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Got two Turing tables and some microcode.

I work on back-end server-y type stuff at a place that keeps rockin' the free web. I like rust, python, and […]

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Oh look, they're selling proto-sewing kits.
A stack of Danish Butter cookie tins, which can disappoint future children looking for cookies and present children getting Danish Butter cookies.
December 15, 2024 at 6:23 PM
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You're year in review (privacy edition)
Your Year-End Wrap-Up You did a bunch of stuff! Or you didn't do stuff. You listened to new things. You even had new experiences. Maybe some nice ones? Ultimately, it doesn't matter. Look, You made it this far, and that's what counts. Good job, You!
December 12, 2024 at 5:33 AM
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We are very proud of the fact that we're not very good at this!
A photo of a package of bone brother proudly proclaiming "8g Protein* per serving" with a disclaimer that "*Not a good source of protein" I'm not quite sure what to make of this information.
December 6, 2024 at 9:58 PM
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Sorry. Not Sorry.
A skeet I posted that says: "I'm reminded of when I changed my LinkedIn profile to "USER.FIRST_NAME USER.LAST_NAME" in order to screw with spammers, and cause a bit of concern among a number of engineers in LinkedIn." Oh, and it's posted from the account where I changed my display name to "⚠ Invalid Handle"
November 14, 2024 at 9:00 PM
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@MissingThePt

Honestly? Chef's Kiss, here
The article discussing how X is losing members with an embedded X (no, really, he wants us to call them that). Only the X isn't there. Instead it reads: "Tweed may have been deleted". I can only hope it's because even the author of the report about how they're losing members cancelled their account and left.
November 10, 2024 at 11:33 PM
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I had to write a "coding challenge" and yeah, they're not really worth the effort.

It's pretty easy to talk with someone and get a good idea of their skill without them having to balance a binary tree using only singly linked lists.

http://www.threepanelsoul.com/comic/job-interviews
A Three Panel Soul comic featuring a woman and a Tech Bro. Woman: So these coding challenges predict how well someone will do at a software engineering job? Tech Bro: Oh, no. Woman: No? Tech Bro: No. It's not at all the kind of problems you solve on the job. Woman: So, why are we giving these to applicants? Tech Bro: _I_ had to study them. LIke hell the next person gets off the hook. (The strip is by matthew boyd and ian mcconville)
October 15, 2024 at 3:04 PM
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@futurebird

I dunno. 20 people doesn't seem like a lot.

I wonder if there's an electric vehicle that might hold a few more than that?
October 13, 2024 at 1:20 AM
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@mookie

Clearly, not the native one.
Dark gray fields with slightly darker gray text intersperesed with blue bordered dark gray boxes. It's not very readable.
October 1, 2024 at 4:26 AM
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Stolen Image:
Early Drew Carey sitting at a desk in front of a live, studio audience saying: "Welcome to Jira, where the sizing is made up and the points don't matter! At least until your review, then they very much matter."
August 29, 2024 at 5:38 PM
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Went on LinkedIn today.

Fortunately, I no longer have to apologize to @mookie for my shenanigans.
A post on LinkedIn from me that asks, "If I write this post using AI and an AI bot is the only thing that would ever read it, is it like a tree falling in a forest with no one around?" There is also a inverse door hanger whatzit that tells folk they can "Reply to this post with Super Premium for just $5 a month" and that "Super Premium replies have a 42.3% chance of being taken seriously". (There is no Super Premium, but by god I bet LinkedIn decides to add one after someone asks about my shenanigans.)
August 17, 2024 at 2:28 AM
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Karl waits for his moment to pounce on the fireworks.
A GOES-WEST GeoColor image of California showing a thick fog bank stretching offshore, from about San Francisco, down to the Baja Peninsula. Folk who live on the coast know how much Karl the Fog loves fireworks and the lovely, expensive way cities make bright, colorful, vague patches of the fog glow every July 4th.
July 4, 2024 at 5:27 PM
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The Spouse received a gifted plant that came in a lined "leather" planter.

She does not appreciate that I refer to it as "a flesh bucket".

She doesn't argue, just does not appreciate it.
An empty light pink, leathery planter. The kind of homey, warm thing you'd find in the home of Hannibal Lechter or Jeffery Dhamer.
June 25, 2024 at 8:12 PM
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Oh, cool.

Android introduced a way to make phone conversations more awkward.
A screenshot of the new Audio Emoji function, which let's you inject fun sounds into your calls with elderly relatives and customer service reps, because everyone else texts you like civilized people.
May 20, 2024 at 1:10 AM
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I decided to respond to the reply from Slack to have the instance I use to send weird crap to my family not be included in their AI tooling.
In response to a note confirming my opt out (where Slack reminded me that my data would not be used to reproduce customer data, just provide suggested emoji or whatever)... My response: Yeah, so about that. My father-in-law recently passed away. While on a video call with her sisters trying to deal with the loss, there was a feature that decided her gestures should bring out a bunch of animated balloons, confetti and other cute party decorations. While they were talking about her fathers funeral. Yeah, no. Don't be helpful. Don't presume. Don't inject whimsy where it may not belong because I guarantee that it won't go the way you imagine. Just figured I'd pass that along while saying "Thank you for not inflicting more trauma on my family."
May 17, 2024 at 3:05 AM