I still have a copy of Alien Space in the closet. Charge the Gapper Zapper!

Or the Japanese version

Red Roses for You!

But I'm sure they're great at adjudicating insurance claims

May I suggest creating an alternate bsky account that only follows feeds of pictures of cute animals? It's like the anti-doomscroll.

God I wish it were merely boring

We don’t know yet.

Pentatonix - Hallelujah (Official Video) YouTube video by PentatonixVEVO

Definitely not this one, but it is my favorite version

www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRP8...

There was a West Wing episode like this

"that dough was probably sour anyway"

I’ve had two pairs where the noise cancellation has failed and if NC is on, you get bombarded with static

I'm getting tired of just how universally applicable "of course you do, you're twelve" seems to be ....

Or don't even bother changing the way you work, because its out the door in three months. "I'll just wait for things to stabilize, then I'll invest in learning about it."

Just a matter of what database your ownership is reflected in. Certs mean the stock is held in your name, which is reflected in IBM's database. More commonly shares are held in "street name", which reflects Vanguard or Fidelity or whatever as the custodian, and then your name is n their database.

Mechanical lathe work FTW. An old school cryptographic mechanism for authentication.

They are often running the syllogism backwards in their heads. The tech version of this disease is:

Steve Jobs was an asshole.
Steve Jobs was a genius.
If I act like an asshole, then I will be a genius.

Different thing, actually.

"Aluminium" is actually the correct spelling outside of the US, and is the preferred spelling of the relevant standards organization IUPAC (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium). Saying it here might be an affectation, but not a mispronunciation. Nucular is something else.

It's perfectly acceptable to say "dis" and "dat" when talking to the cat.

draft the libs

A bag of claws! How thoughtful!

Channeling Colonel Jessup on the way out the door was a bold choice

But, understand the rhetorical trick here. He knows he isn't smart; he's taking away the "we're smarter than you" card by trying to redefine "smart" as "short attention span" and hoping you don't notice. And his audience loves it, for obvious reasons.

Because when you're walking the dog, you get permission to be a dog too. "Oooh, squirrel!" When it's just a regular human walk, you're stuck in your human frame.

And also: software devs may have made the tool, but surely it wasn't software devs that mindlessly took the recommendations of the robot and used them to kill people. Someone delegated their responsibility to an unqualified robot. Sure, scrap the robot, but let's not let that guy off the hook.

In specification comments (where this form is used exclusively), the toolchain will typecheck those uses to make sure they correspond to actual overloads. (When we first implemented this, we were both happy and sad at how many existing spec bugs it found.)

One of the clothing vendors I've bought from in the past (and which therefore will spam me forever) send me a mail whose subject is "New pants just dropped." There's not a hint of irony or punnery or snark in the actual mail, which makes me think that it was unintended and went unnoticed.

cruel to be kind

The remarkable thing about the Cybertruck is that it is a bottomless well of ridiculous. Every time I see one, I think "wow, that looks even dumber than I remember." Every time.

Being able to continuously confound the expectations of the most jaded observer? That's genius.

Or following the dashers around and reopening the door afterwards

So, at $11 per close, how many riders deliberately leaving the door open would it take to drain their subsidy chest?