What job do you have that you get paid to do nothing?

Sometimes it's not about doing nothing but only being allowed to do the same stuff over and over again to do because there is "no budget" to rewrite the codebase to automate the process.

Can you post some examples? Is it particularly appealing because it was made by you? When I hear most AI music, it sounds pretty flat and boring, but I could see there being some kind of emotional attachment to music one generated themselves vs music generated by someone else.

This is a pretty common construction among some non-native English speakers.

I'm very not in the smart watch game but a fully open watch with a bunch of sensors and connectivity sounds very appealing. However, I find square watch faces to be extremely unattractive. What's the latest in open watches with round faces and relatively thin profile?

Eric has hinted at wanting to build a round Pebble (like the Pebble Time Round, presumably), so hopefully things will go well with the initial batches and we'll be graced with the presence of a PTR in time for Christmas 2026.

There is a third position I've come across, which is also used to justify littering. It's the "they hire people to do this so I don't have to". Sometimes combined with "if I returned my cart/didn't litter those people wouldn't have a job".

I'd lump them in with the "bad" members of society group in a heartbeat.

Thank you so much for linking to the (ten year old now?!?!) podcast.

You're welcome. I think hearing her talk about her life and experiences in her own way is incredibly rewarding. The ANTIC podcast has done a great job of preservation of people involved in early computing and it deserves a lot of support.

+1 to this. I subscribe to my own feed.

Your English is perfect. I wouldn't have known you are not a native speaker if you hadn't mentioned it.

Many people are gifted a pair.

This is pretty astonishing and also very fun to read.