Biden banning DC Cinematic Universe slop by executive order on his way out followed by Trump banning Marvel slop on his way in might be enough to cause a blip
My boss does this for “estimating” software project schedules. He built a goddamned spreadsheet* where he will rate the entire project on a scale of 1 to 5, with 1 being trivial/quick-win territory, and 5 being extremely labor-intensive.
Two problems with this approach as used at my job:
He assigns the ratings before requirements gathering has even started (if they ever get documented in the first place).
He bases the final deadline around the calculator spreadsheet, and sends that date on to the business partners/project stakeholders within the company, and they usually pass it along to upper management.
So, by the time we finally get requirements together and find out, oh, shit, this is actually way more complicated than a 2.71828 or whatever, the stakeholders have already told the Senior VPs of Thought Leadering that my team will be done by a specific date. The week before that date rolls around, boss goes into a panic, demands that I work on absolutely nothing else as I’m being pinged daily to put out random bullshit fires on other projects that were rushed through implementation before I even worked here. Between that and the low pay, I start really strongly considering pulling a no-show. I stay up late a couple of nights, project gets finished. Rinse. Repeat.
I envy the dead.
*: No, it’s not a Monte Carlo simulation or anything that fancy – he just multiplies the complexity rating by a set number of labor hours, and doesn’t bake in additional time for risk mitigation. They promoted his ass because this is so scientific and data-driven. Edit: and no, there isn’t a more detailed breakdown/implementation milestone schedule somewhere further down in the estimate. It’s literally “I feel like this is a… 2. You have a week. GIT 'ER DUN!”
Right up there with evangelical fundies going apeshit every time the UN charter on Rights of the Child gets brought up. I have an aunt who was absolutely obsessed with that shit because she thought it meant that Obama was going to come down from on high and personally tell her that she couldn’t home-school her daughter.
I think that’s where you put down two plants with a landscaping divider between them to act as a lane, and then see whose root system grows to the finish line the fastest.
Sounds like the Java version wasn’t written with aggressive GC reference culling in mind – it will never be as memory-efficient as a purpose-built C/C++/Rust program, but 1.5 GB sounds egregious.
Strapped into a small compartment on the tiny spacecraft Sputnik 2, Laika died during her fourth orbit when her capsule overheated.
The Americans responded with the same panic that met the launch of the first Sputnik. Eisenhower ordered the Naval Research Laboratory—which had been working separately for years on launching an artificial satellite into space—to immediately prepare a manned spaceflight. In January 1958, America finally responded to the Soviets’ scientific aggression by launching a Vanguard rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida containing two stray dogs.
These dogs died an icy death within an hour of leaving the atmosphere when their cabin depressurized. They were hailed as national heroes, and became a massive propaganda coup for NATO. Behind the iron curtain, VOA broadcasts let anyone with a radio know that capitalists were more efficient at killing dogs in space than communists.
Khrushchev was livid. He ordered his scientists to embark on what became known as the Luna program. On the second day of 1959, Luna 1 was launched towards the moon with 17 dogs from the streets of Vienna aboard, three of which were pregnant. The dogs all perished by the time the craft reached the Van Allen belt.
NASA, which had been created the previous summer, embarked on Project Mercury, which blasted a succession of angry cats into deep space with their tails tied together. The Soviets responded with the Vostok program, which sent horses into orbit strapped into medical devices that would periodically revive them so that a single horse could be killed, theoretically, dozens of times.
In the 1960s the space race turned to a new goal: to be the first nation to kill a dog on the moon.
The Americans suffered a massive setback in 1967 when a test of the Apollo 1 capsule resulted in three dogs dying in an electrical fire on Earth, not in space. But in 1969 the lunar module of Apollo 11 landed on the surface of the moon. Before a global audience of nearly 1 billion people, the door of the Eagle opened and the three dogs perished within minutes.
The Soviets had been bested, but in 1971 they achieved another scientific breakthrough when they established the Salyut 1 space station, which embodied man’s ultimate ambition of creating a self-contained environment in space where generations of dogs could be bred and killed.
After the fall of the USSR, a team of scientists from Russia, the US, and other countries—led by the American dog-killing wunderkind Pete Buttigieg—worked together to build the International Space Station. This year is the 22nd anniversary of the launch of the ISS, which to this day remains functioning in orbit—with a fully staffed kill shelter that only services pit bulls—as a monument not only to the science of space exploration, but to harmony among men on Earth.
Democrats (lemmygrad.ml)
[AI Not the Onion] How many rocks should I eat a day? (hexbear.net)
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choose your fighter (hexbear.net)
this sucks so bad
How boomers will "hand over the reins" to the younger gens (www.youtube.com)
screm-aaaaaaaaa
The invisible hand of the Free Market Is the US state department (hexbear.net)
what's the origin of the trump diaper people at demonstrations? (hexbear.net)
I see there’s a lincoln project diaper trump thing but idk if there’s a connection. just wondering if it’s actual chuds or (more likely) a bit
When Trump dies - he'll say just one word as he shuffles off this mortal coil. What word will it be? (hexbear.net)
This is the guy who expects us all to listen to him about how AI works (hexbear.net)
Squealing with joy (hexbear.net)
Data-driven nerds get the wall (www.tiktok.com)
Yes (hexbear.net)
None of this is even an exaggeration in any way (hexbear.net)
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*hits techbro bong* check out my idea to fix the bridge (hexbear.net)
3d printers, maaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnnnnn
[CW: SA] The Worst Programming Language You Know also has the worst people you know in positions of leadership (patricia.no)
Yet another reason to never touch that piece of shit language ever again:...
Check out this fucking scumbag. (www.wikipedia.org)
Fail son piece of shit funding all kinds of horrible bullshit....
"Groundhog Day: Origins" (hexbear.net)
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"lolollloloooolololoooooooooool" election news (www.nbcnews.com)
empress shit (hexbear.net)
Great job (hexbear.net)
"Healthcare lines" as people in the UK horde to opening day at a new NHS dentist for the scant few places available (hexbear.net)
theguardian.com/…/queue-new-nhs-dental-practice-b…...
Americans will still cope and seethe but it was a space race buddy not a moon race and the USSR sent several people there before you did. (hexbear.net)
Imagine claiming victory after being eight years late lmao. Typical US.
But how's the Royal Top doing? (hexbear.net)
Governor Abbott declares an “invasion”. Supersedes any federal statutes. (gov.texas.gov)
Governor Abbott Issues Statement On Texas’ Constitutional Right To Self-Defense...