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I've downhill skied since 1966 and I love it. Just bought new equipment. I found some great deals from evo and replaced everything for about $1100. Unfortunately, my ski partner fell last season and busted her leg; still recovering.
Skiing is enjoyable if you can avoid the cold, other humans and trees, going too fast and losing control, and possibly dying, dehydration (as with any exercise), etc.
Alas, unless you primarily ski backcountry off-piste using your own transportation, you cannot avoid paying increasingly ridiculous amounts of money to ski areas for the use of their lifts (and sometimes their emergency services). Unless you bring your own food and drink, you will need more money, unless you only ski for a couple of hours between meals.
Of course, you can x-country ski for a lot less money. And it's better aerobic exercise. I like both kinds of skiing, but I currently don't have any x-country equipment.
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He was whisked away to the UK practically overnight. Our neighbors and their children have been in detention for over 5 months. Money talks, regardless of what scummy pocket it comes from.
Rick Beato's. If you are not a musician now, you will be one soon. Entertaining, informative, and packed with actual human content.
Dr. Chris Edward's. Guy repairs retro computers mostly for free. Brilliant work, and quite funny. Has a lot of Amiga videos. His wife's name is Mona. ;-)
Speaking of music, check out The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets, a Vancouver band that's been together since the early '90s. Most of their stuff is based on H.P. Lovecraft stories. They rock hard. Fun lyrics.
They've been watching us and what we do to each other.
Run your own mail server. Or several of them. No more expensive than running your own website(s).
I haven't eaten cottage cheese in decades. It's a thing now?
When I was six my parents got me a 26" Schwinn single-speed bike. It was as tall as I was. I rode it until college, doing things that were heretofore unknown to science. IT WAS GREAT.
HTML+CSS, as little JS as is possible if any at all. Notepad++
I have a (currently offline) site that uses REBOL+Vanilla for self-modification.
Why complicate your life any more than it needs?
I usually start out with, "Have you ever heard of SCSI?"
I'm almost 63. I started playing SpaceWar and Chase on my high school's PDP-11 in 1974, never looked back lol. Wrote some games for the Apple II in the early '80s, spent almost a year playing Ultima III. Bought an Amiga 500 in '89 which I still use, as well as several A3000s. I have hundreds of Amiga games, and I actually worked for Psygnosis for about a year. Played Ultima Online through the '90-'00s, as well as PC games like Quake, Death Rally, Diablo I/II, Outforce, Disciples, etc. Today I play several browser games just to fill in time gaps while doing other things (UrbanDead, Pardus, Rogule, NationStates), and when I have a few hours to kill, LotRO (on Arkenstone, fyi). I'm currently designing a massive open-world RPG in Unreal Engine 5. Stay tooned!
(An awful lot of retro games can be played in a browser these days.)
(Steam is good, but I don't use it. I really don't need more games in my life at the moment ha)
Many developers have no concept of efficient use of hardware resources (or what hardware resources even are), figuring they can just ask for more of whatever they need and the system will take care of the rest. When your program and anything else including the operating system needs to play nicely in KB or MB of RAM, you're much more careful. Why not be just as careful when you have GB of RAM?
Extensive use of bloated multi-dependancy-level libraries and frameworks when you could just write the code to do what you want to do in 1/100th of the time and space. Copy-paste coders who copy far more code than they actually need.
A lot of developers who grew up coding last century understand, and some later people, but an awful lot of development today is done by people who have no idea what is actually happening when they "read a file". And think that toast requires avocados. (sorry, that was mean). I know some young people who get it, many more who probably should be pursuing a psychology degree. (oops)
Sure, you could argue that the real coders have already done the hard work, and that's why you can just click a few buttons and end up with a working "program". But it really helps to actually understand what's happening under the hood.
Disclaimer: I was apparently so technology-poor that I wrote several quite useful programs in Apple II machine language while in college. Though I had no mouse, it was a far more pleasant experience than working without video, or persistent storage other than punched paper tape, on my high school's PDP-11.
It's more simple than you think it is.
It's more complicated than you think it is.
(Didi! Don't touch that button!)
When I was teaching my mother to use a mouse she waved it around in the air and asked why nothing was happening on the screen. When I showed her a picture of water, she kept poking the LCD screen making it distort and laughing that it looked like real water, until I firmly told her to stop before she damaged it.
But even much younger people seem to have no clue. Some think their desktop is their browser, or their browser is the Internet. Some call their monitor (or UPS) their "computer". No understanding of hierarchical file organization. No understanding the difference between memory and storage. No understanding of "context".
My wife complains that Thunderbird is slow. I point out she has tens of thousands of unread emails in her inbox.
A neverending shitshow.
And why don't have the full client list yet?
I never use the downloads folder. I always download to where I want the thing to go.
Some of my code was written in 1995, and is still being used. I tend to toss my stuff that needs tossing before anyone else sees it. :)
Yep, but I just keep reloading "new", as well as slashdot, alternet, wunderground, coinbase, twatter, urbandead, pardus, nationstates, and butterchat.
Add a 2nd eth port to your computer, attach a switch/router that the offline devices connect to, using same class C network the 2nd port uses (different from the one on 1st port that connects to broadband router/network). Unless you bridge your ports, the other devices can talk to you and each other, but not the internet. Semi-educated guess :)
The West? When I was a kid in northern Vermont ('60s-'70s) we would have snow on the ground from mid-October until May or June. One year we had some snow in our front yard under a big pine tree on the 4th of July. We had snowbanks on the road to our house that were so high that I could almost touch the transformers on the electrical poles. We got snowed in for a week and had to use our 23.5hp SkiDoo to get to the store for milk and eggs. Don't talk about "gee, it's finally obvious"; I've known it for decades.
First World Problem. Help me find my webserver. I know it's in my basement.
Batteries! Who wants batteries!
Realize that everything is equally important.. to someone. Your job is to juggle all those things and make everyone happy. Including yourself. First.
Now you're just picking words. The fact is, on one level, he was right. On another, delusional.
Use it all the time. Of course, my "business" consists of me and my wife and maybe a couple of kids hehe
On my work desktop I do Delphi coding.
On my work laptop, I mess around with lazarus/FPC.
On my home webserver, I use PHP.
On one or more of my home desktops (PC, Amiga) I mess with REBOL/RED, ARexx and CanDo.
On one of my home desktops I do UE stuff.
Random other stuff sprinkled here and there.
"Useful RAM" depends on what you are trying to do. My UE machine has 64GB. Most of my other machines have between 6 and 16GB. My A500 has 3.5MB, my A3000 has 82MB :) Windows and Mac seem to need more RAM ha :/
Playing/singing my own music. Dream-flying with my two cats, who are no longer with me :/. Gardening. A good game of footy. Skiing like it's what I was born to do. Coding something remarkable way under schedule. Teaching my wife how to enjoy herself. GMing an amazing game session. Turning 62 this summer while camping out on my land in VT.
Four windows laptops (two from our employers), old windows Phenom X4 file server, new(er) windows Ryzen 7 PRO desktop, Rocky Linux Athlon X3 webserver, (2) Amiga 3000s, Amiga 500, mini HTPC (needs repair), Mac Mini w/ MorphOS, Pegasos 2 w/ MorphOS, several spare A3000s for parts/repair, RPi Zero W, Android tablet.
17? 18? Maybe more. ha
Check out Red (or Rebol).
Canada? You need a Canoo pickup.
My company is considering whether we can keep doing what we've been doing for 35+ years for another year. Your point? I haven't seen a raise like that since the '90s (44%) (different company) (maybe you're special).