I have never hired anyone attractive, but I did almost hire one woman that was quite attractive for my dev team and I ended up hearing a bunch of grumbling from some of the guys (all married) for choosing someone that was more qualified.

As a former gifted student, this kinda tracks because I always felt that half of the class were “weirdos” (now known as neurodivergent) and the other half were repressed “weirdos”. Not sure about everyone being bi, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it was far more likely than typical students.

I’d take that page with a grain of salt, especially since it is quite old and not all of it valid anymore, but I agree that generally you hear the good things about Matrix. Even disregarding what that site has to say, I’d give XMPP a look. XMPP likely isn’t all rainbows either, but I like the traction it is getting and it did a lot of things right in my mind.

They must be really special. I bet the next thing they’ll do with this power is create a new religion in Utah.

I’m not the person you replied to, but a lot of my friends that pushed us to initially use Matrix have grown unhappy with the direction it’s gone and really dislike the clients. I personally host a private Matrix server and I am fine with it for now, but I’m able to avoid most of the drama and bugs by simply not moving to the latest and greatest. I always liked XMPP in the past, but I haven’t used it in a few years. I am glad to see it picking up support and hope that some of the things I didn’t like about it (which I can’t seem to recall at the moment :) ) are no longer problems or at least may get some traction on resolving.

IRC is still awesome and I am have come back to it every time whatever new platform we try becomes shitty. I think I’ll just stay put this time.

I confirmed this with my own SDR years ago after seeing a presentation about it at DEFCON.

We are a sick people.

The next thing you’ll be telling us is that we can’t arbitrarily drop anvils on people.

I’m OK with that. I don’t need my potatoes demanding that I kneel before Zod.

Starting fights today are we?

We totally did do this.

Yeah, the devil is in the details. Is there a cooldown? Are there quantity limitations? Location could be interesting because you could put ten tons of gravel a mile high and drop it. You could have Nasa pay you to quickly assemble a compacted gravel mini-moon at a lagrange point for a space dock.

It does raise the question on if this could be useful in some sort of hand to hand combat situation. What happens if I my fist is 6" away from your face and I teleport 7" forward? I guess the same question applies to walls. If I can just teleport through matter, then it’s usefulness is suddenly quite high.

I would be the Gravel King. You need gravel, you come to me. I would be a benevolent king though. I would grant gravel to those that need it.

Nice to see posts from lobsters making it over here

haha that really brings me back.

The fact that you say using NFS makes you old makes me feel like fucking Yoda

They require that the kids use the Chromebooks and use Google accounts.

For now… :(