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@fasterthanlime yeah, I am sure they increased it by 0.5% to support the local IT consultant business
@thomasfuchs yes, it really feels like a Victorian poorhouse simulator. I’ve never really considered that the feelings that make me want to rub away from the technology might be what attracts other, so thank you for that insight.
I just bought a dangerous boost buck converter at #39c3

common advice to new chess players is to never resign. it’s pretty simple why:

if you resign, then you don’t qualify for chess unemployment. better to be chess fired

Leo pointed out that C++20’s std::chrono overloads the `/` operator to provide date creation syntax. Surely Ruby can do better?

```
>> module ISO8601
Month = Data.define(:y, :m) { def -(d) = Date.new(y, m, d) }
refine(Integer) { def -(m) = Month.new(self, m) }
end

>> using ISO8601
>> 2025-12-29
=> #<Date: 2025-12-29 ((2461039j,0s,0n),+0s,2299161j)>
```

I had a so called ”shower thought”…
When you’re in a job interview and they go ”do you have any questions?”
Ask them for their most used emoji in the team, the statistics probably shows a lot…
@abcdd okay, sending lots of energy to them! Take care of yourselves!
@abcdd while scrolling through the Wayback Machine yesterday I learned that you tried to hold a self-organised session tonight about the importance of internationalism in war and the invasion of Ukraine that has since been removed (censored?)
Want to still chat about it?

@brouhaha In a rare Qualcomm W, they kinda solved this by the magic of `=`.

`R3 = add(R1, R2)` is kinda hard to misinterpret.

@fasterthanlime Have you considered snooz?