remembering what your grandkid likes is dementia now?

I had this the other way with my ex. She would say “I always liked X” and then I’d get her an X-related gift and she’d go “um okay, random.” Thing is she was supposedly feeding me with hints I never got.

It’s kinda fucked up how few people are comprehending this photo. They think it’s about fridges full of one thing

I think because I went through a placement agency that was pushier. Or maybe because the SVP that started up the office was more hands on then.

the very idea of a regular birthday party wasn’t really widespread before the era

Can we go back to that? I hate birthdays.

Wellllllllll

It actually wasn’t, but someone claimed it was, and would sue people who used it. Most would settle and agree not to use it. This is also why most chain restaurants had their own alternative birthday songs.

It was only that in 2016 somebody actually said to them “prove it” and took them to court, which found their copyright claim to be without merit.

Incidentally, there is no penalty for this.

Somebody never had a clock with roman numerals and it shows

I remember getting into an argument with a grade school teacher over IIII because most such clocks put that for 4 instead of IV because of some fuckin reason

Would actively fuck apps up because it would register as a file touch and break things that expected unchanged file content

Legit worked for a place that could never seem to land a new hire because they would take forever to decide on someone and when they finally went “okay” they’d have taken another job in the meantime.

They even went so far as to build a spreadsheet showing the direct correlation of that chronic indecision and it’s propensity to miss out on hires and it didn’t help.

I’m guilty of the other way. I really don’t know what else my mother is into nowadays, but since she raised me on Star Trek, I usually just get her Star Trek shit.

The thing is, she loves it every time. Or claims to.

My grandmother stocked raisins in a jar in her kitchen for 30 years because I once said I liked raisins.

It was cool to know there was a jar of raisins there basically just for me to have raisins. But I eventually didn’t like raisins all that much anymore. But of course I’d have to have some raisins because she was keeping them there for me.

They claimed my package was delivered and it was nowhere to be found. I followed up and they just sent back the delivery confirmation. Said it was dropped off at a reception desk. My place didn’t have a reception desk. Their CS went nowhere.

I ended up making a BBB complaint and whadooyaknow, I get a call from a supervisor at the local DC informing me that the package was actually delivered to a hotel two blocks away and they would retrieve it and redeliver it for me and apologizing for it taking so long. I had already gotten a reship from the vendor in the meantime. (Bonus, I ended up with twice the product)

I want to know more about the monkey test

I gotta admit, I can’t stand content I can’t engage with. What’s the point? It’s just grandstanding and blowharding.

I swore I read that mysql dbs will store multiple bools in a row as bit maps in one byte. I can’t prove it though

Which part?

“I tell the future”

“Okay, tell me mine”

“Soon… You will go to Rome.”

“But I’m in Rome.”

“Do I lie?”

I have a very very real problem with this oversimplification of very distinct tech viewpoints.

Like, what, you dont think information should be freely available? You LIKE the model where information is locked down with hefty fees? Because that’s what the actual “tech bros” want.

This is at best ignorant and at worst just hateful.

cries in left_pad

It’s kind of astonishing how many people leaned on that library just to add fucking spaces to strings

Me: I need spec – not just trust code Manager: You always make unnecessary demands, I’m replacing you AI: I would be happy to help you, if you could provide spec? Manager: god fuckin dammit

I honestly sometimes think to go into business myself just so I can write contracts that say “you will give us a fucking spec” and just keep billing while they fuck around not providing a spec