There are colloquialisms in Filipino. This is not a normal Filipino-English thing.

This is good to know. I’ve seen the aurora once and it was like the bottom of the graph describes it - a very faint glow, barely noticeable to the naked eye, but it turned up much better in photos.

Cold brew is easy. You just leave the thing to steep overnight.

You can get near that level of performance with a small thunderbolt drive.

That’s called a thumb drive and you can do it as long as the computer you are using has the option to boot from USB enabled in BIOS (typically personal machines come with that enabled but machines out in the public often disable it specifically because they don’t want you booting a different OS)

Where does “Alemania” (what they call Germany in Spain) come from?

They do want to call me. I had a significant decrease in spam calls after I started doing this instead of my actual number, including calls from companies I’ve definitely never given my number to, as well as straight up scammers.

However, you have a good point about tracking.

I just give them my old landline number that’s been disconnected for years since I just use my cell phone now

Go to book stores and retro game stores. And the library. Some libraries have movies, music, and videogames in addition to books.

It comes out of their pocket because unions tend to negotiate for better pay

I suppose my setup already has “Xcode command line tools” installed, so gcc works as expected. It’s been a while but IIRC the process for installing the command line tools is pretty self explanatory.

I remember WSL being a whole process to setup, but it’s been a while, and as you might guess, I’m a lot more familiar with Mac than Windows.

What I do know is I had to support a Python project on all 3 OSes and Windows was by far the hardest to get working. We were deliberately not using WSL for that scenario.

Mac is very similar to Linux in that it comes with bash (these days zsh) and a lot of the command line tools you’d expect on Linux, including gcc and python3 installed by default. You’ll want them to have a decent text editor with code coloring. Sublime is what I was taught to use in university.

Windows is more difficult. The command line is very different (it inherits from DOS instead of Unix like both Mac and Linux). It doesn’t come with Python pre-installed. I’ve generally installed git-bash when working on Windows. There are some Python libraries that work fine on both Mac and Linux but have issues on Windows.

You could look into VSCode which is a decent IDE that works on all platforms. Of course, an IDE can be a bit of an information overload for a beginner, especially something like VSCode that’s constantly pushing AI features and plug-ins.

This is what it did to my anime:

It’s less egregious on live action content but still noticeable

It brings you gorgeous frames like this:

Backend programming is almost all Linux. I have two computer science degrees and have only ever used Windows for gaming.

I’ve always liked those magnetic levitating globes!

(You can also find magnetic levitating <insert TV show prop here> for a variety of tv shows and video games)

I use the number for my old landline (which has been disconnected for years now) whenever a business asks me for a number and I know they just want to spam me.

We are cave adapted creatures, and we tend to turn the world into more caves, covering everything with rock-like materials.

There’s a really popular sandwich shop in my hometown. It regularly has a line out the door. I just checked their prices and it’s 10.75 for most options so I’d say this is spot on.

It means you have to learn a lot very quickly, which is hard.