I like your post, Sparky. Hating on Windows is fun and brings the whole community together

Thank you for this suggestion, I had never heard of it! I was able to access it via my library, and easily searched up companies with websites, but then it made me manually click which results to download (wouldn’t let me export the results as one large file). Keeping it bookmarked though, seems like a great resource for other use cases.

Thank you for recommending kaggle! I found just what I needed there (actually way more data than I needed!). Here’s what I went with, if it’s useful to anyone else: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/mfrye0/bigpicture-company-dataset

You can download it here: http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/250/SimAnt+-+The+Electronic+Ant+Colony.html You’ll need DosBox or some other emulator to run it

Amazing, I’ll check it out

Edit: Oh wow 1991! Won some awards back then, too 🐜

This is a tankie nightmare. I’m a border control agent? And if I fuck up my wages are reduced? Seems like you answered the opposite of my question

Yes yes amen to all of this

Remember when you joined the fediverse in July 2024 and immediately fought with strangers about AI? That was a wild time

Just read “The Story of Mel” for the first time (Issue #4, page 22); feel like I’ve been inducted into a programmer secret society

Thank you! This makes sense to me

The podcast You’re Wrong About reached a similar conclusion re: the Times’ coverage of trans issues: https://youtu.be/Fq5YmS1R63Q?si=e086MXq6pKfFo4ex

I hate money and wish it did not exist but I’m glad we’re doing OK. Thank you Beehaw

As someone who is only a few months into learning to program, I find this perspective very grounding. If I set my expectations appropriately, then I can enjoy the process and not get frustrated with myself that it’s taking “too long.”

Thank you!

Thank you so much for this!

Thank you so much for the detailed reply! I’m learning a lot from this thread

Amazing, looking into this now

Hadn’t heard of it till now but I’ll look into it! Thank you!

This is great advice, thank you so much! I can feel the weight of countless bitter experiences in your post, and I am taking that shit to heart. Thank you again

This didn’t work for me, but what I’m gathering from the other comments is I need an SMTP configuration on my machine before I can do this. Thanks so much for the help!