When I was a kid I loved my dad’s 1987 Chrysler 5th Avenue. It was silver and had a plush red leather interior with high pile carpet. It was a poor man’s personal luxury car but it still felt like you were riding in style.

If you replaced the 318 V8 and three speed automatic with something more economical, I would absolutely drive something like that.

Not nearly good enough to make me give up Quicken but it is nice to see some more self hosted options popping up.

You know, I would bet there’s tens of thousands of Russians that would be interested in having children if they didn’t all have a case of unnecessary deadness. If only something could have been done to avoid that.

One of the common uses I’ve heard is for generating boiler plate code. I have two thoughts on this. First, you actually have to understand what the boiler plate code is doing for it to be of any value. Second, there are already solutions for this that work just as well or better. Most of the major IDE’s either support code templates or have extensions for that. You just have to be willing to take the time to create templates. I use Resharper with Visual Studio for this all the time.

I tried copilot free for a month and was not that impressed.

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Nothing. As far as I know he’s still there. That company was a raging dumpster fire.

Ah Manage Engine. Lots of full featured products that are roughly 75% complete.

The kind of place where “backups” means playing Russian Roulette with one set of old ass tapes, if you’re lucky.

Guy in my department strolls into my office and says, “Welp, this is probably my last day working here.” I asked him why he would say that. He sits down and shoves his phone across the desk toward me. I start reading and it’s an email from him to the CEO complaining that our boss is, in so many words, a complete fucking moron.

I finished reading and was just like, “Yeah, you shouldn’t have done that.” I mean, he wasn’t wrong. I agreed with basically everything in his email. He was also right about it being his last day working there because he was fired that afternoon.

If you’re not spending half your day testing vacuum tubes one at a time, are you even a real engineer?

I know I’ve got a punch card sorter around here somewhere.

The slit in the back is called a “vent” for a reason.

"And on the third day, there was a wedding in Cana. Jesus’ mother was there. When the wine was drunk, Jesus’ mother said to him, ‘We’re out of wine.’ ‘Bruh… That’s a big yikes. But why do I care?’, replied Jesus.

Jesus mother instructed the servants, ‘you just do whatever he tells you no matter how stupid it sounds.’ Jesus sighed and turned to the servants saying, ’ Okay. You see those jars? Nope. Not that one. The big ones. Yeah. Those big ones over there. Go fill them up with water. All the way up. Then take some of the water and give it to the host."

The servants were more than a little skeptical but shrugged and did as they were told. When the host of the wedding feast tasted the water, it had become wine. And the host exclaimed, “Damn! That is some good shit. Where did you get that from?” And the servants were amazed because they knew from where the wine came.

And the servants implored Jesus, 'Do it again! No, wait. Can you make something stronger this time?"

– The Gospel According to [Skibidi] John

This is why you should never try to remove a tree from a power line yourself.

Electricity always takes the path of least resistance back to the source. A tree, and possibly your body, may end up being the “path of least resistance”.

You won’t know if YOU are the path of least resistance or it the line is even energized until it’s too late.

I’m an American but I remember talking to a gentleman from Belgium years ago while visiting Muir Woods. He said something along the lines of, “You all have some of the best national parks in the world. You should be very proud of them.”

That conversation gave me a new appreciation for our national parks. We are fortunate to have some pretty amazing scenery in the US.

I assume that officer is none other than Lieutenant Frank Drebin from Police Squad.

Private equity spent most of the 90’s destroying Montgomery Ward and Eddie Lampert held Sears/KMart under the water until the bubbles stopped so he could cry to anyone that would listen that the retail business was failing while he made a fortune selling off the company’s real estate.

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I prefer the council/manager scene myself, although that’s probably less common.