Jake Peralta?

Exactly my thinking. Could have been born and raised in much worse circumstances, considering everything going on in the world.

This is like a condensed movie! Jump scare, epic battle, moments of stark terror, problem resolved - or was it? Clearly open for a sequel. And also a better love story than Twilight!

“I’ll just be in here practicing my trombone.”

Well so would I if I had a stage manager. A craft services table would be nice too!

This is almost as great an achievement as warp drive.

Can’t everybody?

Maybe I do hear it in some sense, but in my head it doesn’t seem to have the sound of a voice in the sense that you hear Professor Farnsworth’s distinct voice when you read, “Good News, Everyone!” My own thoughts don’t seem to have a sound. Maybe it’s just a neutral sound that doesn’t seem to be a sound because it’s my own thoughts, I dunno.

People assume programmers know all about hacking. Because we “know about computers.”

It doesn’t have a sound, it’s just the words themselves.

A year or two ago I read about some guy who is still managing the trailer park he inherited from his dad with a TRS-80 (I think), using an app he wrote way back when. If it works it works!

Great question! If it’s only a few GB I wouldn’t bother with tape. There are other options like

• Google Photos - I’ve been using it for 10+ years without filling up the free 10 or 15 GB, whatever it is.
• Burning a bunch of DVDs, repeat every 5 years.
• Get a couple cheap hard drives then replace 1 of them every 3-5 years so one is always fairly new.

What “mere users” wanted used to be the prime directive for software development. Now it’s whatever scheme the marketing team comes up with.

Make it so, Number Two!

For a truly peak UI make the text very light gray on a white background, in the thinnest font possible.

The main point is that these interactions happen much less often IRL than online, where the anger trolls post relentlessly. If they acted like that in person almost nobody would ever talk to them, but for some weird reason they get a lot of takers online.

And Gloucestershire sounds like Glousteshire.

In his comments on the Jeeves & Wooster series Stephen Fry talked a bit about English family names. Among others, he said Mainwaring is pronounced “Mannering”, and Cholmondeley is “Chumley”.

Same here. One of my favorite bit-part actors is Siobhan Fallon, who played the wife of “Egger” in Men in Black. She absolutely stole the few scenes she was in. I didn’t know I was mispronouncing her name for years.

Just mentioned this in another thread - Kraken. I say it phonetically - "krayken - but for some reason the world says “cracken”.