@Jaloopa The difference is that here only some of the wildlife is trying to kill us.
Best posts made by antiquarian
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RE: THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@chozang said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I think if you randomly picked an OS to recommend, your friends and colleagues would soon stop asking you for recommendations.
Always recommending Linux would have the same effect and is much simpler.
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RE: Emotional Support Peacock
@blakeyrat said in Emotional Support Peacock:
A "performance artist"
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RE: Programming Confessions Thread
@Vixen said in Programming Confessions Thread:
Read this, then come back and we can continue conversation. https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2005/05/11/making-wrong-code-look-wrong/
What's recommended there will have to do if you're still stuck coding in C (see "it's not the nineties anymore"), but if you're using a modern programming language with static typing and without implicit conversion you can do better than make wrong code look wrong; you can make it not compile.
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RE: Discussion of NodeBB Updates
@julianlam said in Discussion of NodeBB Updates:
Filed under: Name suggestions welcome
Suggestion: replace your designer with someone who has a sense of humor.
(Disclaimer: Don't actually do this, they will sue your pants off.)
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RE: Things that remind you of WDTWTF members
@loopback0 I'm in this picture and .
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RE: MS apps and the genius question.
Flight attendant (in first class): Would you like one steak or two steaks?
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RE: Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition
@blek said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Who the hell changes lanes like that?!
Americans.
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RE: Is DevOps also a manifestation of white male privilege?
@dkf said in Is DevOps also a manifestation of white male privilege?:
Seriously, you need to word things more carefully than that. The concepts are fine, but you want them to take on board what you're responding with and not simply reject you and what you're saying for a mere ill-chosen surface to the words. If you're wording stuff to cause offence, you're just actually talking to your own side of the peanut gallery, and that's just going to end up with everyone pelted with peanuts and screaming at each other…
In this particular situation, I see no evidence that it wouldn't end up with everyone pelted with peanuts and screaming at each other regardless of approach. Some people aren't reachable.
@groaner said in Is DevOps also a manifestation of white male privilege?:
This would be my strategy if someone said "it's not my job to educate you" to my face.
And this is a pretty good sign that they're not reachable.
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RE: In other news today...
@cursorkeys said in In other news today...:
I've just realised there are not only people in the workforce that didn't exist before the Internet, but people in the workforce who didn't exist before Google
At my last job, I had a coworker named Maggie. One day I realized that she was young enough to have been named after Maggie from the Simpsons.
@timebandit said in In other news today...:
California
It might be easier at this point for them to just list the things they don't think cause cancer:
Possibly water
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RE: In other news today...
@Boner said in In other news today...:
Also, don't google "pasties" at work.
I did the google search at home. The images I got were overwhelmingly of the meat and veggies surrounded by pastry type with only a handful () of the nipple-covering type. I even have safe search turned off. I must be doing it wrong.
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RE: Psst....
What's funny is how quickly the truly awful QA they have was exposed after the ban.
Funny but predictable, as we were their de facto QA department.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
I basically pepper sprayed myself, and the house is full of spicy smoke now.
I thought you liked that sort of thing.
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RE: Real books with weird titles
@Boner Whenever I see the words "the truth about" in a title, I expect the article to contain nothing but lies.
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RE: Linux user-facing software usability
@Medinoc said in Linux user-facing software usability:
My only experience of Ubuntu was back in the version 5 days, when it was best summarized as "The software you want has packages for various Linux distros, but not Ubuntu".
Granted, I don't have very sophisticated needs. I just browse the internet, keep a database of my chess games, listen to my mp3 collection, and watch
pr0neducational videos on YouTube. I have a cheap Acer laptop and everything I wanted to do worked out of the box, and I didn't touch any configuration files or recompile any kernels. -
RE: Stupid Dumb Moron Idiots Should Fuck Off
cool story bro
Seriously, though, you've been putting forth your personal opinions here as if they were objective truth for years, and now you expect us to believe you care what we think?
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RE: Steve
Maybe not hard to find, but it would take non-zero effort beyond reading posts here.
Exactly. Most of us are here to avoid work, not to do more of it.
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RE: 🔗 Quick links thread
Basically, the FDIC encourages banks to make employees take 14 day vacations and have other people assume their duties while they're gone. This is because embezzlers need to be around to keep their activities hidden.
I worked in 3 banks, can confirm.
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RE: Quotes Out of Context
If it gets smaller when quoted, she probably didn't like it very much.
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RE: Big list of software that cannot handle spaces or accents in paths
@blakeyrat said in Big list of software that cannot handle spaces or accents in paths:
everybody on this forum is still a fucking asshole all the time.
