If I were doing it, checking the box would permanently temove your root privileges.
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I bet it used to do something sensible, was deprecated for some reason, but removing it broke something in a completely unexpected way…
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That never happens.
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(That’s two Dr Funs in two days… Presumably something will remind me of another one tomorrow…)
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Just sat down to write a tedious tweak to a bit of work code… and discovered that I’d already done it, in November 2020. (It works silently so this wasn’t obvious until I looked at the source.)
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That’ll do it : )
Unwittingly doing the same thing twice, you say?
I’ll stop now : )
(I remember the author using these two as an example of a few times when he’d thought of a joke with absolutely no recollection of having drawn it previously.)
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I’ve been working on a big thing for several weeks. I’ve got it ready to get reviewed and committed, so I cleaned the last bits of it up, and started when I need to capture for the testing. And my devswerver fell over.
I was going to be productive today! Dammit
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I need two approvals to have access on a set of repos. Got one (from my line manager) and waiting for the other one.
I understand the need for security, but these sodding ****s have the speed of a Whitehall bureaucrat
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I just got a call from a recruiter. Happens all the time. I rarely actually talk to them, but this time, I’m expecting someone to call about something else.
He is looking for someone to do screen scraping, off a mainframe. In C. Actual, real, C, not a variant.
Sounds like something I would have a nightmare about.
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“And whenever you get the boulder to the top of the hill, they change the screen layout.”
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Do you have the whole archive memorized?
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IIRC he did 10 years worth of week-day cartoons, so that would be a lot to memorise – however specific Dr Fun cartoons apparently continue to occupy more of my brain space than the average person might expect, given how long it’s been since he stopped drawing it.
He started it around the same time I got on the internet, so it was a fairly (or indeed Farley) constant thing for me for a long time; and when the end of Dr Fun was announced I did work back through the entire archive to pick out my favourites. I think I categorised things as “ho-hum”, “good”, “very good”, and “amazing” (the first category was very large and the last was very small, but there’s some really funny stuff in there). Sadly that drive wasn’t backed up, and I lost my categorised archive, but I must have reinforced a bunch of them enough that, throughout the rest of my life, things have continued to remind me of Dr Fun!
(I think the single-panel format helps a lot with that – there’s not much to remember about any given cartoon, and it always had to be a really immediate thing.)
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