morning

morning all, its a nice cloudy day here - how about you?

@AlexRobinson My vpn/directaccess seems to be dying, which would mean I have to visit an office if it does end up totally dead. Which I am not looking forward too, a co-worker had the same issue last week, and ended up driving all the way to a certain office just to be done there in 10 minutes.

oh wow that does sound fun... one of our vital websites went down this morning but thankfully atleast some of our IT staff are fantastic and fixed it within about 30 minutes

@AlexRobinson Fingers crossed. 3 restarts and a bunch of troubleshooters later it seems to hold, for now XD

ah yes, the classic turn it off and on again...

Well, a bit more like 'uninstall and reinstall' but yeah :P

That last troubleshooter found a problem, and recommended running 'repairs'. From what I could see, the 'repair' consisted of uninstalling and reinstalling XD

i find it mildly amusing that there's a bit of software called DDU - display driver uninstaller... and the amount of issues it fixes is remarkable

I've never heard of that one before, but what does it fix? :D

i wish i could tell you specifically what it fixed, but i just know that if i'm having bizzaire pc issues that a restart wont fix - its always my second step

Heh, I'll keep it in mind then :P

@Tinkeringbell Same thing. Uninstalling is just turning it off hard!

Mornin'.

Morning :)

good afternoon

And yes... it is just turning it off hard.

is breaking apart the computer turning it off even harder xd

Depends on the computer.

It's sometimes amusing to look at question titles and imagine how the question would be different on a different stack. Composition over inheritance when dealing with relationships

I'm imagining a soap-opera like situation involving a composer having to choose between his/her music and money because of a significant other...

reminder to use "their" instead of his/her for inclusivity and its fewer characters

@Sarov Wow, that's a good bit of imagination :P

I could imagine the 'relationships' part being related to this stack, but the rest I wouldn't have been able to come up with. That boredom you had a few days back did you good ;)

Ha.

Even 'inheritance', really? I'd have thought there'd be a few questions about that on this stack.

Dunno, they seem more a matter of law.se to me.

and yeah, there are questions about inheritances on this stack :P

"How do I convince my siblings to let me have the house?"

You don't... that was the decision of the parent, and you should respect that.

:P

Not necessarily. The will might be just 'I leave everything to my child(ren)'.

I'm going to say something sooooo inspirational now, pay attention!

If I die, I hope the people I leave behind have enough of their own to not have to envy and desire my stuff.

Okay, you can start puking now XD

I mean. Few have to fight over it...

Okay, better? :P

I mean, few have to envy/desire stuff...

:P

Good, that's good :D

But yeah; if you dunno how many kids you're gonna have, you might just have your will say "I leave everything to my child(ren)" and then let them fight it out.

The ideal amount of offspring here is 0.

I honestly hate kids.

...For a second I thought by 'here' you meant your country and I was very confused.

Well.... it wouldn't hurt........

In some ways, less kids is good: Less strain on resources and the climate.

afternoon o/

i forget my browser hibernates tabs and i don't remember to check here XD

In other ways, it's bad; just today there was a prediction that the costs of healthcare will skyrocket because the number of old people will increase, and that there will be a shortage of healthcare workers. IIRC, they predicted that 1 in 3 people would have to work in healthcare 30 years from now, against 1 in 7 nowadays.

Yeah that's the Boom at work.

What I'm curious about is what'll happen after all the Boomers are dead, and suddenly we have way too many healthcare workers.

Probably expensive projects to teach them another trade, i guess. Or very cheap healthcare... Hopefully both :P

Oh, the days when "Dad, I wanna be a doctor!" is seen the same as "Dad, I wanna be a musician!"

To be fair, my dad would've responded to both with "you don't have what it takes to become that"

...*snorts*

My condolences.

(Though really, it's... not hard to become a musician. Now, to become a successful musician, on the other hand...)

He was right though :P

If I had a teenager about to choose a vocation, I'd just make sure the teenager is in touch with the realities of the vocation. It's far too easy to be tempted by the imaginary part of a job title, without realizing how living it as a job or a student might be.

We would be in a different reality though. One I gave birth or adopted in :p

.... or clones.

@Sarov and then live past 27

@Sarov lol. I basically told my mom - "I absolutely need to have 2 of your cross stitches - other than that, I don't want anything"

@JourneymanGeek There's a song, "Sex, Drugs, and RRSPs".

If I suspected my children would fight for inheritance I'd give everything to charity to piss them off and because giving to charity isn't a bad move.

Ah i'm already leaving to commute

noon everyone

Night.

@ArthurHv Mostly that. To be fair, I did always say I wanted to go into healthcare like my mom.. until one fateful day confronted me with reality ;)

Random aside - when reading both the Silmarillion and Narnia, before I learned of the symbolism, I got the distinctive feeling that Eru and Aslan were both arrogant, possibly evil, egotistic jerks. I begin to wonder if there's any Christian fiction in which God/Jesus allegories aren't incredibly sketchy.

(Admittedly moreso for Aslan than for Eru, but that's partially because of how little screentime Eru actually has.)