Ooh, so close. There is a NumPy lib.

Will you set the world on fire?

Looks so innocent you’d think it’s 1199 again

I love this! There’s a family in my neighborhood that has three cats, indoor/outdoor. My wife and I check to see if they’re about basically every time we walk in the neighborhood. The cats will saunter up to us for pets most of the time :D

What about playing FTL? :)

I’m with you on everything except gardening. It sounds appealing in the abstract, but then in the spring it turns into “ugh, too much to do” and “ugh, gotta get up early to water” in the summer.

Actually…what DID get you into gardening in the first place? Maybe there’s something to it that I’m missing.

Would you mind talking a bit more about your approach to cooking? I take some satisfaction from being able to cook and sometimes from the feeling of improving my skill as a cook, but mostly it feels like a necessary chore.

… by 1500 BC (look up the battle of Megiddo between Egypt and Kadesh).

I’d say any warfare is an indicator of the population being too big for mutual aid to provide social cohesion.

What, Thor is switching to swords now?

I don’t agree. It’s easy to backseat drive the chariot now, but at the time? A mile as one thousand paces? That seems sensible when you’re measuring distance for men marching and horses or oxen pulling wagons. I can’t really speak to their monetary system, I’d have to read up on it more. And for numbers, well, you can hardly fault them for not using something that didn’t exist yet.

For units in general, though, there are definite benefits to a base 12 system over base 10: You can easily deal with halves, thirds, and quarters without introducing decimals.

Oh, and I did chuckle a bit at your Lego remark. I’m glad you phrased it that way :D

Sorry, what do the ancient Romans have to do with it?

And, ok, so we’d be talking numbers in the 5-10 oz/mi range. Why is that better?

Status quo: “How far can I go with a unit of fuel?”

Flipping it: “How much fuel does it take to go 1 unit of distance”

It just seems arbitrary to me. What am I missing that makes the status quo backwards?

Edit: I’m leaving this up, but nevermind – after posting this reply, I read your replies to others in the thread. I think I see. Linear units vs. “confusion units” (lol, cute term!).

Keep fighting. I got laid off twice in the past two years and managed to find new gigs each time. I’m about the same age. Programmer.

I worked in a remote job 2021-2025, large organization, layoffs (or “impacts” is the newspeak word I guess) in Feb. Job hunting was a real rollercoaster, but I found a local company that sounded promising.

It seemed fine at first, in-office but a short commute that I didn’t mind. But…laid off again in early March. Another year, another job hunt. Even more of a rollercoaster. But I did manage to get another remote gig working as an independent contractor for another large organization.

It’s not ideal, but it is possible. You’ve got skills and experience. There are still jobs out there that need doing even if you have to wade through more bullshit to get there.

Would you prefer we talk about .04-.07 gallons per mile?

What if life were to evolve on a neutron star?

I used to have a cat where the house rule was “no cats on the kitchen counter”.

Well … Ok, no cats on the kitchen counter when I’m in the room.

… If I see you on the kitchen counter, I’ll scoop you up and set you on the floor?

… I admit defeat.

Makes me think of how people will write about the ‘dinning room’ :(

I live in the American Midwest. I’m DEFINITELY too far inland for coastal FIRE!

The limit does not exist

Norway’s system sounds like a dream.

The first company that did the all-at-once system was at least smart about having the refresh date be your hire anniversary date. The December effect you described would have wrecked them (retailer).

I’ve had a couple of jobs where the PTO was issued in one big block once a year in a use-it-or-lose-it system instead of accruing week by week. I’m not sure how common it is; I was kind of surprised by it the first time I encountered it.

I think you missed both my points.

1. Spam certainly existed in the 90s. I’m baffled that you’re denying it – you were there!
2. AI hype cycles are nothing new. Today it’s LLMs. Past cycles have included deep learning, image recognition, expert systems, neural networks, etc. going all the way back to the 50s and 60s.

You’re wearing nostalgia goggles.