The Bridge, by someone I don’t care to remember. Recommended by a hackaday post. I can’t believe I was dumb enough to get a copy based on what was essentially an advert disguised as a tech post.

Anyway, it’s a rip off of Aldis’ Non-Stop / Starship only written really badly and with utter nonsense plot holes. I’m saying this fully aware that Non-Stop had telepathic rats for one of its chapters.

So it goes, I guess.

That’s a legitimate complaint, but it’s also why other people like it.

tbh a bunch of Heinlein is like this. Number of the Beast is ok in parts, but mostly awful. Glory Road is terrible, too. He did write some good things, mostly the YA stuff, but even that had a lot of problems with the author lecturing about irrelevant stuff.

I read this when I was in my mid 20s, so I wasn’t the target audience. It might have been nostalgia, but I compared it against similar things I’d read as a child and it came out poorly. Derivative and twee. I understand that as the series went on it got less twee but I didn’t bother reading any more.

I will say that at the time when it got really popular I thought it was great that so many kids were getting into reading books, so for that it deserves some credit, I guess.

I didn’t finish it either, but to be fair him being an awful person is kind of the point.

I read it and then the other three that were out at the time (Digital Fortress, Angels and Demons I think and something else I can’t remember) because I was morbidly curious. Four physical books. Apart from the general awfulness Brown tried to cover up with frenetic pacing, the biggest thing I noticed was that even though there were four books, there were effectively only two stories, just repeated with different character names.

Pain is a thing of the mind. The sausage can be controlled.

I’ve pretty much always been like 140/100, and doctors have said, “meh, seems to work for you”

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There are sane reasons to ditch an audio port. Like, physical connectors are fragile. Why use something that’s so often broken, when you don’t need to? Why include circuitry for something that you don’t need? At this point, physical audio ports are there for backwards compatibility. I’m not saying wired headphones are bad - I have wired headphones - but phones are the least useful place for them.

Yeah, Plex wins there - lifetime subs for Jellyfin never seem to be on sale.

Yes, the generated SQL query. It basically consisted of a lot of WHERE x IN (1,2,3,4) clauses for all the document IDs that matched something or other, and then repeated for the next JOIN. Small company, CTO was our direct boss and in the same open-plan office.

So they keep enough for the pre-builds, and if there’s no stock over, mark them as “sold out” on the shop. That’s how everyone else does it.

Lots. But one that springs to mind is a custom CMS where a new dev decided to print out the sql generated for a particular content type on paper. He took it to the CTO without comment.

What was wrong?

It was 12 pages.

Single data counterpoint: I have met genx poles who are much more positive and I’d call friends.

Imagine what these replica brands could achieve if they made their own stuff and people weren’t married to the brands

Do people not normally involve their kids in this sort of thing equally?

I have windows 11 on my gaming PC and work laptop and don’t think it’s any worse than 10. Some UI is confused between old style and new, but Windows has done that since Vista. 11 doesn’t have so much of the awful drop-downs without borders and so on where you can’t tell where one component ends and another starts.

Time to create a new anti-bossware product, and call it Worker. Maybe it could be peer-to-peer to help propagate newly identified Bossware signatures. Some kind of worker’s collective as it were.