Overheard at airport from airline staff : “sir, that is AI and AI is a liar”
@maartje possibly it avoids ID conflicts? Statistically it’s unlikely two delivery providers will generate the same hex string within the same 20 minute period.
@maartje yup, my example was awful keyboard bashing, delivery order numbers are almost universally hexidecimal.
@maartje I assume one of them started that way and then everyone jumped on the bandwagon.
@maartje curiously this seems to be universal across restaurants and delivery providers across the UK. Most places you’ll see drivers coming in and asking for “3jc” or whatever, which is always the last few characters of a delivery ID.
@rolenthedeep regrettably if the companies making those operating systems did that they’d become utilities rather than scrappy tech startups, and that would mean the line would have to stop going up.
@adamantichrist @fesshole because it looks a little bit like boobs. It’s the closest this guy will get to seeing any on account of the fact he doesn’t speak to his wife.
When they run out of Toy Story characters will Debian switch to a rolling release model?
@an0key I didn’t, on account of it kind of almost working. God I hate that printer.
@an0key the thing that annoys me is that kind of works just enough that I feel bad chucking it out and getting one which actually works.
@an0key you’d have to pay me to take another of those. I give it at best a 30% success rate on printing what you ask it to on the first attempt. My 3D printer is more reliable.
Hiring a software engineer in their late 40s:
Pros:
* Understands your stack better than you do after glancing through the repo for five minutes.
* Will rewrite said stack 2x as fast, and half as buggy if you let them.
Cons:
* Gives zero fucks.
* Knows we're not *really* like family here.
* No, seriously, absolutely zero fucks given.
Do not cite the deep magic to me, product manager, I was there when it was written.
@pikesley what’s an attacker going to do though? Fill it with irrelevant junk so you can’t find anything in it?
@misty the trick here is to jump straight to making the purchase and then deal with the aftermath of transporting it from wherever it is to you, finding space for it, and working out how to power the thing.
@saraislet @rmd1023 @catsalad thank you. I know too many people who’ve been directed to CBT in order to reframe their thinking when it’s not the thinking that’s a problem, their circumstances are legitimately depressing, and no amount of colouring in and mindfulness exercises will change that.
@an0key I consider recipes to be idea fodder, which may or may not get cooked in half remembered form at some point in the future.
The film also includes the line “Emergency Zoom meeting NOW”, delivered via the medium of an MS Teams notification popup.
“They’re a hybrid organism, biological and cyber” is a line someone actually had to deliver in War of the Worlds (2025). I think it could be very funny if drunk enough, and with enough nerds also heckling every other line. Alone, save yourself the pain. @emffilms - you know what to do.