Hrmf, figures.

Yikes.

For the uninitiated, that’s like having your life flash before your eyes but all you remember is every vivid detail from Evangelion.

That reminds me of a dirty joke.

Tourist: So, which would you recommend for self-defense against a grizzly: a hunting rifle, or a large-caliber pistol?

Ranger: The pistol.

Tourist: Really? Why’s that?

Ranger: Because it’ll hurt less when the bear shoves it up your ass.

Where’s that “imma fight a gorilla” guy when you need him?

Life’s a bitch.

Especially in Shinji’s case. Get in the robot existential world-ending crisis, Shinji!

Not exactly - it’s way more simple than that:

Adults in this kid’s life (parents) hand them a phone as a toy/treat/distraction (usually the last one). Or maybe they have something similar at home for themselves. So, a bored kid sees adult using a phone, so kid asks adult for phone.

I used to do this way before cellphones. When at a house where there was a personal computer sitting around, I was usually very disappointed at being told “no” after asking to play games on it. But I always asked. To a little five-year-old-warp-core, that’s just what those were for.

Edit: ubiquitous portable computing (modern phones) would have probably rendered me inconsolable after a while.

Gotta go harder to get that deep clean.

Sauce: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eX3IGPq8AQ

Don’t feel stupid. It’s bad enough that all of IT is one giant impostor-syndrome support group. There’s literally too much for any one person to know, and it’s been that way for a very long time. Just give it your all, and memorize how to reliably search and look things up; take notes for the really important stuff. The rest will filter into your memory with practice.

Also: anyone that holds this kind of thing over your head is attempting to distract from how much they don’t know. Most people in this industry understand and don’t judge.

As for the ^ thing, I recall seeing that as far back as the 1990’s. I want to say Microsoft actually popularized it, but it could easily be OS2 (IBM) or Apple. In hindsight, it’s kind of wild to have a TUI (terminal user interface) hold your hand like this. Nano (and Pico) are kind of in a special category like that.

Scene: on the far wall of the room is a small intercom. It is connected to a hospital wide-AI, that is tasked to converse with patients, especially when the noise threshold exceeds 66Db. The intercom springs to life after hearing these very loud complaints, and begins to speak in a soothing, if not slightly robotic, voice.

AI health assistant: Sarah, remember what we talked about? That was 30 years ago. Silberman died 15 years ago. Please stop disturbing the other patients and eat your pudding.

This raises an interesting question: if some time traveler really did tamper with things, what would the evidence look like? Is there anything that could have only happened with knowledge from a now defunct timeline?

Then there’s the horror that it is actually happening and this is somebody’s idea of a repaired timeline.

I am not a lawyer, this is not legal advice.

With the LLC thing, I was once told that you must have some partners or employees to be considered a proper legal shield. I recommend consulting with a lawyer and to be very open about the (very real) problems you’re trying to solve. Godspeed, OP.

That was my immediate thought. There were many that came before RCT, but it has the distinction of being (possibly) one of the last in an industry that had already moved on to higher-level languages to do merely half as much.

They also hated their local sysadmin. BOFH still holds up in a few key ways.

Huh? Isn’t it like right there at the bottom of the screen?

I guess not knowing that ^X means Control+X could be the issue, but still…

Copilot: What is my purpose?

User: You download and install Linux.

Even an arrest record can be a problem. Which is itself, a problem.

These monsters crave power. They see oppressive regimes all over the world, stepping on people in a variety of ways, and think: “yeah, that’s the stuff.”

Protip: the mandatory “health & safety” briefing is just so HR can cover their butts. Don’t bother wasting your time with it - you’re not going to need any of that don’t-run-with-safety-scissors stuff.

By “traveling community” and “travelers”, does the article author actually mean Romani (“gypsies”)?

I ask since the article may have lost something in translation. It also puts the police’s actions in a different light if true.