I see letterkenny, I upvote letterkenny. I am a simple man.
I see letterkenny, I upvote letterkenny. I am a simple man.


This is what I came here to post. Bonus for it being in a dead language (Gaulish).


Keep fighting the good fight.


You’ve gotten some good answers already so I’m going to comment on something unrelated, mostly because I’ve had a couple glasses of wine and for some reason found this hysterical.
I’ve googled with a few search engines…
I’m old enough to remember search before Google, the rise of Google and the verbification of Google’s name to become a term to meaning to search with Google. To see it now used in this way is deeply funny to me for some reason. Incredible to see how language evolves over time.


“Here comes doctor tran… He’s a real doctor. With a PhD in kicking your ass”
I haven’t seen that shit in years and it immediately came rushing back on seeing that name.
For those in the lucky 10,000 today https://youtu.be/FO0kRE5OTZI
Well… He does have an island of his own, doesn’t he?


Back when I was in college I took a computer engineering class around 2010 I think with a professor who had done CPU design at one of the big chip manufacturers. He had a story about how no human knows how they work anymore because they’ll do the designs, then feed them through some optimization algorithm thing before the fabrication. Then when they would evaluate the chip they’d find that it was behaving in completely unexpected ways due to the optimization finding crazy efficient but unintuitive (to a human) ways of performing different operations.
I wish I could remember the details of what he talked about better, but that was a long time ago.
Your comment made me curious, so I tracked it down. The “comic” was used with an article on differential privacy written by a publication called “ad exchanger” and the ad symbol on the outfit is their logo.


Doesn’t have my favorite classic, I’ll have to add it later.



There are a couple that come to mind.
Definitely the worst, a C# .net mvc application with multiple controllers that were 10s of thousands of lines long. I ran sonarqube on this at one point and it reported over 70% code duplication.
This code base actively ignored features in the framework that would have made things easier and instead opted to do things in ways that were both worse, and harder to do. For example, all SQL queries were done using antiquated methods that, as an added benefit, also made them all injectable.
Reading the code itself was like looking at old school PHP, but c#. I know that statement probably doesn’t make sense, but neither did the code.
Lastly, there was no auth on any of the endpoints. None. There was a login, but you could supply whatever data you wanted on any call and the system would just accept it.
At the time I was running an internal penetration test team and this app was from a recent acquisition. After two weeks I had to tell my team to stop testing so we could just write up what we had already and schedule another test a couple months down the line.


I once saw an application that would encrypt (not hash, encrypt) passwords but then when a user was logging in, they’d encrypt the password candidate and then compare the cipher texts to see if they were the same. This was using 3des, so no IV.
I just recently joined a company that offers two options for operating systems, Mac or Linux. Windows is explicitly not allowed. Seeing that in my onboarding paperwork was like walking into a warm sunny meadow.


There’s a great interview somewhere with the writers of one of these shows talking about how they knew this was shit and they had unofficial competitions with other shows to constantly one up each other on the stupidity.


It’s for sure becoming a huge topic. And now companies are wanting to add llm agents integrated more tightly into development workflows and build processes.


I’m not really familiar with meshtastic, but this caught my eye on all because I live in SLO county. Looks really cool. I’ll have to dig deeper.


This show was the shit when I was a kid!
When I was in university, I learned that I made more money as a level one support guy at the tiny MSP I worked at than my professor who had multiple awards, papers, patents, and was also some kind of bouldering champion apparently. He was an awesome person and a firm lesson that the amount of money one makes should never be used to measure the worth of a person. Also that teachers need to be paid like, a hell of a lot more.
Actually that reminds me of another guy I know. I spent a few years working at a GameStop and my store managers dream was to be a history teacher but he would have had to take a significant paycut in addition to getting a lot more schooling and certifications. Last time I ran into him though he told me he’d done it and I’ve never seen him happier.


I’ve already seen the taking point showing up on the right that the “… and domestic” part applies to the “antifa terrorists turning our cities into war zones and besieging federal (especially ICE) buildings.”


I’ve got one of these and it’s super easy and convenient. https://wandp.com/products/the-popper-microwave-popcorn-popper
Just drop in some loose kernels and microwave.
I also cook on the stove top with a large pan, it’s not hard at all.
I can’t find a clean wiki entry or anything, but I did find some info. Try searching for GranGrave, GranGrave.1150, or burglar.1150.
The string is mentioned in this doc I found and there are a number of other scattered references. https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA394231.pdf