Chrome is no longer available in my Start menu.

Brit here. It's great to be part of a country that brings so much joy to so many people.

Very good but can someone please invent a 4TB drive that costs less than it did five years ago?

uBlock Origin leading the pack by at least a furlong.

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Nice rack.

Fmovies? Never heard of... wait, sorry, what I meant to say was OH NO!!! Not Fmovies!!! Guess I'm going to have to buy everything now!!!!!11!1

Arr.

Quite right too. The most important factor for me when buying a computer is that the sales droid is in an office. All those CPU, RAM and disk numbers are secondary to that.

Yes OK, but apart from all that, what has Biden ever done?

None, because I don't live in a country with an orange moron at the helm.

Of course not, it's just Spez sucking up to the billionaires in the hope that one of them will be dumb enough to toss him a few million for his shitpile.

Heh, I wonder how the ml tankies are spinning this one and what browser they're going to use instead of Nazifox or whatever stupid name they're using for it now.

But you DO have a PhD. Claiming it is somehow not valid is a criticism of the establishment that awarded it to you. You're just suffering from impostor syndrome, that's all.

Also, no employer will consider someone fresh out of education, even someone with a PhD, to have vast quantitites of useful real-world experience, so even declaring a PhD won't see you land your first job with the expectations that you'll ace every bit of it from day one.

It's good that you realise you know nothing. That is both accurate and useful. But don't take it too far. What your PhD proves is that you have an ability to learn, understand and communicate, and THAT is what employers are looking for.

Careful how quickly you spin them.

Maybe don't ask how I know.

I find the easiest way to forget C++ is to try watching CppCon on YouTube.

I've been doing C++ professionally since 1991.

But when I watch CppCon, what the hell are they gabbling on about? It's all complete gobbledegook! They may as well be speaking in an ancient Goa'uld dialect for all the sense it makes. These people are so far down a rabbithole I start to wonder if they've ever seen the surface.

I am therefore forced to the conclusion that despite 34 years of experience in C++ I don't know C++.

During lockdown I had a bit of time on my hands so I memorised all the digits of pi in the right order.

Oi I'm not wiping my manly butthole with those pink girly wipes. That'd be GAY or probably something equally incoherent.

Your requirements appear to be contradictory. You want to kill it, i.e. not see it any more, and you want to stop moderating it, but you don't want anyone else to moderate it.

So stop moderating it, and block it. It's not up to you to tell 200,000 people that they can't continue to have a community; doing so makes you appear to be acting as some kind of landed gentry. Just walk away and don't look back.

A friend persuaded me to go on a date with a girl I wasn't particularly into. We went for a meal, then she wanted to go clubbing. But I'm not into that either, so she broke down in tears. I was pretty sure I hadn't said anything that bad, but then the story came out: her ex-partner had the same first name and job as me, and the meal and clubbing were his favourite things, but he'd been found dead in another country with his common law wife and kids, and the similarity to me was effectively his coming back from the dead to be with her again.

No there wasn't a second date. I haven't seen her since either. Neither have I taken dating advice off that friend since, although we are still friends.