I sat next to a cougar on my last flight, and she destroyed my heart.

By “they”, I meant the switches.

But I’m just a brain in a jar and you are a simulation implanted in my consciousness by the switches so it doesn’t really matter.

You’re assuming they don’t control something in the room with the light, or they could control the lights in your room and the light you’re trying to check .

In most languages I’ve seen - is both a unary negation operator and a subtraction operator depending on context. So it would negate an integer literal or a variable in this context.

Data you are supposed to be observing the behavior of 21st century humans, not interacting with them. You are in danger of violating the temporary prime directive. We don’t want another Sarjenka incident.

I got laid off from my software job then took a physical labor job to make ends meet. I got promoted to management and used my software skills to automate most of my job. This is my recommended career path.