Holy cow. It’s like someone thought “the human race isn’t using enough single use plastic, how can we pump up those numbers? Maybe we can tie it in to the basic consumption of tap water.”

Just because I might be leaving doesn’t mean I want it keeping being a sucky workplace. Ideally I’d move on to something better for me, and people left behind might get an improvement as well.

At I place I worked they had a few useful people leave in a short time span. All left amicably. They took feedback from the exit interviews on board, and now they are redoing a bunch of the procedures to try and improve the way the workplace functions.

Keeping more people from quitting is helping the company.

Does it help your co workers?

If you got fired, no, probably not.

But if you quit then you can leave them a few clues as to why you’re leaving and how they might avoid losing more staff. That can help the people you left behind.

Then you need a more powerful PC. What do you mean a more powerful monitor? I don’t even understand what that means.

What do you mean “powerful monitor”. It just needs to display a picture.

I should really just relax
la-la-la

In Stargate “Ancient” is an old latin style language (the Ancients are connected to early human civilisation) and is spoken like a variant of actual Latin when it is shown to be not understood by characters that are present. When the scene is strictly Ancients in the past the actors speak english for the benefit of the audience. I think it’s worth pointing out that in Stargate, most modern aliens speak actual english for no justifiable reason.

wouldn’t the signs be in the Latin alphabet as well?

They were in the original release of Star Wars (1977). Lucas changed them to an alien alphabet, I assume to help show that basic isn’t just english, but allowing nerds like us to translate them for fun. I actually think the concept of basic didn’t exist when he made the first film and, like the many other changes to the series, was retroactively applied as the non-english universal language for that galaxy.

Again, plenty of films/TV just use substitution ciphers for alien languages that are definitely not english in canon. Stargate Atlantis has Ancient text that can be deciphered into english letters, but that’s just an easter egg for the fans.

If the story is translating the spoken language for the benefit of the audience, there’s no reason text can’t have the same justification.

There are plenty of films where the language is translated to English for the audience, and then a third language is spoken by characters to show that the characters using the primary language wouldn’t understand them.

I think basic would sound different from english, and then when we see characters speak in a different language it’s to show that they are multi lingual and can speak in a way that other characters wouldn’t be able to understand.

I had a friend who was really annoyed that there was a Scottish accent in Force Awakens. I said that none of the characters are speaking English in-universe, so any and all accents are just analogies for how each character is heard. Nope. He was still annoyed because there’s no Scotland in the star wars galaxy.

I didn’t know there was a remake. Thanks, I’ll check it out.

I didn’t mind the sequel but the third film, cube zero, was crap.

You can move it back to the left, but I agree that MS seem to be trying to make it look like iOS for some reason

Paprika. I haven’t used anything else aside from having a folder of word documents.

Paprika allows you to copy/paste the URL of a recipe and it will download only the recipe. No more scrolling through a blog and a dozen ads looking for what you want. You can then create categories and tag recipes for any combination of categories.

It also has extra functions like meal planners, pantry inventory, and shopping list generators based on the meal plan and pantry, but I don’t use those.

It syncs between devices. The only real downside is you must purchase per platform type. If you bought the windows licence and you want it on your phone you must separately purchase the Android licence.

Wait, which Replicator are you taking about? It makes a difference.

You may as well be describing The Matrix.

“what are you trying to tell me? I’ll be able to select ‘yes’ when it asks me if I’m sure I want to delete?”

“No, Neo. I’m saying when you switch to Linux you won’t have to.”

How does your music server work?

Comments like this sound like the “they write it off on tax” comments, where there’s this assumption about how complex things must work, but it can’t work exactly that way otherwise we would see it happening all the time.