Right now my dogs' favorite game is "you stand nearby holding a toy while we wrestle"
Holding the toy is apparently an important part of the game, play stops if I put it down. Guess I should be happy they're including me at all....
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@rolenthedeep@rattodon.nexus
mastodon 4.5.9I'm just a regular guy who likes rats exactly the normal amount
Programmer, electronics, R&D engineer.
Autistic, gay, cis, he/him
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Joined October 29, 2023
Who else up bab'ing they yaga
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@Viss
CEO at my last job AI generated his presentation the night before, didn't sleep, rolled on stage 30 minutes late visibly stinking of weed. One slide was six screenshots from his phone of a ChatGPT conversation which he read to the audience.
The company never made a single sale ever again.
If you think about mainframes (enormous, hulking behemoths breathing fire from ages long past) as dragons, suddenly you can replace COBOL with Kobolds
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@Viss
B2B VR bullshittery, this was right at the peak of the metaverse nonsense
Boss called me a badass today.
I got totally fixated on an interesting side quest and accidentally solved in two weeks an entire class of problems he's been mad about for years.
We haven't even talked in weeks, he had no idea what I was working on until the solution showed up in his DMs unprompted.
I finished restoring my tube oscilloscope and I didn't even die once! My friends at work are gonna be so jealous
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@j_r
@emenel honestly, Arch just is not really the best idea for a preconfigured machine. A Debian variant is probably a far more stable choice.
And I say that as someone who's used Arch as their primary OS for a decade+. It's simply not the distro for the kind of person who wants an off the shelf "linux laptop".
Why toe BEANS if smell like corn chips? Checkmate atheists
Experienced C programmers put every individual operation in parentheses because operator precedence is a goddamn lie
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My phone autocorrected this to "fuck me" and like, I'm not *not* into it
I really wish my brain and body would just fucking tell me when something is wrong. Instead I have to play goddamn neurotypical guessing games with myself. Like I made bacon and lost motivation to cook the rest of my breakfast which means I (casts dice) forgot my meds for (squints at clouds) two days and (rolls bones) I'm in pain and (crystal ball) I will be in a bad mood all day.
Can't I just skip all that and receive a "u sad" message or something? What is this nonsense. I just want eggs.
Sure, sex is cool, but have you ever successfully reverse engineered a device?
No, *YOU'RE* shitposting through it, shut up
Gently the rat (like borgar) because the passage of time is inexorable and relentless and unforgiving
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Ironically mastodon unfucks the intentionally fucked line breaks so, sorry if it's more legible than intended
Potted plants can have a few hours of Outside, as a treat
Today is NOT the day for my emotional support steam deck to die. I can't handle this. I'm gonna go back to bed and cry. Yes, it's 10am and I'm already tapped out.
I know exactly who needs to hear this: "your frustration is understandable" is not the same as "I'm sorry, I fucked up"
Put on your big boy pants and admit that you did something catastrophically wrong to somebody you claim to respect.
Today at work, Infineon quoted us *ninety seven weeks* lead time for a piece of *software*
The software is several years old, last updated in 2023.
We think they genuinely lost the code and have to recreate from scratch. It took three weeks of daily calls to get this quote.
What the fuuuuck
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I don't know about you, but I had no idea that four terminal potentiometers existed. Past tense, they're unobtanium now.
Good thing this one is frozen solid >:(
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@mwl@io.mwl.io
Literally this has been my entire career. I am always the Solutions Fairy wherever I go.
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@repeattofade@tootr.co
Steve would have had the person responsible hauled out of bed at 3am, thrown into the nearest airplane, flown directly to Cupertino so he could personally scream at them for two hours about what a terrible job they did
And to be honest, that is the only correct way to handle.... whatever the fuck this is
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@kirakira
Those channels might be so the back of the mouse can extend out to fit your palm better. One of my old gamer mice was like that
I really hope I don't need to hire a lawyer.
I'm so mad. I've never been this mad.
Reminder: "Lawful Evil" means *always* evil in *every* situation.
"Chaotic Evil" does not mean "more evil". Chaotic evil means evil *most* of the time. Chaotically choosing good when it's funny.
The situation with my old boss has escalated really fast. I've only sent two emails in this exchange.
Email 1: "hey, glad to hear you're doing well and the business is back on track. Let me review these papers with my accountant"
Email 2: "Never in my life has someone shown me this level of disrespect. Do not contact me again"
This fucking guy.
I still have not emotionally recovered from working on that one project where the author wrote a preprocessor to translate his custom python-like dialect into compilable C++
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The other half of this shot. Husband is *thrilled* that this will be occupying the dining room table for the next 2-16 weeks
Old boss emailed me at 11:30 last night to inform me that the W2 I was sent didn't include about six months of wages and taxes.
Taxes are due *tomorrow*.
I really thought that after everything, I couldn't be surprised by his shitty behavior anymore, but no, he still manages to disappoint.
I have to call a lawyer. I'm gonna fucking scream.
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@darkrat
For sure. Really wish they'd just fucking tell us no
I think it's probably best if I go drink a large amount of alcohol and throw my phone into the river.
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@aphyr
A coworker told me this morning that every day he questions whether he even likes computers, and the answer is generally no.
I think we can all relate to that.
I hope this email finds you like a kick in the teeth
Ugghhhh the dog woke up at 6am and wouldn't settle down so now I guess I'm awake an hour and a half early.
Can you nooot ugh
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@kirakira@furry.engineer
Kagi does this and I'm never going back to anything else
LB: Oh, so that's why bash scripts are Like That.
Let's just say it's morally correct but legally ambiguous
Every time I remember reading all five Hitchhiker's Guide books, I somehow get retroactively more disappointed. It's not just me, right? They were awful books.
I mean I think that was kind of Adams's *point* in writing them, but I still kinda wish I'd spent that time reading literally anything else.
Like, the bowl of petunias is a named character and the antihero to the entire story that absolutely nobody ever acknowledges in-world or out.
Arthur can fly.
You know what? Fuck it, why not.
- ST Developers, I assume
It took eight tries to push a tag to GitHub. I've spent half my day just waiting for this godforsaken website to respond to anything