important question (please boost I really want to know the results):

you start on the 40th floor of a building. this is a perfectly normal building, with a perfectly normal stairwell, where the doors are all on the north side, and there's a landing between floors on the south side where you turn around.

you start on the 40th floor and you walk to the 45th floor. if I asked you how many flights of stairs you climbed, how many would you say?

Periodic reminder that I'm a technical editor and writer looking to #GetFediHired

I found out today that I failed to get a gig where I had gotten to the last round of interviews, and I thought would be a really good fit. That's twice in two months.

At the same time, I'm doing some contract editing, and the author is replying to queries with "Great point!" and "I didn't think of that" and "Nice catch!" Which reminds me that I'm actually pretty good at this. Not sure if that helps or not.

The thing about apps like mIRC, ICQ, and Winamp is that they felt like they were made by people who used them. Apps today feel like they were designed by a committee looking at a spreadsheet.

When an app is missing basic features and still pesters me whenever I open it to try some new AI bullshit, I wonder if the PM got the promotion they were going for.

That’s one of the things I like about open source apps. Even if they’re less polished, you can feel they are made by people who use them.

Crazy read: detecting positions of players in Counterstrike by *listening to their GPU over a microphone*

https://faculty.cc.gatech.edu/~genkin/papers/lendear.pdf