ChickenLadyLovesLife @ ChickenLadyLovesLife @lemmy.world

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I could see them pulling a Lenin on us when he dies. You would get pretty damn sick of seeing him in a coffin even then.

That's assuming they don't just replace him with a younger impersonator when he dies and keep this shit going forever. Hell, maybe that already happened during his first term.

Trump is a human loyalty test. And not loyalty to the United States or the Constitution or anything like that, obviously.

Fun fact: during the early part of WWII, when Germany had signed a series of economic and political pacts with the Soviet Union (and before Germany invaded the USSR, obviously), they shipped various weapons systems and other advanced military technologies to Russia as part of the deals. One of these shipments included advanced 37mm anti-aircraft guns and turrets that had originally been earmarked for installation on the Bismarck, which was instead equipped with older, less effective guns. When she made her one and only sortie in 1941, she was fatally crippled by actual biplanes.

The moral of the story is: "don't give shit to Russia".

The term dates to 1974 (1968 if you accept "Application Program Interface"). The concept is decades older than that. My boss was just a fucking moron.

I'm going back to TurboBASIC.

AI is good for the early stages of a project ... when it's important to create the illusion of rapid progress so that management doesn't cancel the project while there's still time to do so.

Wait, are they doing a Boeing over there at Microsoft?

What, killing whistleblowers?

I guess Bootsy Collins was wrong ... sometimes you do learn.

I was actually referencing Fatboy Slim referencing Dune.

You're thinking of "gangster app".

I think they meant "a file path not being right in that there code".

I've been coding since the '80s. I've never once heard anyone refer to a bitmap as a "bump".

Appetizer at Applebee's? "app"

This one probably drives me the most crazy.

I had a (non-technical) manager come to me one day and say he wanted us to start using this hot new technology he had just read about called an API. This was in 2010. He showed me the article, which somehow never even attempted to explain what an API actually was. I just laughed and said I would make it an action item.

If you walk with algorithm, you won't attract the worm.

Apparently liquor stores make their money off of hard-core drinkers and alcoholics, so liquor ads (and liquor store employee customer support) are designed not to attract new customers but rather to make the existing customers think their level of drinking is normal and acceptable.

"I didn't realize it was possible to cough up your pancreas".

I really hope I'm dead before we have androids.

For reference.

Can't hear the dialog | Christopher Nolan