Jupiter’s Legacy. Good call!

Happened a few times in China “hey this is your delivery man. Sorry, I clicked the button to reach my quota but I’m still on my way. I’ll be here in a few minutes though, don’t freak out ok?” Never would dream of complaining, they are so good.

“Hello IT, have you tried turning it off and on again?” pause “Is it plugged in?” pause “You’re welcome”

For most devs, it’s a Jenga tower. Only fancy algorithm devs get a nice Hanoi towers setup.

Which is fine since there is no such thing as Twitter anymore.

As in “being between the Carribean and Sicilia”? :,D

For some reason it reminds me of When Sysadmins Ruled The Earth, a short story about sysadmins dealing with the apocalypse.

I remember playing Wildlands and loving it so much I actually bought the game full price. Sometimes you gotta vote with your wallet.

My entire career is based on “yeah but you’re good with computers and programming!” I just wanted to do fine arts and paint for fuck sake. And I could have made a career out of it, as history as since shown! Ah well. Maybe my kids will fare better, we’ll see.

One of my colleague is leader of the team managing our internal software systems, but also a potato farmer. Somehow.

I hope you proudly display their emblem as a kill trophy in your new car. As tradition demands.

Oh I agree! It was so annoying.

I’ve had this so often… very frustrating.

I like to think the 400 within a 200 is for “look, I managed to reply to you. But there is bad news”

More useful would be what sort of values is acceptable there. Can I use team number 2318008? Can I use team 0? If not, why not? WHY / WHY NOT is often useful.

It’s actually more like 4 seconds average, even if you are paying attention because most people only get moving when the person before them starts moving. So like thunder and lightning, there is a delay between the time you see the light turn green and the people ahead of you actually move.

It’s absolutely infuriating.

Pineapple on a pizza, eh?

Surely you meant Farscape?

It might just be because the public is now spread over so many services…

Are those morons trying to compare the numbers from years ago when you had like one or two nation wide channels with the modern landscape? And the one episode was announced like a week ahead and everybody would be tuning in to watch it at the same time. Now you stream an entire show at will.

It’s moronic to want to use the same metric as a measure of success when clearly the entire landscape has changed.

I was recently reading a blog post by a generalist doctor (Baptiste Beaulieu). His kid, a baby (so no possible placebo effect, right?), was having trouble sleeping. His companion not being a doctor, wanted to try a baby chiropractor. Needless to say, he was very dubious about the whole thing, but nothing in his medical training was helping.

Twice they went and twice the chiropractor essentially lightly touched the baby here and there and done (no cracking anything!). Yet for months afterwards the baby would sleep soundly.

There are countless such anecdotes, but rarely anything scientifically reproducible. Ie, it’s that baby chiropractor who’s doing it. And he can’t tell what exactly he did, so that BB could reproduce the effect, despite being a trained doctor.

It’s as fascinating as it is infuriating for people who’ve dedicated their lives to studying medecine (amongst them, my father and my wife).

Very weird. I got hairy legs so I wash it all. Funny clip though!