ChickenLadyLovesLife
@ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
- Comment on It's always Brassica 20 hours ago:
Fractals all the way down
- Comment on It's always Brassica 20 hours ago:
Somewhat counterintuitively: orange romanesco.
- Comment on It's always Brassica 20 hours ago:
I don’t really like broccoli unless roasted.
Yeah, same here. I pretty much hate any vegetable that’s been steamed into mush – aka how my parents always cooked them. Roasting is the shit for almost anything, otherwise I’d rather just eat my vegetables raw. I’ve recently been making a raw broccoli salad with scallions, bacon bits and cole slaw dressing and it’s fantastic.
- Comment on It's always Brassica 1 day ago:
It’s tasty, too – and I fucking hate regular broccoli and cauliflower.
There’s an orange variant of this which tastes the same but is even cooler-looking.
- Comment on Skibidi Schadenfreude 2 days ago:
My aunt died in 2013. At the funeral, my cousin (her stepson) suggested that we all make a “Harlem Shake” video to put on Farcebook. I wasn’t sure if he wanted to include my aunt in it or not.
- Comment on When real life generates the shitpost 3 days ago:
Seinfeld was the funniest thing I’d ever seen when it was on originally. I’ve watched reruns of it in recent years and it just drags terribly. The difference? I was smoking shit tons of weed back in the '90s.
The one episode that was truly transcendently funny was the one where Jerry and George come back to JFK airport after being in LA and they can’t find a cab, so they decide to pretend to be the people on the card held up by a limo driver so they can get a free ride back into the city. The two people on the card turn out to be white supremacists (ironically!) on their way to a rally at Madison Square Garden. The thing is, this episode was basically just Curb Your Enthusiasm.
- Comment on When real life generates the shitpost 3 days ago:
George was by far the funniest of the four main characters … and he was basically just playing Larry David.
- Comment on When real life generates the shitpost 3 days ago:
Curb has made it so fucking obvious who was responsible for the aspects of Seinfeld that I actually liked.
- Comment on Clock logic 4 days ago:
The firedial works every night.
- Comment on Clock logic 4 days ago:
We should all also use GMT and forget about time zones.
- Comment on Clock logic 4 days ago:
This would go great with my idea of everyone having a GUID instead of a name.
- Comment on Posting for the "Now guys he was MURDERED! Don't celebrate!" Crowd 5 days ago:
I prefer thots to tots.
- Comment on Posting for the "Now guys he was MURDERED! Don't celebrate!" Crowd 5 days ago:
U2 - Bullet the Blue Sky
You plant a demon seed
You raise a flower of fire - Comment on Posting for the "Now guys he was MURDERED! Don't celebrate!" Crowd 5 days ago:
Man, I haven’t thought about Heaven 17 in decades. My favorite lyric of theirs was “brothers, sisters, we don’t need that fascist groove thing”. I remember liking them in the '80s but thinking that their political stance was pretty over the top and that things weren’t really that bad in the world. How wrong I was.
Fun fact: the band took their name from a fictional group that was referenced in A Clockwork Orange.
- Comment on Posting for the "Now guys he was MURDERED! Don't celebrate!" Crowd 5 days ago:
This is maybe the only time it’s ok to be happy someone died.
There was also that one guy who shot himself in an underground bunker in Berlin. Gun violence and suicide are never OK but sometimes they are.
- Comment on Brad buys a house 5 days ago:
Not quite the same thing, but years ago I was a developer working on an app for Clerks of Court in the one state that doesn’t share the same legal basis as the other 49 states (should make it easy to guess which state). One day I got assigned a bug ticket that said the “State” dropdown in the app had 519 entries. This was of course a few too many, so I took a look at the STATES table in the database, which as expected contained the two-letter abbreviations for all 50 states but then a whole bunch of other shit after than, including all the states fully spelled out and often misspelled many times as well (there were more than 20 different spellings of Louisiana, for example), and then a bunch of country names.
It turned out that one of my coworkers had been assigned the task of including the state’s standard marriage license form in the application. This form had sections labeled “State” for the bride and groom, but since the victims (or whatever people getting married are called legally) were often from out of state or even from other countries, clerks would just write in whatever in this part of the form. My coworker was a fanatic about normalized databases, so rather than just allowing these fields to be plain text, he keyed them into the pre-existing STATES table and added code that added new entries to this table whenever users typed something new into the fields. It never once occurred to him that this table might have been utilized in other parts of the app.
How this table grew to 519 rows before anyone logged a complaint about it is beyond me.
