Ooh, so close. There is a NumPy lib.

A lot of us are sick of it, too. Not happy about being stuck on this ride.

Will you set the world on fire?

Looks so innocent you’d think it’s 1199 again

Way to miss the point.

You would weep at the coat the library pays to provide that service. It certainly isn’t cheap. Free…so long as you ignore your taxes.

Oh, I’m nowhere near average in this respect. Believe me, I know I’m tremendously privileged to have the level of stability that I do.

The point I was trying to make is, even with the relative stability I do have, I’ll still lose my house if I lose my job and can’t find another one quickly enough.

… by 1500 BC (look up the battle of Megiddo between Egypt and Kadesh).

I’d say any warfare is an indicator of the population being too big for mutual aid to provide social cohesion.

Does it matter if you have more than the average person* if your house is effectively over quicksand?

Most Americans have more than the average person planetwide, but we’re one job loss away from being homeless. There’s no real stability in the job world, so our lives are mostly relying on luck**.

I’m paranoid about this type of thing, so I:

• Live in a cheap house - purchase price about 60% of what the bank would have approved.
• Drive an old car. I bought it in 2012 with a low-interest loan. No car payment since 2017.
• Save aggressively. Max retirement accounts and keep up a healthy emergency cushion.

*I’m taking “average person” here to mean “has more wealth than 50% of people on Earth” (wow, such a high bar!)

**Not entirely luck, but I’ve read too many “lost my job in tech to layoffs in 2023/2024 and am now homeless” accounts to believe in any guarantees in the American economy.

At the same time.

First I’ve heard of this. Interesting.

I do have the sense that there has been more shit posting than usual :/

You’re as much a lawyer as that darn cat!

I used to have a cat where the house rule was “no cats on the kitchen counter”.

Well … Ok, no cats on the kitchen counter when I’m in the room.

… If I see you on the kitchen counter, I’ll scoop you up and set you on the floor?

… I admit defeat.

Makes me think of how people will write about the ‘dinning room’ :(

Which is why I answered the question for what works for me.

If you think my free advice is unsatisfactory, I’m prepared to offer you a 100% refund.

Sorting by new, the first page in this community goes back 2 months. I don’t think we need to worry about narrowing the topic anytime soon.

I’d want to revisit the question around the time the first page of posts in the community only takes you back to yesterday.

Somebody’s gotta do it, and it’s not fair to my wife to make her do ALL the cooking.

Before, after, meh. I’d just be happy if people would quit writing $20 dollars all the goddamn time.

I always read such sentences to myself as “…twenty dollar-dollars” 🙄

Lady Gaga intensifies

Norway’s system sounds like a dream.

The first company that did the all-at-once system was at least smart about having the refresh date be your hire anniversary date. The December effect you described would have wrecked them (retailer).