Tim Hunkins is a treasure, and I love rewatching his Secret Life of Machines series every few years.

Honestly unless you're working in low-level fields, such as embedded hardware, or optimized code generation, those are real-life scenarios!

(Thinking more of license-checking, and serial-number generation rather than infinite lives.)

Sadly it seems the blog post that was released in the past is no longer available, but the wayback machine has a copy

https://web.archive.org/web/20220303135439/https://oldblog.a...

That provides background about the constraints/limitations in this code.

Restored. Recently I migrated all my stuff into a new server and missed to migrate the /pages of the old blog. Thanks.

There's no federal entitlement to being paid if you're sick, so companies come up with their own policies.

So companies often have a strange concept of "sick days", a specific number of days a year you're allowed to be sick. If you're sick more than that you have to use your vacation days, or unpaid leave when you're sick.

(And of course American companies often have weirdness around vacations too. More so in companies where there is allegedly "unlimited time off". But that's kinda off-topic now.)

Thank you for the explanation.

During COVID my company had mandatory days off (I think 14) if you reported any COVID symptoms. Those days were unpaid of course. The cherry on top is the people paid the lowest were the ones who couldn't work from home and were most likely to get COVID. This was pretty common at other places too.

Pies is eshewing systemd?

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You can read more about this gem of a game upon the digital antiquarian:

https://www.filfre.net/2014/10/starflight/

I got a Pikachu tattoo a few years ago, and after agreeing the design/placement the artist held up a series of coloured inks and made me do a binary-search, saying "This one, or that one?" and I think there were about six to choose from.

To me it was obvious there was one correct colour for Pikachu to be, she approved of my choice and said "Ahh yes the original design" which puzzled me at the time, but I guess there a nuances to the shades and versions of characters like this, which evolve over time (pun intended).

As for me? Tattoos fade over time so the colour is different than it used to be, but everyone who looks at it knows exactly what it should be so that's fine.

Interesting choice, why Pikachu?

I always feel like it's too mainstream, I like the uncommon ones more

Why do you find it in interesting that someone chose something mainstream? Isn't that the definition of mainstream, that it's a common choice?

I have a child, and I got a sleeve made up of various things that he was obsessed by over the years.

So there's a Moomin character (Little My) because we're in Finland and he loves them, there's Tom & Jerry because he loved those cartoons, a new-life mushroom from the years we spent together playing Super Mario Bros on the Nintendo classic.

But rather than list all the parts, you can see where this is going now, there's also Pokémon because he was obsessed with playing with the cards, memorizing all the evolution chains and stats/types.

When I was planning it was obvious there'd be a Pokémon due to his (continuing) interest in those and to me as a non-fan that's the most immediately-recognizable one.

Plus the colour works well with the colour-choices made in the other pieces. Although ironically the part I like best is the "naked" LEGO minifig. I like to colour him in with felt-tip pens every now and again, or draw a facial expression on him to reflect my mood when bored in meetings.

I had the same thought, and similar disappointment when I couldn't find anything referencing Trogdor and his burninating ways.

BroScience.