It is the 936th day of Russia’s three day Special Military Operation in Ukraine.
Day: September 17, 2024, 11:24 PM
All Peeps
All the people who do nothing while working from home are the same ones who do not a goddamn thing in the office as well. It’s just that there, they are better at hiding their lassitude by gladhanding, ass-kissing and faking being busy.
A lot of managers just crave a false sense of control. In my experience, a crap worker is a crap worker anywhere. The noisy extroverts, though, hide it better.
Dev Flops
The worst users to support are in fact developers, alas. They have high self-opinion and belief in their own capability while in relative terms possessing the lowest levels of knowledge and actual proficiency.
24 24
I know it’s only been 5 years, but I miss 24-hour stores.
Me too. They are so much rarer now. Since I sleep odd hours and less than normal, those were perfect for me. Another thing the pandemic did away with.
Kablooey
BREAKING:
Israel injures hundreds of Hezbollah operatives by hacking their pagers and making them explode. Most likely, they made the lithium batteries overheat.
There are many videos and pictures of the attack circulating online.
Via @TreyYingst pic.twitter.com/CnQoW0yp6b
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) September 17, 2024
FYI China could (and likely will) be able to do this in war with many of our devices.
Those explosions if it’s not obvious are not trivial, either.
Video showing just how powerful the pager explosions were pic.twitter.com/N9L8Wjfr0V
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) September 17, 2024
Freq Plaint
It’s a sad thing to watch computers and applications get less powerful, less customizable, less useful and more limited all the time.
We never should’ve let normies have access to any of this. It was a mistake.
Tanked Up
An enormous UA 110th brigade drone drops enormous loads.
That’s a big drone.
And an anti-tank mine with a custom-made stabilizer fin? You see some crazy new stuff in that terrible war every damn day.
Walk
I’ve watched dozens of videos of Russian BMPs in active combat and most of them never even fire their main gun. Know why? Because they have no ammo. Sure, Russia might “win” on sheer numbers, but only after losing a million or more people.
So much for that three-day limited Special Military Operation that Ian Welsh and Putin (blood brothers) insisted would be a cakewalk. That anyone listens to that clown anymore is sad and inexplicable.
Which exact clown am I talking about in that last sentence? Does it matter?
Slackpawed
Ok, when I say “Send me an email,” I do not mean to put it in Slack. Slack is worthless to me. The search feature is useless and finding anything in there after a few days is impossible. Any vital info in Slack means it’ll never be unearthed again.
Slack is where information goes to die.
Ato
Even after all these years, I still cannot get over the fact that Clamato is real.
26
People probably think I spend a lot of time on this blog as there are so many posts. But, brothers and sisters, I do not. I just write faster than anyone you’ve ever met. This post took 26 seconds.
Excss
The unreasonable effectiveness of simple HTML.
99% of pages should be mostly HTML with a little CSS. (I claim as I look at the 2000+ lines of CSS code I cobbled together for this site. Heh.)
Officiousness
I am so fucking glad no one can ever make me go into an office again. I have a combination of skills and certs that maybe 0.0001% of my peers have to my level, and that means I can demand a lot of things. So I will and I do.
And my expenses are only about $800 per month. Can’t nobody make me do shit. I spent my life doing smart enough things to get to this point. Many, many people said I could not get here, yet here I am.
Bully for me!
Types of Stereo
Women often feel that they are reduced to a sex object where only their surface matters. Men often feel that they are seen only as an emotionless wallet for which any deviation from stoicism is a gross violation.
Both are correct.
JOHN CXNNOR ft. WITCH CLUB SATAN – Unlike Humans
Not to my usual taste, but this is fucking nuts in a way that really hits the spot tonight. Love it.