I think this is the first time I’ve encountered a church musician on Lemmy. What instrument(s) do you play?

Looks like the set of The Righteous Gemstones.

Republicans:

My favorite Tolstoy work is Anna Godzilla. It’s about a giant pre-historic lizard who has an intense affair with an imperial Russian count before completely wiping out Saint Petersburg.

Fluoride

/S

Me: “Huh. That’s weird. I don’t remember eating corn.”

I spent a week “shoot bagging” seed corn when I was a teenager. It’s kind of like putting condoms on corn stalks. It helps prevent this sort of thing.

My Dear Ebeneezer,

It has come to my attention that in the seven years since my untimely demise, you have become an increasingly greedy and insufferable twat. I must strongly advise you against this. First, because I do not wish you to walk the earth bound by the chains of your own sins, in penance, as I have. Second, I wish to spare you the agony of sitting through three separate hour-long presentations that could have been an email. Lastly, the villagers have begun singing songs about what a bad person you are when they think you’re not listening. They didn’t even do that to me when I was still alive. Once again, I implore you to immediately cease being a greedy, insufferable twat for your own sake.

Most Regretably Yours,

Jacob Marley

learn prompts engineering

“Can you please do it right this time? Pretty please?”

Why not just use what you have until you can afford to and/or need to upgrade? SAS drives are more expensive because they typically offer higher performance and reliability. Hardware raid may be “old” but it’s still very common. The main risk with it is that if your raid card fails, you’ll have to replace it with the same model if you don’t want to rebuild your server from scratch.

I’ve been running an old Dell PowerEdge for several years with no issues.

Soap Opera Effect

My oldest child is the only one who calls me by my first name. When I adopted her, I told her she didn’t have to call me “dad” unless she wanted to. I’ve heard her refer to me as “dad” when she thinks I’m not in earshot.

Where’s “accidentally group chatting state secrets to randos?”

“Just need a few more million tons of bombs bro. Then the NVA will finally realize that WE’RE the good guys bro.”

– Robert McNamara (Probably)

“Just because your birthday falls on Christmas it doesn’t mean your going to get twice as many presents, Jesus.”

Nuclear Powered Steam Locomotives

Pros:

• Looks cool as hell.
• Only needs to be refuled every 25 years.
• It’s a steam locomotive.
• It’s a steam locomotive.
• Did I mention it’s a steam locomotive?

Cons:

• Have to replace the fireman with a nuclear engineer.
• Still have to stop to grease bearings and take on water periodically.
• Hazardous radioactive materials.

Pros clearly outweigh the cons. What are we waiting for?

Where’s the cloud? The cloud has to be involved somehow.

Management often views software engineers more like machines that spit out code rather than actual engineers who design software. I can’t tell you how many projects I’ve been on where someone up the ladder is unhappy with the time estimate given to complete a feature so they either bring on a contractor or pull a team from another project

Invariably, the additional “help” makes a giant cluster fuck and the people who are actually familiar with the code are now stuck having to scrutinize every PR and fix a ton of defects rather than contributing to feature development. Then the feature takes twice as long to develop as originally estimated. Management scratches their head, shrugs it off, and repeats the same mistake the next time.

Battleships were an interesting chapter in naval history. They were first developed around 60 years before aircraft carriers, increasingly designed with the idea that they would be able to hit enemy targets while remaining out of range of returned fire. That ended up being an unrealistic expectation. Those 16 inch guns can lob a 1 ton shell nearly 24 miles but not very accurately at that range.

Battleships probably outlived their tactical usefulness. They were definitely good for projecting force. Few things say “I’m going to obliterate you” like a large, fast ship armed with 9 giant-ass canons.