Hello, Mr. Doctorow. Good day!

I learned long ago to accept constructive criticism and move on. I always have the knee-jerk reaction of getting offended, but then I think twice, and I shrug it off. We can’t each know everything about everything.

BTW, grammar is effing hard to get right, and the internet and the reality of text messaging has really cemented some bad habits and misconceptions.

For the record, I don’t fault you at all for “incorrect” use of punctuation. I just didn’t really get the premise of the post, and I’m a pedantic troll by nature, so here we are.

Happy cake 🍰day, friend!

Thank you! I just realized that everything I was stressed about having to do this week is actually next week. So: yay!

The safety improvements include curb extensions at 30-plus intersections, nine crossings with rectangular rapid flashing beacons, 30-plus all-way stops, and traffic signal improvements like leading pedestrian intervals.

That’s not Linux, though; that’s docker.

Oh, come on! You learned something, and you still got your upvotes!

Yes! And we can all agree that Shatner never added an unnecessary pause. ❤️

Maybe now. .NET wasn’t always open, used to be Windows-only, was buggy, version-dependent (but not as bad as the jre could be; true), and had (still has) poor resource-management. I think you’re talking about .NETCore.

That said, I wasn’t commenting on the code viability (I’m not a professional developer) so much as the support overhead required (back when I worked support) for the different versions of .NET, especially when MS stopped including v3.5 in Windows except by using “features and programs” or downloading and installing it manually.

Fun thread.

Actually commas are specifically to be read as a pause. One that I did want to be read in there.

It may have been silly but, that is how I said it aloud, and how I wanted it to be read. While it may have been extra, that is what I was going for.

Your lack of commas in the first sentence above implies that “actually commas” are a kind of comma. A comma of the actually variety.

The third sentence just needs the comma moved in front of the word, “but,” unless you are saying the title was, “silly but,” which isn’t a kind of silly (though my kids used to get, “silly butt,” when they were tired). Your final sentence above is spot-on, but not just, “because you pause.” You pause because of the independent clauses. “It may have been extra,” and, “That is what I was going for,” are independent clauses that could stand on their own as separate sentences, so you join them with a comma and add, “while.”

You’re saying it out loud incorrectly.

The main thing with your title is that the pause doesn’t belong there, even if you think you should say it aloud that way. Just because Sir David Attenborough might say it that way doesn’t mean you write it that way.

I’ll fix the quoted comment for you:

Actually, commas are specifically to be read as a pause; one that I did want to be read in there.

It may have been silly, but that is how I said it aloud and how I wanted it to be read. While it may have been extra, that is what I was going for.

Can’t read past the superfluous comma. Send help

I can get onboard with the first sentence only. Keep the pretty cows away from me. Otherwise, I’m canceling our plans. 🙃

Many of us started running Windows Server and endpoints, but in my case, the cost and substandard tools turned me away. I was running A DLNA server and using WDS (yes, very overkill for home, but fun to learn for work), but then I found TrueNAS (then called FreeNAS) running on BSD. I now run a simple share from there and Kodi on my (Linux and Android) user endpoints. I don’t bother with imaging anymore, and use dd for backups to my NAS. My Firewall runs OPNSense (BSD) and I run OpenWRT on two TrendNet WAPs.

I’ll never go back to MS. It’s just not a welcoming platform from my perspective. Don’t even get me started on .NET or the various and sundry “redistributables” constantly required by every tool you try to use.

my distaste for MS grew

This is a natural progression. Inescapable.

Ugh. Finding a new doctor, even just for med management took me months. I called dozens, and so many were no longer practicing, or had been rolled into a local mega practice that has hoops to jump through and limited slots. I found a published solo doctor by chance, but he doesn’t accept insurance, and it’s $300 each 15 min visit. Thankfully, he doesn’t charge when we go over by 45 min.

It’s good that you have a supportive partner. Mine is propping me up big time lately. In grateful. Trust me: those cakes taste good, no matter how the glaze sets up! Whenever my wife and I watch baking competitions, we agree we’d east the ones that don’t win. Stodgy? Claggy? Gooey! 😋 Forget that Xfinity tech! My FTTH install was the same. You pay for installation. Might as well get some info! Now get some cool STL files (is 3D printing still done from STL files?) and get ready to print some cool stuff!

I love a good distraction!

❤️

I had a bad time driving the other night and realized I need to be more aware of his the meds are testing me before I drive next time. I curb rashed a perfectly good wheel. 😠AI is making everything dumb and more expensive, and nvidia’s CEO thinks we all should have a $10k “agentic computer” for our AI assistants who hand purchasing power and their own (not our) computer. My lifelong love of computer tech is being tested by this stupid AI craze.

But, all things considered, I am in a good place. Ish.

Today is my 🍰 day here on .world, and I go spend the day with my son to celebrate his HS graduation in a few hours. His graduation marked the last time I have to see his mother before his wedding or first child. That’s huge to me. My hypo is fading. The side effects of the meds are too (at least for now, at early titration levels), and maybe they’ll stay that way. My wife is mega-supportive, and even my emotionally-stunted mom seems to be sympathetic and understanding. My friends in Belize and I just reconnected yesterday and are planning a visit (me going there, as coming to the USA is too scary for even 🇺🇸 citizens, and they’re not that).

I was mindful before, but Bipolar is making me pause and think even more about how everything I do feels and affects others. That can only be good, I think.

Woah! Look at that; 3yrs since Spez ruined the internet for me. Glad to be here.

I’m sticking around, though I assume the novel part of my diagnosis will soon fade.