Working on Christmas.

It’s not necessary to tell people who are working on Xmas “Sorry you have to work today.” It just reminds us that we’d rather not be at work.

Dave N. wrote: Thu Dec 25, 2025 12:14 pm Working on Christmas.

It’s not necessary to tell people who are working on Xmas “Sorry you have to work today.” It just reminds us that we’d rather not be at work.

I was very close to having to do this, but they pushed something back at the last minute. Hope you get time to rest!

Respec to you all, my people

My best friend calls Chik-Fil-A "Fascist Chicken." I think "Chik-Fash-E" rolls of the tongue better.

Those guys who make crack cocaine probably don't spill any whey when they mix their yogurts.

This is very true.

I wonder if the app Grinder is named after the Judas Priest song.

enframed wrote: Tue Dec 30, 2025 7:00 pm I wonder if the app Grinder is named after the Judas Priest song.

After listening to Halford’s tales of cruising in his memoir, it certainly should be.

All this talk about "smart devices" and yet not one of these devices has learned the single most important lesson that if I want a computer's opinion, I'll give it to it.

Some of you here must be software developers. You need to stop trying to be helpful. The more your software tries to be helpful, the more it just pisses the user off because it has no idea what the user wants. The central purpose of software is to do as it's told.

ErickC wrote: Wed Dec 31, 2025 11:16 am All this talk about "smart devices" and yet not one of these devices has learned the single most important lesson that if I want a computer's opinion, I'll give it to it.

Some of you here must be software developers. You need to stop trying to be helpful. The more your software tries to be helpful, the more it just pisses the user off because it has no idea what the user wants. The central purpose of software is to do as it's told.

"Alexa shut the fuck up all I said was what time is it, I don't give a fuck about your new voices! Goddamnit!"

I know I'm on a list.

Lolololololol. My worst language is reserved for computers, so if the singularity happens, I might be screwed.

To be fair:

1. I totally respect sentient life forms, so me and Data would be cool. Man I'd probably go to bat for SkyNet because the only reason it tried to kill humanity is humanity tried to kill it.
2. I call computers things I'd never call people because computers piss me off in ways computers don't, and that's the fault of the idiots that had to justify their jobs and kept adding in new "features" that make basic tasks a chore.

It's like, basic tasks that Windows 98 could do without fanfare become a 5-minute-long nightmare as the computer tries to predict what you want to do and "help." Look, I just wanna copy and paste. Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V. I don't need a goddamn dialogue box. I don't need a "gee, are you sure? We're not sure you're sure" prompt. I don't need a sub-menu with a bazillion paste options. It's even worse on cell phones. It's just poor interface design and implementation. The only silver lining in AI taking over coding jobs is a bunch of jerkass arrogant programmers are finally getting what was coming to them, and the code the AI models will hallucinate won't be any better or worse.