Andre Masella

The DVD (1996) is now as old as the original 8-inch floppy disk (1967) was when the DVD came out.

OSHA is part of the government shutdown so now nothing is NSFW

a job listing question: "How many APIs have you implemented in the last 2 years?" with four options: 1-3 APIs 4-6 APIs 7-10 APIs More than 10 APIs

can job listings be serious please

hi us-east-1, i am also kinda down today

a digital clock inside of an old analog clock case

When you code the new system on top of the old.

eternal september appropriately ends in october

Old floppy drive with printed label 'Works, but makes Sad Noises'

Got my performance review.

People are doing rapture jokes like there’s no tomorrow.

y'know... from a language design perspective, i think rather little of go. i think its primary redeeming quality is that it is a sort of harm reduction outlet for C programmers

Depending on your nutritional labelling standards, melamine might count, but wouldn't recommend.

They were roommates.

Please. "Toxic masculinity" is only harmful to those who absorb it. You're thinking of *venomous* masculinity, which hurts others.

Email is Easy Everyone knows what an email address is, right?

Oh yay right on time to go back to work and make my coworkers scream again e-mail.wtf

A photo of a desk with a Macintosh Quadra setup and a 256 greyscale portrait display showing the cover of the book Two Hundred & Fifty Six Shades of Grey by E L James. Also the Newton on the desk is displaying the cover of the abridged version, Sixteen Shades of Grey.

I am so sorry. Sometimes I hate myself.

Photo of a beige trackball with an 11 red/white striped billiard ball in it next to a Mac Plus keyboard.

Photo of a beige trackball with an 8 black billiard ball in it next to a Mac Plus keyboard.

TIL the Kensington Turbo Mouse can use a billiard ball.

Search and find activity book based on Pixar's Inside Out called Where's Joy?

having an existential crisis looking at my niece's birthday presents

What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic
tldr: lol, lmao. stick to integers noob. we said "computer *scientists*".

Reddit post on r/technology about young people and AI: "I recently heard about a teacher who instead of trying to circumvent students using AI, which is impossible, she made assignments by going "ask ChatGPT to write a report on this subject, and then research how and why it's wrong". Not only did the students discover that ChatGPT is extremely wrong a lot of the time, it also lead them to realise that they should not use it as a primary source".

This is one of the best ideas I've heard in ages.

we do things not because it is easy, not because we thought it would be easy, but because we didn't think about it at all tbh

"I asked chatgpt" "I asked grok" well I asked Achenar from the best-selling point&click adventure game Myst and he told me to bring him the blue pages and NOT to touch the red ones

I filled a bottle of magnesium supplements with candy and have one wherever I need a morale boost à la Disco Elysium.

it doesn't know what words mean, just which words fit

A basil plant labeled DO NOT CHILL

My brain when the anxiety hits

Touched some grass and it activated my hayfever, this is a scam, gonna stare at a screen for 9 hours instead

How dare you. Wrinkles are disaster bisexual representation.

This is definitely the wardrobe of all the bisexuals I know

KNOWING COMPUTER SHIT:
pros: being able to figure out some silly bullshit issue and cobble a fix together

cons: [crying, screaming, throwing up, etc]

Them: Alright, so first you write a test that fails
Me: Yes, I'm nailing this
Them: Then you write code to make it pass
Me: ...you've lost me

I know the idea of Canada joining the EU is not really serious, but the most appealing part is that it would put enormous regulatory pressure on Bell and Rogers.

Depends if you plan to purge them when the revolution comes.