My favourite truck is the green one.

Staten Island is full thanks.

Hey. Some of it is either very vocal upper Texans and/or comically racist pre-Cajuns. It’s not all fire-based home-reno experts.

I saw this meme during trump1. It was funny.

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*** Rwanda partially checks in to offer a viewpoint on non-nazi genocide ***

*** Bosnian serbs would like you to forget their history over a few rough years ***

*** A few Armenians have something to say ***

The list of genocides is long, and 1940s were just one entry in a litany of cases.

Here’s the thing: Al-jazeera has always had turns of phrase like this, but they’ve been sprinkled in their pieces to remind and reassure us there are smart people writing who get it. But the name and their focus can tend to be off-putting so they’re ignored by wary whiteys with simpler reading tastes. Ohai.

With this one, you know they wrote the hell out of it. This viral bit of prose could be them reminding us they’re still relevant. I know I needed that reminder , and I hope they’ll be gentle if they ever realize Canada exists.

It can be both a decade old and top-5 of all time. It’s a great day when a top-5 game is on GoG or so.

many phones with a headphone jack that have an IP68 rating which invalidates your whole point

Typing on one right now.

I’ve literally never used the headphone jack on a phone in 10 years

We understood that as soon as you said “literally”.

I’ve not used on*star, a fire extinguisher or a #2 pencil in a while either, but I bet they’re important. Beware false consensus.

petty bourgeois

Hours too late for an actual Bone Apple Tea. I’m such a let-down.

The Jan 6ers made the time. Not sure how many jobs they have.

Then? Unemployment. Now? Unemployment.

why do people

That’s very ‘green jolly giant’ of you.

Damn.

Remind me - those were bastard who arrested the terrorist? Bastards, right? The AmericanCopsAreOnlyBastards brigade hasn’t stopped by yet.

some aspects of programming have really been made obsolete

I’d agree that some specifics have been made obsolete. Some habits and routines are currently being ignored or skipped, but the amount of skill that’s gone away is very small.

As mentioned before, we downsized brutally after Y2K. The people most affected were the highest-paid who weren’t the best code-grinders, and these were the documenters, the programme people, and the mentor types. We lost our guides, our structure, and our historians. We’ve been growing again like feral children rebuilding society from the wasteland like it’s Mad Max, and there’s a LOT of the Why that we either don’t know, that we ignore, or that we skip in the interests of (insert manufactured urgency here).

We are re-learning some of the whys, but we haven’t yet seen the half-assedry chickens come home to roost on that. The symptoms are there: Boeing’s Gilligan’s Island in Space, supply-chain sploits in waves, personal information lost weekly, all these things that are clipboard hassles we stopped doing that pelrevent massively expensive things later.

Crowdstrike may die now, mainly because they were marauding leopards we allowed to eat our face. Solarwinds before that, same issue but they seem to be okay. There are dozens of ohShit moments that could lead to similarly preventable problems, that we knew not to do … once.

Well get there again but we’ll be rediscovering a lot of what some techbro will claim is obsolete, old-practice, too-cautious, hand-wringing in our neu and moderne go-hard/break-lives paradigm.

It was a fancy lie about their spare time, but especially in dotcom, there IS no spare time to learn architecture.

What I’ve seen of dev AND ops is that their knowledge is focused well on their own things. And when it comes to the other half of devops they just want the shortest path back to doing their thing. This has caused absolute princess devs to be nearly screaming about the hassle of security and change control and infrastructure and proper code deployment and testing and … Well, a lot of things.

It doesn’t pay to have people learning to half-ass dev because ops is your thing. You need advocacy on both sides of that line, still.

Thanks. I’m remembering the relevant scene from Office Space. ;-)

I’d love to upvote this one. If there’s one with the spelling fixed, let me know?

“well ackually”

One wonders how you’d prefer the sentence start where you’re offered a correction by someone thinking of your success.

I suspect you’ve heard it a bunch, and if that trend continues then you’ll want to advertise a better way for people to help you so they don’t inadvertently offend you … while they help you.

And it’s cool; I get you. I too hate it when people volunteer their finite time in a sisyphean effort to fix one error at a time. I realize it’s ultimately selfish, in that they’re just trying to make the world better for themselves, but it’s the blow to my ego that really gets me. How dare they offer some different viewpoint and bring the receipts to attack my world-view?

Google has no economic insensitive

“Economic incentive”, right?