To be fair, though, human sex is way better than mermaid sex.

Watching some guy fertilize your eggs after you lay them … it just isn’t the same, you know?

people would pay a bunch to be able to destroy anything with his name on it

Chumps.

They don’t tell you this, but you can destroy things with his name on it for free, anytime you want!

The table is a temporary addition that clips/clamps on. It probably belongs to the restaurant and would be removed before driving anywhere.

(In fact, actually … look at the underside of the other guy’s serving tray. It seems to have a folding mechanism on the bottom of it, and I think it’s the same thing. Their serving trays are made to be clamped onto car windows to provide customers with a little table.)

Anyway, in modern times, we have nifty inventions called ‘cup holders’ in our cars, that allow us to hold beverage bottles conveniently in place without compromising aerodynamics.

You’re still stuck with right aligned decorations

Uh … no you’re not.

Here – here’s how you configure it to have all the decorations left-aligned if you want that for some reason. Took me all of 20 seconds:

sandwich buttons on sidebars

Not sure which sidebars you’re talking about … and not sure whether you’re complaining about having the sandwich buttons there (and apparently not being able to get rid of them?) or if you’re complaining that the sandwich buttons aren’t somewhere else instead.

no native toolbar widgets

Again, not sure which toolbar you’re talking about? Must be talking about some app’s toolbar, right? Because if you want ‘toolbar widgets’ on the desktop, you could easily add an extra ‘panel’ at the top, call it a toolbar, and put various widgets in it.

You can do some light theming, but the overall way it works is the same.

Eh… I think you just haven’t really gotten into it. You can do a lot to change how KDE works. Like … crazy a lot. It’s kind of (in)famous for being so customizable.

If you go into specifics about how you want it to work, I bet I can figure out a way to make it work like that.

Well, I suspect it was both.

They’re going to have lots of skilled, well-treated and well-paid workers there. The kind of workers doing the organizing, planning, directing, and finish work. Their equivalent of engineers, managers, foremen, skilled craftsman. I’m sure they could fill an entire dormitory with just decorative hieroglyphics carvers alone. And then another dormitory full of artists to paint and colorize those hieroglyphics. A large pyramid would require hundreds, maybe thousands of these skilled/experienced workers.

But then there’s also the 200 poor bastards hauling ropes to pull a giant stone slab up a ramp. And another 200 waiting at the bottom for their turn to haul the next one. And I’m betting those workers were not well-paid and well-treated. Those are the ones who were likely slaves, used basically as beasts of burden.

It just looks and feels like crap.

But … you can easily change how it looks?

I’m sorry, that must be frustrating.

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And unlike Windows, they didn’t backtrack on it. Instead, they doubled down and said, “You’ll use your computer our way, and you’ll like it!”

IMO, the whole interface is a mess. It’s designed as if it’s supposed to be a tablet/moblie first DE, but the actual tablet/mobile features (like on-screen keyboard) are kind of crap. Everything about it seems to be designed with aesthetics first, functionality last.

Tankies be like, “There are two types of people in the world: people who suck Putin’s dick and genocide-supporting liberals.”

This is parody, right?

My nephew is also my godson

I read that as ‘my nephew is also my grandson’ at first … and it brought up some questions, lol!

Should try a 2-stroke motorcycle sometime, though.

When is the last time NASA blew up a rocket on the launch pad?

Maybe privatizing spaceflight wasn’t such a good idea.

What’s the point of being able to change a circuit board?

If you need a circuit that acts in multiple different configurations, you just use transistors (or other switching devices) to make and break those connections as needed. You don’t need to physically move traces around on the board, you just lay permanent traces in all the places you need, then switch those traces on and off to change the configuration.

This sounds like a 12 million dollar solution to a problem that’s already been thoroughly solved in a more efficient, effective way.

When you threaten to throw people out of windows if you get news of failure, then you’ll only get news of success.

Sure, anecdotally, some engineera are increasing their output dramatically.

And it’s questionable whether they really are.

A) Are they actually producing more? Some studies on the subject have found that coders who use AI think they’re more productive that way, but their productivity actually goes down when objectively measured.

B) Yes, they’re churning out lots and lots of code, but is the code any good? Does it even work? Is it riddled with bugs that will have to be fixed later?

C) Is all that code they’re churning out maintainable? Does anyone working on it actually understand how it works? Will they be able to make updates and changes to it over time? … Or is all this ‘productivity’ coming at the cost of piling up huge amounts of technical debt in the future that will have to be paid when future devs have to wade through and fix all the AI slop code?

Depends, are you trying to impress customers or investors?

“Don’t worry, boss. I type ‘make money for my boss, please’ into the AI prompt every hour on the hour. So you should have tons of money rolling in by now.”