- Comment on Brad buys a house 5 days ago:
My signature is a very consistent random squiggle so it matches on everything I’ve ever signed … except my fucking Social Security card which I signed as a little kid and which is actually a readable cursive version of my full name. I’m going to end up deported to fucking Uganda because of this bullshit.
- Comment on Brad buys a house 5 days ago:
I used to sign my name in cursive, but its legibility as actual letters disappeared over the same time span as my forgetting how to write cursive altogether. Now it vaguely resembles a capital K followed by a bunch of random shit. It does at least look pretty much the same every time.
- Comment on success 1 week ago:
No, he was rich enough that $100K (plus the tiny amount of money he paid me) didn’t really mean anything to him. The amusing thing was that he was friends with a bunch of San Francisco venture capitalists worth hundreds of millions of dollars and he was just burning up with jealousy despite being worth millions himself and owning a business that paid him about $40K a month – a state that any normal person would be thrilled with.
- Comment on success 1 week ago:
Lemmings was the best computer game of all time. Fight me.
- Comment on success 1 week ago:
I was a futures trader for six months back in the roaring '90s, fortunately not using my own money. At the end of it all, I had exactly broken even – less the commissions paid on all my trades. So for me it was like flipping a quarter except I was charged a nickel for every flip. Meanwhile my boss (whose money I was trading) was down $100K over the same time period.
- Comment on Good luck! 1 week ago:
There is an apartment in Japan that has a toilet exactly like this. The building is essentially triangular and the stairwell is packed next to the narrow corner; this leaves an even smaller triangle where the toilet is. Since the stairwell is outside the apartments proper, so are the toilets. For bonus points, the toilets are unventilated so they’re hot and smelly.
- Comment on If you've ever wondered how many poptarts you can stack on a borzoi, it's at least 8 1 week ago:
Best singer Pink Floyd ever had.
- Comment on If you've ever wondered how many poptarts you can stack on a borzoi, it's at least 8 1 week ago:
I read War and Peace last year to see what all the fuss was about. There’s a chapter about Russian elites hunting with their dogs, and it mentions that one character acquired his favorite borzoi by trading an entire serf family for it. Imagine being that family – “we’re moving to Tsaritsyn why?”
- Comment on Make America Great! 1 week ago:
The moon landings were pretty great. Let’s just not mention the contributions made by all those ex-Nazis.
- Comment on You are stardust. 2 weeks ago:
I like their expression “the nail that sticks up gets hammered down”.
- Comment on You are stardust. 2 weeks ago:
My body is a machine that transforms childhood trauma into profits for the pharmaceutical industry.
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 2 weeks ago:
like just telling a component that they can overflow and render things wherever you want in ways that Figma would never allow you to design
This is probably the one reason I hate designers the most. My personal biggest gripe about mobile apps (and desktop apps for that matter) is when there is plenty of screen space available to show a long piece of text (like the name of a song or movie, for example) but the allocated display area is small and the text is just truncated with ellipses. I had the experience more than once of being handed a design like this and simply modifying it to flow and allow full display of the text although this made the height of the element variable (usually not even requiring any special code or library, just HTML which handles this automatically). The designers always objected to this modification and insisted that it be removed, and the managers always backed them up on the grounds that my modification would take too long to implement - even though it had already been implemented (trivially) and would take even more time to remove.
That is to say, the designers always objected when I was foolish enough to mention that I’d done it. I did eventually learn that lesson.
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 2 weeks ago:
they live in a fantasy world where everything works perfectly and can be done in 3 days
We used to call this the “Powerpoint compiler”.
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 2 weeks ago:
Software devs also hate UX/UI Designers.
I would never be able to explain coherently the difference between UX and UI people. I’ve only worked for one company that even had a UX guy on staff. He was paid an insane amount of money (close to half a mil per year) and as far as I could tell did absolutely nothing except insist that certain procedures be followed rigorously. He never designed anything at all himself.
He was the only coworker I’ve ever had who ended up refusing to speak to me or even acknowledging my existence. This came about because I wrote a TV Guide-type app for Blackberry which our client loved and insisted on having added to their corporate app. The UX guy insisted that no app could be produced unless it was preceded by a formal design document, so he was forced into the situation of having to produce a design document for an app that had already been written, which completely broke his brain. Or rather, he was forced into ordering someone else to do this, since as I mentioned he never actually did anything himself.
He eventually left because he got a job offer for way more money lol. I guess I shouldn’t make fun of somebody who had the system figured out far better than me.