correct me if I'm wrong, but under free-market capitalism, if you can't square razor-thin margins with paying staff enough to work there, your business should fail, yes?

programming is art actually and I'm perplexed that this is apparently not a widely held position

I would compare it to writing fiction, you can write fiction in an adequate way to get a paycheck (see average pulp sci-fi) or you can get really weird with it. pour your whole soul into it. agonise over it for weeks. use it to work through some shit.

pakidge!

ah yes, 64GB of memory costs more than twice what my car did. incredible.

Rocking up to Vaas Montenegro with a copy of the DSM-5 like "actually, the current accepted definition of insanity is-" and getting shot in the head

working on a new stream thumbnail what do we think

nephew's computer is having issues with the graphics card (RX 570)
works fine in a different machine, with a 650W power supply, but is otherwise also an AM4 box
nephew's machine's only got a 500W PSU

do we think it's the power supply?

the idea of "what if the government orchestrated a group buy for the entire pharmacy industry in the australia" is very silly and yet it works