Luigi works too.

I remember going on co-op in the mid-80s and making minimum wage ($3.35 an hour) and being able to save money over six months. Rented room was $100 a month and I was able to feed myself for around $30 a week and my landlords let me borrow their car (a VW bug with no starter and no reverse gear so you had to be real careful where you parked it) from time to time. It helped immensely that I was still on my parents’ health insurance and I never got sick. Not having a life also helped.

FWIW this principle is the primary reason most software built by InfoSys sucks balls. No racism/anti-Indian sentiment is required. The mere fact that so many developers can be cheaply assigned to a project virtually guarantees the low quality of the results, even if those developers are all competent to some degree.

Both jacket buttons? I’ve lost all respect for JFK.

We don’t have that in software engineering. And outside of critical software we don’t need it. When the audio fucks up in Teams and you have to leave and re-enter the meeting, people don’t die.

I had a co-worker who was writing remote control software for a baseball-throwing machine. Not exactly “critical software” but he ended up firing a 125 mph knuckleball a foot above a 10-year-old kid’s head.

We’re pro our own freedom of speech, not anybody else’s.

Because now we have to do something about it.

Your comment made me realize something. The week prior to this some of the kids threatened to kill me (via dad’s gun and wrapping a plastic bag around my head) and the school did nothing. The goldfish-flinging incident got the kids suspended from the bus for a week. It didn’t occur to me until now that perhaps the admins only did something because of the posted video.

I’m a school bus driver and a few years ago I had an incident where some kids threw food at me on the bus (goldfish crackers, of all things). Another kid made a video recording of the incident and posted it online and that caused a huge kerfuffle at the school. The admins couldn’t understand that I didn’t give even the tiniest fuck about the posted video.

LBJ (the President, not LeBron James) was famous for this, too.

No way, Musk is a martial arts master. The martial art of laying on your back and kicking up while screaming.

He assumed Baron Harkonnen was going to have this guy drugged also.

“When you think about having the taskbar on the right or the left, all of a sudden the reflow and the work that all of the apps have to do to be able to have a wonderful experience in those environments is just huge.”

This is such utter fucking nonsense. They already have to deal with the concept of a “client area” that encompasses variable-sized screens and (worse) the multiple-monitor situation. Movable task bar is trivial.

It’s a little weird that they’d delay…so much.

Trump is just a human loyalty test. Prolonging the Epstein shit lets them make sure that anyone who continues to follow him is utterly and completely on board with this crew’s agenda.

I wish to god Visual Basic was still around so Copilot et. al. could get infected with ON ERROR RESUME NEXT statements. Or its under-appreciated but vastly more horrific cousin ON ERROR RESUME.

My favorite thing about the “all comments are bad” crowd is that their first example is almost always something like this:

// Add 1 to x
x = x + 1

Like, nobody that thinks comments are good and important would ever add a useless comment like that. The point of commenting is to add documentation (usually the only form of documentation that a future developer is ever going to read) only to code that would otherwise be inscrutable.

That long-ass horizontal scroll bar reminds me of how I used to put unfindable easter eggs into my Visual Basic apps. I would have amusing little messages pop up from time to time in message boxes. To prevent anyone from just searching for the exact text in the message box, I would reduce it to a series of concatenated Chr() statements and then I would put like 200 characters of whitespace in front of the message box call. The only way anybody would spot it would be if they noticed the horizontal scroll bar this produced and nobody ever did.

At least that’s my theory. It’s also possible that nobody ever used the software that I produced.

When I was in graduate school I got snared into evaluating potential new professor hires. One guy had like a couple of thousand publications, but they were all in journals that he had founded and was the editor of and nobody but himself and his friends ever got published in them. Amazingly, his CV included the publications and also all the journals that he founded and was the editor of. I pointed this out in a meeting and somehow this did not disqualify him from consideration. I was like, is this what everybody in academia does?

Et al phone home!

I used to make this joke in graduate school all the time and nobody ever knew what the fuck I was saying. Maybe on Lemmy it will finally hit home!

A red traffic light only means stop sometimes, but sometimes you can go if you’re turning right.

It always means stop. You can turn right on red (in most places) but only after you stop first and you must yield to crossing traffic. Unfortunately, not everyone knows this - I’ve met many people who think “right on red” means you can treat it like a green light as long as you’re turning right.

What really gets me pissed is the signs that say “right turn on red after complete stop” which implies that isn’t the case fucking everywhere, when it is the case.

Has there ever been a clearer example of “failing upwards” than trump? Like, ever in the history of the world?