bryndos

Would you like to play a game?

Yes, in my experience its goes like:

me: " This is a problem for us"

them: “Your ‘problem’ is simple. I can fix it, easy. Here is the fix, you’re welcome.”

me: “Great! how does it work? how do we test it? did you get management to assign some resources for this?”

them: "oh, this was vibecoded, so I’m not providing support , maintenance or user testing - that’s your job isn’t it? Here’s a 250-page ‘documentation’. I haven’t read it, but I ran it through a second LLM and asked that to fix any errors. So there’s probably only a few left that you should be able to fix in a few minutes. "

me: " I will take up work on a farm administering anal suppositories to sick horses because that will be a thousand times more tolerable . . ."

them: " . . . by the way - it just operates using dummy data for now. You’ll just need to link it in to the actual database before you release it."

Wow, seems faster than I’d have though to pick up that much of an accent. Then again if they were students they’d traditionally be expected to watch a lot of ‘Eastenders’.

I’d pick Czech overall, for no real reason - they just remind me a bit of one Czech person i know who has spent a long time here. Not strong evidence.

Otherwise I might have gone for Poland or Baltics somewhere, Swedish/Finnish/Estonian did cross my mind as possible.

I just don’t know enough people from enough countries - especially smaller ones to have confidence. I think you’d have to be quite familiar with the native language to really be sure.

No way are they English.

The first two may have spent several years in south east England or spent a long time there - but they’re not native speakers. I wonder at what age they stopped being “raised” though as I’d think at least a few formative years spent there to pick up that much of an accent.

But, it seems, they “upgraded” from strong to weak!? What was wrong with the fridges they had 2/5/10/20 years ago.

insulated box, compressor, heat exchanger, thermostat. wtfuck else do they need? just replace those like for like. Some dafty probably paid for fucking internet crap to be added.

Agreed this seems to be less about the ‘weaponisation of food’ than the stupidity of fridges/fridge operators.

Whoever let a modem become “essential to the preservation of fresh products”, they need to be sacked.

meh, it’s his toy/joke project, he can break it if he likes. If you don’t like it, then Fork it.

centrifugal force xkcd

I dunno - Wing Comander III and IV with Mark Hammill, Malcolm McDowell, John Rhys-Davies - that’s a top (bottom?) tier trash sci-fi cast.

I preferred them to the movie even just as a movie - well the story was probably worse, but at least you got to fly space ships in the gaps, and that was the first time I’d seen erm … “heavyset” middle-aged luke skywalker

These two were how i revised for my school exams - without those, i dunno, I might have had to revise.