Depends how far you go back. The top half is pretty representative of the professional dev team I was in in 1992.

Same way you did it in 2024 but it’s easier because the springgirdles have been replaced with rotated manglebrackets.

We should check who they voted for first though. Trumpanzees should be forced to eat their own dogshit.

I played Thing on a Spring a lot but never completed it.

Ecclesiastes is a good read. I found “Everything is meaningless” to be very liberating. The book does go on to say what is good: to love God of course, but also to eat, drink and enjoy your work. But the whole thing is worth a read.

The last three games I paid for were Minecraft, Factorio and Dwarf Fortress (pre-Kitfox).

I haven’t needed a new one since that.

Motherland, surely? -a is a feminine ending.

Curry.

The guy who’s already two thirds pope. Popeye of course! Popeye for Popey!

Ivan the Terrible didn’t get to play that killer chess move he’d been working on for years.

Decimals are usually spelt out a digit at a time. 3.14159 would be three point one four one five nine, not three point fourteen thousand one hundred and fifty nine. 37.32 would be thirty-seven point three two. If it’s not a decimal but something like a version string then you could say v3.14 is version three point fourteen, and three point one four might be confused with 3.1.4 even though you didn’t say the second point. IP addresses are a bit mixed; I’d say ten ten, but also one nine two dot one six eight.

Methinks the meth dealer doth protest too much.

I have four and so does my wife! English, French, German, Spanish/Russian (learnt before it was uncool).

Edit: I remembered I can do Dutch as well. So 5 for me, 4 for her. I could only remember 4 and 5 in Latin, had to look the rest up.

If CIVO are in the UK then why the fuck are their prices in dollars!!!

(yeah probably for easier comparison with the US stuff but even so)

Star Treks Voyager and Lower Decks.

I think Trump will dump and pump repeatedly until he’s stopped. Him and his billionaire bum chums will be absolutely raking it in.

In fact why not just call it the America shell? Heck, why not drop all words and say USA instead? The bash shell is now known as “usa usa usa”. Hey, here’s an idea, let’s just replace all words with usa! Usa usa usa usa usa usa usa usa usa usa usa. Usa usa? Usa, usa usa.

You’re not crazy. Nobody wants their grammar correcting; they lash out and call people who do that “grammar nazis” instead of thanking them for helping them improve. So they get to post whatever they like, and of course as more people see stuff spelt incorrectly they assume that’s correct and use those errors themselves, but intentionally. And of course the dictionary writers realise they are descriptive, not proscriptive, so the argument “the dictionary says…” is voided.

Autocorrect is OK to an extent but it’s not smart enough yet to understand what people are actually saying. So it gets switched off.

Also it is worth mentioning that English is a complex language with many inconsistencies. “extream” is incorrect, but “stream” isn’t, and that “eam/eme” is pronounced the same way. So “extream” is at least understandable. It’s similar to “ect” instead of “etc”, which is commonly mispronounced as “ek-setera” so you can see why people think the C is after the E.

I used to try to help people a lot but just got a whole load of abuse back. These days I only query something if I genuinely can’t grok what they’re trying to say. Or I just ignore it. If the question is so badly garbled that I can’t understand it I just assume they won’t be able to understand may answer, which will probably be quite detailed.

If it makes a difference to someone, yes. Otherwise I don’t bother.

They can redeem themselves by writing Trump 2 The Art of the Moron.