I don’t know who is fighting this “war on Christmas” but they are clearly losing.

That’s Christian Christmas. Supply Side Christmas begins in December November October September and ends on December 24th.

Edit: Supply side Christmas begins in September now.

NEVER test your backups. It wears out the tapes faster.

Propaganda is a powerful drug.

I had an acquaintance try to tell me that Presidents didn’t use executive orders before Obama. He was mad because Obama “started the whole executive order thing”.

It took me a minute to process the level of stupid that it takes to actually believe that considering,
1.) The US constitution grants the president broad discretion over the executive branch.
2.) An “executive order” is nothing more than a directive from the president to an agency or department under the executive branch.
3.) Nearly every president since Washington has issued executive orders, although they weren’t called “executive orders” and did not have any sort of numbering system until 1907.

So basically he was mad at Obama and every president thereafter for checks notes doing their job.

Then there’s the small group that just throws everything into Excel

Interesting. Excel is certainly capable enough but I would think data set size limitations would be a frequent issue. Maybe not as frequent as I would have thought though.

The same people giving you a weird look when you say “Merry Christmas” to them on December 26th (the second day of Christmas).

15 years in IT OPS before switching to programming. Can confirm most IT infrastructure is held together with duct tape and the occasional prayer meeting in the data center.

Touche.

A flying nasty dirt magnet that takes you places.

So basically JavaScript with TypeScript.

One takes you places, the other is a nasty dirt magnet. Which one is which is entirely subjective.

Most general purpose programming languages nowadays are designed to be easily human readable. But with this, I now have to understand the syntax of another “programming language” in addition to the programming language it outputs. How is this helpful in any way?

There are already plenty of template generators that can generate boiletplate code with parameters. This seems like a complete waste of time.

Anyone still on Shitter is just asking for whatever they get at this point.

Insurance Companies: “Climate related disasters are acts of God.”

Also Insurance Companies: “Welp, time for us to GTFO of places where ‘acts of God’ seem to be occuring with increasing frequency.”

Why use many frame when few frame do trick?

Monster: “I’m just going to go chill in this dark basement for a bit. Nobody is going to come bother me in here.”

She does it to me! Let’s one rip and with a mischievous little grin says, “I toot.”

I love my kids. They are a ton of work but I couldn’t imagine life without them. But being a parent is not for everyone and that’s ok.

This meme was inspired by my wife telling me about our two year old having a full on five-alarm melt down at Sam’s Club and screaming, “I see Christmas trees! I go see Christmas trees!” While my wife tried to assure her that they would go see Christmas trees on the way out. All you can do is laugh at the sudden realization that the poor person with the screaming child in the middle of the store is you.

If my grandma wanted a cheeseburger, she would have kept it to herself and eaten a piece of smoked chicken that was hanging in the attic (where they stored the smoked chickens) instead because that’s what they could afford.

In hindsight, I can kind of understand why my grandparents saved every damn thing that they ever bought. When you grow up dirt poor you find all kinds of new uses for what most people consider trash.

I’ve had plenty of hard times in my life but “so poor I gotta save every egg carton like it’s made of gold” is not an experience I’m personally familiar with. I’m thankful for that.

This comment is too real. I like mornings but not at 4:00 AM. Meanwhile, my toddler: “If I don’t sleep, no one sleeps.”

Good tip. Wrong community.