It’s an abbreviation for Command Line Interface To Objects Residing In System. A lot of male programmers can’t find it.

One’s the apex king of the jungle, the other is the king of the apex jumble.

This sounds great in theory, and in a simple farming society it would appear to make sense: the farmer digs up a turnip in the field they own with the fork they own. But how might it work for something like TSMC where the workers are producing semiconductors?

According to a certain well known site they have 73090 employees with total assets of $204.22 billion. Split equally that’s $2,794,089 each. So let’s suppose TSMC has a socialist epiphany and now every employee is equally a near triple millionaire.

What happens if they need to employ someone new, taking the number of employees, obviously, to 73091? Would that new person have to buy their $2,794,051 share before they start working? Or is that share simply taken off the 73090 and given to the new guy?

Or what if one of the 73090 decides now they’re a multimillionaire that they don’t ever need to work again and cash their share in? They walk away with $2.7m in their pocket. Where did that money come from? Did the 73089 all have to buy their share off them?

50-60 is OK I think I know what I’m doing now, can I go back to being 20 please?

I’m old enough to remember when that was the fancy new thing the kids were doing.

Wait till you see what “yank” means in vi and emacs.

I asked AI for an anime style circle and got this

I find the easiest way to forget C++ is to try watching CppCon on YouTube.

I’ve been doing C++ professionally since 1991.

But when I watch CppCon, what the hell are they gabbling on about? It’s all complete gobbledegook! They may as well be speaking in an ancient Goa’uld dialect for all the sense it makes. These people are so far down a rabbithole I start to wonder if they’ve ever seen the surface.

I am therefore forced to the conclusion that despite 34 years of experience in C++ I don’t know C++.

Also Windows: “Ask your network administrator for access.”
Me: “Well I’m my own network administrator so what questions do you want me to ask myself”?
Windows: “Enter network username and password.”
Me: There is no network username or password. Sod it, I’ll bung them on an external disk.

Most cli stuff is a lot easier than programming. If you can’t use cli then by definition you’re a shit programmer.

Of course if you simply don’t want to use cli that’s a different matter.

Sounds like somebody’s never had to visit Winchester.

I still prefer United States of Moronica.

(Of course, I realise arguing with an American about guns is a fool’s errand but sometime you’ve got to try.)

OK so hypothetically let’s suppose a right-wing cop has decided to add you to his list of murdered innocent civilians, has parked his car on the boundary of your house and is walking towards you.

At what point exactly do you get your gun out and shoot first? Spell it out please, I’d really like to understand how this plays out.

Please include the response of his partner who is still in the car, what that partner radios back to base, and describe the multiple responses of those who will now respond to the reports of a cop-killer. Explain how you think the resulting siege will play out and describe exactly how you win this scenario (where “win” is defined in terms of you living and not going to jail).

I dismissed one today with fuckoff@wanker.com. Then I found step 2 was a paywall. I really fucking hate those popups that ask for an email without telling you there’s a paywall next, sometimes there’s something I think I want next but the paywall tells me I don’t, but then they’ve already got my email even though I haven’t signed up.

Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so.

I did a bit of maths at school and I know 218>215, and 53>47.

That is what I call a minority in both places. If all D get together and say “no”, and all R get together and say “yes”, then where a simple majority is required it’ll be an R victory. Any D victory will need some Rs to either swing (and likely get fired), or abstain. Of course if a 2/3 majority is needed for something then R will need some D support to get it through.

To be fair to them though, they did just get comprehensively voted out from everywhere. They don’t have a single majority to make any difference to anything. If I were them I’d be sitting back with a large bowl of popcorn going “yal’l voted for this, or at least didn’t vote against it, hope you enjoy getting the full force of this orange idiot right in the face”. But from the headlines I’ve read it would appear they’ve had a few things to say about Fart’s latest hot smelly air.

***** ****!

So a dollar will only be worth one pence?

R and L are different letters with different pronunciation.

Out of interest, how do you pronounce “differently”? As “diffelently”, or “differentry”?