Waldowal

Usually no, but the last 2 days, yes. They have involved very accurate plays of songs I don't normally listen to (which I can't remember ever dreaming about before). The first was "9 to 5" by Dolly Parton. I was in a bar and it was being played. Heard every note for about 30 seconds. There was a guy in the band whose role was to suck smoke out of a dish with a slab of dry ice in it and blow it into a microphone.

The second song was "Only the Lonely" by Roy Orbison. I've maybe heard this song 3 times in my life I think. But it seemed note perfect. The situation was I was hanging out with 3 people I called The Performer, The Guy, and The Lonely. The first two guys had to leave and... cue the song.

EDIT: cue... thanks SpaceNoodle

All it takes is money to hire someone who is capable.

I suppose if this were real, the charging warriors must all think they can glance the pike off their shield and barrel through. However, they end up glancing it to the left or right, surprising the warrior next to them who gets stabbed. They themselves get stabbed by the pike being glanced by the warrior next to them.

Assuming an equal number of front line charging warriors to pike soldiers, if charging warriors all glanced left or all glanced right, there would be 1 charging warrior left unharmed.

However, if every 2nd charging warrior agreed to sacrifice the guy between them and both glance towards him, 2N / 3 warriors could survive to fight on. The middle guy would also have to agree to not attempt to block the pike. He'd have to just run into it. But that is optimal I think.

I could go all day, but in brief, I (jokingly) blame you guys (non-Microsoft developers) for enshitifying Microsoft's toolset.

Microsoft's approach for years was to build designers and GUIs into Visual Studio to make coding super easy. Everything was integrated. The developer experience was glorious.

Then, all the developers like you suffering with shit like NetBeans, Eclipse, Apache, and TortoiseSVN decided they'd had enough and started romanticizing one-off command line tools, goofy data structures like yaml, and git. That made everything too hard, so you built code generators, transpilers, and job runners to automate things. That led to so much complexity, you needed virtual containers to run it in so setup wouldn't be a nightmare. Then, the containers got out of control so you needed something to manage THAT.

Microsoft could have laughed and let us live in our developer utopia, but noooooo. They felt compelled to play along. And now anything new coming from MS is built to support all that crap we never needed in the first place.

We had it so good. Sigh.

SOAP services are a thing of the past, but I still remember how easy it was to put the WSDL URL is Visual Studio and poof you'd have a full SDK complete with a service facade and data models. So nice and easy. (Which appears to be similar to what this guy was trying to build and sell)

When REST started getting popular, I was like: "WTF, we have to code all this now by hand again!?"

Society is offering $50,001 to shut the fuck up.

Definately 7' 8" female. Asian descent. Bald. Possible Alopecia. Dwarfism.

That's right. Rush the surgeons. That will end well.

A recent one: Ernest Saves Christmas

Almost every line of this movie gets quoted around my house all year.

John Astin (Gomez from The Addams Family)

Charo

Simple and tasty: 3-4 chicken breasts. Pour a jar of your favorite salsa over it. Cook.

When ready to eat, shred the chicken, put it back in pot and stir it up with the salsa. Awesome tacos, burritos, nachos, chicken sandwiches, etc.