I always claimed in job interviews to be good at debugging, but there are no certifications for debugging and there’s really no way for an interviewer to verify such a claim. So even though it is an incredibly important skill, companies just do not look for it. There is also the hilariously misguided belief that good coders do not produce bugs so there’s no need for debugging.
I was a teen in the ‘80s and I never heard the origin of “Joy Division”, just knew the band. DJs on the radio (or on MTV) back then never discussed bands’ names or what they meant, so it wasn’t easy to know about that stuff. I also never knew what “Dead Kennedys” meant although that’s pretty obvious if you just think about it. Hell, I never knew Freddie Mercury was gay despite the band name “Queen”.
I also thought Boy George was a woman, but everybody did.
One thing I always liked about the various flavors of BASIC was that nobody ever pushed that shit as a religion.
I used to work for a software development company in Louisiana. At company meetings the CEO would always close with a prayer to Jesus, which was certainly the only time in my programming career I had to deal with that. Maybe 80% of the company were Christians but the rest of us were Jews, Muslims, Hindus and atheists (just me) and it was always weird to be looking around at each other while everybody else had their heads bowed. Unfortunately, this company was pretty much the only game in town for programmers so nobody was willing to call the CEO out for this shit.
Deporting all the non-citizens would send us into a literal death spiral thanks to the fact that they pick all the vegetables, cut all the meat, and cook all the food in restaurants. For bonus points we would starve to death behind our unkept lawns, but at least we’d have plenty to drink from the water pouring through our leaking roofs.
My mom was born during the Great Depression and re-uses ziplock bags. On the other hand, she insists on brand-name everything instead of generics or store brands, so it’s not purely about frugality.
Now now, the poor man got a nick on his ear that healed within days and left no scar. He was lucky to survive an injury that gruesome.
How does he propose to “MAKE HOUSING AFFORDABLE AGAIN”? By interfering with the free market lol?
Fun fact: at his mother’s deathbed, Stalin reportedly told her that he had “become something like the Tsar”. Perfectly accurate FWIW.
I don’t know why he can’t say Russia. It’s the obvious truth, his swallowers - sorry, his followers - would lap it up no matter what, and it’s no more or less insane than anything else he says.
It’s literally on the other side of the planet.
Lol and there’s just no way to get information about something happening on the other side of the planet. Why, it takes our square-riggers six months to sail from there to here!
Throughout US history, all of our battleships have been named after states, except for one: USS Kearsarge. The original ship of this name during the Civil War hunted down and sank the confederate raider Alabama and since that time the US Navy has ensured that one commissioned ship always has that name, I guess as a giant lasting “fuck you” to the confederacy. The battleship Kearsarge was commissioned in 1900, ruining an otherwise-perfect ship naming convention.
For this reason I support making Puerto Rico into a state - as long as they change their name to Kearsarge first.
I wonder when the black-and-white striped shirt first came into existence in France. My guess would be the 1840s because of the spread of power loom technology.
My solution to burglars is being poor.
I can’t even remember the last time I saw a gas range or oven that didn’t have pizoelectric starters. My cousin has a stove from the 1930s, that was probably it.
Maybe he meant he could fix the oven. Which he could … by moving.
If this was real, the poster would have just listed the General MIDI program numbers.
Quest Diagnostics.
Impersonate a masque
Macaque?
If I had employees I would seriously fire them for watching porn on a company laptop, not because I care that they’re watching porn and not doing their work but because it’s indicative of a major problem with thinking clearly.