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I'm working on something similar. My biggest annoyance is that the overly-helpful LLM was making every die roll succeed. I ended up building some tooling around rolling dice. Also …

Presumably stack depth and overflow.

I used to work somewhere that did that. Several of us in Eng pointed out that it was likely impossible to sell anything to DoD personnel since the reply would route internally. But…

I remember in jazz class the instructor had a stack of jingles that showcased particular "weird" intervals. The only one I really remember now is the "Alway Coca Cola" jingle and a…

In the sitcom Mad About You there is an episode where Jamie tells Paul to put on a tie. Specifies the "navy blue one". "I don't own a navy tie." "Yes you do, it's the one that you …

Coming up on 20 years ago I was building a system that was going to be deployed at various locations throughout a very large country. All locations had internet access; but the thr…

California has a low-double-digit percentage of the US population, and mandates organic waste separation/collection. https://calrecycle.ca.gov/Organics/SLCP/collection/

Years ago I worked for a company that bought another company. Our QA folks were asked to give their site a once-over. What they found is still the butt of jokes in my circle of fri…

My favorite example of this sort of thing has been In My Tribe by 10000 Maniacs. The UPC/Catalog Number remained the same between the 1987 release and the removal of Peace Train (t…

> it was a good decade before they even admitted Perl 6 might take longer than expected I was there at OSCon when Larry announced Perl6, and that it would be "out by Christmas". An…

I feel like Bezos has well more than $10M, $1B/100 (centi). Perhaps you were looking for "hecto" (SI prefix for 100)?

A former manager once told me > If you get fired, and didn't see it coming, that's a failure in management. You should have _plenty_ of explicit signs of where things are heading, …

We have the Enhanced Games ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_Games ), so we already have an alternative Olympics that definitely includes medical companies.

All of them? It's gotten so bad that I remapped the Netflix button on the Shield remote to mute the receiver. The remote has volume up/down buttons, but no mute, and ads are _so_ l…

"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued o…

This. "Scam resistance", in my mind, maps to critical thinking and a bit of pattern matching. Could definitely be taught, but critical thinking seems to be out of favor in (America…

As with most things, it depends. If you truly do understand something, then you can derive a required result from first principles. _Given sufficient time_. Often in an exam situat…

Better than one company I was at. Wednesday-evening meeting to announce that there will be layoffs. "If you are affected you will receive an email by 7am EST tomorrow." Which I sum…

At the start of Covid lockdown my group at work started having a daily "drinking alone together" afternoon Google Meet. When that job ended, our household started drinking on our f…

I remember my junior high maths well enough, allowing division by zero is an essential step in proving that 1 == 2, which we _definitely_ don't want.

Interesting, I would have said Boyce-Codd unless you have a good reason to vary in either direction.

I haven't worked with sqlplus in forever, and I'm much happier for it. But back in the day we would wrap sqlplus with socat to add readline behaviors.

Reminds me of one of my Maths professors in college, Ben Freedman. He was a writer and an engineer until his son Michael started asking math questions that dad couldn't answer. So …

Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway. https://www.reddit.com/r/vintagecomputing/comments/9of84w/ne... Rings true for me. In …

The last three jobs I've held, I've had to state up front in writing that I will continue to act as the paid IT support for my spouse's one-person consulting firm. Hasn't been an i…