Him, and CathodeRayDude were my immediate thoughts. Both are great, but neither do new stuff.

“This is a CD player, not a DVD player. You’ve been scammed”

• 90% Empty beer can
• 100% An SFP+ module (most likely for multimode fiber)
• 80% prioritypass card that’ll give you free entry to a nice airport lounge on the opposite side of the planet
• 20% a wedge of blue cheese
• 100% a guitar pick

Scandinavia, provided the banter between the people/cultures remain

I’ve done both. No need to grovel, but you can call me “your excellence”

Disclaimer: I don’t know, and I have no particular k owledge in this field, I’m only reasoning here…

I think those four directions are natural to use regardless of culture, based on our senses and bodies. There are things you can see, and things you can’t, namely in front of you and behind you. And your references to the sides would naturally be your hands, where most people can distinguish right as dominant. These would serve as simple reference points in terms of directions, so the question is, if your bodies were different, for example asymetric, would our directions also be?

Imagine of we had four ears, two forward and two back, could that result in eight basic directions? What would it take for us to have three?

Still four directions, but it’s interesting that they use an absolute point of reference as opposed to the more common relative ones.

You can. But the prefilled one implies they’re already OK with the terms. Adding/changing stuff requires their approval. If both parties agree to the altered version, then there’s no problem.

I doubt they’ll allow a special case just for you, though.

I have returned additions/corrections to employment contracts and had them accepted. My usually go to is to change the overly broad “we own all IPRs developed by you” to “we own all IPRs that come from work related tasks or as a direct furtherance thereof”. If they want to own anything I developed outside work for my own projects then that’s fine, but then they’d have to pay extra.

I like the idea, and might get back into it (restarting), but previous time I started it I was thrown off by the overuse of metaphors. Maybe it’s just an introduction-thing, but I found it very cumbersome to always have to read “The thing was X, like and Y that had undergone Z” instead of just “the thing was worn and green”.

Yes, I know that writers should show rather than tell, but when the reader has to spend most of the reading time parsing metaphors that could’ve instead just been a factual statement, it becomes a very cumbersome read.

But I will give it another go. I like the sci-fi classics, and I suspect I’d like this one too

Norwegian:

Thanks for drawing it so I didn’t have to; I got nerd sniped from seeing what seemed like two identical circuits with shared ground

Free except from the drive to get there. But the drive is a lot cheaper than those racks would cost.

Vent fans at the top and the bottom. But it can be next to my work desk without the hardware getting annoying.

Not working on anything particular, but I’m going on a road trip on Tuesday to this regional airport that is giving away two racks perfect for my use case. Deep enough for my larger machines, sound proofed and 42U tall.

Finally my hardware can have a proper rack instead of being in a stack/pile in this harrypotteresque locker under my stairs.

Sounds like a problem that would solve itself

Maritime radio has a lot of French in it

Not much these days. While it used to be “everything”, now it’s:

• Http/https
• dns
• Wireguard
• Minecraft
• beegfs

Chickens are pretty easy as long as they have access to the outdoors. Keep topping up the chickfeed, keep any foxes and cats away, and they’ll be OK as long as the climate is on your (their) side.

Cows and grain. Mostly because I already know how.

I may be a well paid tech guy today, but I’ll always be a hick and a yokel at heart.

This is the way. At least half of it.

On top of that, you use umask and add a sticky bit, so that everything new will have the right group bit set - no need for a cronjob.