It’s normal to see some halo around a light at night. What isn’t normal, is to see a distortion of the light as depicted in OP’s image.

If you see that the light is distorted more on one axis, that means you have some kind of astigmatism.

I have a little bit of astigmatism and it is nowhere near what OP’s picture depicts.

No because it’s an up to date firmware with the latest security patches.

Unless the hardware is also shitty and has some vulnerabilities.

More than half the points are just good engineering practice directly embedded in the language.

It tells a lot about the state of programming in general with the pushback we see with memory safe languages.

I’m down with Rust and I can’t wait for official support for embedded Rust in chip manufacturers, because until then, very few clients will be okay with using unofficial Rust cargos for their products.

This is for a 32bits encoded epoch time, which will run out in 2038.

Epoch time on 64 bits will see the sun swallow Earth before it runs out.

And it’s represented as a 64 bits value, which is over 500 billions years.

A task in a vacuum isn’t that bad, but the reality is that there hundreds if not thousands of little fucking fuck little task that adds up pretty quickly.

Yeah, taking out the trash isn’t that long, but I have 50 other things to do also at the same time.

That’s worst haha. It’s straight up lying.

I worked at a company that explicitly said that there was no bonus and that the salary was increased to reflect that. They were paying 17k over similar posting, so it was true

This is why I never count the bonus as salary. More and more companies are shafting their employees like that.

My GF’s bonus is tied to something she has no control over, and the company uses the bonus to justify a lower salary. Fuck that noise.

Weird fetish shit is much more palatable than any of the other things than you listed.

Maybe I didn’t use them enough yet, but I bought some Wiha balled hex driver and I haven’t stripped a screw yet, and I use cheap screws.

I also had to dismantle my 3d printer hot end with a lot of weirdly placed screws and it wasn’t even an issue.

Slotted screws are the proof that Satan is real.

A good balled hex driver is such a joy to use. Somewhat align it with the screw, and you can use it at weird angle.

I get what Drag is saying and I agree with that, but my nuance is that over time, that urgency would disappear. After a thousand heart break, eventually it becomes normality.

Drag is right that we don’t love a million individuals at the same.time, but over the course of immortality, it is not that much people.

Does Drag thinks that after 10-12 60 worlds dying, Drag would probably change how relationships are perceived? And this is what I am trying to clumsily convey. All of our thoughts are framed with urgency. But if the urgency isn’t there, is it far fetched to think that the frame is bound to change?

I want to say that I understand what Drag is saying, but I am offering a differing point of view. And to be honest, 10 years ago I would have chosen immortality in a heartbeat. Not so much now that I’ve (mostly) came to term with my mortality and I am much more afraid of immortality than of mortality.

I would probably do that eventually when the heat death of the universe is abound, at least it would be different and a chance at something new.

Or this is how Lovecraftian creatures are born, and I welcome it.

I am not sure I get drag’s point?

My point is that the loss we suffer and grieve is still framed by our limited existence. In our life, if we are lucky, we have what? 15-20 people we really care about generally that will hit hard the day they die?

Imagine drag had a million of them. At one point, it becomes either extremely heavy to the point of insanity or it becomes the new normal. Even in our limited life, a lot of people come to term with the grievances of death.

Drag is right in the sense that we would become good at grieving. And that is exactly my point.

It would be the same when trying to meet Oprah 1000.0.

When time is virtually infinite, boredom for absolutely everything is bound to happen. And then what? Drag lives a boring life indefinitely. And even with a million happy years, it is still a tiny tiny tiny tiny percentage of billions upon billions of years.

I am still afraid of death biologically (we are animals after all), but I’ve come to term with death and I wouldn’t wish to be immortal.

I appreciate talking with drag, so please continue to do so if you want to continue this conversation.

You might not meet Oprah, but you’ll probably meet a thousand like her and you will get bored.

I stand by my point that the urgency is created by death and it is extremely hard to separate ourselves from that when we imagine immortality.

The death of your close friends and family will hurt. But after the 1 000 000 death of a close friend, you’ll either be crazy by that point from all the grief, or it will be another Tuesday.

It’s a philosophical point of view and like anything, it’s debatable.

Death create an urgency, and we cannot substract ourselves from that.

When we imagine immortality, it is framed within this urgency. You might think : well there is so much I haven’t seen. But by being immortal in the litteral sense of the word, at one point, you will have seen everything to not care about it anymore. Then what? You go interstellar in the hope of finding something new in a few millions years?

If I could live a thousand years, I would definitely be interested. But living billions of years with no end in sight? Absolutely not.

Companies like UHC are actively making the life of millions more miserable, or straight out kill people by refusing coverage, all in the name of money.

So yeah, no fucking shit that people hate them.

The day they can’t leverage their stock to get infinite loans will be the day that this isn’t a lie.

Otherwise, it’s a bullshit argument.