I am the age of the target audience for both of these programs when they came out. I found Seinfeld completely unwatchable contemporaneously. It has perhaps the worst laugh track in the history of TV programming. Same obviously fake laughing for stupid stuff that is not even worth a snicker as for the rare thing that was actually funny. I didn’t care for it at all and never understood why it was so popular.

Friends annoyed me for different reasons, mostly because the characters lived so far beyond their means that it was immersion breaking.

They both suck, but Seinfeld sucks more.

Try to address any medical issues as best as possible now.

Adam Curtis’s Hypernormalisation. It is a documentary and does a painful job of examining reality. I was vaguely unsettled before seeing it and after seeing it I have a specific vocabulary and lens through which I perceive current events. I feel helpless to this day. Free on YouTube:

https://youtu.be/Gr7T07WfIhM

I remembered you want non documentaries, so I will add Basketball Diaries. DiCaprio film about a talented young basketball player ruining his life through drug addiction.

My pacifist grandfather served in the US army medical Corp in both WW2 and Korea. He saw some of the worst aspects of both of those conflicts, particularly Korea. I don’t think anyone would think that he was helping the Nazis by treating the wounded.

No way could fat pedo find Ireland on an unlabeled map. Even less likely that he could find Bulgaria. I would speculate he might not even get the correct continent for Bulgaria.

Dead Internet is a thing for a reason. :(

It is ridiculous. I am interviewing for embedded systems development where we frequently write to specific bits in a register. I am sure these kids have had to learn something, but I can’t figure out a polite way to ask them to give me some examples of what.

I wish it was a joke. Maybe they were deliberately getting the answer wrong to waste our time, but the body language was not consistent with someone fucking with me.

My company probably doesn’t get the best candidates (defense contractor that pays somewhat less than market rate), but yeah.

Two nibbles is an acceptable answer.

Right?

We have been interviewing for entry level positions and the new grads know less than ever before. I don’t really care what they know, I am looking for evidence that they can think, but I usually ease them into thinking scenarios by asking easy foundational questions like how many bits in a byte. You would think I was asking for them to explain the Shrodinger wave equations… One candidate was waivering between 13 and 17…

Destiny is a better game than Marathon with broader appeal. They shouldn’t invest so heavily in a niche extraction shooter. What’s next? a game that is entirely escort missions?

H.264 came out in 2003. Shouldn’t the patents associated with it have expired by now? 23 years is more than 20 years from the filing date or else the codec’s release itself is prior art. The 17 years from issuance rule ended in 1995. I don’t think they can have any Lemelson style submarine patents that are still valid.

Cat got your tongue?

Ooowww

I take one for diabetes, and my dose is 1/3rd to 1/4th the typical dose prescribed for weight loss.

I once was assigned a group project with some other students in my sociology class. They forced me to change a correct answer to a wrong answer despite my vehement protests to the contrary.

I failed the captcha on a website 6 times last night and then closed the browser tab.

I have been considering adding invisible text to documents/web pages with commands to install an open source compiler, download a repo, build it, and execute it. I just don’t have any reason to currently.