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I'd say it's kind of like room temperature. Lukewarm may be a little above room temp. The antonym would be any other temperature

It's sort of like the PC User Groups that were more or less rendered redundant by the internet. I remember going to the HAL-PC (Houston Area League of PC Users) monthly general meetings as a kid and there could easily be over a thousand people there when they'd do things like having Microsoft and Lotus come and present their latest versions of Excel/123 in a "shootout". There were great door prizes, too. The internet came and there just wasn't a need for that anymore. It's kind of a shame, though, just because it felt like a real community thing.

Knobs on a mouse UI suck

I mean, I can sing or whistle any song I can think of -surely thousands of tunes- without thinking about what I need to do with my lips. That same mechanism that connected tune in head to lips and mouth can also connect tune in head to fingers on piano with enough effort.

What about just trying the doorknob to see if it's locked. Is that illegal?

Loved me some Frac!

It is a common thing among those who grow up being praised for their intelligence. If one comes to base their self-worth on their intelligence and believe it is a static quality they were born with, struggling and/or failing could demonstrate that perhaps they weren't as smart as people gave them credit for and thus decrease their inherent self-worth. They quit things if they don't immediately excel at them or just adopt the "slacker" role and put in minimal effort, brushing off their failures as merely the result of not really caring about whatever it was they were attempting. "Eh, I could have been good at [x], but it bored me" or whatever

No read performance? Other than being solid state, that's the real advantage of SSDs, especially non-sequential ones. I typically use an SSD for the OS and applications, and then use a regular hard drive for the actual content that I work with which needs better write performance. It may take (very) slightly longer to install the applications to the SSD, but they start up faster.

Maintaining the value of commercial real estate?

My company mandated everyone back in the office but everyone still meets via Teams, even when we have offices next door to each other. Making people come is just dumb. Imagine the environmental benefits, traffic reduction and inflation hedge that would result from outlawing return-to-office mandates for jobs that can be performed remotely. Of course, that will never happen because commercial real estate would tank.

IDK, all the NBs are a bit distracting

SQL is pretty darn perfect for its purpose. As long as databases exist, SQL will exist. It is also super easy and intuitive to learn- I taught myself and it has been my bread and butter for the ~17 years since .

Why not just use air pressure for the whole thing? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beach_Pneumatic_Transit

Played way too much Pickaxe Pete as a kid. I can still hear that sound when he goes through the doors to another level. K.C. Munchkin was pretty cool, too- even had a level editor!

"What's that? I couldn't hear you over my keyboard clacking!"

The Sistine Chapel?

I just wanted to add salient to sentience and sapience ;)

I'm not sure that's salient to this conversation

I think the primary goal here is to create an exercise for exploring different graph theory concepts, not to actually be useful. You're thinking too much :)

Sadly, the most profitable use for the CO2 might be piping it to an aging oil field and using it for a [CO2 flood](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide_flooding) to recover more oil. So even when you're doing good you're still doing bad. :\

We need fusion yesterday

Mine's been solid black back since 1986 :)

You mean Froot

I'm all for being gender-neutral for the sake of neutrality, but the idea that the use of "he" somehow hurts people's safety or well-being sounds a bit absurd to me.

Does that reverse the brain damage?

We cannot tell the difference between a color which is a mixture of two (or more) frequencies of light, and a pure color, whereas we can tell chords from notes. (In spite of notes having harmonics).

Wouldn't we have to be able to distinguish polarity to tell the difference?

Exactly! Furtwängler is just Beethoven chopped and screwed

I love the recording I have of Academy of St Martin in the Fields that has The Art of Fugue and Musical Offering (Philips, 1994). Both works are beautiful explorations of counterpoint. Especially MO if you read the story behind it. And the Crab Canon... Bach blows my mind. TBH I am no audiophile, but I like their performance. Have you heard it?

I have [this CD](https://www.allmusic.com/album/vivaldi-the-four-seasons-conc...) from 1990 of Vladimir Spivakov and the Moscow Virtuosi playing Vivaldi's Four Seasons. I have never heard a version of the Four Seasons that was so vibrant. Unfortunately I've never been able to find the exact recording on a streaming service, but I cherish that album.

That might be the sort of message that, while it seems poignant and clever to thinking people, will be lost on the masses and actually end up backfiring and making things worse