Tech is a field where there’s always infinite work to do, and it’s always only limited by the budget.

We had very low interest rates for over a decade, which made investments more profitable and thus there was always a ton of money to go around. The current financial downturn is the main reason of all the tech layoffs with no budget there are no jobs.

The upside of that: Even with all the talk of AI and stuff, once the interest rate goes down and investments go up, all the jobs will be back.

Depends on what you mean.

• Hibernation as animals do it is not really in the cards. Humans don’t do that.
• A medically-induced coma is easy, but it also offers no advantages over being awake, but instead it really accelerates muscle and bone loss, something that’s already a big issue in zero gravity.
• Freezing and rethawing without killing the person is very, very far from being viable. It’s actually quite far from a concept of a plan right now. We have no idea how (or even if) we could do this.

This. Being in a coma isn’t exactly healthy here on earth either and combining that with no gravity is a death sentence.

Is it only me or is the same old joke-esolang thing getting boring? They all read exactly the same, just with the keywords replaced by some other random string.

No, this doesn’t read like tabloid headlines. It uses similar words, but nobody would mistake it for tabloid headlines. Same as the other esolang doesn’t read like Shakespeare.

Maybe I am also just getting old and thus I’ve heard this joke too many times.

At least for BSL there’s a “hybrid language” called Sign-assisted English.

That’s basically using BSL vocabulary with English grammar. You take your regular English sentence and do a 1:1 translation just replacing English words with BSL signs.

While Sign-assisted English isn’t nearly as expressive as full sign language, it’s super easy for an English speaker to get to a level where you can actually hold a conversation in it. It took me maybe 20h of practice to get to that point, which is much, much faster than I managed to in any other language. Because it’s not a new language to learn, you are just substituting words.

At the same time, Sign-assisted English is quite easy to understand for most sign-language speakers, since they usually already understand the spoken language of the land, even if it’s just so they can read, since most sign languages don’t have a written form.

So it ends up being some form of pidgin hybrid language that’s easy to learn and easy to understand for everyone involved.

If everyone would be able to use Sign-assisted spoken languages it would probably already be really helpful for everyone.

Funnyly enough, the group I started learning sign-assisted language with started using it even if no deaf person was part of the conversation, because at times sign language is much more useful than spoken languages. You can speak silently, you can easily communicate in noisy areas and it can be used over a much higher distance.

I think it would be really cool if sign-assisted spoken languages became a basic skill of everyone.

ChatGPT claims to be able to translate to and from Sindarin. (I can’t speak Sindarin, so I can’t verify its output.)

Laser microphones can record audio via line-of-sight at a close to unlimited range.

Reminds me of that old story of the email server that couldn’t send emails farther than 500 miles: https://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html

Snap a picture of the surroundings on the laptop webcam and upload it to the geoguessr subreddit.

With the exception of the wii u, pretty much all of my consoles were ones that I bought as “defective”. Most of the time a good clean was all that was needed. Sometimes I had to replace one part or the other. The worst was a 3DS XL with a broken hinge that needed a full teardown just to remove that one plastic part.

At least in my experience with exactly one trackball, yes, they do that, but much less than ball mice.

That was a plus against ball mice, but obviously a minus against optical mice.

I think they made sense up until good optical mice became cheap.

Seems like you didn’t get the joke.

The joke is a mathematical pun, purposely misunderstanding the “/” in “50/50” as a division sign instead of a separator.

50/50 means, 50 of hundred fall on one side, 50 on the other.

But in mathematical notation, 50 divided by 50 equals 1, and 1 is 100%.

It’s just as much a joke as any other pun, just in mathematical notation instead of in a natural language.

Is that a thinly-veiled “your ex is so fat” joke?

In my last job we called that “optimizing”, after a colleague (who usually only did frontent work) used the opportunity when everyone else was on vacation to implement a few show-stopping bugs in the backend and put “optimized backend code” in the commit message. He did the same thing a few months later during the next vacation period, which really solidified the joke.

Funny how many people in the comments don’t get the joke.

The joke is that they interpret the “/” as a division sign, not as a separator.

So 50/50=1 and 1=100%.

I think it’s totally valid to run a realistic game where realism takes precedence over game rules, but then the “passing of the object” part fails.

It’s also totally valid to run RAW game, but then it fails like you said.

So no matter what game you run, the railgun makes no sense.

What would make sense with a RAW game is to use the railgun for fast travel/fast transport, but then again for it to give a decent advantage, you need thousands or millions of peasants who willingly cooperate, which also won’t really work in most games.

I used to use one of these old serial Microsoft trackballs for a few years. They use less desk space and they were much more reliable than contemporary ball mice.

I think the high quality of even cheap optical mice has made them obsolete. Their high precision means that they also don’t need a lot of desk space and they are more reliable than trackballs.

I think the main reason to use one of them today is probably nostalgia and personal preference.

It’s the cheap additives used to cut the stuff that do the trick.

The peasant railgun is kinda weird tbh.

It first uses game rules ignoring physics (using the ready action to pass the object super fast along the line of peasants), to then flip and ignore game rules while using physics (not applying the rules for throwing an object but instead claiming that physics “realism” demands that the object keeps its speed and does damage according to the speed, not according to game rules).

Fun meme, but really doesn’t make sense in game.