[-] fubarx@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 days ago

Years ago, Electric utility badly mangled a friend's last name. That's what was on his bill. He never corrected it. It's pronounced like "plug" but with an "n."

Feels like it should be in the dictionary, under some sort of insult.

[-] fubarx@lemmy.ml 86 points 1 month ago

That's what you might call, a career-limiting decision.

[-] fubarx@lemmy.ml 117 points 1 month ago

How long before the students gamify it to see who can generate the most alerts?

[-] fubarx@lemmy.ml 94 points 1 month ago

If the Kennedy campaign dropped out, Shanahan said she’d consider running for governor of California.

[-] fubarx@lemmy.ml 245 points 2 months ago

The biggest hot-topic issue this election should have been abortion (and by extension, SCOTUS). But the discussion got side-tracked by all this talk of old age. The debate just reinforced the narrative and concern with Biden. They would have hammered him over and over, with Trump bragging about how quickly he recovered from an injury.

Now, we have:

  • A sittingVP with actual Whitehouse experience, who can take credit for all the economic policies under Biden. Also, a former Senator.
  • A prosecutor and former Attorney General vs a convicted felon.
  • The age issue disappears (in fact, it now becomes a liability against Trump).
  • A woman vs the guy who bragged about killing Roe v. Wade.
  • Future of SCOTUS.

If she just keeps talking about those topics non-stop, she'll do fine.

The only thing better would have been if Biden had resigned to let people see her in the actual role, but this works. She picks a mid-westerner as VP who can stand up to Vance and it's a whole new ballgame.

I'm actually stoked about this race again.

[-] fubarx@lemmy.ml 93 points 3 months ago

Rode in a car with a full tinted glass roof once. Everybody's brains were boiling.

Looking at that picture, all I see is sunburn, heatstroke, and headache.

[-] fubarx@lemmy.ml 161 points 5 months ago

The year is 2245. The heirs finally locate a working, antique reader that can handle the ancient USB key, hoping to find great-great-grandpa's crypto-wallet or the pin-code to a long-lost Maltese bank account.

Instead, they find a 4-bit, VGA-quality scan of Miss October.

[-] fubarx@lemmy.ml 130 points 5 months ago

Ignore them. Send a pull request with the full source of Arch Linux.

[-] fubarx@lemmy.ml 88 points 6 months ago

Wait till they find out what software 'architects' really do.

[-] fubarx@lemmy.ml 228 points 6 months ago

Little Bobby Tables says hi.

[-] fubarx@lemmy.ml 86 points 6 months ago

Worked on a project where devices just magically froze, but only during the month of February!

Turned out the people who had written the firmware had decided to do their own time math to save space and had put in an exception in the code for leap year values. Except instead of February 29th, it kicked in for the whole month. And the math was wrong so you ended up with negative values.

The product was due for launch in March of that year and was headed to manufacturing. It was by sheer luck that someone ran a test on February 1st and caught the problem.

Don't mess with time in code, kids.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/13470219

Trump Is in Line for a $3.5 Billion Windfall From Stake in Truth Social

If the SPAC is approved this week, he could potentially use the stock as collateral to get a bond and avoid having properties seized or declaring bankruptcy by next week's deadline.

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If the SPAC is approved this week, he could potentially use the stock as collateral to get a bond and avoid having properties seized or declaring bankruptcy by next week's deadline.

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Voyager sure helped the transition for many of us moving off Reddit.

But one thing that has made it difficult to use is that saved items could only be retrieved in the order of original posting. That meant if you saved an item, then went back to look for it the next day, it wouldn't be there. It could be filed under the original post date which could be days, weeks, or months ago.

This was apparently a problem with the Lemmy back-end. Well, it appears that has been solved: https://lemmy.ml/comment/9233196

Hopefully, it'll roll out to servers soon and eventually make it to Voyager. Huge props to the devs!

PS: one of the last things Apollo added was 'save folders.' I didn't get to use it enough to get hooked on it, but it looked like it was a good way to keep things organized. Even better would have been tagging and smart folders, so items could be saved under multiple categories. Just leaving it here... 😁

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There is an illustrated flowchart for various pathways to legal immigration in the U.S.

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