He brought words to a gun fight

I have always told my team “remember that last piece of work? Add an appropriate fudge factor to this estimate to deal with those sort of problems”

There’s usually a last one, if not there’ll be one I can call by name

Allow a 100:1 wall clock to CPU/brain rate

It’s no secret that a lot of doctors are terrible at their jobs too

Even on Linux where it’s easy to find what any running service does, the are so many

I seem to have annoyed an admin of an instance enough for them to subscribe my signup email to hundreds of dating profiles (presumably using a service that offers to harass someone for you)

Many of them aren’t good at validating email

One in ten has one email arrive, asking me to click a link to confirm

9 in ten have 5 emails before I notice them:

• Please click a link to confirm
• You received a wink
• You received a wink
• You received 3 chat requests
• You received a link

So it’s important to not send emails beyond the validate one to unvalidated addresses, to perfect your service annoying or harassing this parties

Also, use a disposable address for signing up to Lemmy

They said they are doing some coding at their non-coding job. It would be good if AI could replace amateur programmers, it would make better code and take a load off the workers

Hint: each bar has five beads, with a 2 bead multiplier above

Ah so you’re talking about the rigid floppies

We had 300 ohm ribbon back when we had VHF TV. When we went to UHF in the '90s we also changed to coaxial cable

Coaxial cable works better at higher frequencies than 300 ohm, but needs shielding. 300 ohm doesn’t need shielding as any wave that hits it hits phase and anti-phase at the same time and has no effect

I have a 286 which connects through a COM (serial) port. Its mouse also has a ball since solid state lasers hadn’t been invented

I’m very glad those mouses are maintainable and seem to last forever

The politics of the victim probably couldn’t be mentioned during the trial. They often suppress that sort of stuff

“Feb”+“”+“uary”

The zeroth of March is not uncommonly used, to mean the last of February whether it’s the 28th or 29th

You can get keen and competent without them being crazy

Minecraft has private servers (at least on Minecraft java) as well as their own server platform “Realms”, also every client is also a server. Though the authentication system is a Microsoft account so that’s likely to still be online well into the future

I don’t know how you could do that without staying exclusively on open source

I’m old enough that the games I’m nostalgic for are on floppy discs on my shelf, but now the games I play are downloaded and rely on whatever company keeping a server up to authenticate me

Who knows what Microsoft will do with Minecraft in 30 years

Who knows what Steam will do with the licences it’s sold me

I was allergic to cow milk products as a kid and usually had goat milk products, and even that tastes nothing like cow milk. I couldn’t imagine anything made of a plant being any kind of replacement for cow milk when a different pasture raised ruminant’s milk isn’t close enough

If I correctly recall the Hoffman video on frothing fake milk you need different temperatures and techniques compared to milk, and you get an inferior result

I presume you know you’re lying, that’s why you named yourself jerkface