2500 years later…

Archaeologist excitedly unearths cuneiform tablet

Hmmmm… “Ea-nasr… is… a cunt?!”

Quietly reburies tablet while looking around furtively

I’d still rather have kind, silly grandpa than angry orange grandpa

Ah, back in the days before email

I’m a bit confused about the wording around students having to ask for leave from University.

Here in Australia, we have lectures, tutorials (which are more like classes) and assessment. Professors (we usually call them lecturers) can take attendance at tutorials and assign a percentage of your final grade to it, but it’s not like a job where you have to call in if you’re not going to come; you just don’t turn up. Only two of my classes in either of my degrees counted attendance for marks.

For the easier classes you could (and people do) just not show up to classes and hand in the assessment before the due date, and still pass.

So is it like high school for you guys where you actually have to have an excuse for not attending?

Disease-al

I’m not in IT but used to work with a very old terminal based data storage and retrieval system.

If the original programmers had implemented a particular feature, it was very easy to enter a command and have it spit out the relevant info.

But as times changed, the product outgrew its original boundaries, and on a regular basis clients would ask for specific info that would require printing out decades worth of data before searching and editing it to get what the client wanted.

I can not tell you how many times I heard the phrase, “Can’t you just push a button or something and get the information now??”

The thing that infuriated me the most was the idea that somehow we could do that, but didn’t want to, as if there was some secret button under the desk that we could push for our favourite clients. Ugh.

Can I respectfully ask, what’s the definition of queer as opposed to lesbian, gay, bi, trans or intersex? As in, why is it included in the acronym? Does it have a specific meaning that isn’t covered by the other terms?

It won’t replace coders as such. There will be devs who use AI to help them be more productive, and there will be unemployed devs.

Its also an old trick of greengrocers. They put a sign up advertising “tomaetoes” People come in to correct them and end up buying stuff

Thank you that’s very kind

This is a great suggestion, thank you :)

It’s not magical thinking at all, ceremonies like that provide genuine feelings of relief and catharsis for participants.

Its kind of like sexual assault when there’s an imbalance of power.

Technically, the CEO asked for a blowjob, but you still want to have a job on Monday.

…watching me poop?

Like a giant fairy spreading bullets magic dust all over the place

birthright rather than birthplace like the US

I thought place was a criteria for the US, which is what was being claimed during the fake “birther” thing with Obama?

Lately I’ve been falling asleep to shipping reports

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxHa5KaMBcM

Smart people can still do dumb things. Some are also highly skilled in some areas but terrible in others. My uncle was a heart surgeon, but he was terrible at driving.

So all of the current monolithic sites would notnexist without web browsers, and things would be far more decentralised

Oh dude that’s medieval lol