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It's funny that I'm reading this while rewatching Chernobyl. Never underestimate the ability of beurocracy to completely fuck things up.

I'm so glad that things being hard has never been connected to my self worth. Maybe someday you'll be able to enjoy just playing with technology rather than using it to prove how verysmart you are. Work smarter not harder.

Yep. Fire up a new project, give it the two ROMs and the emulator to use and tell it what you what. I had to guide it a little bit about the sprite size and collison logic, but it was extremely painless.

100% AI I'm sure. I played around with this kind of thing a month or so ago and Codex had no problems mashing games up from just the ROMs. In about 30 minutes I had the contra guys running through SMB 1 shooting enemies.

Yes, it's triage. They do the basic steps, get relevant info, and try to figure out the right team to send it to. This is how support everywhere works.

What do you mean "even get attention from someone"? Enterprise contracts have support included. You can get an engineer on the phone within 24 hours. As long as you are competent enough to answer their questions, their support has been fairly good in my experience.

Codingame.com has a few fun arenas.

It took 15 minutes.

Yes.

I just paid $20 for a $15 McDonald's order with the annual subscription. It all depends on the restaurant too. I also haven't gone grocery shopping since 2020.

I literally order from all of those companies as do 10s of millions of people if not more.

You're telling us there are frequent scheduled summary calls to agents that burns tokens like this is common knowledge. Is it? And is this documented somewhere?

Parents want a nice recording of their kids because they've been paying to rent their instruments. This isn't some profound type of artistic expression.

We all seemed fine with machines replacing telephone operators and spreadsheets replacing computers (the people).

I asked multiple different ways and it said Joe Biden every time.

Sure, be less productive, see how that works out for you. Your attitude in 2026 is crazy to me. Maybe you're just using chat, I don't know, but it saves me hours daily and saves my brainpower for situations that truly need it. Work smarter, not harder.

Family. Imagine if the state next to yours was no longer the US.

Maybe you're not aware, but if you notice people pulling away from you in conversation or it's difficult for you to maintain longterm, deep, relationships, it might be partly because of the way you express yourself. And it probably comes from a good place, you might just want to warn people to not go through whatever bad experience you had. But it is a very one way type of communication. It doesn't allow anybody except those that agree. But those that agree won't agree on some other big statement and you'll still resent each other.

Just something to think about as you navigate the challenges of social interactions. The best to you.

The point is that families didn't just evacuate when it turned into US territory. There are very strong ties to Mexico in the southwest that will never go away.

It's almost as if the entire southwest used to be Mexico.

It's native. Just considered "icky".

Do you have experience in satellite Internet? I do, and he's not wrong. Your snarky comment is off topic and isn't adding anything here, imo.

That's easy to say but anyone with a lawn is typically bound by local ordinances. I don't even live in a particularly nice area and I got a warning citation for some cool looking thistle I decided to let grow this year.

I'm pretty sure by responding you're just letting them know it's an active number. Could be wrong though.

Yes and those are really the only texts I get, as a matter of fact. Various polls.

I've had my phone number for 20 years and I get maybe one or two a month. Are you guys reading or responding to them? I just archive them when I see them. I don't know what I'm doing right, but it's just never been a problem for me and I'm not sure why. I'm not particularly careful about hiding my number and have the typical grocery store rewards cards and whatnot.

Appleton, WI.

You've got:

Grand Chute, Kimberly, Little Chute, Combined Locks, Harrison, Fox Crossing, Greenville, etc.

Show me where you think the main hub of this area is that many people all want to go to that a train or more unused city buses will solve.

That's cool, but suburban US cities don't have a city center. It's a sprawl of strip malls. There's no route that can solve this problem. Cities would need to be redesigned from the ground up.

Notes that aren't part of the chord are called passing tones. Typically, they are tones in the diatonic key the song is in. However, there is no requirement for all chords to be diatonic. When they stray from that, different contexts clue you in to what passing tones would be "correct" in that situation. Say an E major chord in the key of C major. You get to use a G# in that case which is not in the C major scale, and the passing tones that are "in key" are informed by the context of the other chords around that E major.

Well, you've made some incorrect assumptions. You seem to think yourself verysmart, so you should understand a snap judgement like this is worth very little. You don't need psychological treatment alongside it and the results are pretty obvious and immediate. Try it or don't, but I have trouble seeing the value in your narrow and uninformed opinion.

Still had the fun, just stopped taking it too far. It really seemed to help my long term thinking.