I’ve been using LibreOffice and before that OpenOffice for as long as I’ve known about them being options. It’s honestly baffling to me that any home user would ever pay for MS Office. What on Earth does it offer that any home user could conceivably need?

i is still a value type, that never changes. Which highlights another issue I have with the explanation as provided. Using the word “reference” in a confusing way. Anonymous methods capture their enclosing scope, so i simply remains in-scope for all calls to those functions, and all those functions share the same enclosing scope. It never changes from being a value type.

I think the explanation they provide is a bit lacking as well. Defining an anonymous function doesn’t “create a reference” to any variables it uses, it captures the scope in which it was defined and retains existing references.

The WTF in the C# example seems to be that people don’t understand anonymous functions and closures?

That’s exactly what we ended up doing. Every story has now become one Fibonacci step higher than it would have been before.

Management where I work finally unbent and admitted that story points were time.

…but also want to continue raising velocity in each sprint.

Exactly this. I had a character go to a brothel in a campaign I ran. I just said okay, you go to the brothel and have whatever you consider a good time. No further detail or RP was requested or required.

They have a vested interest in their borrowers not dying. This manifests as not lending to people at increased risk rather than any kind of protective or preventive action.

C# .NET using reflection, integer underflow, and a touch of LINQ. Should work for all integer types. (edit: also works with char values)

// this increments i
private static T Increment<T>(T i)
{
    var valType = typeof(T);
    var maxField = valType.GetField("MaxValue");
    var minField = valType.GetField("MinValue");
    if (maxField != null)
    {
        T maxValue = (T)maxField.GetValue(i);
        T minValue = (T)minField.GetValue(i);

        var methods = valType.GetTypeInfo().DeclaredMethods;
        var subMethod = methods.Where(m => m.Name.EndsWith("op_Subtraction")).First();
               
        T interim = (T)subMethod.Invoke(
            null,
            [i, maxValue]);

        return (T)subMethod.Invoke(
            null, 
            [interim, minValue]);
    }
    throw new ArgumentException("Not incrementable.");
}

Louise Belcher and Boo Boo.

I’m the primary developer for a third party tool for Elite Dangerous and this is basically my entire thought process when I want to work on it.

I could work on Observatory…

Or I could play some Elite…

Or I could just stare at my screen ineffectually for several hours.

Staring at the screen wins frighteningly often.

Mouse, keyboard, monitor, another phone, storage, headphones, a car.

Half Life Alyx, Lone Echo, and Asgard’s Wrath are all incredible experiences that actually feel like “real games” that made meaningful and justifiable use of VR.

Beat Saber and Robo Recall get honorable mentions from me as well because while neither is groundbreaking, both execute their particular niche more or less perfectly.

Browsing various VR software storefronts now you find basically nothing like any of the above. Everything seems to be trying to mimic the mobile game “quick distraction” approach and shovel out as much garbage as possible rather than creating anything engaging. For anyone who believes that VR has genuine potential for exciting new experiences, as I do, it’s incredibly disheartening.

I’m looking at the one for my OLED deck right now and it’s labelled as 45W (20V 2.25A).

Definitely did not expect Konsi doing a Street Fighter 6 Cammy cosplay.

Hence the thicker gauge wire.

The Steam Deck charger is 45W.

“Dumb” power cords have thicker gauge wire than USB-C cables and much larger contacts.

In Force of Nature (S07E09) they discover that high speed warp travel can damage the fabric of space and a speed limit of warp 5 is set by the Federation for non-emergency travel. It gets referenced a couple of times in the final season of TNG but doesn’t come up much after.

Though arguably Voyager’s situation and the Dominion War could both be reasonably considered “emergencies”. It’s also been suggested that the Federation was very quick to develop warp drives that didn’t cause this damage (this is one official but never-published explanation given for the Intrepid Class variable geometry warp nacelles).

Warp 8 was the most common warp factor used for general travel on TNG. Warp 9.2 was actually the maximum sustainable cruising speed of a Galaxy class ship. This was played for a laugh in Menage a Troi when Picard called for Warp 9 when returning Lwaxana to Betazed at the end of the episode.