Would you download a car?

Hell yeah, if I could.

Disney DVDs are full of “that button doesn’t work here” zones making previews (ads) hard to skip… which strangely are just not an issue after you rip the feature presentation to your NAS.

And here I was having sympathy for the convicted rapists thinking that they didn’t really intend to rape anyone - yeah, was a nice day here sun just went down. Hope you have a good one.

Unpopular opinion at the moment, but Russel Brand and other celebrities may actually, genuinely, be unaware of how they might be pressuring their partners of the moment into doing things they are uncomfortable with - hard to know when that crosses the line into inappropriate, maybe impossible.

it’s just funny she took it personal

Found an insecurity. Probably should leave it alone in the future, unless you’re close enough for her to actually open up and let you help her work through it (very rare, not just among “work sisters” but even close platonic friends, in my travels.)

Same, but… know that OP is “only” 6’9"- standard (US) doorways are 6’8" - OP photo is in a smaller than normal room.

Would be interesting to make the same photo of a 5’4" woman in a scaled down room for her size and see how they compare.

Our training says, basically, anything that makes anyone feel uncomfortable - pretty much for any reason whatsoever - is harassment, and if there’s anything sexual in the context whatsoever, that makes it sexual harassment.

Our reality is that people who are overly sensitive and probably complaining to HR on a regular basis about “normal” (whatever that is) workplace behavior tend to be downsized due to a diminished need for their role within the company.

He touched me inappropriately!

She touched me inappropriately first!

Can you PROVE IT?

If it takes that much explanation, guarantee most people “don’t get where you’re coming from.”

Long before Tinder I matched / went on a date with a heavier woman who had obvious issues with her size. Not sure what she was trying to do, but apparently f a t was her trigger word, she instantly dissolved in a pool of irreconcilable tears. I made it clear I had no problem with the size, found her attractive as she was - even before saying the trigger word, but the fragility and deep lack of self esteem was more than I could handle.

Musicians learn in large part by playing “covers,” programming is really no different.

http://www.spiderrobinson.com/melancholyelephants.html

I’ve worked with overseas coders since 2012 - Claude is much easier to communicate with, faster and more responsive.

I have a (relatively simple - by design) calendar/scheduling app. It just keeps schedule planning slots for people, they can check their own schedules, my wife can arrange schedules to get coverage, it tracks “vacations” when people aren’t available, etc.

Last night, we decided we needed to track monthly budgets as well as schedles. Literally 4 prompts to Fable 5.2 and I have the monthly budget tracking feature, showing N (N=4 today) categories of budget tracked, against M (M=8) employees each earning different pay rates (3 different rates today) and showing how the budget spends down across the month as each week goes by in all the categories. It has a web interface, can be managed on a phone, it has .pdf outputs with nicely formatted tables. 4 prompts in one night starting after dinner, and I barely paid attention to it as it ran, tested out working after 2 prompts, added the .pdf outputs and reformatted one view with the last 2 prompts.

hire a company to port the game

Management potential. If they have negotiated / found a clear legal path to at least distribution - if not profit, they’re operating on a higher level than a lot of traditional businesses.

The test is in the results - are people happy playing the port? If it “works for them” then, yeah, the kiddiez have done something worthwhile, at least to the happy players.

Does it matter if they wrote it in Rust, or C++, or Assembly, or english language prompts?

I mean, if you’re ordering Pepperoni, no…

If you’re ordering a pumpkin curry with sweet corn on feta/pesto base, and your friends don’t vomit when they try it, you just might be the cheff.

significantly more authentic than what most of the current crop of script kiddies are up to.

I think it’s just that skript kiddiez theze daze can do somewhat interesting (at least to their peers) stuff, whereas you had to bust ass a whole lot harder just to get Hello World to animate back in the day.

Doesn’t make what they do any less impressive just because it’s easier to do flashier things - the interesting part is always the originality of it, if you’re “in the scene” is this kiddie doing something of their own, or is it just a copy-pasta? Same applies to music, visual arts, literature, etc.

I was always turned off by the “ripoff games” - but, then, back when the Palm Pilot was hot, the top earners in PalmGear H.Q. were all “ripoff games” - so, I guess I just wasn’t serious about being popular / making bank.

By 15 I could earn $200/mo after school saying “you want fries with that?” into a microphone and running a cash register for a drive-thru, and that was at $3.35/hr minimum wage. In Florida minimum wage is $15/hr now, so $200/month is less than 2 4 hour after school or one 8 hour weekend shift a week, even after taxes.

The $9K figure, as I read the summary, is total spent by all contributors to the project, and if they manage to develop a full commercial quality port for under $100K they’ve beat what the industry players would spend on developer time for the same job by a wide margin.