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Not being Jewish or knowing a whole lot about Judaism, is too much of it going to go over my head?

I'm pretty lousy at noticing/interpreting symbolism in fiction, in case that would either help or hurt my enjoyment here (e.g. "blowing right past symbolism that I wouldn't understand anyway" might be better than "noticing it but being stumped for lack of religious background").

Is it a just plain high price (e.g. if this was $50/month that would be expensive for me, here in the US) or is it high comparable to other things (e.g. "other messaging apps would be closer to $3/month")?

That wasn't peer-reviewed or even sourced

> the hardware is designed in such as a way that is designed to be never powered off

What kind of equipment is like this? Or is it common for factory equipment or something? And what would be the consequence of a total power outage (including generators failing, I guess)?

This isn't something I've heard of before, it's interesting.

An anxious wreck. Working from home, staying isolated because I'm taking care of someone with no immune system. The isolation is killing me. In the last few weeks I've stopped being able to fall asleep half the nights.

What do you mean by "small binary commands"?

Looks like shift+menu key does the same thing, too

Which cities burned down?

The last big update replaced my user profile with the temp one, that it apparently makes normally during the process, but also is supposed to swap it back before the update process finishes. Took me a couple days of googling and chanting to figure out how the hell to fix it, and it still left marks, like the start menu has "computer (1)" and "Control Panel (1)", because the temp-profile-owned ones are still out there occupying the "computer" and "Control Panel" names.

I turn off as many settings for Assistant as I can, and disallow the Microphone permission to the "Google" app. That should help you out.

Do you still scrub your hair, just with water, when you're in the shower?

I'm writing a script right now. So far I've got a constructor written, and comments written for what the "main method" equivalent part of it will be doing.

My next step is to implement the first comment: reading in my input file, at which point I'll add some temporary code to loop through and print out what got read in, so I know I did that right.

Then I'll move on to implementing the next main-method comment, which'll loop through records from my input file, open files it says to, find certain lines, and edit the text of em. So basically using the loop I already wrote above, I'll add in code for it to find the line number I want, and print that out so I know that bit works.

etc etc. It's all iterative. You start with bare bones, and add meat and tendons here and there, iteratively, throwing in test output as you go so you know the bit you just made works.

edit: and you don't have to go in order, either. Writing comments like I did that lay out what my "main method" will be doing, lets me know "okay, i've got a file-reading bit, a file-seeking, -interpreting, and -writing bit, I'll need a bit that outputs results as CSV..." and I wrote above about implementing the first step and a little of the second, but the constructor I have written is for the last step, my results-as-CSV step, because that's a thing that was easy to think about while I pondered the tougher bits. I'll add more to that constructor, probably, as I realize "oh yeah I wanna know about X aspect of each operation result, too!"

There'll be lots of TODO comments here and there as I bounce around, and it'll get built up in bits and pieces, like starting with a spooky skeleton and adding more and more meat to it til eventually you have the whole body

not going to work != wasting life

Monster Hunter 4U (and possibly others) has triggered shoutouts (e.g., paraphrasing, "I'm jumping on the monster!" when you jump on the monster, "Oh no, I've been knocked out" when you get knocked out, etc) that show up in each player's own language.

Final Fantasy 14 has a series of dropdown chat menus, and handy tab-completion, that let you say words/vocab (like "White Mage") or phrases ("Let's queue for a dungeon!") that show up in players' own languages

What's the proper distance?