Then they briefly acknowledge you before returning to whatever uninteresting topic they were already discussing and tighten the circle so that you could not join in even if you wanted to…

You look around the room and everyone is in tight circles, making mostly small talk, with a few people in each circle dominating the conversations. At best, all you can do is stand outside a circle, essentially eavesdropping, but that’s creepy.

So you just wander the room admiring the art and architecture, look out the windows, etc., before either finding a way to leave or finding a quiet corner and pulling out your phone.

It is also the origin of the anime “wow” sound effect. https://soundeffects.fandom.com/wiki/Anime_Wow_Sound

Same here only it was 20 years ago. UML professor was convinced it would replace programming.

I’m still hoping for good customer support AI. If I’m going to be connected to someone who barely speaks English and is required to follow a prewritten script, or worse plays prerecorded messages to fake being fluent, I might as well talk to an AI, especially if it means shorter hold times.

AI is a bad replacement for good customer service, but it could be an improvement over bad customer service.

I was waiting for: dear sandwich theif, this is IT. We have the printer logs. HR brought us donuts. Your move.

My indirect experience with python is that it is slow as hell. Anytime I install an app that includes python it lags 15-30 minutes on that step. Anytime I’m asked to install something with conda it takes 30 minutes to an hour.

I’m sure that is just due to environmental and implementation issues, but the Java fans say the same thing…

Random guess, a php error caused Apache to log a ridiculous number of errors to /var/log and on this system that isn’t its own partition so /var filled up crashing MySQL. The user wiped /var/log to free up space.

I used to be polite to these things. They used to work. Neither is true anymore.

• Me: hey google play soft piano music
• Google: spopht
• Me:… hey google play soft piano music
• Google: I’m sorry, who did you want to call?
• Me: Cancel
• Me: hey google pllaayy soft piano muusiicc
• Google: playing piano music on youtube… sorry I cannot do that on this device
• Me: hey google play soft piano music on spotify
• Google: ok, playing the album chainsaw death by the murder orphans.
• Me: cancel cancel cancel CANCEL

That’s when they turn the farm into a themed hotel that is only open during select holidays.

Was the bandage store there before he turned around or did it come into existence to maintain causality for the time traveler?

killall daemon

kill -9 666

Imagine being chased by a t1000 when it suddenly stops and displays a message “you are out of t1000 credits. The t1000 will resume chasing you in four hours or you can opt to be chased by a t3.5 instead”

What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 1:9 (written at least 2200 years ago)

That same verse mentions adultery, yet somehow these same people think Trump is a holy man of god…

This but replace the comic book with a game box labeled Zelda, put Nintendo on the artist’s shirt, and instead of Sunday, the guy mentions piracy.

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The one time discount actually works against me. I’ll decline a card offer so I can save the one time discount for a possible big purchase later on.

On a similar note. Suppose a town has gone years without a fire and is planning to massively cut the fire departments budget. The fire chief believes this is a very bad idea and will eventually lead to a deadly disaster. Should the fire chief secretly set a fire in a way that does not endanger any people but causes enough damage to make the point?

It was created by some of the same people who made Lost. Both shows relied heavily on flashbacks to make the shows seem more planned out. Both relied on inconsistent mythologies to fake worldbuilding.

Value is a weird concept. Even if mathematically the two stacks should have the same value, odds are some people will consider the $100 bill stack worth more, and be willing to do more in exchange for it. That effectively does make it worth more.