Welcome back.
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RE: You don't have any right if you help copyright violation
@asdf said in You don't have any right if you help copyright violation:
Here in Germany, the process of challenging a law's constitutionality cannot even be initiated by normal citizens, only by members of the parliament.
Wow, so you're really letting foxes guard your henhouse?
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RE: How to fix MAXVAL problems...
I got MAXVAL problems but an INT ain't one
I'll show myself out.
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RE: 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
At my last job, users who complained to the data center about performance were told to type in
GO FAST
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RE: Bugzzzzz
Wouldn't it be wonderful if business could be done on a basis other than legislative capture?
When politicians determine what is to be bought and sold, the first things to be bought and sold will be politicians.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@MrL said in The Official Status Thread:
You'd think this should go to Nope, you eat it, but it's actually very good.
I think I speak for everyone when I say we'll take your word for it.
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RE: In other news today...
@Atazhaia said in In other news today...:
Christian right-leaning furry convention
This is Peak 2022 and my greatest fear is that 2023 will be even worse.
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RE: Parts of speech, how do they work?!
@dragnslcr Grammar has been deprecated and will be removed in a future release.
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RE: Quotes Out of Context
First cop on the scene told him to put his Piscataway. But the guy’s a Hoboken so he just kept Wyckoff his Weehawken until he Nutley.
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RE: A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted
@izzion said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Ok, so it's not exactly crypto, but what with the rise of NFT's as art, it's kind of parallel?
That's just great. Now I have to update my definition of real art as "real art doesn't need installation instructions" doesn't work any more.
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RE: Representative constant
Haskell's type system seems interesting and powerful, if slightly bonkers in parts. (How do I monads?)
From IRC via my quote file:
edwardkmett: Most monad tutorials are written by people who barely understand monads, if at all, but unfortunately nothing can stop someone from writing a monad tutorial. We've tried, there was blood everywhere.
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RE: Help, they're moving us to Discourse!
@Adynathos said in Help, they're moving us to Discourse!:
Those people are disturbed misanthropes.
We are disturbed misanthropes, but that doesn't mean we're wrong about Discourse.
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RE: Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!
I'm noticing an interesting epistemic divide here. One side thinks the case for the covid vaccine is compelling and therefore there needs to be an equally compelling reason not to take it. The other side doesn't think the case for the vaccine is compelling at all and therefore has a much lower tolerance for possible side effects.
The pro side would be well advised to start with the above divide if they want to address what they improperly call "vaccine hesitancy".
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RE: In other news today...
@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
I'll tell you what would be significant news. Actually playing music videos on MTV.
If you remember when they actually did that you qualify for the club.
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RE: Lorne has the misfortune of being an idiot by circumstance: my experience with windows 10 so far
Note to self: do not select "Update and Shut Down" from the power menu expecting the machine to be usable when powering up again.
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Emoji Request: Popcorn
Continuing the discussion from Plane not actually commandeered by wi-fi that was not actually hacked:
Can we make this an actual thing?
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RE: Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!
@topspin said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
we don't need any measures in the first place.
Every politician who gets caught violating their own directives is effectively arguing this by revealed preference. They may not care about the health of others, but surely they care about their own?
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RE: Why the I-Hate-Oracle Club?
@cunhajo GODDAMNIT
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RE: Nobody shares knowledge better than this
@spectateswamp said in Nobody shares knowledge better than this:
PotHeads know that Anxiety means good pot.
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RE: Cube Drone
You forgot:
- pretend not to have learned git in order to have something to complain about
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@polygeekery I was eating ramen before it was cool.
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@boomzilla Those all need to be actual things.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@Benjamin-Hall The best way to make a good painting is to make 200 bad ones first, and if you destroy the bad ones afterward, no one will know you weren't good all along.
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RE: Forum Bullies called out - The greatest program on the planet showdown.
@clippy said in Forum Bullies called out - The greatest program on the planet showdown.:
What is this other thread, and WTF is @SpectateSwamp talking about?
It looks like you're trying to necro a thread that no one cares about. Would you like help?
- Yes, please.
- Fuck off, I can annoy everyone perfectly well without assistance.
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RE: Random thought of the day
@dkf said in Random thought of the day:
I think we're all going to be in a bit of trouble, if what our users believe about us is true…
Unless you've appealed to occult forces to make your programs work, you're probably OK on that point. On the other hand, if you've ever written a Perl script, you may want to go to confession just to be on the safe side.