That thing’s got corners sharp enough to slice other loaves!

Oh, in which case, he clearly has the means to deal with this himself, and your message seems fine to me.

By vices, I suspect he means things like drinking and smoking, not moral, ethical, or legal vices, so I doubt there’s any feeling of guilt involved.

That sounds perfectly reasonable to me. You’ve stated your position, and explained why. You’ve kept the language polite and unemotional too, which is good.

The one thing I’d suggest is offering to mail this, and only this, check to him as a positive gesture. It may help him out of a hole (and from the sounds of it he’s not one for planning ahead, so he might well be in a hole), and might make the refusal sting a little less. You don’t owe it to him though, so only offer that if you’re willing.

I think that’s sort of where I was too. Failingat something after giving it everything you’d got was ok, but not doing well because you hadn’t given it your all wasn’t even contemplated as a possibility. I internalised that, and it’s stood me in good stead.

That’s the thing, sometimes the “failure is not an option” approach really is the best way to tackle things. Ultimately it’s always a case of balancing the cost of the effort against the reward. Pushing yourself through “I can’t do it” is exhausting, but the rewards are typically worth it.

RIP his rocket. Those things were fun, but I remember the sound of the launch getting dogs very excited.

Ok, we can now all stop using this template, it has been perfected.

The extra letters are there to confuse the English, not be pronounced. It’s a cunning plan to deal with the silly eenglish knigits!

That’s a fowl thing to call them!

“Oi, you can’t oink there mate”

I like it, I’d like to read more, do you have the source?

From experience, everyone else starts talking intolerably slowly, and giving you worried looks. You have time to plan your entire project between their sentences, and come up with at least three major revelations before they’ve finished their point, but when you escape, you’re so focused on the task in front of you that you forget them all. Caffeine giveth and caffeine taketh away.

It casts a touch range spell, the somatic component consists of switching it on and applying it to the spell’s target in the right way, and the result is typically the target squirming around and making happy noises. They have disadvantage on all checks for 1d12 rounds.

They do have a professional offering, but it’s offered in a deeply unprofessional way. Selling to businesses means you need both the technical offering, but also the correct commercial offering. That means presenting yourself in a way that attracts the attention of the decision makers in those businesses, and telling them a compelling story of why your product is the best fit to solce their problem. A .lol domain and a cartoon catgirl doesn’t do that.

I’d suggest that, for the cost of an extra domain name, and a boring logo, they could probably significantly increase their subscriber base. There’s nothing stopping them keeping the current mascot on the current site at the same time.

You call it stupid to prejudge a project in such a way, but businesses need a product to buy, not a project.

It is a big problem with a number of opensource projects that could get wider adoption and support, especially from businesses, but seem to, almost deliberately, work against that with their naming and/or branding.

Anubis is a perfect example. In this case the name is ok, and by all means have a cutsey mascot for the basic offering, but if they want businesses to subscribe they need a professional offering. That should be on a separate domain, styled to attract the decision makers in their target market, and that includes having a .com or similar domain name and a more serious logo. Do that, and it becomes a serious contender in the market, rather than a technically good but excessively kooky option.

If you use a dye that is designed only for natural fibres, it shouldn’t affect the sole. The insides will end up blue too though. Be careful of common dyes like the Dylon range, they’re designed to work on synthetic materials too, so they’d probably stain the soles.

Yes, personally I don’t have a huge problem if someone uses an LLM, that’s been trained only on opensource code, on a project, but that someone has to put their name to the code, documentation, tests or anything elsr produced, and take full responsibility for it. As in, they suffer the same consequences if it causes an issue as if they’d hand coded it, with particular attention paid to whether the result is maintainable, and whether it breaches any licences.

Of course, most LLMs have, by now, injested a lot of proprietary code that people have mindlessly sent in queries, rendering all of their output tainted.

It’s not really stupid. Things that are unusual are more noticeable, and garner more comment. We’ve grown used to devs tirelessly doing what they do, to the point most people don’t think about where their software comes from, but a machine sort of doing it (poorly, so very poorly) is novel, so people talk about it.

Currently, software mostly working as it should is the norm, so people don’t talk about it much. When the wave of slopcoded disasters starts to grow, people will talk about it, because software is suddenly not working as it should.

There’s another tube from one nostril to the other, and that joins the main tube, so really humans are just tubes with four ends.