Pretty sure a Trump bomb is a diaper filling operation.

This looks like it is technology that I should borrow for use in Texas. Love it.

Yeah, the protocol itself is pretty robust. The cable I had didn’t have enough noise immunity for the dirty power the building had in India (afternoon brown outs when the voltage dipped when the air conditioners ran). The Faraday cage that I made around the cable helped with the noise and also (and I believe more crucially though I had no scope to confirm) gave the two boards a common ground. I had a little trouble with before I left, but it didn’t work at all in India until I modded it. Made the hardware engineer buy me a beer when I got back.

This was a proprietary cable specific to our board design. Believe me, I wish we could have used a standard cable.

I once took a really crappy RS232 cable to India as part of some equipment to train our remote developers. The cable barely worked in our lab in the States. I told our hardware engineer that it wasn’t going to work in India, and I was right. So in India I ended up having to wrap the entire wire bundle in a wire that I soldered to ground on both sides. Soldered it together with a plumbing soldering iron. I am a software engineer, but I have an electrical engineering degree. The VP that I was traveling with couldn’t believe that the crap I made worked. Realistically, I couldn’t either.

I think maybe substitute the word planet for towns.

Playing games with kernel level anti-cheat. Some of them were pretty fun. I get why they don’t support Linux, but it is still annoying.

Dying that air strike was very anti-Semitic of those children. /S

I bet it would be depressing as fuck to watch that fat asshole try to Google how to fix something.

The most acceptable loss for the Freedumb to own guns? I saw plenty of things making fun of him. Even before his body fully hit the floor. My favorite was a package of fruit gushers that had been altered to say Kirk Gushers and had his face with a flow of liquid coming from the neck.

Next step: putting the cells into one of those Boston Dynamics robot dogs with a gun attached. What could go wrong?

Better than cops too.

Baby giraffes would actually be an upgrade from what it really consumes because at least we would exhaust the supply quickly and be done with it.

Off topic: I am now nostalgic for Geraffes are so dumb. I looked it up and that dates from 2009. How could it be so long ago?

I put kubuntu on an old laptop. It runs well enough that I am going to dual boot it on my main PC.

Microsoft out here doing Linux marketing for them.

The lore is that there was once a proper architecture but that it has been feature crept into oblivion and should have been refactored multiple times by this point. Now all that remains is technical debt.

No one likes you if you point out that the “proper architecture” was obviously inadequate. They also will never fund the rewrite.

I intend to be retired for Y2038. I have been warning my younger coworkers that 1. they’re going to have to fix it, 2. It’s going to be worse than Y2K, and 3. Managers and up are not going to take it seriously because Y2K was mostly a nothing burger (because of a lot of hard work and investment that people forget about).

My issues are not install, but uninstall. Why do I have so much crap installed? I used it on a project once 7 years ago and haven’t since. Why not uninstall it? It is useful, just not currently. It took less than a minute to install when you installed it the first time and your connection is faster now? But what if the archive goes down or it is retired or obsolete? It is small, keep it!

Turns out lots of small adds up to big.

This is my new canonical definition for the CRM acronym. Now please fill out another fucking survey to tell us how we did.

I think the worst thing BioWare did was ban people for loot exploiting when all they were doing was flying around in a loop collecting chests as they spawned. The players weren’t doing anything the game didn’t allow and banning them really created vitriol in the community. When added to the lack of end game, the player base just never got any growth momentum. It was really sad, because I was a huge BW fan and that game plus the loss of the Doctors really wrecked them (thanks EA /s). You could see the potential in Anthem, but it felt like a a great game engine waiting for the game to be written for it (honestly similar to pre-Forsaken Destiny 2, but even that had more content).

Angela Lansbury’s character in Murder She Wrote is the most successful TV serial killer. No way someone was dying every week in whatever small town she happened to visit only for her to successfully pin the blame on someone else.