Semi-Hemi-Demigod

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 11 months ago to risa in When you post a meme in the wrong community but they're slightly related

Mr. Garibaldi

I can’t help but hear this in his voice

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 11 months ago to sysadmin in Google sucks (rant)

About 10 years ago I had just started at a company that had previously made Flash widgets (weather/sports/stocks) to put on your site. They had pivoted to JavaScript tools about three years before I joined the company, and had discontinued their Flash support a year earlier.

The very first conference call I had with a potential customer was actually someone who claimed to be losing billions of dollars because our Flash widgets didn't work anymore. They were livid that we'd stopped supporting them, and threatened to sue us if we didn't turn it back on.

The poor sales rep and I didn't know what to say, because she had started about a week before me and didn't even know we made them. I'm guessing they didn't sue because we never heard about it again.

tl;dr - Users are idiots.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 11 months ago to news in A Putin Critic Fell to His Death in Washington. We Still Don’t Know Why.

Must be low on mana because he hasn't cast a polonium spell in a while

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 11 months ago to programmerhumor in Ideas for programming rizz?

Apparently. Finns are and odd bunch.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 11 months ago to news in Remote work is harder to come by as companies push for return to office

Good luck assholes, I'm never going back into an office

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 11 months ago to news in Remote work is harder to come by as companies push for return to office

Not to mention that every fully or even partially remote role I've had let me expense some or all of my Internet and cell phone.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 11 months ago to programmerhumor in Ideas for programming rizz?

MySQL, MariaDB, and MaxScale are all named after Ulf "Monty" Widenius' kids

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 11 months ago to worldnews in Russia Breaks Silence Over China Map Claiming Its Territory

The entire country has untreated PTSD from when the Mongols ruled them and they self-medicated with vodka for centuries

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 11 months ago to technology in It's not just you — no one is posting on social media anymore

And woe betide those who get into a group chat with a bunch of chatty people who never stop texting. Then you turn off notifications for it and you miss all kinds of things.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago) to worldnews in Russia Breaks Silence Over China Map Claiming Its Territory

And they've been doing it for years. In the Grand Tour episode where they drove across Georgia they saw a place where Russian soldiers move the barbed wire that marks border in the middle of the night. There was this poor old man weeping because they'd taken his entire farm this way.

Fuck Putin and fuck Russia for "electing" him.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 11 months ago to technology in Right to repair’s unlikely new adversary: Scientologists

Yes, a long time ago an evil alien enslaved people and crashed into a volcano on Earth where they became ghosts and possessed the primitive humans living there. South Park has a good explanation of this lunacy

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 11 months ago to world in Swedish government removes nuclear power promise from website

Because they won't have new nuclear plants online for a decade at least and because Putin invaded Ukraine and cut off their natural gas supply

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 11 months ago to news in 'Trump isn't funding any of us': Co-defendants in Georgia case are struggling with mounting legal bills

Aka “Stop breaking the law, asshole!”

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 11 months ago to world in Swedish government removes nuclear power promise from website

In the last ten years solar power has gone down in price by 80% and is now producing more power than nuclear.

Plus when you buy a solar panel it starts making money immediately, unlike a reactor that doesn’t make money for 10-20 years after it starts up.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 11 months ago to technology in MIT Economist Daron Acemoğlu Takes on Big Tech: "Our Future Will Be Very Dystopian"

We will but they’ll be owned by Musk et al