I found I couldn’t do it. I have a set of traumas that means I go into a weird fugue state where I massively undercharge by an order of magnitude and take on every liability. I think it’s some sort of rejection dissociation thingy, or like just trying to end the situation as quickly as possible. This meant I had made very little money and promised a lot, and also came to hate my hobby.

Now that I have a job, the stakes are much lower, I get regular pay, and I also pretty much never have to negotiate directly with clients.

It took a really long time to get that job though, given that job searching also requires skills I do not have

I miss doing this. I pretty much stopped inviting people over once some housemates reacted really badly to it

I remember for quite a while, the only thing keeping me going was spite. The worst people in the country wanted me dead (or at least starving in the street), so I had to keep hanging on or they’d win

Gave it a shot this morning, I could see myself missing buses. However, I do really dislike mobile interfaces. My thumb is too wide to reliably click things

Humans like talking about themselves and relating their experiences to those they’re talking to.

I got a graphics card that somehow bricked hard drives. We went through a lot of hard drives before finding out this was the case. I don’t remember specifics

There is mushroom for research

Someone once paid me to poke them with a stick every time I caught them not doing their assignments. Offloading executive functioning onto someone else can work

*19 year old colonel

Probably want it between the winter temperature and the current summer temperature, but genies are traditionally fickle and pounce on any ambiguity

“Completely different” when the two things are actually very similar

I wish I could be this confident about anything

Is linear algebra older than 0? Hang on (no, it is not, formalised in 17th century)

In my CS course, at least, it was treated as “engineering”, so we did both linear algebra and C programming. For everyone counting from 1 was more natural and the C method had to be taught a few times throughout the course (starting with java loops, which wasn’t used for malloc, OOP was probably the first unit anyone did for CS). As a habit it tended to stick even where we didn’t really use it (or in languages that don’t, e.g. lua), given how grueling C programming was and the other languages that were downstream of it.

I guess you could analogise things like saying “17th century” is 1600-1699 (first century is 0001 to 0099, I guess), in CS you are counting the very start of a thing (e.g. how many apple-widths to get to the first apple), vs the more common how many apples to have gotten the first apple. Or something, idk,

I’m drunk and avoiding housework, sorry

I’m not entirely sure what it means enough to give a summary.

The first usage that pops into my mind is when someone has said a silly joke regarding your situation and you want to acknowledge the joke but also move on quickly.

Second usage is someone has suggested something, you want to say you understand but you have a different opinion.

thonk

Is there a reason for the convention other than that’s how most people count? (Which is a perfectly fine reason, I’m just curious)

“Yeah nah” - Australian proverb

Does that mean Australia gets the money back to put into high density public housing?

I’m old enough to remember reading about netiquette.

If only Roger Rabbit defeated Cloverleaf in real life :(

I can’t stop watching:

Tesla robot 2021 dance