Digital Mark

I have a lot of lucid dreams, and they’re often in a specific city, and sometimes I even go to work in these dreams. I haven’t lived in a city and worked in an office in over 10 years, so it’s some kind of reverse escapism. I can always leave, and weird stuff happens anyway. I wouldn’t trust any of my work output there.

But to let a company try to take over your dreams and never let you escape, you need to stand up and fight that shit. Put them in a never-ending nightmare where nobody gives them money.

Perforce is great for dealing with media files, artists can actually use it without producing 500 variants of -new-old-2022-final-dontuse-revised-1.1-2023 filenames (I AM NOT JOKING.), and it doesn’t slow down with a lot of media like git does (which has to check out the entire history). Since usually only one artist touches a file at a time, locking doesn’t slow them down.

Subversion’s kind of the same for devs. There’s a single source of truth, merging and branching is a lot easier, but it’s less possessive about files. You can do media in it, better than git, but not as nicely as p4. I have seen the -new-old filenames end up in svn, but if you delete a file and commit, it goes away.

You’d think, but there’s a lot of Pink Pants stans downthread.

“My project” doesn’t exist in any team. It’s everyone’s project. A manager needs to have a long conversation with Pink Pants.

If you build your project at anything but highest error level, clang -Wall etc., you’re letting errors in, relying at best on coincidence to work the way you think it does.

Commit it and don’t revert it!

I get more than half the spaces, all the negative ones, but can’t quite make a bingo without the center, which is the kind of pro-giving a shit about git nonsense I’d never utter.

I miss subversion and perforce.

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.

Well now I just want to watch young people try to beat the unbeatable games of my yout’.

Prince of Persia, Mega Man X, Ghosts & Goblins, Ecco the Dolphin (my favorite, but I screamed so much at Ecco dying one pixel away from air). Zork without a walkthru. Solve all the puzzles yourself or by talking to friends also playing it blind.

And you paid $60 ($200 in today’s bullshit money) for this, you can’t get another for 3 months.

Change is bad. We fear change.

Actual soap, Lever 2000 boring odor, a bar lasts quite a while even with hard scrubbing. Shower gel is weird and wasteful, you have water right there in the shower.

I have some deodorant thing but it’s unscented, just for the antiperspirant.

There’s a movie with a sure-fire method, Stephen King’s Cat’s Eye. Just find someone willing to “help you” like Quitters Inc.

I still use my iPod classic for jogging, and I have an iPod touch as backup. My watch can do emergency calls so I don’t need or want a phone with me.

The low-gravity planets/moons we have access to have rather harsh radiation environments, too, so neither. Dig into the ground. You would put a bunker or dome up on the surface for observations and airlocks, but it’d be foolish to live that exposed on a surface without a deep well of atmosphere & Van Allen belts.

Ignore it or mock it. I start preaching about Great Cthulhu at people who have loonie beliefs, and let them try to debunk me.

I’ve got good at reciting “Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn!” in a high-pitched preacher voice.

I’ve never had that happen, within the same type. I had some loose-fit Levis 568 which were very different, but the 501s never change. Just switched from 40w to 38w, got exactly the size change I expected.

Levis. Cheap pants are never worth it, the 501 is always in style and perfect.

1. Pythonista. Great Python editor, REPL, and platform-specific libraries.
2. Editorial. Same author, Markdown editor which can be scripted in Python. I routinely write al new features for it, like dice rollers, list renumbering, etc.
3. Documents by Readdle. PDF & epub reading, file management, bunch of optional features.
4. iCabMobile. Browser with a ton of ad-blocking, filters, good file management, I routinely use it as a private browser.

Space Battleship Yamato, original model

Serenity. Just the nicest “home” you can keep flying.

Penny Royal, from Neal Asher’s Technician and Dark Intelligence.

Would you prefer they eat live animals?

“The War to End All Wars” was a good season finale, but then just 20 years later they made a sequel with bigger effects budget and openly evil villains. Lazy writing. And the way things have been written towards WWIII but then backing off is a long season tease.

They also bike to work.