@ElDeadKennedy@sun I have a neighbour whom my family calls "the OF starlet neighbour girl". She has the weird mannerisms of a modern girl on Instagram, she mostly sits at home, she has a car, but uses Uber whenever she walks out. She has two large dogs and hires dog walkers.
The age gap is just insane. Consider this: I would absolutely walk my dogs, because it's an excuse to walk. Otherwise I sit in front of the computer so much that I have to wear compression socks.
@sun It's the last page of scanlations. Scanlators covered 4 volumes. But the manga has 6. She talks about dating and married life in the remaining 2 volumes.
The exhibition was very nice. It focused on armor for all periods, although naturally very little was preserved from before Sengoku. In contrast, they only had 2 katanas and 1 naginata.
I was told that they rotate the exhibit every few months.
@feld Maximizing the value is not the same as minimizing the expenditure of the fiat money.
In this example, if someone does not want to drive a rusty jalopy that is in a shop 60 days a year, then they may care about the resale value.
The longest I tend to keep cars is 9 years, and with modern cars I usually don't have to deal with any significant repairs. This is long enough that I don't care about the resale value. But one time I sold a Jeep that retained 30% of value (nominal). That was a pleasant surprise, but I don't want to make decisions based on looking that far forward.
@sun I'm not sure if you meant to invert that statement with an English negative somewhere.
Yes, we see "Renaissance Man" engineers sometimes, but they are getting rarer with every generation. The last one I knew was Dave Banks. He worked for Sun and he created Sun Storage Array. I designed the chassis, the laid out the PCBs, wrote Solaris drives. He designed the Fiber Channel and CPU combo ASIC, with its own instruction set, and wrote the SCSI target firmware for that chip. He obviously made a toolchain for that too. The only thing he did not write was the software RAID, for which he contracted Veritas.
Dave Banks was a true full stack engineer. Unfortunately he quit Sun and founded Brocade right when I started at Sun Storage. Either way, I didn't meet many since. Everyone has his or her focus area.
@sun@anemone My daughter used to move a lot back when she rented rooms from random landlords. All her belongings fit into her Honda Fit (badumpschhh). When she moved for the last time so far, she rented a U-Box. I helped her to unload it, and it was 3/4 empty. I wish I could live like this. When me moved, we stuffed the largest U-haul truck (24 ft. IIRC).