danjac

danjac, 6 days ago to random

Cleaning team called in by new owners of Alex Jones' Infowars ranch

Ripley in Aliens: "I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit"

danjac, 7 days ago to random

The more you see of the Jedi at their height the more you think "Jesuits with laser swords" and that the Sith had a point.

danjac, 8 days ago to random

Scrum is the ultimate pigeon manager move (pigeon as in someone who flies in, shits over everything, then flies away).

Take a tech team doing just fine with Kanban, managing themselves as per the Agile Manifesto, then shackle them with Scrum "to shake things up".

danjac, 9 days ago to random

Farage might win in Clacton, which means he will have to spend a lot of time in Clacton. So he loses either way.

danjac, 13 days ago to random

You get the impression the Guardian doesn't want a Labour government because they get more clicks from constant anti-Tory outrage

danjac, 14 days ago to random

Mutant inbreeds in the UK Reform party now in a frenzy about barber shops

danjac, 17 days ago to random

Tories putting "national service" at the heart of their agenda.

Of all the PMs since 2010, perhaps the only one who had any sense of duty to the country - even though she was a horrible authoritarian and useless at her job - was Theresa May.

The others -and their hangers-on -were in it for a lark, an ego-trip or self-enrichment. The opposite of whatever "national service" is supposed to mean.

danjac, 18 days ago to random

Guys I figured out how to find 78 Tory candidates in a hurry

Conservatives plan to bring back mandatory National Service
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpddxy9r4mdo

danjac, 19 days ago to random

Daniel Craig seems so much happier playing Benoit Blanc than he ever was playing James Bond.

danjac, 19 days ago to random

If the current British government were deep cover Russian chaos agents, or just plain corrupt and incompetent, would there be any real difference?

danjac, 21 days ago to random

Controversial idea: ban the word "MVP" from Product Manager discourse.

While we are at it, any PM who uses the word "scrappy" should be banished to the salt mines.

danjac, 23 days ago to random

The problem is that technology (in all spheres) cannot advance quickly enough that modern management, economics and politics will catch up with and destroy all those advances.

https://idlewords.com/2024/5/the_lunacy_of_artemis.htm

danjac, 25 days ago to random

2 decades into the 21st century and France is still fighting colonial wars all over the world

danjac, 26 days ago to random

TIL the last U-Boat sinking of WW2 was in April 1945: in the Firth of Forth in Scotland when a Norwegian freighter was sunk.

Some of the U-Boats were out of communication with German high command and didn't know their country had surrendered.

danjac, 27 days ago to random

Next you'll be telling us Vladimir should have invested in crypto

https://www.businessinsider.com/palmer-luckey-anduril-how-ai-changing-warfare-strategy-putin-ukraine-2024-5

danjac, 28 days ago to random

Apparently the guy who tried to assassinate Fico had Russian paramilitary connections.

Hard to see a Russian motive for it though, Fico was pretty much their ideal candidate.

danjac, 29 days ago to django

I keep writing "quertyset" instead of "queryset" when writing #django, like I'm just hitting the first 5 keys of my laptop each time

danjac, 30 days ago to random

Sunak doing one of his "angry" speeches reminds me of the scene in the Inbetweeners when Will "Briefcase Wanker" gets all his classmates banned from the pub

danjac, 30 days ago to random

Sheesh. Even Musk & Chait are having to tell the Queen of TERF Island to tone it down a bit.

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/j-k-rowling-trans-twitter-elon-musk-1235019620/#amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&aoh=17156681670553

danjac, 1 month ago to random

You get the impression from today's Tories (Sunak, Truss et al) that they don't really like Britain or its people very much. They regard the British people as lazy, "woke", workshy and ungrateful.

Hence all their talk about doing away with doctors' sick notes, discouraging work-from-home, "Singapore on the Thames" etc. They would much rather be governing an imaginary authoritarian country somewhere in Asia with zero workers rights.

danjac, 1 month ago to random

The US government should legalize cocaine in Hollywood to get some creativity back in the place.

danjac, 1 month ago to random

lol no what shite

ChatGPT and the like could free up coders to new heights of creativity | John Naughton | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/11/chatgpt-ai-will-co-pilot-coders-to-new-heights-of-creativity

danjac, 1 month ago to random

Watching latest Mission Impossible and realising Tom Cruise is same age as Angela Lansbury in the early seasons of Murder She Wrote and the only physical stunt she did was cycling around Cabot Cove

danjac, 1 month ago to random

It's downright criminal how universities and other courses encourage or force students to set up private AWS accounts.

AWS is for companies, period. It should never be used by a private individual. If it were designed for private individuals, they would have implemented hard limits on the free tier rather than their laughable billing alerts.

You should never use it for coursework or side projects: the danger is too high.

https://old.reddit.com/r/aws/comments/qgr9jh/was_billed_60k_with_a_free_tier/

danjac, 1 month ago to random

#htmx tip: if using "htmx.ajax()" API call to trigger an HTMX request, and you need to push the URL to your history, return response with "HX-Push-URL". (django-htmx has a handy "push_url()" function for this).