So… same as making deals with MAGA then.

Mine is knowing there is probably at least one ant in everybody’s bathroom and with enough determination you you’ll find it.

Wouldn’t really surprise me if Orangeboy happened to possess superlongevity genes. He’s always had pretty incredible luck for stumbling out of the way of just about every consequence of his own actions.

Yessir, that’s the saucer what took muh cousin Darryl.

I worked with a senior programmer who was a staunch Creationist - or as he always put it, “not an Evolutionist” - who seriously believed the world was created like 6000 years ago.

At one of my first jobs we had a big printer that kept jamming in mid-job. Every time our in-house techs showed up it would start working again. Eventually one of the guys taped a wallet-size photo of his face inside the cover of the printer so it was looking at the print head. That machine never jammed again!

Lack of available test tissue might be slowing down drug approvals, but the main reason we don’t see cures is that drug companies don’t want to sell cures, they want to sell chronic treatments. If you cure a person you have a customer on Tuesday. Treat their condition and you have a customer for life. Drug companies aren’t motivated to produce cures any more than Nike is motivated to sell each person exactly one pair of shoes. This is a very good reason why public health should be publicly funded and publicly distributed. When medicine is an expense instead of a profit center, we’ll start curing diseases instead of maintaining them.

I’m 70, former software dev, just switched my Win10 box to Mint after running Ubuntu on my laptop for a while.

Yep that’s pretty much it.

In other words, Brandon has no fucking idea what “tariff” means, except it must be good cuz Daddy says so.

daily trivia: the familiar line about rain, snow etc. was written by Herodotus, an ancient Greek historian. It is not the motto of the US Postal Service, although it is inscribed on a post office building in NYC.

Lessons we learn the hard way.

Beats me what anybody would get out of vote manipulation on lemmy - there are no sponsors, no money involved AFAIK. What’s the payoff, upvotes?

It was never stated but I always assumed the “goo” referred to industrial waste. But SpongeBob creator Steve Hillenburg was an actual marine biologist and would have been well aware of brine pools, so that’s probably right.

I think he’s more likely to have a massive Big Mac Attack and just keel over. Which would be a good thing because his opportunist coattail riders will claw each other to pieces trying to be the top dog, or rat or cockroach. It will frag the whole Magapublican party. I just wish he’d hurry it up. Chow down, Donny boy.

All I can come up with is Con men gonna Con. Americans have been progressively dumbing themselves down for about the last century. Voting doesn’t reflect being informed or thoughtful anymore, it reflects effective marketing. Against all rational expectations the MAGA campaign knew the market and pushed the right buttons better than the Democrats did.

Not in the work force anymore but these accounts remind me of other influences that were foisted on me and my coworkers over the span of my software career. A couple I remember by name were Agile and Yourdon Structured Design, but there were a bunch more.

In the old days somebody in management would attend a seminar or get a sales presentation or something and come back with a new “methodology” we were supposed to use. It typically took the form of a stack of binders full of documentation, and was always going to make our productivity “skyrocket”. We would either follow some rigorous process or just go through the motions, or something in between, and in say 6 months to a year the manager would have either left the company or forgotten all about it.

It sounds like today’s managers are cut from about the same mold as always, and AI is yet another shiny object being dangled in front of them.

Not literally - several sentences are being condensed together, but it’s abundantly clear that Bonespurs still has his head completely up his ass. I can’t believe that waste of oxygen is representing the United States to the rest of the world. AGAIN.

This took me way back to when I worked at Microsoft Research for a couple years in the late 90s. When some technical issue came up our manager would say, “Let’s brainstorm this.” Somebody would say an idea, which somebody else would immediately shoot down for technical reasons. Then there would be a second idea and it would get shot down. Occasionally there were brief disagreements over the shootdowns - somebody might say the shootdown was wrong and give a different reason the idea wouldn’t work. But anyway, after two ideas had been proposed and shot down the group would get quiet, because nobody wanted to say anything else and get shot down. So after a few seconds of silence the manager would say okay let’s take this offline, and would pick one or two people to meet in her office afterwards, and they would decide something.

That was how these ALWAYS went in that group. Every. Single. Time. Very consistent. Nobody had any idea what “brainstorming” meant.

No, the big cloud of data points says they are pretty dependent and the little outlier says outliers can exist.