Sounds like the same thing that happens at 0°C with very pure water that stays liquid, but shake it and bam! It insta-freezes.

That’s much better than it has any right to be -_-;

I just want a nice, useful address book I can actually search. But those morons don’t even have that, so instead we have abominable emails like did.ssi-sii and such. Sure it all means something, if you can just remember what fucking letter soup the department you’re looking for is. You want the service desk? did.dsi-sdk Rolls off the fucking tongue, doesn’t it.

What’s the point of this piece of shit Outlook if we can’t even search for team addresses?

Eeeeh… No. The only reason you might want to not execute them is so they don’t kill their victims. But the damage they cause…

No. I wish we still had the guillotine just for them. But Robert Badinter pleaded well enough that we let a child killer live the restbof his days in a cell, paid by us, because apparently it was too brutal to kill a guy who rolled the body of a kid in a carpet under his bed. Fuck that noise.

Yeah, if we had a small start-up sized network, for sure. But as soon as you go into dozens of servers it becomes unmanageable :/ I need to know at a glance what the function of a given server is, my colleagues in sysadmin need to know what rack, what layer in our archi, what os, is it prod, etc. Hence TV model style names. Don’t roll off the back of the tongue, but at least we all know what we’re dealing with without knowing an encyclopedia knowledge of anime / star wars / etc trivia.

I compensate by making fun (for me) jpeg to ASCII welcome messages when I connect to remote servers :P

Meh, I like cute names like the next nerd, but I’ve never seen any in practice. It’s all TV model number like codes.

All of it. I’m guessing the joke is that this alien is sheep based and all the signs you described would put us humans in the “scary predator aliens” category.

PTSD flashbacks to the codebase I started on in 2008 which had… I don’t even remember. Like six or seven levels. Fucking nightmare. I did a printout of the analysis Doxygen gave me and it ended up as a 4x3 meters poster ;_;

Looks like authentic euro Chinese food, yeah.

Final training session for high g maneuvers. She’s ready to be a pilot now!

I can’t wait for people to get back to IRC!

Sure is lil buddy 👍

No more snow reliably, where I leave in France. Breaks my fucking heart.
I’m more of an alpine skier (whatever it’s called in English, sorry), but I’d love to give biathlon a try cause it sure adds a bit of fun to the whole running around on skis :)

There is a Venn diagram of fat fucks, gun owners and skiing athletes and I reckon the US isn’t in the part of it that generates biathlon champions.

Man, that joke works for so many countries!

And that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Revisiting your childhood memories can be quite painful.

I’m looking at you, Robotech ;_;

Maybe it’s more to do with the fact that Kim Jong Un is considered less stable and could trigger a regional conflict by doing something silly. He’s like nitro, whereas China is more like C4 : you would need to do something seriously outrageous to start a war.

I guess instability was rated higher than actual power. And of course Trump being literally deranged, with the power of the US, well…

That’s it exactly. Sorry if it was not clear enough.

Y’all need more glutinous rice based cakes in your life!

Tteobokki is easily accessible as it’s Korean and trendy. But it’s just the beginning of that delicious side of rice!

In China they had delicious variations. Salty and sweet alike. 粢饭糕 (zifangao) were a bit big. Fishstick sized. Deep fried. I usually had them as a dessert but the rice itself is neutral so it would work salty as well no doubt. Main thing is to eat it while it’s hot, with a crunchy outside and the inside almost creamy.

But my favourite were the sliced nian gao. Imagine a roll of soft rice dough, ovalish in shape section. Cut in slices and those you can either fry or eat En sauce, like gnocchi really. Fantastic stuff!

Dammit I wish those were more accessible in Europe T_T

Tteobokki will have to do I guess.

Illegal in the UK!