“Find a job doing what you love, and you’ll never work a day in your life.”

I used to love software. Then all the Lumberghs took over.

Guessing a book. Or maybe an arrowhead. Hopefully a collector or historian will weigh in. It’s a fun question.

My favorite is Middle Earth, but my 2nd choice would be the Dresden Files. Everything from Chicago to the Feywild to Vampire parties to the realms of the dead.

I loved Voyager and don’t understand the hate. I’m more of a Star Wars fan, however, and not that knowledgeable regarding Trek.

Yup. I’ve installed and re-installed Windows more times than I care to count, and this is basically my method when dealing with new PCs with bundleware. It’s not like the bad old days. The provided uninstallers work just fine as long as the PC is from a reputable source.

My broken brain thinks up of a lot of dumb questions about science, history, and other topics. I use it all the time to answer those. Especially if it’s a question that’s a nuisance to lookup on Wikipedia (though I still love Wikipedia). I like ChatGPT because of the interactive nature of it. And I often have dumb follow-up questions for it.

It has also been a huge help when I get stuck of a coding or scripting task. Both at work and at home.

Not that crazy but I’d never seen anything like it before.

Over 15 years ago, I was standing in a very long line at St. Basil’s in Moscow. A small pack of tourists (half a dozen or so) started to “sneak” their way into cutting in line. About 30 French people in a tour group immediately started scolding them in loud unison. They shamed them into taking their place at the end of the line. It was such an automatic and united scolding. Highly entertaining.

A fellow traveler, far more experienced than I am, said that the French are known for doing that sort of thing.

Please edit the title of your You Should Know post to begin with “YSK”. It’s Rule 1 of the community. Thank you.

GRRM was trolling all along.

I use BCC semi-frequently at work because it prevents all kinds of (mostly unintentional) annoyances from my coworkers. Mostly with automated emails related to reports and/or our case management system. BCC is your best friend when used selectively.

Apathy is also my old guy super power. Not about everything, just all the shit that doesn’t matter.

I like Bernie’s idea of taxing every trade on the stock market.

We use both Azure and AWS at work. Azure is less expensive. But it’s also like comparing a corner 7-11 to a city-sized shopping mall. AWS is freaking huge and they add new services every week it seems. It’s kind of overwhelming.

There’s also Google Cloud and IBM and Oracle but they all suck for the same reasons AWS and Azure suck.

You might want to look into Alibaba Cloud, Digital Ocean, and/or Linode/Akamai.

Reddit logic: suggesting a lab accident automatically makes you racist or anti-science or something.

I don’t hate things just for being popular. However, reddit definitely gets worse the more popular it is, and the largest subs are always the worst of the worst.

Could even get dog-piled for saying “we need more info” in the early days of that.

I was good at math until Cal III when I hit the wall. I’ve forgotten almost all of what I learned, though. So I’m not really good at math anymore. Unless you enter certain career paths, most people won’t need to use advanced math in their day-to-day. I bet you’re good at some non-math stuff.

Calculus III kicked my ass.

“Go to trade school” is my guess. I’ve even suggested it. I’m not sure it’s really being over pushed, but maybe it is. Easy answers to complex questions are a trope.

The anti-reflective (AR) coating can create blue or purple reflections from certain angles. The coating is meant to block some of the UV spectrum of light to help protect your peepers. It also prevents some of the reflections that would be annoying, hence the name.