The eye thing is the coolest aspect of this critters IMHO. They have lots of different kinds of eyes, and even that tail is sort of one big eye, covered with photoreceptors. Those guys are damn good at slithering around in the mud and finding food.
I miss Peek and Poke on the Apple IIe. Who needs data structures when you can just use the screen itself?
Damn, I just barely caught the tail end of the punch card world myself. I was ten in 1977 and an older friend on my street was taking an advanced computer science course at the local university which was still using punch cards for the intro courses. We would compose shit in BASIC and then stamp out all the cards and leave them in a slot in the CS building’s basement and then get a printout a few days later. It was my first exposure to the concept of debugging by just not having any bugs in the first place - which really helped me with C two decades later.
OMG that reminded me of my best friend’s Commodore 20 - which had no disk drive, so to play a game you had to manually type in the BASIC code for it each time before playing.
I used to work for Cisco (the huge router etc. company) but my mom thought I was working for Sysco (the food services supply company). She was very surprised to learn that I had anything at all to do with computers.
Maybe “software producer”? (a term I’ve never seen used anywhere but that sort of makes sense when you think about what a movie producer does, for example)
I’ve been a programmer my whole career, but some years ago my then-employer gave me the actual title of “visionary”. This caused me to immediately lose the respect of my coworkers, and after a few months it was obvious my employer was just preparing to get rid of me and replace me with H-1Bs.
When I’m in a particularly jaunty mood, I go with “software artist”.
Tesla people seem to be on their phone more often than other people in the road.
I don’t know, I see people in all different makes of cars talking on their phones while driving - usually that weird shit where they’re holding it flat in front of their face and yelling into the mic. I’m a school bus driver and whenever somebody blows past my flashing lights (which happens a lot), 99% of the time they’re on their phone and not paying attention. One time I even had a cop do this.
whenever people see Teslas, they automatically start laughing
I dunno, I’m a school bus driver and little boys (like, grades 1-8) always go apeshit when they see a Tesla (or a Ferrari or Lamborghini as well). And a lot of adults still seem to be buying them.
One time I used the word “twat” around my girlfriend and she said “you’re pronouncing that wrong - it’s pronounced twah.” WTF? Turns out she thought when people used the word twat they were actually trying to use the French word toit. Why she thought people were trying to call other people roofs, I have no idea.
What kind of designer would make mobile buttons small?
Have you ever used a mobile app? Every commercial mobile app I’ve ever used has tons of tiny fucking buttons.
I spent years as a mobile developer and the thing that always drove me the most nuts was being handed a software design with lots of tiny buttons that were nearly impossible to tap with a finger. I generally implemented the UI by increasing the size of the tappable regions (without increasing the apparent size of the buttons) making it actually usable, but one time the designer discovered that I was doing this and went apeshit and convinced the project manager to order me to undo all this and make the tappable regions the same size as the buttons. The grounds for this was that implementing the larger tappable regions would take too much extra time - despite the fact that this had already been done and it took additional time to undo it.
At my last company, when I joined they gave me an employee agreement to sign that not only granted to them the rights over any software that I developed while working for them even if it was personal projects that I did for myself on my own time (which is standard corporate bullshittery) but also granted to them rights over anything that I had developed in my entire life previous to working for them. I told them they had to be fucking kidding me (like, surely they should have understood that at a minimum that would conflict with the rights of my previous employers who I had developed stuff for) and refused to sign it. They ended up hiring me anyway, without my ever having signed any employee agreement at all - I got like weekly email reminders from HR about it for a year until they finally just stopped.
My comment was based on this video, which the pic of the botoxed Tucker Carlson reminded me of. I also prefer jungle to dnb - but I like big beat best of all.
I got laid off a couple of years ago by a large tech company (rhymes with Brisco). It sort of sucked, but it was part of a mass layoff of about half the employees who had come into Brisco when our original small company was acquired by them. Interestingly enough, everybody who was laid off was single and childless - all the people who were married and/or had kids were kept on. At least until this new round of layoffs, because fuck everybody we’re going with AI.
We can’t accept drum ‘n’ bass. We need jungle I’m afraid.
I’ve been feeding roasted peanuts to my local gang of crows for almost two years now. The only present they’ve ever given me is to shit all over my car.
When the time comes … clocks will be sticky.
“And if you’re gonna keep talking, I want them both.”