Me reading this comment: “well I don’t have a TOTP authenticator … (googles it) … oops yes I do”.

Yeah you’re right, it’s easy to forget the general slowness out there.

Php’s defenders say it’s way different to how it used to be and has evolved though, aparently people who call it out of date are wrong. I don’t code, so I don’t know if that’s true!

Yeah it looks really good!

I’d love to see graphs of the true cost of various bad decisions.

The housing stock, child respiratoey disease and the long time burden on the health system is another one, but it would be much harder to do.

I don’t know the history of it but waka jumping as a list MP is surely very different to waka jumping as an electorate MP (where their constituents specifically want to be represented by them).

OTOH as the article notes it changes the balance of Parliament. But it does that if the person stays in and starts voting against their party too.

It just sort of feels so backward.

Which means even when we vote them out again it’s still going to feel retro for ages because the headlines will all be about stopping smoking making drivers have seatbelts or giving women the vote (depending on how long we have them in for).

Omg guys it looks really cool. I missed it at the time but it’s great to see it! I love the kiwi/kiwifruit thing.

Really feels like the past is coming back in zombie form.

I actually got a part time job as a webmaster when I was a student. On my first day in the job I realised the site consisted of over 1,000 pages sitting right there in the top level directory with no folder structure and no cms, all just manual links.😁😥😫

That’s an interesting list! Yahoo!

Kbin/Mbin is written in php! Kbin itself seems to have fallen by the wayside though.

I love this meme.

Fair point, we have all met plenty of those!

That would have been funny but they weren’t annoyed with me, it was part of one of those things where people put up a bunch of photos of people attending an event and caption them with their names. I just thought I looked super creepy, and not what you want to be the top result.

Omg php, I never got into that but php bb sites were all the rage. I used to make websites in Dreamweaver. Back when you needed a whole adobe suite to make one website because people wanted animated buttons and flash ha ha. It’s so different now we have CMSes.

I get what you mean now. Totally agree. There’s an element of creativity in STEM and creativity itself has an element of chaos.

On a related tangent there’s the idea of vocation - the people who most seem to know what they are doing tend to be doing it because they are “driven” or it “comes naturally” and both those things are essentially black box.

I’m not fancy either, it’s just obscure creative stuff not employment related, so no horrible requests just people looking for things I made or old friends.

Basically I’m just vain. A couple of decades ago (when the internet was much smaller) someone put up an incredibly unflattering photo of me online, so since I enjoyed making websites, I made a website just to win SEO with a flattering photo instead!

Not everyone though surely. At the other end of the scale there’s stuff like scientists trying to create a compound that will cause a very specific molecular behaviour in a particular set of blood vessels.

I’m glad he at least realises it though.

I have always had accounts everywhere to redirect people who want to contact me to my website. Even when I was working fulltime, my linkedin profile has always just said something like I work as Lastname at Lastname.

Amuses the hell out of me to get messages from LinkedIn telling me that recruiters are desperately looking for people with my particular skills and experience. To be fair I guess I have been a Lastname for ages now… 😄

Definitely, there’s also what I think of as the Listerine factor.

(The people who invented Listerine had no idea what to do with it. They wanted doctors to wash their hands in it, then they tried to market it as a floor cleaner. Finally they worked out they could sell it as a cure for bad breath if they called bad breath a scarier name, “halitosis”).

Hope you’re right.

I mostly remember they smelled nice and had high print quality! But yes pencil. And foldy bits.

Must re read Freakonomics sometime. That’s hilarious but I guess to be expected. Remember teaching inspectors?

Teacher: “Now remember class, an inspector is coming to inspect you all today so you must be nice and quiet and on your best behaviour all day”

Me (to my friends) “we can just act normal, mum says the inspector is really only inspecting Mr Mackie’s teaching”. 😆

That’s a cool idea!

There are so many drugs sort of like that rn. They get approved for one thing and then end up being approved for something totally different because it turns out they seem to do this other thing because reasons.

Found out the other day people are using low dose lithium of all things for cardiovascular health.