Corn Woman 🌽 @WomanCorn@schelling.pt
Oh, and:
Build a tool that you need anyway for your dayjob, then Open Source it. (The Apache model.)
Plausible options I see are:
Charge for a premium version. (Docker is doing this now.)
Get sponsored by a patron that sells and ancillary service. (The Amazon model.)
Work a dayjob and build the thing at night. (Traditional open source.)
The iron tradeoff for software:
In oder to be viable, the people writing it need to make money.
In order to be viable, the people using it need to know that it won't go away when the creators stop making money.
Solve this, and you win.
Elvish languages were not gendered grammatically, but did distinguish between animate and inanimate.
That is they did not distinguish between "he" and "she", but did between "he/she" and "it".
If Tolkien had had access to a spreadsheet program, large parts of this book would never have been written.
Well, maybe not.
TGIF.
Wait, what?
To a first approximation, there are no geniuses.
Got involved in a thing and it has _homework_, ugh.
<Go watch these four hour-long videos and read these six 50-page documents.>
There go my evenings for the next week.
Catgirl headphones infohazard.
You know this video is of real people and not actors because they're dressed unflatteringly and deliver their words poorly.
Worst autocorrupt is converting ny to NY instead of my.
Sadly, state abbreviations are in the default dictionary, and I can't tell it to resolve this common typo the right way.
Right now the Right is losing, and so are willing to criticize the system. When the worm turns and the Left is losing, they'll be willing to criticize the system and the right will be quiet.
The system is always broken. The system is always the best alternative to chaos.
Do you consider wearing a mask to be a burden (even if a small one,) or no big deal?
Do you wear glasses?
For your enjoyment:
As usual, juked by the reporting.
Companies with >100 employees must provide paid time off for people to get vaccinated, (a small violation of the boss' right to manage their own company) and have them vaccinated or provide weekly tests (a much bigger mandate.)
Discourse made me actually look up Biden's vaccine mandate.
It's for federal employees.
People are freaking out over nothing.
People complaining that Perl is unreadable should try learning Perl first.
Repeat for every language.
Hypothesis: most language hate comes from people trying to guess what a language does without bothering to learn it.
I'm too lazy to actually _write_ fanfic, but the fanfic idea I had is now 100x more canon-compatible.
