If you get the wrong idea about how good they actually do it’s not because you got my scale wrong, it’s because I spent 5 minutes thinking about how I feel they do.

What do they spend the money on instead?

Do you get value for your money in your country?

I’m okay with paying my taxes, don’t really care if it’s more or less as long as they are responsible with spending it.

I rate my town government B- and national government B+ when it comes to responsibility.

I pay tax so that someone else can figure out who murdered who.

Please, I only have one life and I don’t want to spend it thinking about miserable things.

No chainsaw in the world can prevent you from chopping your leg off. Modern ones have a kickback bar, safety throttle, chain catcher, centrifugal clutch etc making it harder.

C++ gives you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot. If you did not know rope could do that you should have read the manual.

It’s like a chainsaw with all the bells and whistles but all the safety features removed. Sure you can chop wood with it really fast and probably stone too if you #include diamondteeth library, you can even hammer in nails if you #include hammer. But you are alone responsible for your safety and it’s probably not the best tool for any given job.

I’m pretty sure they would be just as self absorbed as we are. When your arms are not long enough to itch just about anywhere all you can think of is how much your back is itching.

I used to have a lot of these. Not sure where I lost my need to tell anyone about it.

I was thinking the same but I realized I am not sure I have a computer with a CD drive or a mother board that supports my old IDE drive

I don’t know, I’m more and more satisfied with life the older I get

I was told the same thing but I don’t really feel anxious very often.

Corporate group chats are for some reason.

Over the years I’ve used various gaming VoIP services and they’ve always been better.

6. As long as i can stop smiling at funerals. I’m not unhappy but more is better.

Then 4. 5. Or 9. Are my options.

I’ll probably take 9. I have enough money today but I’ve been disciplined with my spending my entire life. It’s just something that I can stop thinking about.

4. Or 5. Would just be vanity, but if I’m happy I don’t really see the problem. Maybe 2. So I don’t have to think about that either.

It’s an ancient solution that is called smuggling.

You should expect about one recession every 5-10 years.

They are all “once in a lifetime” in their own way if you want to sell news headlines.

Yeah, what are you good at?

I bring 12 years of experience with system x and system y. I’m an engineer but I enjoy selling customers solutions, not just telling them what they need to buy.

I think you could do it with a bitwise xor. Any pixel that is not zero should be different.

2 or 4 depending on how strict you are.

And the one big customer who has standardized on xlsx, docx etc and use one of the two features that make the file look awful on anything not ms.

At work we run some software that while you can get it to run under Linux it’s not worth the effort even for me to bother.

One supplier is slowly moving towards the runtime being available on BSD at least. They also somewhat decoupled from visual studio in the latest release, while still being mandatory still it’s a step in the right direction.