It is a fucking stupid question. I’m supposed to invent some horse shit about why this is an awesome company that I specifically chose, and simply being truthful “you’re recruiting and I need a job” isn’t acceptable.

Null pwang! Maybe I should consider entering Eurovision.

One’s the apex king of the jungle, the other is the king of the apex jumble.

Very good but can someone please invent a 4TB drive that costs less than it did five years ago?

I’m old enough to remember when that was the fancy new thing the kids were doing.

As long as it Just Writes™ I don’t care. I want to pick it up, and I want to write. I don’t want to try writing only to find it’s dried up and I have to scribble on some other bit of paper before it comes back to life. Now OK if I’ve left the lid off then that’s my bad, but if I haven’t then it should just flipping work.

I find the easiest way to forget C++ is to try watching CppCon on YouTube.

I’ve been doing C++ professionally since 1991.

But when I watch CppCon, what the hell are they gabbling on about? It’s all complete gobbledegook! They may as well be speaking in an ancient Goa’uld dialect for all the sense it makes. These people are so far down a rabbithole I start to wonder if they’ve ever seen the surface.

I am therefore forced to the conclusion that despite 34 years of experience in C++ I don’t know C++.

When I used to work at Oracle every so often a customer would call and complain some function was throwing error “ORA-00000 normal successful completion” and they wanted it filing as a bug and for us to fix it.

I was never quite sure how we were supposed to fix stupid.

Also Windows: “Ask your network administrator for access.”
Me: “Well I’m my own network administrator so what questions do you want me to ask myself”?
Windows: “Enter network username and password.”
Me: There is no network username or password. Sod it, I’ll bung them on an external disk.

Chrome is no longer available in my Start menu.