beobab

I have GamePass, so I thought: "I'll give this a go. How hard can it be? I'm really good in Elite Dangerous."

Turns out: Quite hard. I have a newfound respect for airline pilots.

On a related note, even my RAF cadet experience 20 years ago counted for naught. Whilst I could keep the plane in the air, landing proved the most difficult, and I crashed and bounced and would not have survived without invulnerability switched on.

Weirdly, my initial thought there was "that's only 9 years ago", and then did a quick double take when I realised that it wasn't.

They already do to a certain extent. Damaged goods often find their way into the "reduced" section.

I learned to always have one database with every custom schema change in, and run my database unit tests (tSQLt is my favourite) on that one database.

I remember reading "Heirs of Empire" by David Weber, and it casually mentioned that Dakax had a database that was immutable. I remember thinking that was a good idea, and planned to think about it later, but alas I had forgotten about it by the time I'd finished the book.

[edit: added who's database it was]

I had to zoom in to 400% to be able to see the detail there.

Nice. Bought it and will try it out.

The website says: "accurately identifies upto ten Pantone® colors"

What is the ten referring to? Total times you can use it?

I can confirm anecdotally that having a baby crying at all hours of the day and the night also makes humans less interested.

I understand what you mean. There's an incredible amount of tactile information in the real world, and I can't help feeling that there's probably almost as much information flowing in as audio or visual (that we as humans can process at any one instant), but I have been unable to find anything to back up my wild hypothesis.