ah-ha! Flat cap too, on a lark.

We were looking at buying a 115-year-old house. It saw every world war, the smallpox epidemic, the great depression the epidemic caused, etc. While this is North America, this town is one of the oldest here.

My stepdad - generally an okay Rick Moranis type and a wizard at the penny stocks - had a quirk. We found out he specifically hated people sucking the sauce off their fingers after eating chicken wings; that kind of thing.

Oh God, we were relentless.

I put you at 2 years – one year to see this every month on Reddit, and then a year after the exodus.

I’m barely able to remember watching Star Wars in the summertime in the theatre.

I think you did think so, based on context.

Glad I could answer your question for you.

some aspects of programming have really been made obsolete

I’d agree that some specifics have been made obsolete. Some habits and routines are currently being ignored or skipped, but the amount of skill that’s gone away is very small.

As mentioned before, we downsized brutally after Y2K. The people most affected were the highest-paid who weren’t the best code-grinders, and these were the documenters, the programme people, and the mentor types. We lost our guides, our structure, and our historians. We’ve been growing again like feral children rebuilding society from the wasteland like it’s Mad Max, and there’s a LOT of the Why that we either don’t know, that we ignore, or that we skip in the interests of (insert manufactured urgency here).

We are re-learning some of the whys, but we haven’t yet seen the half-assedry chickens come home to roost on that. The symptoms are there: Boeing’s Gilligan’s Island in Space, supply-chain sploits in waves, personal information lost weekly, all these things that are clipboard hassles we stopped doing that pelrevent massively expensive things later.

Crowdstrike may die now, mainly because they were marauding leopards we allowed to eat our face. Solarwinds before that, same issue but they seem to be okay. There are dozens of ohShit moments that could lead to similarly preventable problems, that we knew not to do … once.

Well get there again but we’ll be rediscovering a lot of what some techbro will claim is obsolete, old-practice, too-cautious, hand-wringing in our neu and moderne go-hard/break-lives paradigm.

It was a fancy lie about their spare time, but especially in dotcom, there IS no spare time to learn architecture.

What I’ve seen of dev AND ops is that their knowledge is focused well on their own things. And when it comes to the other half of devops they just want the shortest path back to doing their thing. This has caused absolute princess devs to be nearly screaming about the hassle of security and change control and infrastructure and proper code deployment and testing and … Well, a lot of things.

It doesn’t pay to have people learning to half-ass dev because ops is your thing. You need advocacy on both sides of that line, still.

Thanks. I’m remembering the relevant scene from Office Space. ;-)

My healthcare is paid out of my taxes. It’s really hard to cheap out on it.

“well ackually”

One wonders how you’d prefer the sentence start where you’re offered a correction by someone thinking of your success.

I suspect you’ve heard it a bunch, and if that trend continues then you’ll want to advertise a better way for people to help you so they don’t inadvertently offend you … while they help you.

And it’s cool; I get you. I too hate it when people volunteer their finite time in a sisyphean effort to fix one error at a time. I realize it’s ultimately selfish, in that they’re just trying to make the world better for themselves, but it’s the blow to my ego that really gets me. How dare they offer some different viewpoint and bring the receipts to attack my world-view?

you just discovered why we say ‘traffic’ and not ‘there were many trafficks on my way in this morning’.

(It’s also why ‘experiences’ and ‘emails’ is very often wrong if we followed established rules like in the former instead of gleefully making up the very exceptions we then curse, like in the latter case.)

There was a company started recently to leverage AI and its trends prediction to stage what people need where they need it. Floods? Gyprock. Weather coming into California? Tents and bottled water near the school fields.

It predicts conflict by recommending first aid supplies staged near a border.

Absolutely mercenary, it opens its sales windows only when ‘surge’ pricing is allowable. You’re gonna be paying 3, 4 times the regular drywall cost.

The running gag I’ve been pushing for about 15 years is that the ice cream trucks will switch over to mini-doughnuts in the winter.

My rule is: “greed causes incurable ear loss”

Clarification: I didn’t say ‘hearing’; I said ‘ear’.

Indeed, how are babby form?

Doc thought I had gout. Try some drugs and get an x-ray. Not gout, the X-ray shows, just arthritis from walking on my feet in combat boots so much.

Repeat that every time I move and go to the doc to get more of the painkillers I need when it gets really bad.

On the bright side, it’s not gout. ;-)

A dear friend was car-jacked and they stomped his collar bone. I do NOT want to see or feel that ever.

I’m only glad that my migraines are very mild: scintillating scotoma to warn me the pain is coming and a tylenol500 and Advil every 2 hours with a good hit of caffeine will tamp that down. Soon as the vision is back I’m almost back to work.

I was once running along a wharf and slipped while landing a jump. Stuck the landing briefly, but then my feet went up and I went down. I lay for a moment mentally checking feeling in the lower extremities and dreading the point when I had to move and run to catch my boat, but I did all that without much issue.

It’s been generally ignored for 30 years, so it’s hardened up nicely between the sacrum and ilium and generally abused the rest of the back with the gait differences. That’s why when I super strained it one morning by merely bending forward, I was the only one in the exam room who was surprised it was gonna do that.

It’s the only time I’ve had morphine (baby morphine 2mg) and it didn’t really do much that was positive – too weak to dull the pain and already hitting me with gut issues. Riding out recovery on the lesser Tylenol/Advil stack was a challenge but I couldn’t take the gut side-effects from the opioids.

Waiting on a programme to strengthen that up has been fun since the hillbillies made the doctor’s quit during COVID, but I’m in a stable state and obviously here to post snark and spelling corrections; so we’re good!

I can’t call this chefman thing a kettle, but that word is used here. It’s more a boil-and-hold urn like you’d see on a meeting-room sideboard with some bakery treats. Like I said, it doesn’t make a great cuppa, but I’m already a heathen before this point anyway. I’ll boil some proper water if the Yorkshire comes out, though.