We learned to do it in the 90’s before search engines existed. Could always get a book…

There you go ridiculing him already…

I started at a company that had a lot of people from India. I have no problem with anybody from anywhere but It takes me a little while to become familiar with accents. That little fuzzy search option in my brain that listens to one thing and realizes what they’re trying to say is woefully undersized.

It’s my third or fourth day on the job I’m nice and early and my boss’s boss strolls in. I’m the only one there.

Suresh: I need you to check on the Catalina office. Me internal: I roughly heard of Catalina but I don’t know anything about it I don’t even know where it is, maybe it’s a city in Spain or something. They do have some international offices maybe I’m missing something. Me: Catalina? Suresh: Catalina, I need to know the status of Catalina. Me Internal: s***, that didn’t help. Furiously googles, no, that’s not any help either. Can I ask the CTO to spell something, would that be a career-ending move on day three? Should I ask him what country it’s in, should I say I don’t have the information for that office obviously I’m a working human being I could look them up and call them if I knew. Suresh reading my confusion: Catalina, Catalina, about 6 hours from here… Norte Catalina. Me: ohh so sorry, no problem, I will find the contact information for our North Carolina office check on them and let you know.

Contiguous. Didn’t find out about that one till I got to college… That was embarrassing as f***.

broken arm kid from Reddit applauds furiously

The raccoon’s condition is currently unknown charcoal and meatspray.

I’ll tell you what’s wrong with it, my lad. 'E’s dead, that’s what’s wrong with it!

No, no, 'e’s uh,…he’s resting

Look, my lad, I know a dead parrot raccoon when I see one, and I’m looking at one right now.

No no he’s not dead, he’s, he’s restin’! Remarkable bird mamal, the Norwegian Blue Canadian Trash Panda, idn’it, ay? Beautiful plumage!

The plumage don’t enter into it. It’s stone dead.

Nononono, no, no! 'E’s resting!

All right then, if he’s restin’, I’ll wake him up!

Yeah my experience was with Amazon products and unless You’ve got the biggest speaker models you can’t even hear them over the TV.

If we’re not in the same room, we use an encrypted messenger. We do DMs and have a group chat.

If we’re in the same room but don’t want the kids to hear, we’ll message too. If you ask out loud if we should get pizza, a no would prompt a mutiny.

We tried to use assistant broadcast, but it fails everytime someone turns the volume down on one. They need to fix the volume for broadcasts.

If I don’t use copilot to give me a piece of best practice code, I’m probably going to go and find it with a search engine.

Obviously I’m not going to do it for every little thing but if I’m going to implement a * somewhere I screw with that what, once every 5 years?I’m going to go and look how someone else did it and probably take their exact implementation and make minor modifications.

I’m not an absolute copy and paste fiend but I don’t have the time to reinvent the wheel every time I want to do something. For the most part it’s faster to go and grab crowd vetted code from someone that it is to go back through my own stuff and source my own implementation in the last project. Hell, and a lot of cases there might even be a better implementation than I used the last time I borrowed it from someone else.

1. Looks like I need to move to the UK

2. So what this is saying is that women are going to save our collective asses.

It’s ability to connect your phone to your computer is honestly awful. It would be better if they just openly popped up a window and told you to pick the IP, but they even have to hide that and not support it on every platform.

My laptop’s plugged in my phone’s on a Wi-Fi network they’re on different VLANs. They could let me search for it by DNS name. They could let me just use a couple of static IPs so when I go from home to work it could find it in either place.

If you have any equipment beyond a crappy one band ap, it’s just going to fight you every time you want to use it.

I love the software, I love the plugins It’s just too damn bad that You have to remember to screw with it every time you think you might want to use it.

The California stuff still has yet to play out in courts but the European law covering it was actually pretty significant. And it was enough of a pain in the ass that they recently said they’re going to repeal it.

Blocking the pop-up isn’t violating the law. Nevertheless we needed the cookie for the login. If we didn’t get you to authorize the cookie you really had no business in the app because it would not work for you. It was a bad design but it was third party.

But we couldn’t even pop that up because the browsers just tried to slide by any notifications about cookies

We had a form button on a div slide in with a 30% dimmed background div behind it. The button just did a JS call to trigger to safe cookies or not and unblock the back div.

The browsers were just unblocking the banner div on us they weren’t making the button call. I’m sure they do something very smart to try to figure out how to automatically click okay or cancel, somehow it just didn’t line up with what we had written.

That’s assuming the extension manages to hit your trigger correctly. They did not make the js call, just blocked the div. Oddly, they left our full page control block in place. We had to modify our triggers to make it work.

Heh, we had this problem with a work product a month ago. it’s the suppress cookie popups feature.

Legislation in some areas requires people to opt in to cookies, but add blockers block the banner pop, so from a legal compliance standard they’re not in compliance even though it’s something the users are doing.

I was behind a kid the other day in Chipotle that had a walkman with the original headphones. It’s definitely a thing. People are currently kind of obsessed with old blackberry

I think the key is for it to become a retro thing new stuff has to change. People aren’t hipstering over an iPhone 4 because it’s not that different from current phones, I guess its smaller right?

An iPod wheel however, still gets people’s interest piqued.

I still carry around a game boy advanced, but I replaced the reflective screen with a backlit screen and a replace the game cartridge with a multi-cart.

Just like all the claims the GOP makes now. If they claim we’re doing something it’s because they’re doing it.

Not. To say that there’s not Democratic gerrymandering as well, but when 80% of it leans red that 20% blue is more of a defensive posture than anything.

So, kind of like Philadelphia?

Elections have been rigged for a long, long time. Gerrymandering is absolutely insane. Cities with meandering sections cut off. Disadvantaged suburbs slammed into afluent areas across town to dilute the votes.