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At my first professional programming job workspace was tight so I was given a desk in the server room. This room was kept at 59°F because mainframes that the company didn't even have any more required it. It sucked -- I had to wear fingerless Oliver Twist gloves all day. I blame the cold for my executing a DELETE query without a WHERE clause on the production database. "Why is this taking so long?" I muttered through blue lips.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    There is no brown person in America that thinks themselves white

    My two cousins are half-Thai but thanks to the genetic dice they both look vaguely central american. They got abused quite a bit growing up both for being asian and for being "mexican". This taught them empathy for others who ... lol just kidding. They're both trump-loving white supremacists who rant against immigrants despite their own mother being an immigrant from Thailand.

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  • The electrical… Ugh

    My house came with a 100A box with six breakers, all unlabeled. One of them did nothing at all when I flipped it, another produced a loud humming for three or four seconds before tripping off. I still don't know what the humming was but when I rebuilt one of the walls I found a big scorch mark on the stud next to one of the outlet boxes so I suspect that was involved. The one that did nothing it turns out was connected to an MC cable that had simply been sawed off clean -- not even some electrical tape wrapped around the cut end -- and jammed down into the framing completely live. At least I was able to repurpose that one into a circuit with receptacles and lights in the attic.

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  • Elon Musk seems like a genius up until he starts talking about something you’re familiar with

    He seems like a moron even when he's talking about things I know nothing about. There's a video on youtube of him giving a tour of SpaceX's museum of past rockets that they've launched, and he's talking about how they've reduced the "fiddly bits" on the outside of the rockets over the years.

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