The laptop I’m provided by work only has 16 gigs of RAM

Same here. Last company gave 64 GB which was beautiful if excessive. A friend of mine says his work gives him 128 GB + M5 Max for work that absolutely doesn't need it and I told him he was part of the problem lol

Also if Steam hardware is to be believed, most people have 16 GB (41%) followed by 32 GB (37%) and that's for gaming-specced machines, not your average person like my in-laws who are rocking a 12 GB iMac.

> not your average person like my in-laws who are rocking a 12 GB iMac

Even prior to the crunch 8 GB was normal if you weren't shopping premium gear. The truly budget stuff often still only had 4 GB which was ridiculous IMO (I told my relatives they were wasting their money).

Happiness is not a zero-sum game

If they were inversely proportional, it would be unity-product I guess.

Yes, the title of the photo is “Jumping spider (Salticus scenicus) with pollen”

Hah, ok, totally missed that, thank you. But it seemed an obvious candidate, they reminded me of those clingy balls that come off some plants so I figured they must be something like that.

Another class of biological thing that look broadly similar under magnification are fern spores. I guess moss spores too but I haven't seen those.

Interesting, I have some here I should look at them under a microscope.

what

Here is an example of supporting apartheid because “it was settled”:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47200328

It used to be dotCloud iirc

Dotcloud was a PaaS:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2032821

Then it pivoted to docker:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6634002

You could self-host GHE. Or Gitlab. Or Forejo.

Great ideas if working remote, can’t imagine busting out my Steam library in the office though.

we had a member of my team at a company about ~15years ago that they tried to fire for installing steam on their corporate laptop when they had sent him to another city for for what was supposed to be a week but ended up being three weeks. this was against our wishes (he didn't need to be there, there was no good reason for it, he could do all the work remotely from our office and had been doing it successfully for three months, the project was 'at risk' due to schedules but none of that was our fault at all).

I had a knockdown drag out fight with both HR and Security. I agree that it was probably better for him to have packed his own personal laptop or similar gaming device but security had shown absolutely no risk and it was clear that HR was just 'clucking to cluck'. Eventually they relented with a mealy mouthed 'warning'. The fact that he had installed steam after his stay had been extended and they couldn't show any evidence that he was playing during working hours was a hillarious, and lucky, footnote.

Time to bring back the Boss Button https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boss_button :)

Then its time to break out the good old MUDs

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup's text UI could be mistaken for Perl at a glance https://crawl.develz.org/

True story:

I was working in the Techstop (40) @ Google, 2011-ish, when a nice person from PeopleOps came through and politely requested my admin powers to help them install Steam on their corp-issued Windows laptop.

I'm sorry, what?

Well see, PeopleOps was going to have an onsite intending to help recruiters better understand Engineering types, and part of the whole business was going to involve everyone firing up a copy of Portal and playing a puzzle-solving video game.

So I immediately got to it. Never heard back as to the success of the endeavor, but turns out there are circumstances where you can break out your Steam library at work.

Coward! /s

You know they don’t.

No, it isn’t.

is audacity not multitrack?

Yeah but it’s not very good, crashes often and has been acquired by a company pushing some online subscription

let's hope audacity and audionaut will happily co-exist and learn form each other.