The Prosperity Gospel folks go a step further and equate wealth and health with the will of god. That being well-off is the direct result of being in god’s good graces. It side-steps observations of financial inequality in the face of moral equality, by hand-waving exceptional wealth as deserved by truly rare and exceptional people. And that conveniently plays off of confusing causation for correlation, so we arrive at “money = godly.”

For the record: I hate that this has a name and it’s a real thing.

Hot take: Debris was on track for something like that.

It had “new strange” style storytelling with a very grounded Sci-Fi basis, interesting episiodes, and a conspiracy arc to tie it all together. There were also hints at things well beyond understanding, turning typical X-Files formula inside out: “it’s all explainable phenomena and everyone knows it, but some things take time to understand.” The major flaw here were wooden performances and un-charismatic characters that just fail to pull you in.

That said, there’s no reason to wait for an X-Files reboot. SCP has more than enough lore to get the ball moving, and there’s gotta be a webisode series or small-studio production team out there just waiting for eyeballs and donations.

The collective man-hours this would have saved people, if we had it back in 1999, would be staggering.

people love over engineering the fuck out of technology

Exhibit A: 2.85 Million packages, as of mid-2023

Rust is still in the locker room having an argument with their coach (borrow checker).

War boys from Fury Road?

This describes how most people have it deployed, yes.

It gets real fun when you have custom Java plugins, Groovy script, BASH script, Windows runners, and Linux runners, all in play at the same time. Much of which is held together with hopes, dreams, and unicorn farts, willed into existence by wizards that haven’t worked there in over seven years. If upper management could even comprehend the level of deferred maintenance and haphazard software hackery that birthed this electronic Gordian knot, this unholy union of decrepit software and company policy, they wouldn’t sleep. Ever.

It really should be “parlay.txt”.

Or more subtly, when the command uses BSD (nowadays Go) style single-dash args, so it wants -help and not --help.

That’s $400k worth of house and $500k worth of windows. Lotta big custom glass in there.

FROM Software: Fuck that, we’re doing fog-walls.

It’s outstanding at bridging the gap between “I need to mash these two concepts/technologies together” and “the answer is spread across six different StackOverflow threads.” Hunting that stuff down using Google has been a delicate operation even at the best of times in the last 25 years, but it always took a lot of time. With an LLM and each such query, I’ve saved hours, maybe even whole workdays. Fact-checking an AI takes far less effort.

The Trade Federation greatly appreciates useful imports.

The only alternative here is wireless high-power transmission for the home. Which is possible, but you’ll run into issues like “what is that ringing sound?” and “why do my fillings feel hot?”

I just imagined the power bill required to do this. Now my wallet hurts.

Wires are life.

Learn to manage (route, store, wind, respect bend radius, etc) cables and reliability will be your reward.

Until the next day when they had the realisation that MSDN windows API docs are garbage, tried the supposedly not-working flag and it actually did work.

This now leaves us with an uncomfortable question: is the real bug in the docs, or the API implementation? If it’s the latter, it’s at risk of being patched out since the behavior doesn’t match the docs.

Edit: did a grammar.

It’s worse if you have ever worked in food service. “App” is short for “appetizer”.

::cries in very specific form of confusion::

It’s all good man. If that came across as a sharp criticism of this work, I apologize. Usually, folks stir up debate on these things without any of it directed at the author. My text doesn’t convey this sentiment at all, so I left it open for interpretation. Rest assured, I got a good chuckle from this meme and simply want to express a personal opinion on what I would have done differently (had I not been too lazy to make a meme myself). I’ll go clean up my comment to help make all this clear to others. Thanks for understanding.

ASM is much closer to true neutral. There are no high-level language rules/laws, no other man-made constructs on top of the silicon. We are speaking the language of machines, forever moving bytes between registers and addresses. Nothing more.

Edit: to be clear, the meme is great as-is. But I’m left wondering if this observation would also fit the format?