I'm a bit younger also my parents had slight luddite tendencies, so we got a microwave in the 90s. It did come with its own cookbook. Mostly it was used as an adjunct, prepping parts like rice or veggies and so on.

I spent about as much relatively recently (inflation adjusted) as that one cost as best as I could find, and you get a heck of a lot of microwave for that amount of money now! The one downside is this model is a bit spotty for microwave mug cakes because the duty cycle is a little obnoxiously long (10 seconds). If they had it at 2s it would be the perfect machine. On the other hand they've since released the inverter version, so that probably is.

I have used it for a rapid roast: from 0 to roast dinner in 45 mintues, but with the aid of an oven too. Basically nuke the spuds, slam them in the oven, nuke the chicken and then do the same. I do find it subs in for a second oven for large cooking events like a big dinner party, but takes a fraction of the space and is much more versatile the rest of the year.

What's the next step after having been rejected by several companies that had posted entry-level positions in your specialty within 10 km of your home?

They are. The trouble is that something really shitty pushed hard by a dominant player can destroy something much much better. Enshittification in action :(

I look forwards to the posts where because Apple is not an absolute monopoly they are somehow immune to any accusations of anti-trust.

No one would ever sign up to such insane terms if Apple wasn't in such a powerful position that they could dictate such terms. In other words, their position and size in the market is such that they can enforce things that no one would be able to do without that kind of size, regardless of product quality.

Them demanding this is 100% confirmation that anti trust action is entirely warranted.

Women seem to be perfectly able to be elected Governor.

Well not al the country is ragingly sexist.

America will absolutely vote for a female president.

There is no evidence this is true.

empty-headed,

Are you telling me that someone with a functioning, full head would ramble the following in a speech about crime?

But you want to have, when they come, the leaders come to our country to sign documents that the war is over or whatever, or for other reasons, they come for trade and you want them to come through so beautifully, you ride down those roads, everything should be perfect. You shouldn't have medians falling down into the roadway, median, the metal things that are always⦠Somebody had a great lobbyist because I've never seen them look good. I've been looking at those things with the little rut, they're always broken bad, but here they're really bad. We're going to either put new or fix it and it's not expensive, it's not really expensive or we're going to fix our roads a little bit. We're going to clean up our sidewalks.

So it seems like empty headedness is only important of you're a female candidate.

NPC

Ah yes, NPCs have famously bad AI like when they coded it wrong and got the US president to salute an enemy general. Oh right NPCness only matters if you're female, got it.

whose politics are whatever is popular this week.

Ah remember when that candidate railed against Mamdani as a " a 100% Communist Lunatic", then threatened arrest and insinuated he'd have his citizenship stripped? But then immediately flipped into a complete love-in when Mamdani won referring to him as a "really great mayor"? Oh no wait that was Trump, so apparently wild flip-flopping on politics only matters if you're a female presidential candidate.

As soon as one runs who isn't a completely unlikable opportunist,

Are you telling me Trump is likeable and not an opportunist? Turns out being one only matters if you're female.

It isn't sexism that has kept women from the White House

Absolutely it is. 100%.

BuT hEr EmAiLs!!111one. Lock her up!!! Remember that? Where's the rage against Trump for not imprisoning Hegseth? Oh yeah, turns out no one actually cared about the emails. So why did they claim to?

IOW you're a massive hypocrite. Literally everything you accuse Clinton and Harris of, Trump has done 100x worse.

Turns out dementia only mattered for Biden. When the choice was between Trump with dementia and Harris who had the gall to be female and not white, a "funny laugh" is way more important than dementia.

It's almost like the MAGAts were making up excuses for voting for Trump (even they know they need excuses funnily enough).

E.g. Microwaves have become more common

I've been winging it myself. I've not really found anywhere that makes more than surprisingly basic use of a microwave, so I've been experimenting on my own.

I hate recipe sites.

You do realise what they said applies to basically every category of site? Google want to feed you their own rehashed version of other people's works so you will stay with google, seeing google's ads and google gets to keep everything.

No one is going to produce anything to anonymously feed google's bottom line. If they keep this up it will destroy the best of the internet.

Now they should sleep in it.

Spite isn't a good reason to destroy. Is the person making this complaint one of the ones you have a beef with specifically? Because if not, the attitude of "some recipe writer pissed me off therefore they're all scumbags and we should let google destroy everything" doesn't really make sense to me.

Thing is they are not wrong, regardless of whether you personally like them.

People write stuff for all sorts of reasons. For clout. For fun. For money (ads). For the community. What literally no one does is write to anonymously feed google's bottom line with no recognition or remuneration. The internet is amazing because of the sheer breadth of stuff on it. And AI companies will happily kill the goose that laid the golden eggs, so they can feed you ads and get profit before people notice that there's nothing new in the slop.

Shooting the messenger because a different messenger wearing similar clothes annoyed you is just a terrible idea IMO.

Just theoretical for me.

Generally the legal system has been subject to people fucking around for a thousand years and can deal with it. Any cool hacks you can think of almost certainly won't work.

According to the terms of the GPL, they lose ALL rights to the software that they've violated the license of.

Now, they could find a workaround but they've been pretty profligate with their violations, so they'd need to either do a lot of legwork or come to terms with a lot of GPL code owners. Including the FSF who I'm sure will be very forgiving.

Given that hiring locally is the rule, how do engineers end up choosing, and affording to move to, a city in which to find their first job after university?

At which point, you're (basically) using C - again.

No, C++.

Rust like C++ has a powerful type system which you can use to enforce a whole bunch of stuff, automate away error prone, repetitive code and so on and so forth.

C and C++ are not the same language. Compared to C, Rust also gives you a ton of useful language stuff that's been developed in the last 60 years or so. This means not writing by hand tons and tons and tons of code you can get the compiler to write for you. That's less code to debug which means fewer bugs.

It also gives you better expressiveness to model the domain in the type system which again leads to shorter, less buggy code which is also more obvious.

Compared to C++: you don't generally IIUC wrap all rust code in unsafe blocks, which means the majority of the code has been verified free of some types of error which are very easy to make in C and moderately easy to make in C++. If you write all your code as unsafe and make use of that by bashing away at pointers, yeah there's not a significant difference (to C++, but still a bi improvement over C). But why would you do that?

Flying around the country to apply in person costs a lot of money, and I'd be surprised if most recent graduates can afford that plus the minimum student payment on Walmart wages.