There’s a little historical baggage, but look at Windows: multiple letters for drives, and all of the paths can be modified, so you have to ask Windows where any important directory is physically mapped (like SystemRoot or Documents or Temp or Roaming AppData or many others), because it doesn’t have this nice consistent structure like Linux. Linux presents a logical layer and manages the physical location automatically. Windows makes you do the logical lookup yourself, but doesn’t enforce it, so inexperienced programmers make assumptions and put stuff where the path usually is.

That’s part of why logging in to Windows over a slow connection can take forever if you have a bunch of Electron apps installed: they’ve mismapped their temp/cache directory under the Roaming AppData, so it gets synched at every login, often GiB of data, and they refuse to fix it.

Especially EVs, or especially Teslas?

When did brute force switch from being an antipattern to the preferred pattern?

There’s a whole book about this: # Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America by Barbara Ehrenreich.

Ehrenreich left her home, took the cheapest lodgings she could find, and accepted whatever jobs she was offered. Moving from Florida to Maine to Minnesota, she worked as a waitress, a hotel maid, a cleaning woman, a nursing-home aide, and a Wal-Mart sales clerk. She lived in trailer parks and crumbling residential motels. Very quickly, she discovered that no job is truly “unskilled,” that even the lowliest occupations require exhausting mental and muscular effort. She also learned that one job is not enough; you need at least two if you intend to live indoors.

https://bookshop.org/p/books/nickel-and-dimed-20th-anniversary-edition-on-not-getting-by-in-america-barbara-ehrenreich/9836607?ean=9781250808318

Air rifles are a pretty different type of gun.

SNW is so good I’d sooner toss TOS if forced to choose (which I’m not). The musical episode is vastly better than Turnabout: Intruder.

Zero is freezing

10 is not

20 is pleasing

30 is hot

40 frying

50 dying

He took a series of very shallow breaths, and then said as quickly and as quietly as he could, ‘Door, if you can hear me, say so very, very quietly.’

Very, very quietly, the door murmured, ‘I can hear you.’

‘Good. Now, in a moment, I’m going to ask you to open. When you open do not want you to say that you enjoyed it, OK?’

‘ΟΚ.’

‘And I don’t want you to say to me that I have made a simple door very happy, or that it is your pleasure to open for me and your satisfaction to close again with the knowledge of a job well done, OK?’

‘ΟΚ.’

'And do not want you to ask me to have a nice day, understand?"

‘I understand.’

‘OK,’ said Zaphod, tensing himself, ‘open now.’

The door slid open quietly. Zaphod slipped quietly through. The door closed quietly behind him.

‘Is that the way you like it, Mr Beeblebrox?’ said the door out loud.

— Life, the Universe, and Everything

It’s actually meditation, isn’t it?

…unless you’re a horta.

Annie Linux, but sadly it doesn’t exist yet.

“I came here the easy way: down the stairs.”

“Down the stairs? To Ursa Minor‽ Wow, you must be unbelievably fit.”