I use 'color' happily and just say I'm using the latin spelling.

Unity is more lightweight than half the Excel files I have to open in a day. I'm not sure what you're experiencing, but I get the feeling Unity isn't the problem. Worst case, whatever is slowing things down will just affect the next engine you try, too.

Why do those look like red flags to me. Shouldn't every job we apply for be a stepping stone to the next thing?

I'm also a little nervous that waiting for direction got a call out. It's one thing to look for someone who takes initiative, but sometimes this one can come across as "we're going to under-communicate our expectations of you and want you to be cool with being held accountable anyway".

This has its own version even among tech people. Mixing knowledge areas doesn't always work well. The IT guy probably won't have strong opinions on languages and a senior developer might be completely incapable of building a PC. Everyone has blind spots.

Any company that had every reason to call a product airbuds but went nonsensically with the name airpods has lost their mojo and it's all downhill from there.

Is this another one of those "I'm shocked that people talk different in different places" threads with the bonus that we all pretend Americans are the only ones putting month left of date?

But yeah, YYYYMMDD for life.

Oh sweet, welcome to the company new coworker! Where's your cube? I'll stop by and say hi.

If I put milk in coffee it's basically a passive aggressive way for me to say the coffee sucks. Milk is there to dull out bitter/burny flavors.

It's basically like steak sauce. Learn how to make a steak and it stands up on its own. Do a terrible job of it and people will ask for condiments.

IMO don't overthink it. Any "think of it like ___" example can probably be countered with SOME way to put an -s ending on the word. All it comes down to is "animes" looks and sounds weird, for now. So avoid it, for now. When in doubt, turn it into an adjective and throw an extra noun after it that you can comfortably pluralize.

"That's my favorite anime." <- non-issue
"I watch a lot of anime." <- like 'music' here
"Those two anime series are just more magical girl garbage." <- dodge the drama

@cornyg That reasoning doesn't fly unless you commit to pronouncing jpeg "jay-pheg".

The pronunciation of the words an acronym stands for has never dictated the pronunciation of the acronym itself.

@Forside it has something to do with the difference between the following vowels.

While I wouldn't call it proof, Google translate seems to agree that the first 'g' isn't hard. Though my ear isn't so great at discerning exactly what sound the generated voice is making instead.

There also seems to be quite a difference between classical and modern Greek, and I have no idea if this area of the language was affected by it.

@Forside pretty sure the Greek pronunciation only makes the second 'g' hard. The first 'g' is closer to a 'y' sound.

It's still possible to shutdown normally without doing the updates first, though.

If you're lucky, it'll just be a driver issue. Otherwise, these screens have historically been caused by hardware problems.

BSODs get a lot of hate, but are often ironically one of the times your computer is failing Windows, rather than the other way around.

Windows is doing some kind of scheduled wake up, though I've never looked into it enough to find out how it works or how to disable it.

One workaround is to hold Shift when you click shutdown. That's supposed to force a complete, old fashioned OFF, rather than the pseudo-standby state introduced in either 8 or 10. Shift-shutdown has a 100% success rate at avoiding the ghostly power on in the middle of the night for me.

Scary! Every computer I've owned since 1985 still turns on. 😄 I'm sure nothing will ever go wrong for me!

Whaaaat? Computers actually die?😲 I thought that was just the lie every hobbyist tells at least once to buy time on a side project he accidentally got too many followers for.

The independent project scene is overflowing with blog posts about "losing everything". It's become kind of a running joke how the worst thing for a computer is using it for something people are interested in.

@Krokoklemme what triggers me is the hip and trendy borrowing of the word in the computer sciences, as if it's somehow noteworthy and exceptional to use more than one programming language.

It stinks of resumé gold-plating fluff. The kind of garbage you'd see in the Twitter profile text of a social media "professional" right after "dog-petting enthusiast".

I worked on a project once that included a text to speech feature for reading a certain social network's feed out loud while driving your car. We had two weeks of meetings, email threads, hallway arguments, and passive aggressive snark over how the # should be read, or even if it should be read at all.

You'd be amazed by the rabbit hole of edge cases that stupid little symbol will drag you down.

And god help you when localization joins the party.

"polyglot"

*triggered*
THAT'S NOT A THING AHHH

@Biggy Youtube has ads...? 🤔😇

One of the benefits of choosing Google as my streaming music service is it nukes YouTube ads. Don't think I've seen one in years.

Ew, wait, did I just post an ad for a Google service without realizing it? Bleh...

Except agile is just a set of priorities and scrum depends too much on customer buy-in. In the long run, the best model for development is a supportive culture, well managed communication channels, and people who can (and are willing to) make decisions when you need them.

@Hobgoblin101 yyyyeeaaahhh... I've yet to completely figure out how taskbar stuff distributes across monitors in W10. I've mostly given up. Bring on the holo displays!

Your only choice is to punish them by over-participating. There are 500 things in your size and a fitting room with your name on it. Go go go go.

Second monitor...?

You need to defrag your github bro.

@RiderExMachina Never really heard of that happening to anyone before. Should see if anyone else is talking about it anywhere.

Sponsored app installs (like candy crush was, I think, for home licenses) wouldn't make much sense to include something this.....niche. Besides, why push garbage when they have VS Code, which isn't half bad?

The most common source of mystery installs comes from app suggestions. Typing into the start menu will show store matches, and then you're just two interactions away from having it installed. One good brain fart or lagged input can do the trick.

No no no, it's pronounced "sudo", not "sudo".

Just confirming that this is a third party app by Actipro Software, not Microsoft.

Any editor as long as it's set to a light theme. 😇