Addressing shipyard workers and naval personnel at Newport News Shipbuilding, the nation’s largest military shipyard
Is anyone checking that he didn’t add them all to any national security topic group text chains…? (I joke.)
I can’t say I feel great when I still see his name come up alongside proactive communication and national security concerns…
I tried to get on board with this one, but “cross platform apps” made me throw up in my mouth a little. The unholy things we did back then are best left forgotten in their shallow binary graves.
You can try to be subtle about it. Changes in haircuts and styles can make it less obvious.
I tried not to give it away, but of course, I knew it was me, both times. (I’m both very perceptive and surpringly self-absorbed, so I couldn’t fool me.)
In this thread: young whipper-snappers who can’t realize how nice they had it with new fangled set color television set boxes, and flat screen EL-CEE-DEEs and what-not!
Edit: When I was a young’n, we only had…oh, I guess I put it in my username there. Haha.
was dotcom this annoying too?
Surprisingly, it was not this annoying.
It was very annoying, but at least there was an end in sight, and some of it was useful.
We all knew that http://www.only-socks-and-only-for-cats.com/ was going away, but eBay was still pretty great.
In contrast, we’re all standing around today looking at many times the world’s GDP being bet on a pretty good autocomplete algorithm waking up and becoming fully sentient.
It feels like a different level of irrational.
I worked directly with the last one on the list. I got his laptop approved to install Microsoft Access, by submitting a formal request to IT security.
I will share my first honest draft “justification” here:
“This man can achieve miracles with nothing more than Excel and VBA. His true skills unleashed are exactly what all of our draconian IT policies are afraid of. I don’t know what will happen, to any of us - after you approve this request. But i believe that standing in the way of his destiny is foolish futility, and I want him to remember me fondly when his full powers emerge.”
I replaced it with meaningless business speak bullshit, and cited a couple of uninterpretable but urgent business office priorities before I submitted the form.
There’s a such thing as too much honestly.
“The Room” is always amazing, and it takes a few years between installments. Worth the wait, but I feel sorry for myself every time I finish am installment.
These days your basic Linux installation requires very little time and knowledge.
True! But the perfect Linux install only needs just one more hour…and then one more hour after that…for the rest of my life.
The bit about making it do all the things Windows never would is accurate. Power users tend to migrate to Mac and perfectionists are practically pre-destined to discover Linux.
We can issue a special Power Rangers edition, and make it look like their robot helper.
Then we can sell an “Alpha 5 AI AI AI AI AI!”
Tell us your distro of choice… and then watch the group turn to cannibalism.
Pinball_wizards taste like chicken…
Bullshit! New users should have Linux Mint!
No way. Some folks need Fedora, to ensure an easier time with their shitty Nvidia chip drivers.
Bullshit! New users should have Linux Mint!
They’ll never learn that way. They should start with Linux From Scratch to learn the fundentals.
Nah. All pinball_wizards agree that Debian is best.
Bullshit! New users should have Linux Mint!
Tell us your distro of choice… and then watch the group turn to cannibalism.
Nah. All pinball_wizards agree that Debian is best.
Yes!
Talking about “Taking Responsibility” is a huge red flag.
I manage people. When I talk about responsibility, I’m talking about my responsibility to deliver results, because I am fucking expensive.
When my VP talks about responsibility, they had better be talking about their own responsibility, because they are even more expensive than I am.
A leader who talks about “getting others to take responsibility” immediately makes me assume they are overpaid. Taking responsibility is their whole job. They shouldn’t talk about it, they shouldn’t ask for help with it, they should be responsible, be likeable, hire good staff, and clear obstacles.
I find that when I choose to be the responsible person in the room, and I manage to be likeable - people tend to watch my back, and the things I said were important tend to get done.
A group of me is a “Linux Install Party”.
And his Spider-sense would give him plenty of warning.
I dont want consoles to “get better” i want them to do more.
Exactly. They could give us a built-in light gun and a steering wheel, and see what indie game developers do with them!
Fun, but the original line is perfect.
Storm doesn’t want to quip like Spider-Man, she’s here to protect her family and to fry anyone who threatens them…
The point of the original line is that Toad is just another in a long line of idiots who underestimated Storm - and not even worth a unique punchline.
I’ll would accept road work over many of the other ways that money is likely to be spent.
My kids and grandkids could do a lot worse than falling into the grip of a big civil engineering firm.