Pure Opera!

Precisely! The process of putting your thoughts in order to explain things usually gives me the answers.

A corollary to this is that it’s often very difficult to explain what’s wrong because if you could explain it clearly, you would probably be fixing it already.

It’s from Aliens. It’s what the lady pilot says when the squad is taking off in their dropship.

Eight-ish? Dad of two nearing fifty so I guess I’m on par for the course.

One is discovered thanks to US memes is the dad uniform including New Balance. I bought some NB when I was in China and I have to say they really are comfy.

The one about awkward loads is hilarious to me. Because it really is true though. You can lift a shit ton more if you’ve a good grip! I can hardly lift a washing machine, but I can carry one on my back without issue.

I yearn to say “In the pipe, five by five” but I don’t have the right public for that quote :/

I have this feeling it’s more like a mentalist mind-trick.

We are fed so many inputs from so many sources, we don’t notice the influence, but we end up thinking about such and such, maybe talking about it with other people and suddenly, lo and behold! the algorithm presents us with an ad for the very subject that was on our mind! Mind reading! Magic!

But just like a Derren Brown subject, we just picked the card he wanted us to pick from the beginning.

I reckon the only thing preventing us from being completely subjugated is the amount of actors trying to influence us simultaneously, as we flock through our attention grabbing sources.

Which is why the consolidation of media is such a worrisome phenomenon. One dude controlling an entire network of sources means you are constantly under the same influence.

And then you get MAGA.

I wonder what’s next?

Haha! It’s like visas! Just attack a different country for like 24 hours then come back to Iran for another 60 days…

Seriously, I was new to frontend and using jQueryUI back then and it took me like a few seconds to lookup the term and parameter so my autocompletes wouldn’t DoS my backend. I’m amazed to see shit like this in prod.

Water. Lots of it.

That’s pretty much what’s happening right now in France. I hope we get through this kicking more fascist asses, hopefully once Lyon remember its fucking history.

Shit I would even let him buy shoes with his V-bucks, at this point.

And we need to crush this bullshit! Especially in Lyon it’s absolutely mind-blowing that this little shit is allowed to even be recognized as a victim. We fucking judged Klaus Barbie in Lyon when I was a kid, and people dare to say a nazi is a victim. You’ve no idea how insane this whole thing is.

I’ll put Seirei no Moribito above them all, mostly because nobody ever seems to even know about it and it breaks my heart. The novel was good, and the anime ended up ten times better, somehow!

Planetes is a goddamn masterpiece!

Why does it sound like you’re writing plugins for Keycloak?

Nice read, thanks! Reminds me a bit of “when sysadmins roamed the Earth” (IIRC).

PTSD flashbacks to the codebase I started on in 2008 which had… I don’t even remember. Like six or seven levels. Fucking nightmare. I did a printout of the analysis Doxygen gave me and it ended up as a 4x3 meters poster ;_;

Looks like authentic euro Chinese food, yeah.

Or exposure.