Way to strawman.

Why not neutral?

No worries! It's not always easy to tell when someone is asking a serious question or just being deadpan.

For sure. As well as pretty much every normal death.

I was hinting at the solution being spontaneous vaporization.

And if radioactive rain does hit you, what's the solution?

And spontaneous nuclear vaporization is the best way for that person to not deal with the sadness.

Shadows usually are.

Probably sounds mean, but honestly: the best way to go.

No chance of pain or fear = excellent.

Silicon Valley was the good stuff. Made fun of us a bit, but at least the jokes were researched. I've been gay for people's code.

Someone do something about the giant stick that looks like a chameleon

Haven't watched a game since 1989. Not because I'm political or anything. It's just so fucking boring.

I like how the news at the time was like "having a shoe thrown at someone is a sign of disrespect in Iraq".

Yeah, I feel that. I'm not a genius whatsoever, so don't assume that's what I'm getting at. But, like, I feel most content as a software engineer when I'm teaching people how to program vs actually programming.

I guess once I get good enough, I can become a mentor to co-workers.

Who's the baby?

There isn't a silhouette of a dude?

Literally just get a USB cable that is designed to interface with the printer. Whatever the printer uses to interface with a raspberry pi - just plug it into your phone and there you go. I don't know what you use to connect your raspberry to your printer. Is it USB? Then connect that to your phone the same way. Is it that one weird set of pins (GPIO I think?) - then get a GPIO to USB connector.

The burden of proof isn't on me; this isn't an official Lincoln Douglass debate or cross examine debate. It's just a conversation. I hacked my PS3 with a TI89 a while back. Because the TI89 provided some code that emulated a factory reset dongle's output.

The PS3 didn't care what was providing the code. It just wanted to receive the code. I could have done that with a PC. A phone. A raspberry pi. A custom made dongle. Maybe even an analog to digital signal piano if the PS3 didn't time out on my inputs.

I should call her.

Imagine telling a software engineer that he "doesn't know how computers work". That's adorable.

A phone is literally a computer. It takes commands and puts out signals. Whatever signals the raspberry pi puts out to the printer, the phone can do through USB.

The machine that's doing it doesn't matter. Phone, desktop, laptop, calculator, pi, Xbox. As long as the right software is there, and the machine is fast enough to do what needs to be done, any device can send out the right signals.

So USB is how you connect it to a printer.

Oh damn, I forgot about that technicality haha

I just look at my check and divide by number of hours.

Allegedly I make $67,000ish. My first trick is that if you work 40 hours, you divide by two to get your pay per hour. So $33ish. But that's the fake number to compare a salary to hourly pay.

To get the real number, I take my biweekly check and divide by 80. It's been a while since I looked, but I think I make $1800 every two weeks after taxes, 401k, and insurance. So $1800/80 = 22.50

Ok, so let's go ahead and double that:

My real yearly salary (i.e. cash I can use) is $45,000.

So if I marry someone and mooch off them 100% (and don't get a tax status change), if I want a $250,000 house in cash, I would do $250/$45 = 5.55 years. So five and a half years to get a house.

It only picked up around covid. I picked a year just to avoid the pedants from doing deep research and seeing it was only like 65% or something.

My little Totoro had a monster like this.

I guarantee you at least 75% of the Aurora borealis posts here mention it in the last year.