Being rich is often the answer, but also, it is possible to travel much more inexpensively than most tourists do if you don’t care so much about comfort and predictability. Go in off seasons. Ride the cheapest class of public transport to get around. Couchsurf or stay in sketchy hostels. Cook your own food or eat where the locals eat instead of at the places where the staff speaks perfect English.
Do they already have savings enough to support until they retire?
No reason to assume they won’t get jobs after they’re done traveling.
Yes, but much less than I used to. When I don’t have a particular goal in mind and just want to doomscroll a bit, I find myself checking Lemmy first, and only if I run out of things to read, which I usually don’t, do I move on to Reddit.
There are still some niche communities that are active on Reddit and not here. So I do still go over there on purpose for those.
The AR wall was obvious but it doesn't bother me that much. Environments that require active suspension of disbelief have been a Star Trek staple since the 1960s.
Maybe they can redo FFXII and finish the story. That one pissed me off at the time: the story was just starting to build up steam and then nope, ignore all the plot threads we’ve been weaving, here’s a final boss battle out of the blue, end of game. Apparently it was having major schedule and budget overruns and the original director left for health reasons halfway through the project.
Agreed. All this reminds me a little of some of the discussions that inevitably appear in professional-photographer circles whenever some online service with photo-sharing features changes its terms and conditions. Everyone is convinced that the giant multinational company is spending millions in a laser-focused effort to steal business from photographers, because "making money with photographs" is the lens through which they view the world. And from that point of view it's hard to see that the entire industry of professional photography is too tiny to be worth Google's or Meta's time to even try to steal.
That last part is what I struggle with as someone whose mind always tries to see things from opposing perspectives whether I want it to or not.
Sometimes my wife will come home pissed off about something one of her coworkers said. She’ll tell me the story and I have learned the hard way that “I think your coworker had a point, because X” is not what she wants to hear from me.
My parents are teachers. In the 1970s, my mom’s school gave her a newfangled “personal computer” to take home for the summer and try to figure out some use for.
7-year-old me was addicted to the thing from day one and my mom barely got a chance to touch it all summer. Out of the box it didn’t do much, but the manuals showed you how to program it to do whatever you wanted to. I read those books cover to cover and inhaled all the other books and magazines on the subject I could find. Thinking up a program from scratch and seeing it do things on its own was unlike any experience I’d ever had.
Coming up on 50 years later, making computers do things is still a joy, I’m pretty good at it, and people pay me money to do it. Can’t complain about how that turned out!
And not even just “deciding” to delete them (though that’s true). Technical issues can prevent servers from receiving a deletion request even if they would have honored it.
I enjoyed the story, but even if I hadn't, I would have watched this just for the eye candy. The show is a visual feast. It's one of my go-to examples of how big-budget TV has become visually indistinguishable from big-budget movies.
I’m also not a fan of a series that turns books that are grounded in science and believability into a story featuring people with magic abilities like precognition and magic powers.
For me, the "grounded in science" ship had already sailed by the end of the original trilogy, when
::: spoiler book spoilers
the Second Foundation was revealed to be a shadowy group of mind-manipulating telepaths.
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That assumes people’s usage is all-or-nothing, though. I started using Lemmy and I now use reddit a lot less, but still use it for communities that don’t exist or aren’t active here. I don’t imagine I’m the only one in that boat.
A bit, yeah. Joining Lemmy got me to finally write up a technical idea I'd been intending to post for the last year or so. Figured it'd be a good way to help seed one of the programming communities with some content.
Like other commenters have said: gotta help the community grow, and it won't grow if there's nothing interesting for people to read.
Opinions vary on the combat, but I think the consensus is that the first game has the best level design. Some people even say it has the best level design of any game, period. Not sure I’d go that far but it is a work of art.
You will wonder why I say that until you get maybe 30-40% through the game. To say more would be to spoil one of the coolest revelations I’ve experienced in a game.
Anyone done compile time comparisons with the K2 compiler? Sadly it chokes on my code base (known bug with static fields in Java classes) but I’m curious to hear if it lives up to its promise of cutting build times down significantly.
When I first started using Lemmy, the "subscription pending" thing bugged me and I mashed the subscribe button a lot to get rid of it. But it doesn't seem to actually mean much in practice and I stopped paying attention to it. I still see posts in my feed from communities where my subscription is pending, same as the subscribed ones.
I too was shocked by how much it feels like Apollo and how silky smooth it is. I no longer even care whether or not someone makes a native iOS app for Lemmy.
Got 20/20, was rewarded with a message, “You're more resilient to misinformation than 100% of the US population!” and looked for the Fake button because as a member of the US population, that is a mathematical impossibility.
My wife isn’t a native English speaker, so we usually watch with subtitles in her native language when they’re available. (Kudos to Netflix, Apple, and Amazon for the wide selection of subtitle languages on their original shows.)
This works great: I am not literate enough in her language to find the subtitles distracting, and she can follow along with less effort than when the subtitles are in English. Unfortunately it breaks down as soon as the characters start speaking another language. Then I have to pause, rewind a bit, and set the subtitle language to English for the duration of the scene.
Being rich is often the answer, but also, it is possible to travel much more inexpensively than most tourists do if you don’t care so much about comfort and predictability. Go in off seasons. Ride the cheapest class of public transport to get around. Couchsurf or stay in sketchy hostels. Cook your own food or eat where the locals eat instead of at the places where the staff speaks perfect English.
No reason to assume they won’t get jobs after they’re done traveling.