James Cameron distracts you and steals your money in increasingly elaborate ways

He wasn’t impressed and I didn’t make it to the next round.

Poor Stockholm syndrome afflicted fool

Breaks my heart to know people are still suffering this particular hell

That was always the fake dream that was sold, about 15 years ago there were a lot of people writing cukes

I never saw a single business analyst or product owner ever open even one of those text files that ostensibly primarily only existed for their benefit.

The closest we got was copy and pasting the user story from the ticket and hammering it into the shape of the existing regexes

Then we all woke up from the fever dream about 10 years ago and I’ve basically not seen one since.

Tbh with this AI bubble it’s only a matter of time before someone tries it again

Letterboxd is pretty good, though it got bought by private equity a few years ago and they’re now trying to flog it off to Netflix or Paramount, so probably numbered days

I think you’ve got the power dynamic wrong here

If OP is having to contact loads of estate agents, it’s probably because they live somewhere with in-demand property.

That means those estate agents are going to have loads of potential people to sell to

Someone who wants to do something differently than everyone else is going to get a lower priority over someone who just does everything they are asked without question.

The estate agent doesn’t really lose anything by doing this, OP risks reducing their chances at getting a place, ostensibly one they need to live in at some point soon.

I assume the standard “I didn’t wait to see the reviews” cosmetic that all pre-orders seem to give people these days

Oooh the beaver is half submerged, that took longer than I’d have hoped

I have something similar with my phone plan

My current plan (that I’ve been on for about 7 years now) includes unlimited everything and global roaming across basically anywhere I’ve ever visited (only had to get a separate ESIM once)

I’m regularly getting offers from them to switch to a plan with limits and more restricted roaming for only an extra 25% more a month…!

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Hmm assuming the disk isn’t super scratched up, I’m thinking you need to configure the region correctly.

I think if it was a decryption error, you’d have something different to a read error on what looks like one of the first blocks.

I remember there’s a cli utility for setting the region that you should be able to get from your package manager, I can’t remember the name off the top of my head

Edit: reread your post, regionset rings a bell actually. If it’s not available in your package manager, perhaps try building it from source

The other comments give the answer, but if you’re interested in the history of them, the Wikipedia article has a good bit of it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zine

What is the error that VLC gives you?

Conventional meal for this time of day

Or

Another black filter coffee

Choose your adventure!

Could double entendre it and do

[["😃", 0],
 [0, "😃"]]

For a JSON Bourne Identity

He makes about $150,000,000 a day, passively from his assets.

Wealth tax now.

I feel like that’s psychological torture

GitHub has been around for nearly 2 decades and was largely considered a mostly good thing until maybe the past couple of years. Also important to add that Microsoft seems to mostly have left it alone for the first couple of years (possibly with the exception of Atom, which it left very alone)

In addition to people just generally being slow to change, changing can take quite a bit of effort for some projects for varying reasons. Many of those same projects struggle to keep up with the maintenance workload, so they’re not going to jump at the chance to add more work to their plates.

Finally, some people just don’t care. For instance, the MIT license being popular is pretty hard evidence that FOSS doesn’t necessarily mean anti-corporate, and for many users GitHub still more or less does what it says on the tin.

Though I will say if the service disruptions and ad-injection bullshit continue you’ll only see GitHub competitors grow. GitLab seems to be going after their enterprise customers with some success.

You turn invisible off?

I see what my profile looks like sometimes (“last online 150 days ago”) and quickly toggle it just so people don’t think I cuddled a moving bus or something

This is pretty good, though I expect even if it’s accepted it’s going to be a long journey before you can reliably use it

If we’re adding stuff to http, it would be nice for some additional status codes, things have moved on a bit since the early days