update right away. I should probably adjust that policy to add some delay.

I dunno if “power plant” quite fits for solar and wind. Definitely for Hydro, though.

So, it’s a way for applications to make themselves more hardened against exploitation? Was really confused on first reading the title, but that makes some sense. Applications declare what permissions they need, up-front, so any exploits during normal operation can only operate under that umbrella. Unless the startup processes of the application itself are exploited.

Marcille’s feelings for Falin are HEAVILY telegraphed. Whether they’re romantic feelings I don’t think is officially established. So, technically a ship, but NOT a stretch to consider.

“I must not have eaten enough shoe. Must eat more next time.”

DDoS stands for Distributed Denial of Service.

Denial of Service is the concept of overwhelming a system (digital/computer or otherwise) with bogus usage, to the point that legitimate users can no longer access it. Imagine submitting thousands of FOIA requests to your local city government. Legally, they have to respond to them, even if it’s to reject them as bogus. So, if anyone else submits one, it’s just gonna get buried in the pile. Maybe they get to it, eventually, or maybe it actually just gets lost, or even accidentally thrown out when they decide to just throw away all the bogus ones.

Now, if you were to actuallly do this, your city government would probably just start binning all your requests, immediately, when they realize you’re not submitting them in good faith. Hell, maybe they even get you banned from the building, for harassment. That’s where “Distributed” comes into play. To combat this, what you’d do is get a whole bunch of your friends (you’ve got thousands of friends willing to waste time dealing with the government, right?) to each submit just one or two applications. They can no longer just throw them out based on the name of the submitter, they have to again spend more time inspecting each one, to see if it’s legit, and then process it, if it is. MUCH tougher to defend against.

I did not write a single line of code but carefully shepherded AI over the course of several days … my work was just directing, shaping, cajoling and reviewing.

Beats me. AI decided to do so and I didn’t question it.

So, which one is it? Did you carefully shepherd and review the code, or did you just trust the AI without questioning it?

Here’s hoping, probably in vain, that this dude learns a lesson about what’s appropriate in the open source world.

Welcome to last week, Tim.

Code by Charles Petzold was formative for me, over 20 years ago. So, excellent choice.

Visual Studio 2026 is AI-native, making it the world’s first Intelligent Developer Environment (IDE).

I’m suddenly glad I was forced to stop using a product I’d exclusively recommended for years. Go fuck yourself, Microsoft.

“Congratulations on beating the tutorial.”

No game I’m aware of has ever embodied this joke as much as Blue Prince, cause it’s NOT a joke.

Verrrry close to my experience as well. I’m holding out hope that in maybe 5 years, when the last of my student debt is gone, we can start really climbing out of our hole, but electricity prices are skyrocketing (Ibpay about $500/mo now), and with the shutdown, our work ontract has not yet been renewed. We’ll be homeless in just a couple months if my income falls apart

That’s the precise reason that you eat a hotndog the same way.

I think maybe you misunderstand how selling a home with a mortgage works? To be fair, it’s possible I don’t fully understand as well, but as my understanding goes…

The buyer doesn’t just assume ownership of the loan, and start making the same payments as you.° They have to get approved for their own mortgage for the sale price of the house (or buy it outright), and then you use that money to pay off your mortgage’s remaining principle.

So, if you have a $400,000 house where you’ve only paid $50,000 towards the principal over 10 years, out of a 50-year mortgage, and you want to sell it, The buyer pays you $400,000, then you use that to pay the remaining $350,000 of principal, leaving you with $50,000 to go buy a new house. Likely you’ll need another mortgage of your own, but you can probably use that $50,000 as a downpayment, to knock down the monthly, or take a shorter term.

So, that’s 10 years of mortgage payments, totaling say $250,000, and you only have $50,000 worth of value to show for it. Contrast that with a 15 or 30 year term, and you’d be getting a MUCH larger chunk of your payments back in value.

Having a mortgage isn’t the same as renting (it’s starting to get pretty comparable with this 50-year shit, though), you are actually building value for yourself as you make payments, no matter how long you live there.

° Technically, Mortgage Assumptions are a thing, but they’re EXTREMELY rare. It has to be an option written into the mortgage agreement, from the beginning. In the US, it basically only exists for military personnel and veterans, as a perk that the government mandated to make it easier for military families to move across the country at a moment’s notice. Also, it’s really just about keeping the interest rate, the buyer still has to come to an agreement with the seller to buy out their accumulated value.

As in, they’re going to end operations in the US? Great news! Wish it could’ve happened sooner.

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I’m aware this likely means nothing of the sort.

I fail to see where in this article they present “The Real Reason Kim Davis Never Stood a Chance”. Unless they mean the whole bit about “Obergefell is entrenched as precedent, and widely supported by Americans”, in which case, that’s horseshit. This SCOTUS has shat on much older and much-more-popular precedents than this, with no hesitation, and no valid reasoning.