Officers on the Enterprise not knowing inconsequential? Inconceivable!

I was thinking much the same thing. Have an upvote.

Meanwhile I’m playing Oxygen Not Included, and like half the time I look something up about the game, half the results are on reddit. There’s a lot of accumulated stuff on there that’s still helpful.

Of course, any false or outdated info will quickly be obvious when you start up the game again. Lower stakes than soldering safety.

There’s the thing, we weren’t taste testing flavored vodka. They were all supposed to be plain ordinary vodka.

Not the same as flavorless, though. Kind of a trip.

One time I had my cat out for a walk in his harness. He started going nuts on this random spiky looking plant by a fence. My wife and I are like, uh oh, is that cat safe?

I took a photo and uploaded it to a plant ID site (was, and still am, amazed that they are just casually online with such a tool).

Catnip.

Put salami on bread,. everyone ignores your sandwich-making.

Put salami on a cat, everyone loses their minds!

Except the cat, he’ll just go “oh! A treat!”

They make me think of a pair of fluffy slippers

This split shows up in interviews, even for senior-level positions. It’s infuriating. Want to get hired? Memorize the right snippets from the documentation!

Want to do the job? Be able to find what’s helpful in the docs and incorporate it into what you’re trying to do.

Some friends organized a set of vodka flights once (house party, so the cost was just the bottles of vodka).

I was shocked at how much difference you could taste between different brands/tiers of vodka. I had always figured that vodka’s whole purpose was to be sort of a “blank slate alcohol”, great as a base for mixers or getting drunk efficiently but not really something you’d appreciate on its own.

Are we on .NET 7?

No. We weren’t. This one was about a decade ago, around the time they first released .NET Core.

talking endlessly about it

Eh…ideally you’d have the conversation once, around what upgrade strategy to use, then execute on it. Upgrade yearly vs. ride out LTS windows. Etc.

Same number of brain cells before and after transformation

So true! It’s been a while since I’ve read any of his stuff. The last book of his that I read was The City & the City. Weird and fun and interesting all wrapped up together.

The 1999 cinematic masterpiece starring Rachel Weisz and Brendan Fraser?

Good flick.

Every day can be burrito day if you like…but I can’t answer for the results on your digestive system.

This topic also brings to mind a book I read a year or two back. The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare which showed a lot of “dishonorable” moves the Allies employed in WW2. Better to fight dirty than lose to the Nazis, they figured.

There’s a nice parallel. The noble Federation captain figures it’s better to fight dirty than to lose to the Dominion.

Most of my version-upgrade woes seem comparatively recent, lol

1. Nullable contexts. It’s “easy” to update this with a setting in your project file! … but it adds warnings to basically every file in the project :( You could break it up by adding a preprocessor directive, but it still added a lot of noise at the time.
2. File-scoped namespaces. I like this feature for new code, but OUCH does it mess up code reviews when it’s an incidental change. I really grew to love Github’s “ignore whitespace” setting in the PR diff view because of this.
3. Migrating from 4.6 to .NET Core. There were a few times when a deploy just … stopped. It worked on our desktops, and it worked on our test server, but the prod deploy just choked. We might have finally gotten a clue about what was wrong from the event viewer, but it’s been a while. I do recall that our usual troubleshooting path was useless in this case!

I hated that episode when I saw it the first time. I felt it betrayed everything I imagined Starfleet to stand for.

Rewatching the show last year…when it came up again, I got it. Something about the Dominion war changed the context.

I hadn’t actually seen anything else from that season the first time around. It made a difference.

Yeah, fair. New versions release every year. It’s usually good stuff, but it does add some toil to existing codebases.

Arguably TOS is the best in the plow sense.

(The plow is the greatest invention of all time in that the resulting food surplus enabled all the subsequent inventions).

Which series would you rate the highest? For me, probably TNG, largely on the basis of nostalgia. I haven’t really watched any recent Trek, though, so I may lack some basis for comparison.

Is that truly the impression you got from my post, or are you just being snarky?