My grandfather is/was an electrician for over 60 years. Worked on very important projects in New York City. This rubbed off on me growing up. I spent much of my childhood taking things apart, figuring out how they worked, and putting them back together how I liked. I’ve been working on both hardware and software since I was 11. Had the privilege to study CS formally in high school, and Computer Engineering in university.
Good timing mostly got me into farming, especially since interest rates fell to the floor during the pandemic. Had enough to buy the acreage I wanted, and the wife was interested in helping out. We grow a variety of things now, and not just plants. For example we sell Honey, Soaps, Walnuts, and Mushrooms. It can be hard on the body to be so active all the time, but it is more satisfying than a monitor staring back at you at 3am because of some small incident.
I continue to tinker, and assist startups in my spare time, I can’t imagine I will ever stop programming.
Yeah, after 22 years at Microsoft in a senior position, you should be able to retire and do whatever the fuck you want as a hobby. I very highly doubt this guy will ever make significant money from goose farming.
Yes, those are the Game Engine Black Books (Doom|Wolfenstein) by Fabien Sanglard. Highly recommended for anyone interested in games, programming, and history. They are amazing time capsules of those games and the development environments that produced them. I think/hope he’s working on GEBB: Quake and I’m so excited for him to eventually release it!
Oh you’re going to be in heaven, it’s one of my favorite books! He really gets into everything: how the game is structured, how different subsystems work (BSP trees, enemy ai, sound, music, every detail), and even gets into peripheral things like how the game was distributed, how the (old) console ports came about, and so much more. The copy on my shelf is actually my third because i keep giving them away to people.
I wholeheartedly agree, I’ve been going down the pipeline myself and this has been my approach. Recently I’ve been working with family and neighbors to get a community garden going.
The other pivot point is The Pragmatic Programmer, which is totally understandable.
That book does a good job of grounding the reader through examples and parables from everywhere else but IT. By the end, you realize that good software engineering makes the best of general problem-solving skills, rather than some magical skillset peculiar to computing. You wind up reaching a place where you can begin to solve nearly any problem through use of the same principles. So @codex here, perhaps effortlessly, went on to management instead.
Thanks for reminding me about Art of Shen Ku. Friend had a copy years and years ago and from time to time I would remember reading parts but could never remember the title. Cheers!
i understand that there’s not enough education about the clitoris and the importance of it in sex but the way people talk about it like it’s the g-spot has always made me question what they mean by “finding” it. like, it’s right there. how are you even looking for it
G-spot is very different between women, in the sense that some don’t seem to get much from it and some forget who they are or the concept of language.
And honestly I was with a girl once who, I swear on my life, basically didn’t have a clitoris. And I really confirmed this in gynaecological detail. You will think I’m an idiot or something, but it just kind of wasn’t there, and after much effort, I found the equivalent nerve endings slightly off to the left and below the surface. We’re talking a target size less than the head of a dressmaker’s pin.
I will swear on my life this is true, because through dogged persistence that surprised both of us, I did manage to give her an orgasm. But it was the most challenging orgasm that a tongue has ever coaxed forth. That’s all. If I had less experience I would genuinely not have known what the hell was going on down there.
i honestly think it might be the result of all this talk about finding it. maybe people don’t find it because they think it’s hard to find. idk. still, public sex education is a must. if someone had said “this is the vulva, and here’s the clitoris” even once in school, i don’t think anyone would have a hard time finding it.
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