I work for a multi billion multi national medical technology company at their office in central london. On day one after i got the job they gave me a brand spanking new top of the line macbook pro worth over £3k. I asked them for a bag for it and the IT guy who gave it to me looked like i slapped him in the face.

“Am i supposed to walk around central london with 3k of macbook in a plastic shopping bag?”

He produced some weird fabric envelope thing from a cupboard.

Luckily i’m sad enough to turn up to work with my own laptop in my own bag so i did have a bag but he had no way of knowing that

Here’s a horrific example of bash and JS mashed together

echo "console.log(process.argv[2])" | node - "Please and thank you"

or bash and python if that’s your thing?

echo "import sys; print(sys.argv[1])" | python - "Please and thank you"

Or Bash, JS AND Python if you’re feeling extra masochistic

echo "console.log(\"import sys; print(sys.argv[1])\")" | node | python - "Please and thank you"

i can say thank you in more languages than i can say please in.

perhaps that says something about me

Obligado

Dankeschön

Merci Beaucop

Thank you

Gracias

Domo Arigato (only in latin type, i have no chance of reading/spelling anything in Kanji)

It works by making fucking ugly sore blisters on/around my mouth a couple times a year. they dry out and crust off after a week or so and i get on with my life.

https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/herpes-simplex-virus

I like the one where you’re driving around on boats shooting up vietcong encampments to the tune of sympathy for the devil…

or was that black ops 2?

Me and my GF both agree that Beatles songs are fantastic… when performed by people who aren’t the Beatles.

I enjoyed the music in the film “Yesterday” muuuuuch more than i enjoyed the original versions.

Maybe it’s the 60s style of it, idk. I just don’t really get along with it

red had is just fedora with support isnt it?

bracing

i’m not forcing him into it, microsoft is

It’s not hers. it’s one of my computers that i am deploying to her house for her and her family to use.

It’s technichally for my neice but the rest of the family all also have access.

no one in that household has expressed a specific preference of operating system. other than my brother in law texting me to tell me one of the old games he tried to install doesnt work (i did promptly offer to “make it work” but he declined).

I have no problem with them installing windows on it if thats what they want. they wont be coming to me for technical support if they do though.

he’s still coming round to the fact he’s not getting security updates soon due to lack of a TPM module.

He’ll be running mint too by the end of the year

i installed linux mint on my sisters household PC last week.

my dad did his usual grumblings about “it should be windows” and i just said “i’ve been out of the windows ecosystem completely for the last 5 years and partially for another 3 years beyond that. i no longer provide support for windows, if you want them to have windows you need to support it”

he went quiet after that.

yep, a lot of apps are just repackaged chrome running a web page.

which begs the question to companies that require use of the app instead of just having a working website i can use on my copy of chrome/firefox that’s already on my phone…

why do you need hardware access to my device?

if you’re vaguely interested in and understand basic programming you could get into software QA.

it’s fairly easy to get into in my experience, you’re generally not bombarded with ludicrous CS questions at interview and you can move into other software roles later if you wish.

confident coders in QA are like gold dust imo.

That said the tech job market is in kind of a slump atm though so do your research

Anno 1800 just inhales my free time

and critics. dont forget critics

absolute banger of a song btw

Disney paid $4.05 billion for star wars. you bet your bottom dollar they’re going to beat that dead horse until there’s nothing left

i refer you to my previous comment on the subject

pool mining on the lower difficulty pool

and yeah used gupax for the cpu so p2pool+xmrig is built in