Yes, the author is stupid to be advocating for chicken pox.

Even setting aside the discomfort of chicken pox, catching chicken pox (particularly as a young child) increases the risk of shingles. Nobody in their right mind wants shingles.

If only it were so easy…

This needs to be on a t-shirt.

There’s something to be said for consistency!

What’s a little scope creep between friends?

Well, if we’re saving DB space, why not just use the generate_series function (assuming you’re running PostgreSQL…)?

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You just had to remind me, didn’t you?

That’s my point. I feel like they have been sitting on this for a while and didn’t release it ages ago because it would be one more thing to reduce the odds of people shifting from 10 to 11.

Right, so they wait until just after Windows 10 reaches EOL to release the patch for this annoying bug. Typical. They’ve probably had the solution ready for ages.

Somebody used the wrong data type for the Hour column…

It was definitely one of those holodeck adventure stories. I was disappointed that the Hirogen didn’t show up as much in the later seasons (the extent of their communications relay network suggested that they used to have a vast territory), although they did come back to the fallout of “The Killing Game” in Season 7’s “Flesh and Blood”.

I would agree that Enterprise’s first season was generally better than TNG’s, but I mostly enjoyed Season 3 of Enterprise.

Really? I quite enjoyed “The Killing Game”… The Hirogen made an interesting addition to the series.

That’s quite possible, unfortunately…

I have several use cases, a big one being that it gives me an alternate storage medium for backing up home photos and videos. Obviously there’s caveats on how long BD-Rs last (although M-discs should outlast me) and the issue of needing a player in future, but it gives me more peace of mind knowing that I can backup these sorts of things to different storage types (external hard drives are all well and good until they’re corrupted by power issues or user error, or you want to keep a copy at a relative’s place and it’s a multi-hour trip… with optical media you can just keep adding discs to the offsite backup as needed and update the external HDD less frequently).

The other major use case I have has already been mentioned - backing up Blurays that I’ve bought (or, in the case of a few shows I like, being able to compare the DVD vs Bluray frame by frame).

Interesting to see that demand for optical drives is increasing, although apparently it’s only in Japan: https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/optical-drive-demand-surges-amid-windows-10-retirement-japanese-users-switching-to-windows-11-are-buying-up-blu-ray-drives

Still, hopefully that means Bluray writers stay on the market for a bit longer.

Oh, I definitely agree. We need better privacy and data protection laws here in Australia too. In the meantime, however, I do what I can to minimise my footprint. I’m well aware that other people are going to be the weak link!

Both mine were strays and are now happily indoor cats with a catio. It just requires an adjustment period.

I also follow all the local legislation (registration, neutering, etc.). So it can be done and may just depend on how adoption agencies in your state/country function.

One of mine just screams from the other end of the house and expects me to come to her. She’s definitely thinking about me, but in a “Human! Come here and entertain me!” kind of way…