In a free market, aren’t you free to collude with your competitors in order to fix prices?

Ah, I misread. I thought they were saying acetone = acetic acid but actually they were just saying there was something worse

I believe you’re mixing up acetone with acetic acid

Yeah, but, like, how many hours will it take for you to deliver 5 complexity points?

+1. I used to think it was just something that happened to old people, until it happened to me

Yeah eastern countries just don’t have the same relationship with alcohol that the west does.

Gambling, however…

“politics”

Next in line are still elderly but they’ve been spending their whole life building up to this so they aren’t going to put some young whippersnapper in charge and undo the years of bribery, corruption and arse-kissing that got them to where they are

But it’s genuinely what we were all doing not so long ago

Jokes on you, my first job was editing files directly in production. It was for a webapp written in Classic ASP. To add a new feature, you made a copy of the current version of the page (eg index2_new.asp became index2_new_v2.asp) and developed your feature there by hitting the live page with your web browser.

When you were ready to deploy, you modified all the other pages to link to your new page

Good times!

It’s an acquired taste. Back when I was a starving student and everyone was drinking cheap alcohol and living off 2-minute noodles, I acquired the taste

Let’s say your country was about to be invaded, your house stolen and you sent elsewhere or killed so that citizens of the invading country could occupy your house and your land instead.

And all of that not happening was hinged on the physical prowess of an old guy who’s probably been in politics for decades.

How helpless would you feel?

I hear this all the time in my field.

“Can you just fuzzy match the records between the systems?”

That would make for a long ass movie night

Cows don’t even go moo most of the time.

They go NEURRRGH NEURRRGH

Well, as far as I’m concerned Skype for Business set the benchmark for terrible. Teams isn’t even close to being that level of bad

Teams is relative.

At a previous job (Microsoft shop but in the public sector so 10 years behind), the standard messenger when I started was Skype for Business.

In case you’ve never used Skype for Business, it’s “Skype” in branding only and actually has nothing to do with the Skype software that Microsoft purchased and is more like MSN Messenger.

Compared to that, Teams is a huge step up.

Also, at a Microsoft shop, you have to use what Microsoft provides even though it’s usually balls.

It’s 90% of the reason I now refuse to work anywhere that’s bought into the Microsoft ecosystem. It’s just so… mediocre

TIL what movie inspired React state management

Actually, it makes perfect sense.

The loose terms like morning, noon, night etc are related to the suns position in the sky and exist regardless of what the wall clock happens to say

var context = RuntimeSingletonFactory.getCurrentFactory().getCurrentRuntimeSingleton().getContext()

Nope, Tablets are the worse of all worlds.

Can’t run a proper OS for getting things done, too big to make phone calls on.

Attaching a keyboard and mouse to one is basically saying what you really need is a laptop.

Phone = small, always attached screen.

Laptop = medium, portable screen that conveniently comes with keyboard and mouse

Desktop = large, multiple screens, for srsbsns

Big can be defined in terms of resolution.

I guarantee someone out there has a 13" laptop screen with 4k resolution and scaling disabled. You can fit a lot of flights onto that