@pikesley come now, why would it be important that a company which builds planes have a strong engineering culture?
We're finally ready to announce ticket sale dates for EMF 2024!
* Saturday 3rd February at 14:00 GMT (UTC+0)
* Sunday 11th February at 11:00 GMT
* Tuesday 20th February at 21:00 GMT
Tickets will be on sale at https://www.emfcamp.org/tickets - prices are available there now.
More info: https://blog.emfcamp.org/2024/01/21/emf-2024-ticket-sales/
@Edent Opposing Force, the expansion pack for Half-Life had you playing one of the soldiers sent in to clean up.
Things that annoy me, #8363: YouTubers opening with “only n% of people who watch my videos are subscribed”.
I’ve only known of your existence for the last 25 seconds, stop asking me to put out before you’ve even bought me a drink.
@solderandchaos every time I see one of these I can’t help but think you’re cheating by being pretty good at drawing pigeons to begin with. Any of these would be the end game for my pigeon drawing skills.
@weirdunits @gsuberland I saw “posts every hour” and decided not to follow because I knew that would be what happened.
@weirdunits @gsuberland much slower than any of those options. Maybe every six hours. Fedi isn’t high enough volume for something that posts every hour or more not to completely drown everything else out.
Hello, is this the International Bureau of Weights and Measures? I’d like to lodge a complaint, I think there must be a problem with the atomic clocks, my watch is telling me it’s midnight but that can’t possibly be right because I just sat down half an hour ago.
@dangoodin if it’s possible to spread a virus from an ink cartridge across a network via HP printers I feel like that’s a failing on HP’s part, not the buyer of a third party ink cartridge. (I’ve also never heard of this happening, and it sounds like pure bullshit)
This is an article that took a lot of strength to write and I might take it down again. But I felt like it is an article that is very necessary right now. https://bastianallgeier.com/notes/grandpa
Why is it all text editor colour schemes mute the colour of comments? They're often the most important thing in a given source file, don't make them so damn easy to skim over.
Me, a teenager in the late 90s: “Hackers is unrealistic, you can’t just hack into a sprinkler system and set it off by phone”
Me, today, sitting at my desk: “I’m logged into the building management system, you should find the Secret Room on the upper ground floor”
Got tired of having this conversation over and over again so I just spent way too long making this:
Not to alarm you about modern software but "emulate a complete 486/120 system and play an MP3 in it" turns out to be one of the more CPU and memory efficient ways to listen to music on my laptop.
Dear God, please stop asking me to rate things. There is no 5 star scale for a parcel delivery, there's just "I received the parcel intact" and "I did not receive the parcel intact".
An early morning surprise all-hands, with an ominous "don't come to the office today" and no details.
If you survive that heart attack, you're treated to performative PR jargon over Zoom, taking no questions.
Instructions to wait quietly for half an hour to see if you receive the "you're fired" email.
Watching your peers accounts wink out like dead stars in Slack.
And then you have to go back to work and, what, give delivery estimates?
Not a shred of humanity anywhere in the process.
@gsuberland a really good support team will tentatively back channel escalate with “this guy says X, should we escalate them” but that only really works in tiny startup teams at relatively low volume.
@gsuberland unfortunately it’s often to distinguish between “this person knows what they’re doing, escalate immediately skipping basic triage” and “this person has cobbled together a wildly inaccurate hypothesis from 18 different forum threads, do not escalate without triage”.
Just had an offer accepted on the flat I’m currently renting, leaving me equal portions of excitement and trepidation.
