Little of both.

He’s got a healthy love for video games, and there’s certainly plenty of overlap in favorite titles (Celeste, Mario Odyssey, Pokemon, Stardew Valley, Minecraft, Link’s Awakening). But there’s also games he enjoys that I don’t (Bloons TD, Gemcraft, Mario + Rabbids, Mario Maker) and games I enjoy that he doesn’t (Hollow Knight, Breath of the Wild, Factorio, Satisfactory).

We also watch a handful of different animes/cartoons/shows together (with some episodes or scenes excepted). We’ve done Avatar: The Last Airbender, Futurama, Sword Art Online, Death Note, Animaniacs, and we’re currently working through The Owl House and The Fresh Prince of Bel Air.

On top of that, he’s got hobbies I’m not into. He loves drawing and takes Karate classes. We play D&D together as a family, but it’s not really my thing otherwise. As it happens, these are all interests he shares with his mother.

Not that there’s anything I’m seeing wrong in the pic, but since you’re asking…

Never walk away while cooking them. They’ll burn REAL quick.

Try heating a little bit of oil in the pan, before plopping in each quesadilla. The tortillas get a nice crispy fried texture. I can take it or leave it, but my wife insists on them that way.

I tend to cover the pan while cooking, to make sure there’s enough heat to get everything inside thoroughly melted.

Let them cool, ideally on a wire rack, for a minute or two before cutting, otherwise you can squish all the innards out.

Also fair.

I’m with Arrowhead as well, none of this shit is coming from them, it’s coming from Sony. The most you can criticize them for is partnering with Sony in the first place.

Was intrigued until step one of “Getting Started”:

Install Node.js 20 LTS

That’s gonna be a “no” from me.

I had the exact same question, did the exact same thing, and had the exact same response. EVERYONE does this, it’s infuriating. If you’re going to have a public-facing info page about your project or product, you need to assume that people know NOTHING about it.

KeePass on my phone and desktop, with the master file sync’d automatically to the server in my basement.

MLB 66

I think it’s a fallacy to say that you can or should build an application layer that’s completely DBMS agnostic. Even if you are very careful to only write SQL queries with features that are part of the official SQL standard, you’re still coupled to your particular DBMS’s internal implementations for query compilation, planning, optimization, etc. At enterprise scale, there’s still going to be plenty of queries that suddenly perform like crap, after a DBMS swap.

In my mind, standardization for things like ODBC or Hibernate or Entity Framework or whatever else isn’t meant to abstract away the underlying DBMS, it’s meant to promote compatibility.

Not to mention that you’re tying your own hands by locking yourself out of non-standard DBMS features, that you could be REALLY useful to you, if you have the right use-cases. JSON generation and indexing is the big one that comes to mind. Also, geospatial data tables.

For context, my professional work for the past 6 years is an Oracle/.NET/Browser application, and we are HEAVILY invested in Oracle. Most notably, we do a LOT of ETL, and that all runs exclusively in the DBMS itself, in PL/SQL procedures orchestratedbbybthe Oracle job scheduler. Attempting to do this kind of data manipulation by round-tripping it into .NET code would make things significantly worse.

So, my opinion could definitely be a result of what’s been normalized for me, in my day job. But I’ve also had a few other collaborative side projects where I think the “don’t try and abstract away the DBMS” advice holds true.

I mean, even he was a nerd. A survivalist nerd.

You mention Bally and baseball, mlb66 was my go-to last year.

Generally speaking, fault protection schemes need only account for one fault at a time, unless you’re a really large business, or some other entity with extra-stringent data protection requirements.

RAID protects against drive failure faults. Backups protect against drive failure faults as well, but also things like accidental deletions or overwrites of data.

In order for RAID on backups to make sense, when you already have RAID on your main storage, you’d have to consider drive failures and other data loss to be likely to occur simultaneously. I.E. RAID on your backups only protects you from drive failure occurring WHILE you’re trying to restore a backup. Or maybe more generally, WHILE that backup is in use, say, if you have a legal requirement that you must keep a history of all your data for X years or something (I would argue data like this shouldn’t be classified as backups, though).

I know folks in the C# Discord have talked about getting WinForms to work on Linux, you could post a question there. But unless you’re specifically dealing with maintaining some legacy app, you should not be using WinForms, much less on Linux. Avalonia or Xamarin are definitely the way to go if you’re making something new and want cross-platform desktop support.

Protip if you do go down that route: Tutorials tend to ignore the fact that you don’t have to use XAML to make anything in these frameworks. You should. But if it’s more comfortable for you to write WinForms-style imperative code that you’re used to, you 100% can, the APIs are not significantly different.

Defederation is an administrative solution, specifically for when the user-facing tools like muting and blocking aren’t enough. It’s the solution against instance admins that aren’t capable or willing to moderate their users, or that are actively malicious.

Apparently trained on 4chan?

Why the hell is a professional tech business not relying almost-exclusively in ethernet, anyway?

Discord gained popularity and maintains it, in spite of the many reasons to avoid it, because of usability and feature richness. Slack, Teams, Matrix, Telegram, they are miles ahead of everyone else in the live-chat space, when it comes to user experience.

This was an interesting article about some tech I’ve never heard of before, but it has little to nothing to do with Discord’s overall success.

It’s possible to do a diff across all the commits in the PR (rather, a diff between the last commit before, and the final commit of), so no, I do not squash them all for review. Otherwise, yes, I will definitely clone and review the code locally for large PRs.

rsync, for sure. That’s what I used when I had to migrate a 10TB datastore to a new machins.

I don’t. I don’t think you can grow to that kinda size without engaging in growth and profit chasing. We don’t need a Blizzard that behaves like Larian, we need lots of Larians.