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Post by Youngster Joey on Dec 25, 2020 4:32:56 GMT -5
I'M UNSTOPPABLE
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Derman
Oracle Knight
I still don't have a knife tag on my golden birth knife
Posts: 194
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Post by Derman on Dec 25, 2020 5:05:25 GMT -5
Now I feel bad for your brother. It's like his workplace is stuck somewhere around 2005. Even the last place I knew who used SVN moved to Git a while ago.
Christmas Church is a thing sometimes, but other than that there's really nothing special. Usually some of the older siblings' families might visit on Christmas Day, but that's not a very good idea right now.
Writing Java with late-night brains sounds like a good recipe for spaghetti. I honestly don't mind Java otherwise, it just happens that the most awful code I've ever had to work with has been Java.
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Post by Youngster Joey on Dec 25, 2020 5:42:50 GMT -5
Yeah, he works for a defense contractor, soo... they're about as hip with technology as the government. He has the pleasure of working with FORTRAN from time to time.
I'm super glad my parents stopped taking us to church after a few years. I hated going to Sunday School and sitting the pews listening to the preacher drone. And dressing up for church was the worst. My mom would make me wear tights with my dress. Tights weren't comfortable in preschool and they're still not comfortable now.
As luck would have it, I stopped believing in God well before I stopped believing in Santa Claus. Santa Claus delivered on what you asked for; God never seemed to. I distinctly remember being 5 or 6 and deciding, well, if God is really real, He'll rearrange the furniture in my room right now. He didn't. He also didn't bring back the brown marker at school that I had lost at school that I prayed for to come back.
Anyway, apparently I am stoppable, because once I figured out how to integrate Java into my work to get signed URLs from AWS, I discovered I wasn't actually, um, posting any data to S3 to begin with. All empty data! Why is still a mystery.
I didn't even know what a ByteArrayInputStream and a BufferedInputStream were before tonight (this morning? I still haven't slept). I still don't really know what the difference is.
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Post by Friendly Person :) on Dec 27, 2020 12:31:02 GMT -5
Well Derman, sometimes life forces you to make the hard choices. They aren't the choices you want to make, but they are the choices you need to make if you want to look at yourself in a clear mirror. They say that nothing worth doing is ever easy. I don't know who "they" are, but they must have seen some serious sh*t to provide such profound knowledge.
And so, it is with a heavy heart that I confess, on the evening of December the Twenty-Sixth, Slug-bois have been demoted from SSS tier to SS tier. This decision was not made lightly. In fact, it may have been the toughest of my life. But I believe, going forward, it is the best decision, for in order for the great to stand tall, others must stand small.
Or something.
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Post by Youngster Joey on Dec 28, 2020 9:51:12 GMT -5
I'm the only person online out of my entire team, hm
I really should have taken 3 weeks off instead. I'm pretty not interested in doing work
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Derman
Oracle Knight
I still don't have a knife tag on my golden birth knife
Posts: 194
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Post by Derman on Dec 28, 2020 10:44:15 GMT -5
I guess space slugs just aren't cool enough for you anymore. Feels bad getting demoted from "very good" to "good".
I actually kinda regret taking this week off. Staying at the parent's cabin for few days I miss having something to do during the day. It's too wet and cold, so I'm just staying inside all day. Maybe we can trade places? I'll do your work and you'll hang out with my family for the rest of the week.
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Post by Youngster Joey on Dec 29, 2020 0:09:51 GMT -5
Yes, this sounds good. You should write my unit tests!
Since no one is around, I just plucked off some stuff from our Jira backlog that didn't need any background info. One of the tickets was adding more unit tests to a module I had written to begin with, so, whatever, that's pretty straightforward. Several hours into it, I had to ask myself--why do I keep taking up these unit testing stories? I hate dataframe unit testing. Yeah, I know how to do them, but godd*mn they take FOREVER to write and they're actively unfun.
On a separate note, I find it really annoying when people say, "Oh, I don't want biological kids, but I will probably adopt." I think the average age of people who say this is generally about 15. If the pool of adoptive parents was as big as the internet makes it seem, then there would be no orphans. It bugs me because adopting an infant--which is what most people want--is incredibly expensive and hard to do. And, yeah, you could adopt from foster care, but it's not like you just go to a store and pick out a puppy. Kids in foster care are generally pretty messed up, because they got taken away from their parents for a reason... People do adopt from foster care, but it's just not as casual "oh I'll just adopt" as people make it out to seem. You need to be committed to helping the kids you adopt work through potentially really serious issues.
Generally adoption is either so expensive or so psychologically intense that you're only adopting if you're really, really serious about it...
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Derman
Oracle Knight
I still don't have a knife tag on my golden birth knife
Posts: 194
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Post by Derman on Dec 29, 2020 9:55:55 GMT -5
Yeah I've seen a lot of people say they would like to adopt a kid, but I haven't met anyone who actually did it. I don't think many of them realize the amount of work that goes into raising an adopted kid (although same could be said about biological kids). I think it's better that the amount of people actually adopting kids is lower, because I don't want to imagine the amount of harm the casual attitude towards raising a kid could do. So at least they seem to realize how hard it is before they make the decision.
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Post by Youngster Joey on Dec 30, 2020 9:43:45 GMT -5
Verizon Customer Service: - Ask customer to speak to chat bot - Chat bot transfers customer to another chat bot - New chatbot says to wait for an agent - Site signs customer out before agent comes due to "security" - ? ? ? - Profit!
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Post by Youngster Joey on Dec 31, 2020 9:46:14 GMT -5
Hate it when you look at your code and think, "why the f*ck did I do it in such a convoluted way? I’m fixing that, I was clearly an idiot".
Rip it apart, break everything, then realize ... oh, yeah, I did it that way for a reason.
This is going to be fun to revert.
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Post by Friendly Person :) on Dec 31, 2020 16:58:46 GMT -5
(Control + Z) x 1000
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Derman
Oracle Knight
I still don't have a knife tag on my golden birth knife
Posts: 194
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Post by Derman on Dec 31, 2020 17:29:05 GMT -5
I still do the "now that I've got something that works, now let's rewrite it so it makes more sense", which usually ends up with the exact same logic, just a bit more nicely formatted.
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Post by Youngster Joey on Jan 2, 2021 15:36:02 GMT -5
Well, it looks like the vaccine rollout is a sh*tshow.
The federal government passed the buck to the states, which passed the buck to the hospitals. Turns out when you do this, no one has any clue what the right protocols are, where you get one, etc.
So, how is that "e pluribus unum" serving us right now?
Whatever, it's no longer 2020. Can't get worse.
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Post by Youngster Joey on Jan 3, 2021 14:23:37 GMT -5
[screams in javascript]
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Derman
Oracle Knight
I still don't have a knife tag on my golden birth knife
Posts: 194
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Post by Derman on Jan 3, 2021 14:54:02 GMT -5
function scream(text) { console.log(text.toUpperCase()); }
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