I’d take the $10mil without a second thought. Life’s pretty good right now, but $10mil means we’re debt free and I never have to work again, forever. Plus my kids would be set for life.

I like programming, and I’ve made some mistakes over my career, but I’ve lived with them. I’d live with them much easier with $10 mil.

Triple-check that our mortage is paid off in the event of my death, so that my wife and children will have a place to live after I (sole breadwinner) am gone.

Try finding a public boardgame night instead of a gentleman’s club - both the library and the game store have them here.

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I had a good friend move to the same small town I’m in. Between work and family, we don’t get together for months on end, even though he’s a 5 min drive down the road. We want to get together, but we’re both too exhausted and burnt out.

Not the best article

To be honest, I thought it was quite terrible.

I think the root cause is the complexity.

Split the problem into manageable chunks, then attack the chunks. Apply recursion as needed.

This is part of a more senior skillset, as some times a senior will be breaking up the problem and assigning the smaller pieces to other devs.

They’ll start with the union leaders, and work their way down until the organization is broken enough that everybody goes back to work.

I can’t connect to my car’s audio with Bluetooth, and can’t afford to replace the car stereo with one that supports Bluetooth - it’s just not a priority. When I upgrade my phone, I’ll stay with an earphone jack.

Doom - we upgraded to 16MB of RAM so we could play it through Windows 95.

Win95 wanted 4MB and Doom wanted all 8 that we had, so we had to exit, reboot, and go to DOS then run it manually.

Some CSAs will deliver weekly, which may help.

Small farmer here - we keep exactly one less production bird than the maximum legal requirement, as most farmers of our scale do.

My therapist, provided I reach the breaking point at a convenient time when we have a session scheduled.

they will be playing the edgy music we listened to in grocery stores.

Green Day is muzak in the local dead mall.

Bought concert tickets for October. Total cost for tickets was $195.20. It’s not a local show (ie: the bands have recognition beyond our town), so we have to travel to the city - 4 hours plus a $75 ferry. Plus overnight stay and food in the city. And we need a sitter to watch the kids, overnight.

So we’re pushing $600-$700 for a concert. That’s a “once every few years” thing, when we’ve saved enough and the band is one we really want to see.

Local shows are rock cover bands on a Sunday evening, usually, but I work Monday at 6am.

When you think about it, there were a lot of populist movements growing through Twitter. It probably pissed a lot of wealthy, powerful people off.

Then Musk and Zuckerberg were called to private meetings with the president, weren’t they? And Twitter was taken over and shut down. Then Threads, owned by Facebook who is known to help out law enforcement quite happily as well as track everything, takes off as an alternative.

Mass death will also slow down global climate change.

Keep in mind that the “them” that gets more resources includes most of the western world, traditionally.

Reduce, reuse, recycle is an order of operations. Reusing is better than recycling, but reduction of consumption is best.

They tend to shut up when you ask them to actually help in any meaningful, concrete way. They’ll sure protest though.

I was using chatGPT to design up a human/computer interface to allow stoners to control a lightshow. The goal was to collect data to train an AI to make the light show “trippier”.

It started complaining about using untested technology to alter people’s mental state, and how experimentation on people wasn’t ethical.

I suspect that as things get worse, more people will be focused on personal survival vs stopping the rate of change. Sometimes these will be the same actions, sometimes they won’t.