Arrath

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by Arrath 3y ago
> Would you like to play a game? I just realized there's two ways to take that quote, with a rather stark difference between them. In one case, I would love to play a game. In the other, I would most definitely not, thank you very m
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by Arrath 3y ago
I'm just imagining adding error bars to my schedule forecasting (with schedules that are typically one the optimistic side thanks to management), with bars pointing in the bad direction, and seeing management still insist it'll ta
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by Arrath 3y ago
And then requisite QC processes during serial manufacturing to ensure that the system will stand up to storage in some bunker for decades before being shipped across the world, abused by late teenaged soldiers as they hump it around some fo
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by Arrath 3y ago
Still nothing? ..... CTRL F5
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by Arrath 3y ago
I'm partial to "Chief O'Brien Suffers: Vol XXXVII: This time He's in Mind Prison", pretty twisted episode. (AKA "Hard Time", S4E19)
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by Arrath 3y ago
The dog would get sleepy, just not for good reasons.
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by Arrath 3y ago
100% agreed.
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by Arrath 3y ago
That is neat as hell!
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by Arrath 3y ago
Nice to see that the classic "just lie about what you are" works fine.
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by Arrath 3y ago
Possibly one of the best games out there, imo. I love Starsector to bits.
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by Arrath 3y ago
That crime procedural where he was a Good Cop who went to jail on a bad rap or whatever it was? E: Should have refreshed before replying.
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by Arrath 3y ago
I adore the fact that it was left in for three games because "well they never got back to me".
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by Arrath 3y ago
I mean, the COBOL accounting systems being discussed were developed and put in place after his term, no? So they are, in fact, more modern than they would have been during Eisenhower's time.
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by Arrath 3y ago
Well that just services a different customer demographic.
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by Arrath 3y ago
What a wild read.
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by Arrath 3y ago
I expect you have 3M lobbying on the other side of the issue in the interest of post-it sales.
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by Arrath 3y ago
Letting the staff go absolutely ape-shit on the latest MFC that just refuses to print or scan correctly, once per quarter.
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by Arrath 3y ago
Executive offices (and the attendant parking spots) that are occupied maybe 15% of the time are a huge peeve for me, a lowly bullpen resident. Especially if we constantly have little break-off meetings or get togethers in the otherwise un
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by Arrath 3y ago
Yeah I get that hair raising on the back of my neck feeling when I'm trying to focus and there's a constant train of people moving behind me, its really unbearable.
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by Arrath 3y ago
Well now I want one, thanks a lot.
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by Arrath 3y ago
Having used several of the drones on the DoD's 'approved for use on/near military property' list or whatever it's called these days, they are generally speaking, flying pieces of shit[0]. Our domestic manufacturers
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by Arrath 3y ago
I would love to see a detailed legal breakdown and examination of how many of the clauses in this contract are complete, utter, unenforceable horseshit.
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by Arrath 3y ago
Well put
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by Arrath 3y ago
Surely even Oracle can't screw up plugging a bunch of GPUs into a rack, right? Right?
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by Arrath 3y ago
Full body control input it is! Like those arcade shooters where you duck and lean to dodge bullets, or a full fledged whole-body VR setup on an infinite omni-directional treadmill.
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by Arrath 3y ago
My corpo policy doesn't even allow me to accept $20 of gifts from friends or acquaintances if there is also a sniff of business relationship there as well. The goings on between the Justice and his friend sure don't smell right, t
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by Arrath 3y ago
I was quite happy with T-Mobile's service for the last 5 years, in that I had no signal at all at my house and my work phone was, conveniently, T-Mobile! The universe enforced me being unreachable outside of work hours and I didn'
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by Arrath 3y ago
My parents love to put out bird seed but are in a constant war with the squirrels. Once, years ago, they went on a long vacation. The squirrels didn't like that the humans weren't setting out the buffet, so they broke into the foo
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by Arrath 3y ago
Consumer auto-loans aren't looking so hot, either.
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by Arrath 3y ago
Also sounds like a rather unpleasant place to be employee.

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