ChickenLadyLovesLife @ ChickenLadyLovesLife @lemmy.world

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DON'T DOXX ME

I like electric space heaters, but: I bought a cheap Chinese one a few years ago that somehow rewired itself. Like, the "off" setting became "low heat", "high heat" became "fan" etc. I took it apart to see how the fuck that could possibly happen. The dial switch included a little roller contact that moved over a printed circuit board sort of thing to determine the setting; if the heater got too hot (imagine that!) the switch solder would melt and then re-flow into a different pattern, causing the switch to work completely differently. Just unimaginably hazardous.

I don't think they even have to invalidate anything. Just report different totals to get the results they want.

I had a friend in the 8th grade who had two kids. Granted, it was his fifth year in 8th grade -- he kept flunking and it had not yet occurred to schools in that era to pass kids to get rid of them.

You could take artificial diamonds back to the time before there were such things as artificial diamonds.

she got her first contract at 14

With a record company that her father invested in.

The last one was lamas.

I live in the Philadelphia metropolitan area and I do a lot of bicycling around the outskirts. It's amazing how often I randomly bike past a llama farm. That shit can't be profitable.

This cartoon is basically my programming career. Initially I thought that everything had to be planned out to the most exacting degree (panel 1). Then I learned that nothing ever goes as planned so you have to be able to adapt on the fly to changing circumstances; eventually I realized that adaptation is so much more important that you really don't need much of a plan at all, especially when you're basically writing the same software over and over again (panel 2).

Eventually I realized that nobody ever used the software I was writing so there wasn't much point in doing anything at all (panel 3). Then I was laid off and now I drive a school bus (panel 4).

Luigi works too.

I remember going on co-op in the mid-80s and making minimum wage ($3.35 an hour) and being able to save money over six months. Rented room was $100 a month and I was able to feed myself for around $30 a week and my landlords let me borrow their car (a VW bug with no starter and no reverse gear so you had to be real careful where you parked it) from time to time. It helped immensely that I was still on my parents' health insurance and I never got sick. Not having a life also helped.

I don't want to think about any part of his body whatsoever, but he does generally wear a shirt and jacket so we don't see his arms or chest. It's possible that the bruise on his hand did literally spread to the other hand via his arms and torso.

FWIW this principle is the primary reason most software built by InfoSys sucks balls. No racism/anti-Indian sentiment is required. The mere fact that so many developers can be cheaply assigned to a project virtually guarantees the low quality of the results, even if those developers are all competent to some degree.

Use it as a roux!

I know mashups are pretty tired but I always wanted to hear a mashup of "We Didn't Start the Fire" and Prodigy's "Firestarter".

By "recent", you mean the last 50 years?

Any troubles in the Suez still?

Both jacket buttons? I've lost all respect for JFK.

We don’t have that in software engineering. And outside of critical software we don’t need it. When the audio fucks up in Teams and you have to leave and re-enter the meeting, people don’t die.

I had a co-worker who was writing remote control software for a baseball-throwing machine. Not exactly "critical software" but he ended up firing a 125 mph knuckleball a foot above a 10-year-old kid's head.

Lol I would give a kidney to have a high-walled cubicle like that again.

"I had to inaugurate the trans-Atlantic slave trade to get my holiday -- and it turns out I was doing it in the wrong direction."