Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod

Does it make a Star Trek communicator sound when it opens? Because doing it myself is inconvenient.

Don’t threaten me with a good time

Having most of the year off for festivals and holy days

They aren’t as efficient at generating rent due to their maintenance and upkeep costs, so real estate holdings firms are hell bent on liquidating them, subdividing them, and redeveloping the land piecemeal in ways that better optimize for fine access control and not having to take care of any “dead” non-money-making spaces such as the concourses between the stores. Instead: just parking lots between store fronts.

This is what happened near me. The malls got turned inside out, so it’s just big boxes around a giant parking lot.

For a long time nuclear power was going to make electricity so cheap it wasn’t worth billing. Turns out they were right, the reactor is just 92 million miles away

I work with databases and don’t use master/slave because it’s not really accurate. Replicas break a lot, and the primary doesn’t have any control over them.

If I can’t type the program into my TRS-80 from a computer magazine I don’t trust it.

This is why I take my job as sales engineer very seriously. If a customer isn’t right for the system they’re far more likely to churn, so I’m going to come out and say it regardless of how it makes sales feel.

The closed-source devs I’ve worked with also lack it.

This is why the humanities are important.

You can’t automate away all the unpleasant and technical bits.

But it’s our job to try

Is this some GUI thing I’m too CLI to understand?

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Let’s be honest: They’re not even going to upgrade the grid if it fails and burns down half the state

I was a gifted kid who realized that when I applied myself all I got was more and harder work that I also didn’t want to do. Being successful academically felt like a punishment.

So I don’t mind at all that I’m filling out Jira tickets. It’s easy work and I have other things to enjoy.

Exactly, except like all computer metaphors they break down when you get into the details. I can’t put a document in more than one folder and update them at the same time IRL like I can do with a symlink.

Directory is the older term, but when they started making computers user friendly they needed a friendlier word for it. Folders make sense because people understand putting files in folders in real life.

Maybe you had ones with built-in hard drives which, if ejected unexpectedly, may have caused problems on early Macs.

But there was and still is no “computer” icon on the Mac OS desktop, and dragging a disk to the trash just ejects it.

The point of the trash was that nothing happened until you emptied it. And the OS was loaded into memory so you could eject the OS disk so it wasn’t actively using those files. I don’t think even dragging System to the trash and emptying it would have done anything except prevent you from booting with that System disk.

The original Macintosh had the OS on a floppy disk. So there wasn’t a “Computer” on the desktop. And if you dragged the Macintosh OS disk to the trash it would just eject it so you could put in another disk. (Unless you were lucky enough to have an external floppy drive.)

One of the things I like most about my customer-facing technical role is that users find the craziest bugs. My favorite is a bug in a chat program that would keep channels from rendering and crash the client. The only clue I got was “it seems to be affecting channels used by HR more than other departments, but it’s spreading.”

Turns out the rendering engine couldn’t handle a post that was an emoji followed by a newline and then another emoji. So when the HR team posted this, meaning “hair on fire” it broke things:

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