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- Comment on Technically Correct 3 months ago:
Ah, I misread. I thought they were saying acetone = acetic acid but actually they were just saying there was something worse
- Comment on Technically Correct 3 months ago:
I believe you’re mixing up acetone with acetic acid
- Comment on What has he done to deserve this? 3 months ago:
Oh is THAT why every American knows how big 9mm is
- Comment on What has he done to deserve this? 3 months ago:
Well, yeah. Anything less than 0 is freezing and anything greater than 0 isn’t.
Ezpz
- Comment on I'll get right on that 3 months ago:
“will the company go out of business if this isn’t fixed in the next hour?”
Litmus test for urgency
- Comment on yay, no dunning kruger for me! hold up, oh no 5 months ago:
Yep, I’m starting to see how useful studying psychology would have been.
I’m 15 years into a tech career and it’s becoming increasingly obvious that the hard problems are not usually tech problems…
- Comment on yay, no dunning kruger for me! hold up, oh no 5 months ago:
Me too, the red band on the left hand side
- Comment on SPOOKY TIME 5 months ago:
My house was built in the 1960’s, to New Zealand standards.
We build houses for the climate we wish we had, not the climate we actually have. All the wall cavities are empty, especially the external walls
- Comment on Old comic, more relevant than ever 6 months ago:
I hear this all the time in my field.
“Can you just fuzzy match the records between the systems?”
- Comment on I have this moment everytime I clean the bastard 6 months ago:
I can’t imagine why, building a PC is just like slotting together Lego.
They also make it pretty hard to fuck up these days. When was the last time you bent CPU pins because you forced it into the wrong socket type or didn’t orient it correctly?
- Comment on Which Path? 6 months ago:
Bobs and vagene
- Comment on What kind of institutional gaslighting is this? 6 months ago:
It only works for cultures where individuals have to sepukku if they bring shame on family.
In the USA, bringing shame upon family is considered a rite of passage so it doesn’t quite have the same effect
- Comment on I'm not bored or anything, it just feels like forever. 60 more years left of my shift on earth... 7 months ago:
You’re like the guys who spent up large because they thought the world would end in 2012 when the Mayan calendar ran out.
It didn’t, and now they’re saddled with debt
- Comment on Germans: what genocide? 7 months ago:
Everyone seems to be forgetting who started this in the first place.
Israel is sure as hell gonna finish it
- Comment on They lied to us 8 months ago:
It’s a great example of the English appropriating another cultures cuisine because theirs is, well, a bit shit.
- Comment on Just thinking about what to cook 8 months ago:
Beef?
In think you’re mistaking them for beef-like products. I don’t think they’ve used actual beef since they declared independence from Britain
- Comment on STEM 8 months ago:
Yeah, it’s about applying physics to real world problems to come up with real world solutions.
Often in a more practical form because unlike in Physics, you can’t start off with “assume zero gravity and a spherical cow shape”
- Comment on STEM 8 months ago:
Probably your explanation needed more morphisms and a monad
- Comment on STEM 8 months ago:
Hey, don’t knock the Sandwich Engineers at Subway. They do the Lord’s work
- Comment on Biggus.... Dickus.... 10 months ago:
Buttocks!
- Comment on Wait wait wait 10 months ago:
B…blue eyes white dragon?
- Comment on How do you call someone born in the US besides "American"? 1 year ago:
In Australia, you call your mates cunt and cunts mate
- Comment on Don't forget to tip 1 year ago:
It was a joke
- Comment on Don't forget to tip 1 year ago:
Have you apologised for your privilege today?
- Comment on Why cant the Middle East just chill out? 1 year ago:
Middle eastern people have been fighting each other for thousands of years.
They will continue to fight each other for thousands of years.
Thanks religion, which ironically Islam has its roots in Judaism, same as Christianity
- Comment on Unions work. That's why the corporations don't like them. 1 year ago:
You don’t work in tech do you. Tech is all about the gig economy and changing jobs frequently to get better pay.
Unions only benefit the low quality tech workers that couldn’t get a job anywhere else