I see TFA mentions Solarized. I've been using Solarized light for longer than I can remember, even on Windows where I can (eg VSCode), and it goes a long way to making my eyes happy. I share the irritation with dark blue on black and can't stand dark mode (maybe I'm now old and no longer 31337 ... alas ...)
Yes! I had both a Linux (main) and a Windows box in my office back in the day, and a friend came over frequently and we would "kill things!" for hours :-)
IIRC, I bought the metal case for UT3, but the linux binaries never appeared ...
A common lisp (sbcl) roguelike, to (re)learn Emacs and CL for fun. Using croatoan for ncurses, though if I had found BearLibTerminal earlier I might have used that.
In the old days one had no choice - whatever was on the radio was what you heard, and it was very difficult to hear the whole CD/tape/ancient-media. I used to have a 3-4 song rule - if I didn't like 3-4 songs on the album I wouldn't buy it. It was very hard to adhere to, and breaking the rule almost always resulted in disappointment.
MP3 changed that, but not because of pirating - because listeners could start sampling the whole product to see if they wanted to buy it. Tech improvements keep making that easier. Bands will have to work harder to produce quality work for their fans (including having a good handle on what 'quality' and 'fans' means for them), instead of producing one good song and ten fillers and calling it an album.
At my first SA job someone was using the database for some cargo-cult manipulation and sorting - it took eight hours. I rewrote it in a few lines of perl, and it took 17 seconds - 12 after removing the debugging print statements :-)
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