there’s no law that says you need to do college at 18. i started at 26, and it would’ve been a waste before that. i hadn’t even discovered any learning passions until just a couple years before that.

so maybe just avoid that problem like i did?

easier to be taken advantage of by employers too

i got a lot of downvotes last time i said it, but the definition of fascism is just “stuff i don’t like” right?

/s

there are plenty of great switch games. “oh i won’t pay for games why do all the games suck hurrr”

what rolls down stairs, comes better in pairs?

lol that’s great. was watching ren and stimpy tonight with the kiddos. still slaps

i was just wondering if people would forget they can make an egg post.

who killed all the chickens?

yeah i work in tech (at a bank rn) and the mainframes are hilarious. a constant source of downtime, and insanely overpriced hardware to boot.

literally i can’t think of any downtime our services have had in the last six months that wasn’t caused by the mainframe’s downtime. this is dozens of cases.

but they will basically never be replaced. maybe in 100 years? ha

so have i. this is the technology community, after all. for a couple years i worked for a major cruise line and each ship had an AS400 on board. so I’m familiar with mainframes, and sure they are un-removable for a number of reasons. but that statement was stupid

what ads?

worse than rapist cosby!? being fucking mental is not nearly as bad as that. whoever posted this is dumber than a rock

💯

obviously the sadistic ones! those PLs certainly weren’t made for the computer’s benefit

ok this article was a hilarious shit show. full of gems like

The former Treasury official told us that mainframes—and COBOL, the ancient programming language they often run—are really good for what they do,

ffs

hell i’ve got a macbook pro from work and one drive still loads up every time on boot. i have to click like eight times to exit.

why would i need to back up files? I’m a dev, i use git. pure stupidity

is this your first day on the internet? who cares!

why not just use jamf or something

somebody said this at work yesterday, and now it’s here

it’s literally my mortal enemy /s

i hate paying taxes