If you pay your bills on time, you can take advantage of that. You can think of it as a tiny discount, but the credit card company thinks of you as dead weight.

However, those companies also have clever mathematicians who have figured out how much to give you back and how much interest to demand from the people who don’t pay their bills on time. The house always wins.

Money first, stuff later = gift card
Stuff first, money later + extra money = credit card

LabVIEW is definitely programming of some sort, but doesn’t feel at all like programming. Pretty marginal example, but still…

Well, the point and click part was a bit extreme. Still true in some rare cases, but actual programming still requires a keyboard.

However the RAM thing is interesting. Haven’t actually written any code in the 70’s and 80’s, but what I’ve heard from people who did, RAM was a huge bottle neck. Well, pretty much everything was. Even the bandwidth between your terminal and the mainframe was a bottle neck that made you suffer.

Back in those days, programmers were painfully aware of the hardware limitations. If you wanted your code to run within a reasonable amount of time, you absolutely had to focus on optimizing it.

You get zooted. Here’s a video that explains everything you need to know.

Oh, but there is one thing Lemmy can replicate. !slop@hexbear.net

description: “For posting all the anonymous reactionary bullshit that you can’t post anywhere else.”

The whole planet and everything in it is completely riddled with viruses. Better steer clear if you value your life. If they ever send you a message, delete it without reading a single word of it.

Glad I could help!

LOL. You’re welcome!

I like to think that viruses are just an inevitable consequence of having biochemical machines we call “life”.

Yep. Bio weapons are terrible in every way. Now that RNA vaccines are in production, making new vaccines just got a whole lot faster.

And then there are also point and click adventure games and even visual novels. Who hates those?

New fear unlocked.

LOL. Several levels deep in first world problems…

I hate online PvP FPS games, and I know it’s a 100% skill issue. I like to think that the same logic also applies to those who hate all games.

Prime horror movie material.

You trust your body. You trust your mind. But what if the enemy… is already inside you?

They’re not viruses. They’re not bacteria. They’re your own proteins… twisted. Hungry.

They hide in the folds of your brain. They wait in the silence of your cells. And when they strike… you won’t even know you’re already lost.

PRIONS

COMING TO AN ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM NEAR YOU

Wait until you hear about viruses or prions. Truly terrifying nanobots. Worst of all, they already exist. Those things are out there right now.

Yeah, that would be nice. My previous car had a diesel engine, so you can imagine how much I would have loved to have a heater in there. Also, the windshield was totally old-school too, so no heating there either. Just start the engine, and start scraping. Every. Morning. Well, at least the seats were warm, but literally nothing else was.

For a small desk just big enough for a laptop, ergonomic keyboards aren’t an option. However, if you have a large desk but still can’t fit a nice keyboard, consider decluttering to create more space.

Yeah I have those gloves too. They’re ok for mildly chill weather like 0 °C, but when the inside of the car goes below -10 °C you really begin to miss proper mittens. When it’s -20 °C, mittens are the only realistic option.

In colder parts of the world you actually drive with mittens on. I have no idea how’s that going to work with modern touch screen cars.