I feel like the scroll bar location has more to do with english being written left-to-right.

in developing countries you'd probably have AC in a single room of the house, usually the bedroom. Having AC in the whole house is very much a luxury.

source: I live in Brazil

IRC doesn't actually specify an encoding for messages, only limiting each message to 512 bytes IIRC. This could and did cause encoding issues when dealing with non-english language text.

While IRC imposes no such requirement, the world has mostly agreed on utf-8 by now.

The Pegasus galaxy ones are nanites, aren't they?

that's a fantastic way to get fired immediately.

By a bad manager maybe, a good manager would figure that you're going to be unreliable moving forward and slowly manage you out of their team / key milestones until you eventually quit.

No it isn't. And if it is, that's a place you don't want to work and do want to see go out of business.

Maybe that's a blessing in disguise.

Problem solved?

Oh my, we posted the same thing at the same time ;)

which may be the best thing. Burn the thing that is devastating you.

As a general rule of thumb, this is nonsense. I've spoken with many managers about feeling demotivated, and I have yet to be fired.

Windows NT...?

you don't need to be "in range" for Find My to work, all it takes is someone with an Apple device to be nearby

I think game-making is an underrated point of entry into programming and software development in general. It worked for me!

Ken just wanted to play his space game. He ended up writing Unix to do so.

Flash got a lot of people into programming because of how one could go from cartoons to copy-pasting snippets of ActionScript for some basic interactivity to full-blown games and apps.

you can switch between windows of a single app with cmd+`...

not in constrast with basically the entire planet (the overall market for smartphones)