That would be a perfect cover story if he’s like a super spy, or something.

And that’s critical, because it’s one of the longest tutorials in game history (because it’s so slow).

I’ve ganged up on Newt every time, after my first playthrough. Poor kid.

Haha. I would have done the exact same for the screenshot.

Plus, now you also have a cool hackerman screenshot.

Your setup is a making me KDE-curious, again.

My rating: 4/4 blank terminal windows.

That’s the one! We can also bully him with snowballs in the opening scene, if we want to.

This.

Dang. They’re publicly announcing that they’re proud that they don’t read.

We must be in a golden age for con-artists.

Easy marks are announcing themselves to the world.

I agree. Lovely suit. Particularly the pants.

Oh, you mean the guy who invented the thing that works on child labor, takes children’s pocket money and exposes them to predators?

Oof. That doesn’t narrow down who we’re talking about nearly as much as it should.

These are mostly very popular, very well attended liberal demonstrations. Is it a big deal that there is digital evidence that you were in the area at that time?

This is a “remind me in five years” question.

Probably we turn this thing around and nobody gets disappeared for their phone records showing attendance of a peaceful protest.

But that “probably” is doing a shit ton of lifting in the previous sentence.

He should be panicked, but I think instead he’s doing a lot of coke.

That would explain so much.

You should buy my book on the topic…

It happens a lot.

I often choose my HVAC, plumber, electrician and lawn care teams in the same manner.

I call all of them. None answer. Few have voicemail set up. I leave voicemail with full contact info. I submit all of their web forms. Maybe one of them answer the phone, or calls back, or replies to the web form. I usually go with that one, if I haven’t already fixed it using YouTube, by then.

Dragon OSHA is on their way, now.

That’s a pretty interesting field!

Surprisingly (considering everyone’s fears of being replaced) - software engineering for construction is rarely profitable.

The demand is surprisingly low for computers and robots that can replace low paid humans.

It turns out there’s a metric ton of us humans around, so any replacement for us usually needs to be economical in ways that won’t pay for the necessary metal and plastic and circuits and engineering skill.

That’s right. I’ve seen 3d printed houses that were every bit as complete and ready to use as any vibe code program!

(This is an attempt to humorously point out that both are cool and useful for an actual professional, while useless to anyone not willing or able to actually finish the job.)

I think that’s their plan. The billionaires seem inconvenienced by the rest of us living where-ever we want, and buying we want from who we want to buy from. Company towns would solve that, for them.

Yes! I met someone who said he had no passion for programming, but just did it for the paycheck, but also had not reached a particularly good paycheck.

I asked, “If you have no passion for it, what carries you through the soul crushing aspects?”

And now he and I don’t talk about programming, anymore.

In fairness, we’ve been complaining about university graduate computer programmers being nearly useless since as far back as when I was an almost useless university graduate computer programmer. Ha ha.

With perpetual license, you needed to provide some value to drive that customer who bought from you 5 years ago a reason to upgrade. Now with subscription models, you just have to coast and keep the lights on for those customers.

True, but it’s that market preference is a pendulum. It swings back and forth. It’s funny how hard companies are pushing today to (fail to) keep it from swimming swinging back towards owning things.

Companies that try to charge monthly for service that isn’t improving eventually lose their customers, except in the rare cases where stability is the only customer motivation.