if the Mariners want to make the chicken strips ferry boat authentic, it needs a miniature BMW with an alarm that goes off for a full 15 minutes
unsalted butter. it tastes like toffee, even with garden-variety, supermarket dates.
depends a lot on the date varietal! there's a range of texture and sweetness out there.
this totally tracks with my experience with Lucene - the foundation to do this has been here for a while.
not just domestic violence, interpersonal violence as well. the firsthand stories that I've heard about brutal, casual violence from people who grew up in the 1920s and 30s are as mind-boggling and utterly alien to me as my stories of playground violence are to my adult kid.
Step 0 (DO NOT SKIP) make sure your allies (most, preferably all, but definitely more than one) are on board with expending real resources
it's not limited to consulting, it's endemic to software. 🫤
I regularly read stuff online and, while no place I've ever worked has been perfect by any stretch, I barely recognize what I see; it cuts across sectors: games, SaaS, internal enterprise development...
“Let us eat one last cookie, and then we will stop.”
rude
on paper (and ideally, in practice), a Light Infantry Division is supposed to have certain capabilities, including its own air defense artillery, field artillery, etc.
these are "organic."
no, it means part of the same unit by design and training and leadership, as opposed to "attached," which would be an outside unit filling in operational gaps.
an organic unit should know about the capabilities of its organizational peers.
the Iron Triangle in Puget Sound!
I would like to [redacted] the author of The Polio Fraud with my wife's stepfather's wheelchair - the one he needs due to post-polio syndrome.
'round here they wear their
mirrorshades
hey, free cop car
see also the big-ass rings of master keys that you can order 🙃
14 usually
also the branch insignia for US Army Ordnance
and grenades
beats getting sliced open to count!
now _that's_ some Thought Leadership right ther!
all bosses drink vodka
people act like AI has added mysticism to technologists but if you lot haven’t been ensuring you have at least one furry on your devops teams you have been committing malpractice anyway, they ward off outages like figureheads dispel storms
I promise you have never read a spy tale like this one. I’ve been waiting years to tell this story.
likewise, I never imagined that '51st State of America' world feel relevant again, but here we are
Okay if you read the filing this isn't "we can't refund this" it's "we can't do this fast enough to comply with the court order", which makes sense.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
(good thread here on the issues with various interception methods: bsky.app/profile/ncwe...)
yeah, the Ukrainians have successfully used the Yak-52 to take out Shaheds, crewed by a pilot and a shotgunner
(mine didn't, but I was good friends with a guy who was a sysadmin at my university and I remember his business card.
my first was a POSIX shell account at a regional ISP that eventually became one of the largest backbone providers in the world and that got eaten and digested by various mergers)
