IphtashuFitz

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Reminds me of the movie The Final Countdown…

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

DigiCert recently was forced to invalidate something like 50,000 of their DNS-challenge based certs because of a bug in their system, and they gave companies like mine only 24 hours to renew them before invalidating the old ones…

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago

If we did a straight popular vote it would be no contest. Thank the electoral college for all the fuckery…

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago

This guy has never heard of South of the Border

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 days ago

Back in the 90’s before the days of Windows 3.0 I had to debug a memory manager written by a brilliant but somewhat odd guy. Among other thing I stumbled across:

  • A temporary variable called “handy” because it was useful in a number of situations.
  • Another one called son_of_handy, used in conjunction with handy.
  • Blocks of memory were referred to as cookies.
  • Cookies had a flag called shit_cookie_corrupt that would get set if the block of memory was suspected of being corrupt.
  • Each time a cookie was found to be corrupt then the function OhShit() was called.
  • If too many cookies were corrupt then the function OhShitOhShitOhShit() was called, which would terminate everything.
[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

Those aren’t bikinis….

And 3

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Just as long as the sharks don’t get frick’n lasers on their heads.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Some weirdo who had the ability to run a casino into bankruptcy.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 days ago

What are the odds she mentions them by name and points them out during one of her answers? That would really piss Trump off.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

Depends on a large part how deep the water is right at the edge. The bows of the boats are largely on top of the surface. The stern of the boats sit lower in the water, and when lowered the outboard motors will sit a foot or more under the surface. It’s very possible that at low tide the prop could hit bottom when backing in…

 
 

This just popped into my head after a similar question came up with a coworker…

Back a few decades ago I worked in Kendall Square in Cambridge, MA. My office window looked out towards another building about 15 feet away, and for some reason our floors were about 8 feet higher than the other building. So we could look down into the offices across the way.

The person in the office I could see into had his desk set up so that his back was to the window and he faced his office door. This gave me and my coworkers a clear view of his computer screen over his shoulder. He played Microsoft solitaire constantly, except when somebody walked in. He would very quickly close it so he wouldn’t get caught.

My coworkers and I actually tried to figure out his phone number, but never did. We wanted to call him up and tell him he should have played the red 9 on the black 10…

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