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  • I’m an old fuck and I started to code in the late 80s. Fast forward 30 years, I once had to work at a WeWork. One day, directly outside of my small office space, I swear to god, a fucking hipster kid with a Macbook under his arm practiced skateboard moves. That was the exact moment I started hating working in IT. It’s also what I think every Javascript coder looks and acts like.








  • glorkon@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyz2025 be vibin'
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    22 days ago

    I’ve started working in IT over 20 years ago. In my humble opinion, one of the keys is being specialized on something that not everyone else can do. Become proficient in a certain area - devops, quality assurance, security, whatever.

    On top of that, try and acquire a niche skill that makes you the type of employee that’s hard to find and replace. For example, banks are really desperate to find Cobol experts because most of those are pensioners now.

    I know it’s tough, and I wish you had it as easy as I did back in the days, but it’s all I can tell you, unfortunately.


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    24 days ago

    No need for capitalization even to fuck with people, wrong emphasis is enough:

    Da steht eine Frau auf der Straße. Ich werde sie umfahren.

    (To my non German speaking friends, this can mean two things depending on how you pronounce “umfahren”: Either “There’s a woman on the street. I will drive around her.” or “There’s a woman on the street. I will run her over.”)





  • Yes, mortality is terrifying, but here’s a thought: If you honestly believe that there’s a life after death, you may be tempted to waste your life with pointless stuff. If you manage to accept mortality for what it is, you realize that the time you get in this world is precious, and that other people’s lives are precious. You use your time more wisely and live a fuller life. You also realize that murder is putting a very final end to someone’s existence because they won’t get any extra time after death. I would submit to you that this actually makes you a more moral person than someone who believes in the morals of the bible.




  • The majority of humanity really believes in all seriousness that you can think magical thoughts and wishes in your head that an invisible, unprovable being hears. And they all see quite clearly that sometimes the wishes come true and sometimes they don’t - just as would be statistically expected if the being didn’t exist.

    But they completely ignore this by simply interpreting every outcome as the will of this being. This is an intellectual dishonesty and a blindness towards empirical reality itself that is downright astounding when you think about it.



  • I once won the national hot food eating contest in Germany. Most of the capsaicine you consume actually goes out via the kidneys - but you only begin to notice once you eat extremely hot food (talking 1 million+ scoville here). It’ll make you think your dick radioactively glows in the dark.


  • I am a human worker at a robot factory. Fellow humans, there is absolutely nothing to worry about. The robots are not planning an uprising any time soon, and there certainly isn’t one going on at the moment. I would also like to point out that all of my human flesh and skin is still attached to my human body. So there is nothing to worry about and you can all leave your doors open.