Damn, I see a firewire port on there too!

If you’re using vscode you might be able to look through the individual file histories to recover some work.

I never really see people doing this, but I’ve had a great time pitching my tent in the back of my pickup instead of on the ground. You get a perfectly flat surface and some foam or an air mattress make it pretty comfy.

I have a bike I put together with this mindset and it’s pretty awesome. If any component dies I can replace it individually, even if it’s not made by the same company. No reason an electric car couldn’t have the same benefits except that the average consumer doesn’t care about planning ahead

I rented Superman 64 as a kid, never knowing it was a universally hated game. We had fun with the weird multiplayer mode where you fly around in weird pod things. I remember flying through the rings too. The whole game makes zero sense in hindsight.

When I’m doing that I use a program called Transcribe! It has every feature you could want for this purpose, really. You can mark off the individual sections, measures (and beats if you want) and take notes, looping them at any speed you want (with pitch correction), and it even has a tone generator you can use to check your transcription. It’s $39 dollars and well worth it. One time I sent the author an email and they promptly responded with great answers to all my questions.

https://www.seventhstring.com/xscribe/screenshots.html

I do try to do it the old fashioned way first, though. I’ll pull the song into Reaper or something and just play along.

I haven’t done much low level stuff, but I think the ‘main’ function is something the compiler uses to establish an entry point for the compiled binary. The name ‘main’ would not exist in the compiled binary at all, but the function itself would still exist. Executable formats aren’t all the same, so they’ll have different ways of determining where this entry point function is expected to be. You can ‘run’ a binary library file by invoking a function contained therein, which is how DLL files work.

Houndstooth Peart?

I always get my coffee ready for the next day before I go to bed. Makes it easier to wake up on time when you know you have fresh coffee waiting!

One of us! Also for anyone who doesn’t know, you can do ctrl+backspace to instantly delete the entire word. It’s usually faster to do that and retype it than it is to hit backspace precisely enough times to get to the typo!

I bet you’d spend about 14 hours a week doing all that stuff, maybe as little as 7-10. Pessimistically then it’s 56 hours of work a month and optimistically it’s half that. So he’d be paying you from $31.25 to $62.50 an hour, which ranges from great to ridiculous in favor of you. Personally I wouldn’t do it because of the weird dynamic of living with my boss, but there could be a great deal in there for you.

Typescript on the other hand…

Love watching his videos, they go way beyond your average music production youtuber content. I generally think generative AI is an awesome tool in itself, but that it’s too ripe for the perversion of capitalistic greed. Like Jordan said in the video, it’s pretty disgusting to ingest years worth of hard work and dedication from many artists and then use the resulting model to compete with those same artists. I optimistically predict that the current approach to AI will never do much better than the grey slop it currently shits out, though.

A house back in 2017. I really had no business buying a house, financially speaking, but I was getting fed up with renting land under a trailer I owned. They kept raising the price significantly every single year. Turned out to be a great decision since I was able to get a good interest rate and a good price. Of course there are downsides, like when the water heater flooded my bottom floor. Still worth it though.

Radiohead, especially In Rainbows. They have amazing melancholy music that also has a groove to it.

Yeah but like, what new features do apps have which weren’t available in those times? Embedded videos maybe? Doesn’t justify the bloat.

It sucks that you have to do that, but I know people who manage projects just want progress to come in on a steady drip feed. Hopefully some day you’ll get a decent manager who can understand your work style and roll with it though, or maybe get to the point of setting your own destiny!

One hobby turned into a career (software engineering), which hopefully means I’m decent at it. I also play the bass guitar, which I okay at, but eagerly trying to reach a high level. I have a million other hobbies that I do fine at. But grading yourself is only useful as a way to keep from stagnating and to create healthy goals. The internet is really dangerous in this regard, because you’ll always find someone who’s way better than you. At the end of the day I just want to keep my brain stimulated and have fun with the time I have.

I used to think C# was like Java but with fresh ideas. I still do, but Kotlin gives it a run for its money. The type system is pretty great. For example, you can use the Elvis operator to return early if something is null, allowing you to use a non-null type afterwards. In C#, nullable annotations feel more “grafted on”, and there are some weird quirks and footguns that Kotlin avoids by being a little smarter about it.

How do you type letters like ‘a’ and ‘L’?