her: "what is `**kwargs`?"
me: "it's a feature of dynamically typed programming languages, such as Python, that you can use to write horrible code that makes me want to kill myself"

They were committing hate crimes in those (re)mastering booths in 2004

Getting kicked out of the Kentucky Derby for naming all my horses “Dave” followed by a UUID.

The year is 2028. I default on my crunchwrap supreme from the previous February. Three overseas banks fail and a crypto exchange in San Antonio goes insolvent.

Round robin: suboptimal scheduling algorithm, fantastic mental image

Why must sunscreen be so necessary and simultaneously such a vile substance

God bless Philadelphia

Over on the other site Elon Musk said that DOGE stopped $50M of condoms from being delivered to Gaza which Trump the repeated several times but it turns out that was the number for all contraceptive support from USAID everywhere on Earth, of which none went to Palestinians.

Chicken As A Service

Amazon’s mobile GUI is fascinatingly bad. Nothing’s intuitively placed, there’s a billion features nobody uses taking up valuable screen real estate. Definitely not unique problems among gigacorporate apps, but it exemplifies those problems to an almost comical degree.

"Realistic" cyberpunk setting: Half your chrome doesn't work because you forgot to charge it, the companion app was discontinued, or the manufacturer's backend server is down.

And better don't travel too far, many implants are region-locked.

As soon as “settings” turns into an “account center” that opens in an integrated browser, it’s a pretty good sign the app is about to get continuously worse for several years straight.

REPORT: Pentagon experts impressed with foreign adversaries’ commitment to equipping top-secret spy drones with FAA compliant marker lights and transponders.

On Linux you're an admin
On Mac you're an end user
On Windows you're a victim

I’m genuinely convinced that these Amazon dropshipping companies just use some kind of randomizer that slaps together any two random English-adjacent syllables and/or one-syllable positive English words

FuilTee
RoLife
CeeSmile
ToneCheer

I bet you can’t even guess which one of those I made up

Tech Guy: I have 10x my productivity by using Jaxi, Glunko, Spotwad, Feench, and Horchspace

desktop computers should be gross and beige instead of rainbow and glowing. your computer should look like a piece of soap. it should look like a telephone from a horror movie. it should look like someone smoked in front of it before it left the factory

I love driving Corsica in EA WRC, even if it does feel like setting a washing machine to “spin” and throwing your entire nervous system into it along with several bricks