yes, calling it a heist specifically is extremely colourful in the wrong way

I switched to Proton from Express when the latter was bought out by Kape.

Proton works perfectly so far for me. Their desktop software was a bit meh, but they’ve since improved it. Otherwise I have no notes.

“take a decision” is also a valid phrase: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/take a decision

The bot account itself. It appears to have been merely trolling, and the article seems to think it’s actually a bot.

This is obviously fake, but I wouldn’t doubt thousands of such bots actually exist.

This goes the other way too: don’t wave someone unless you’re completely sure it’s safe. I wish more driving schools actually taught things like this.

He did some short format writing, but The Martian was his first published novel, I think. He was a software engineer before that.

Artemis follows the same pattern of a capable main protagonist solving problems, so it is not very different from the other books in terms of characters, but it is much better in character depth and development than The Martian.

Just as a general advice that has only occurred to me recently: if you don’t like a book, stop reading it and read another one. There are great books, and there are mediocre, and also you some might work better for you, and some worse. If you start with a book that you don’t like, and power through it anyway, you might be reluctant to try another one.

You’ve mentioned sci-fi, but didn’t mention Robert Sheckley. If you haven’t read any of his stories, drop everything and read Citizen in Space, for example.

If you’d rather go for something more modern, fun, but also a little sad, try The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon.

For something extremely entertaining, but also mysterious, try Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson.

If you’re into videogames and like drama, try Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin. That’s the best book I’ve read in the past 5 years.

This, and Artemis too. Basically anything by Andy Weir at this point.

to be fair, the way it’s worded I can parse as “a language for web programming”, instead of “a programming language for the web”

Install GnuCash, learn accounting, and start tracking your money and use proper financial language. There is a lot of good financial advice out there (budgeting, investments, debt reduction), and all of that is much more efficient if a) you know where your money goes and where it comes from, b) you are proficient with financial software, and c) you can talk to the banks in their own language.

Max Payne 1/2 dream sequences.

I actually like the underground, but it does have a couple of annoyingly obtuse puzzles.