personally i find kate struggles with large files. KWrite is a better analog to notepad IMO

QA Manager. I started out as a test analyst, then taught myself to code with JS, C#, Python and a little bit of C++. moved into a test automation engineer role then a QA engineer at a different company before being promoted to manager

fr, i remember being mind blown when bitcoin hit £240.

If i had had some at that point i probs would have cashed out.

My old housemate lost like half a dozen btc in the Mt.Gox collapse

hasnt that already happened with a data breach? i remember reading something about it

till the power goes out

among the not tech inclined? not many i’d reckon

Everyone over the age of 45 and is not tech inclined

My GF hated it.

I watched it for the second time recently

As someone in the tech industry i can say that now is a pretty terrible time to lose your job.

The market was booming during covid but is very dry right now. Many companies have had lots of layoff and the market is saturated with candidates

my main language is script java

Lexus RX450h Advance

It’s not big big, but still big enough to fall into the SUV class, and certainly quite big for the tiny roads in the UK

picrel isn’t mine, but is very similar

subways are only economical in big cities though.

No one is building a subway in my town, would be waaaaay to expensive. they couldnt even keep a tram system going

I imagine it’s still orders of magnitudes better than everyone driving their own car in.

Same with busses. Don’t let perfect be the enemy of the good

Russia have demonstrated the ability to carry out chemical weapons attacks on mainland UK soil.

if a full on exchange we would be out of air defence ammunition very quickly.

the british military slashed budgets considerably after 2008. we’ve maintained special forces and we decomissioned our last carrier before its replacement was ready. we’re back up to 2 carriers now but dont have enough planes to put on them.

we have virtually no stockpiles of artillery and our land forces are small.

you cant sell/buy a tool but i wonder if you can hire a contractor to build you one.

Theres quite a lot of humans on this planet. collectively we are capable of performing more than a single task y’know.

I’m not a climate scientist, but i am a programmer. i’d be much more useful on this sort of thing than trying to program my way out of climate change

My gripe is that i was on an ad free tier. They just changed it so that the tier that was previously add free now had ads.

If they had added an ad free tier below my tier i would probably still be a subscriber.

“you watch ads now, pay more or fuck off” didnt sit well with me so i fucked off

Libre office writer is a thing

WFH was a £6.6k tax free bonus a year for me.

I hope it never ends