So, I read one, went into the next room and told it to my 18-year old daughter, and got an exasperated smile, just like every dad joke should. Five out of five stars, would recommend.
50 out of 50 stars was right there!
U.S. Government Database of Dad Jokes
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#42I worry for the server's uptime ... its days are numbered
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#43Hugged to death? https://web.archive.org/web/20230126220339/https://www.fathe...
what a missed opportunity to utilize http status code 418
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
Efforts to reduce single motherhood probably serve to reduce welfare expenses more than most other efforts
On those grounds, you can probably argue that any spending anywhere reduces the deficit in the long run. EDIT: to clarify, an argument that providing dad-jokes leads to less single motherhood (which then leads to less spending) is so tenuous, that if you accept it, you can accept almost any kind of mental gymnastics. I agree that reducing single motherhood would probably lead to less spending. It's the connection to…
How does that follow?
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#45Hugged to death? https://web.archive.org/web/20230126220339/https://www.fathe...
Redesigned the FDIC's online deposit insurance calculator to be 100% client side just before WAMU fell over and the crash that followed.
Before the three-step one pager it was a UX that only a mother could love on payday. The bigger problem was every time it would end up on somewhere like Yahoo finance (don't laugh, this was 2007 and earlier) it would fall over like this database. The key to scaling it seems pretty obvious today, write all the searchable data out to a single JSON file and have the browser poll that. It was doing multiple millions of user sessions a day I was told and couldn't have been deployed at a better time.
Some projects you get lucky with I suppose. I check it out every once in a while and the UX is basically still the same.
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
Efforts to reduce single motherhood probably serve to reduce welfare expenses more than most other efforts
On those grounds, you can probably argue that any spending anywhere reduces the deficit in the long run. EDIT: to clarify, an argument that providing dad-jokes leads to less single motherhood (which then leads to less spending) is so tenuous, that if you accept it, you can accept almost any kind of mental gymnastics. I agree that reducing single motherhood would probably lead to less spending. It's the connection to…
Can you explain how your statement follows from the parent? To me it reads like a slippery slope type statement.
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
You know someone said that there will never be more than 100 requests per second in a meeting
Yup and you know what? That's exactly the kind of detail I don't need a government IT worker sweating over. They should just pay the premium to cloud providers and move on to more important things
% host -t a fatherhood.gov
fatherhood.gov has address 15.197.252.44
fatherhood.gov has address 3.33.237.102
% host -t ptr 44.252.197.15.in-addr.arpa 44.252.197.15.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer a05e7be9b6fd75377.awsglobalaccelerator.com.
% host -t ptr 102.237.33.3.in-addr.arpa 102.237.33.3.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer a05e7be9b6fd75377.awsglobalaccelerator.com.
It is on AWS.
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#48These are funny, but there is something jarringly dystopian about the words "National Responsible Fatherhood Clearinghouse".
The one for irresponsible fathers is called the “Office of Child Support Enforcement,” for better or for worse.
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yup and you know what? That's exactly the kind of detail I don't need a government IT worker sweating over. They should just pay the premium to cloud providers and move on to more important things
I could not disagree more. Government already suffers a huge stigma of waste and overspending, no need to add to that stigma by overspending on checks notes a list of dad jokes. That's not to say I'm not glad this exists - I am! But I don't think it deserves a large budget.
If it's running on some faas type thing, it's about free when not being used, so hardly a waste.
They certainly shouldnt be spending to scale a ton on dad jokes, in case it's very popular for a day
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#50Hugged to death? https://web.archive.org/web/20230126220339/https://www.fathe...
Actually a feature designed to prevent depletion of the strategic pun reserve.