More accurately, "prior" is much less ambiguous than "last" and thus more likely to satisfy the predilections of a pedant.

Gosh I love the depth of pedantry available to descriptivists!

I've been obsessed with it!! The cooking is amazing and I love the philosophical bits that are woven through everything.

Are you worried the cooking focus might take a back seat as the current storyline proceeds?

This feels like a Ryan Gosling reskin of a 3Blue1Brown video 😅 (which I guess really isn't even a little surprising... But it's a chance spread the good word of Mr. Sanderson!)

Agreed, it's definitely coming from the top! I didn't realize they had closed a ton of the other offices during the pandemic, but I suppose it's not surprising either. It also seemed like a lot of remote hiring happened during the pandemic?

Most of the people I know personally affected are in that category (remotely hired or relocated), and most of those people are women. Small sample size with lots of bias, but I've been pretty upset the whole situation. It definitely feels/looks like a way to quietly push a bunch of folks out... whether overtly or as a "bonus" for upper management, it has the same unfortunate effect.

I guess it is what it is, but what it is ain't good. It feels good to commiserate though, thank you stranger!

Thank you for the memory! The first "retail" card I ever purchased (from a small town computer shop), literally just said AGP Graphics Adapter on the box... and inside was a delightfully generic SiS board, with which I had many fun hours.

Noooo, Ferris don't do it!

But what about the consequences of avoiding the consequences??

I'm a bit surprised you thought of SMBus and not I2C! Although lord knows I've seen enough garbled and missing battery traffic from bad connectors, so who am I to say...

You are not alone... Manually unfocusing my eyes is a mainstay of pain relief for me!

Well, the human ones anyway...

You are reminding me that I used to keep a copy of Nesticle (for DOS!) on an AOL floppy, along with a couple of ROMs. I saved the fancy Imation Disney disks for my data 😅

Thank you for the flashback!

For me, the loss of AskHistorians was/is/will be the worst. There's so just much important knowledge there, they've changed how I see the world (and I assume that's true for others as well). I really hope they figure out a way to save some of that, but it won't be surprising if it just fades away... Just heart breaking.

I hope we can rebuild some things here, but AskHistorians definitely felt special.