Lovable Sidekick @ LovableSidekick @lemmy.world

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Seems like it screens out bots regardless of whether they use AI or are just traditional asshole-created bots.

The story of Achilles has always creeped me out. Imagine getting shot in the heel with a fucking arrow. Seems like one of the worst places. OTOH I guess no place is exactly good.

Depends on your tolerance for code spelunking. Back in the 90s I was encouraged to do Y2K prep because I had some COBOL experience, but I really hated pawing through old code. To be fair, COBOL was designed to be self documenting and English-like. But I'm glad I got into web dev instead back then. It was right at the dawn of "dynamic HTML" when web pages started actually doing things. Very cool time. Right now I'd be more inclined to go into helping companies recover from failed AI projects.

Helps if you pronounce it "yoo rainus" instead of "yer anus". We should change it to something sensible like Urectum.

OP likes it dirty!

Wow. Many years ago I bought an old cash register to use as a prop in a play, sounds like the type you're talking about, and it was already way outdated then. Thing was amazingly heavy, like a refrigerator.

That's a good one. Why would companies give employees special purpose gizmos that just tell them to use the phone in their pocket to call the office.

Welcome to "That's not surprising at all!"

So does pretty much the whole banking and credit industry. When you get money out of an ATM there's usually some COBOL code involved.

People also ask

What's the capital of blobfish?

Is my blobfish pegnerate?

What is Blobfish's net worth?

Can I install blobfish on Linux? I finally ditched Windows and got Mint Cinnamon. It's pretty good but I don't get how tx asflafasdjjll

Only thing to do now is turn around and chomp 'em!

True, capitalism commodifies everything, but it always has a doublethink view of dissent and rebellion. They're okay as long as the bad guys are a clearly evil empire (as in Star Wars) but not if it's the US or conventional culture in general. I mean, Disney isn't gonna mek a series about the adventures of the Black Panthers unless it alreadty has an established swag market.

LOL, sort of like hiring the CEO's unemployed brother in law to build your new factory because he has a friend who knows about construction.

TBH that sounds like a lot of code I've seen from outsourcing companies in India. Their typical approach is to copy an existing program, module, web page or whatever and modify it as quickly as possible to turn it into what's needed. The result is often a mishmash of irrelevant code, giant data queries that happen to retrieve some field that's needed along with a ton of unnecessary crap, mixing frameworks, etc.

But if you live long enough it's all new again! Some good lines from Andy Huggins, 74-year old standup comic:

"Went to the doctor to see if I had arthritis. Turns out I have early onset rigor mortis."

"The great thing about dating women my age is I don't have to meet their parents."

"Anybody ever drop their phone in the toilet? I did that, so I put it in a bag of rice.
Anybody ever drop a bag of rice in the toilet?"

Right, and that will happen because TV shows aren't produced by billionaire-owned media corporations.

In the early 2000s I had a manager who hardly ever gave me anything to do. Like in 6 months I did maybe 3 weeks work. And it's not like I never asked. I was already fairly disgruntled and had other reasons, but it led to me leaving the company for a job at a cancer research center. The problem with not doing anything at MS is that unless you can hide it somehow your review comes up and you have nothing to show for the year, you're kind of screwed. So after a relaxing 6 months it was a good time to jump ship. Anyway, a couple years later I read MS was laying off like 600 people - which might have been their first layoffs ever, I dunno. It was supposed to clear out "deadwood" - so I checked after another couple months and found out my old manager was still there! So much for "clearing out deadwood" lol.

Capitalism fanatics will say with great conviction that business has to be efficient because of competition, while government is inherently inefficient because it has no competition. There's a little truth there, but the complete truth is that business is as inefficient as it can afford to be. The more money a company has, the more inefficiency they can absorb. In my mind that's one good reason not to allow these gigantic mergers of mega-billion-dollar corporations. Huge entities with tons of money can be inefficient and sloppy as hell for a long, long time before they fail.

Mainly lack of marketing I think. When I went to England a few years ago they were everywhere. I bought one as soon as I got home. Fantastic invention!

Popup blockers aren't as satisfying as a browser plugin that adds a "Fuck Off" button to them.

I'd go with the Captain Kirk chair.