A French embassy built in 1841 when the territory was its own country. It’s now a 5 minute walk to the nearest Wendy’s from there.

I started using Python ~15 years ago. I didn’t go to school for CS.

Compared to using literally anything else at the time as a beginner, pip was the best thing out there that I could finally understand for getting third party code to work with my stuff, without copy paste… on Windows.

When I tried Linux, package managers and make were pretty cool for doing C/C++ work.

Despite all that, us “regular” engineers were consigned to Windows.

We either had to use VBA or a runtime that didn’t need to be installed.

It’s fine. No metallic taste since it’s not a reactive metal. In the microwave you just have to make sure it doesn’t contact the edge. You only get arcing of metal when there are sharp points or loops, which aren’t present on a disc.

Tried this, they’re all broken. Corelle flatware lasted quite awhile, but were still no match for my wife and kids. Everything is now stainless steel.

Yes. I’ve never had anything in Europe labeled as “spicy” that wouldn’t be outclassed by a mild hot sauce in the US. Closest I’ve come is an Indian restaurant in London. Also the hot sauce at Nando’s was an honorable mention.

Meanwhile the minimum spice level at the hole in the wall Mexican restaurant down the street in Texas is at the same level and hot enough in the high end that I can’t handle it. It’s perfect.

The standard ones should be standardized and any extras in an adjacent header. Power, reset, power LED, and HDD LED should be a single block.

The first news broadcast I can remember the subject of is Tom Brokaw talking about a bombing in Bosnia… because I liked the alliteration.

Hearthstone. So… Fine? I guess? I’m in a StormWind tavern as a human, and if I die I can resurrect at the nearest graveyard. Seems fine to me.

There hasn’t really been a good vehicular combat game in awhile, like Vigilante 8 or Twisted Metal

I also noticed there haven’t really been any good couch party games besides Mario party; think Crash Bash, Pokemon stadium, fusion frenzy, and the like.

Dune was the second RTS ever though

I had a stamina meter in Morrowind in 2002 and in daggerfall in 1996.

This game is a broken buggy mess but in a good way

I didn’t call out a specific dimension on a machined part; instead I left it to the machinist to understand and figure out what needed to be done without explicitly making it clear.

That part was a 2 ton forging with two layers of explosion-bonded cladding on one side. The machinist faced all the way through a cladding layer before realizing something was off.

The replacement had a 6 month lead time.