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Ariel Millennium Thornton

If you type the fox test, it must be in the present tense, not past tense. The verb 'jumps' is the only word in the test with an S in it.

Or type the sphinx test instead: "Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow!"

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Today's good deed: Saving a customer from a spicy pillow. 

After putting it back together sans battery, it complained during POST about an off-brand battery being installed & warning knock-offs can do what the on-brand battery was so clearly doing. The HP didn't complain about a missing battery. Good job, HP!

Aside from the date/time being wrong, it responded to the pressure relief by working normally, showing a well-behaved screen, & passing the keyboard fox test without issue.

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Today's good deed: Saving a customer from a spicy pillow. 

They brought an HP laptop to me because some keys didn't work & the screen had lines & flickering.

The battery was already so swollen that the front edge of the case had popped completely open between 2 of the front edge base screws. With their permission, I opened the case & removed the battery.

It put so much pressure on the plastic that the base popped free on its own with each base screw, & the battery jumped with each battery screw.

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Ariel Millennium Thornton

16.222 Gbpf visualized: youtube.com/watch?v=qC1oi3N0w_

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Ariel Millennium Thornton

Internet speed: 16.222 Gbpf
(gigabits per fortnight)

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Preston von Gabbleduck

HR: "Do you have a moment? We just want to ask you about your self-assessment?"
Me: "Sure."
HR: "So, for 'personality type', we were expecting something from Myers-Briggs. You know, like ENJF."
Me: "Oh?"
HR: "You selected 'Other' and filled in, 'Chaotic Good'."
Me: "Yes, that's right."
HR: "Why?"
Me: "Because I use the term 'fortnight' as often as possible in communications in a US-based company, replace 'z's with 's'es, and convert dates everywhere to ISO8601."
HR: "Well yes we can see how that would be classified as 'Chaotic Good', but we were expecting something grounded in science."
Me: "So why were you asking for Myers-Briggs?"

#Microfiction

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Sutter

Low-key lost it when I noticed the main image on the Wikipedia page for business casual attire is just an edit of the nude figures from the Pioneer plaque

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CatSalad🐈🥗 (D.B.)

Ah yes, the Smasnug Galoxy S10 📱

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maple "mavica" syrup [6502]

smaller font, smoother scrolling

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captain acab :antifa:

If you're looking for alternatives to "you guys" or "ladies and gentlemen" etc look no further

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Juice that toots other Juice

Handheld Juice

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Christine Lemmer-Webber

nilhilism 

What do you get when you

(cons '() (cons 'hi '()))

A nil-hi-list

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Jeff Benzos

Hmm, libdipshit here is written in ALGOL 68, has a single API entry point called "UR GAY" (translated to ur_gay in the C bindings) and is licensed under BIG BILL HELL'S LICENSE but it saves me from writing precisely one (1) line of my own code so here we go

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Jeff Benzos

I refuse to use github because I'm not part of anyone's "supply chain". When I post source code to use it's for perverts and weirdos to make stuff with, no for big companies to use in favor of paying anyone

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Jeff Benzos

"software supply chain" oh okay so you have a contract and a business relationship... No? You found some shit on github that says "NO WARRANTY" and whose license requires you to affirm that Cirno is the strongest in Gensokyo and you used it without even auditing in production code and now you're mad it broke? Is that what happened? Are you stupid? Yes, yes you are!

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Jeff Benzos

I must stress that both the STRONGEST PUBLIC LICENSE and BIG BILL HELL'S LICENSE are real and have been used in real(?) projects, which whips ass

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Franca Parianen

"To our untrained eye, a corn field looks more “natural” than arrays of solar panels. But that field is a biological desert .. sprayed with pest- and herbicides. Put up some solar panels, and add plants that only need to be mowed once a year (sometimes with sheep) and you see an explosion of life."

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beka valentine

in the year 2000, if you were into retro computing, you were playing with the 18 year old Commodor 64 or the 23 year old Apple II, or maybe even the 26 year old Altair 8800

in the year 2025, if you play with 18 year old computers, you're twiddling a 2007 iMac

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dj chicken trouble

dj normal day

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Juice that toots other Juice

Juice that makes you say "Oh no?"

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