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Ibix
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If anybody tells you I fell into that one twice this afternoon they're liars and you shouldn't trust them, alright?Wrichik Basu said:
If anybody tells you I fell into that one twice this afternoon they're liars and you shouldn't trust them, alright?Wrichik Basu said:
Yup.Ibix said:If anybody tells you I fell into that one twice this afternoon they're liars and you shouldn't trust them, alright?
So that's why so much code is somnambulant!Borg said:I get my ideas while sleeping.
Heh, I'm surprised he would work for a company that was so stupid/ignorant as to not recognize who he is.Wrichik Basu said:
Cary Grant told a story of turning up for an internal flight when he was the Hollywood leading man and being greeted with a cheery "Good morning Mr Grant! I'll need to see some ID please." Sometimes procedure replaces common sense...strangerep said:Heh, I'm surprised he would work for a company that was so stupid/ignorant as to not recognize who he is.
Ibix said:Cary Grant told a story of turning up for an internal flight when he was the Hollywood leading man and being greeted with a cheery "Good morning Mr Grant! I'll need to see some ID please." Sometimes procedure replaces common sense...
Ibix said:I'm glad my brain and nervous system automates a bunch of the stuff the other organs do, though. Imagine having to remember to breathe all the time...
I must say I've never read it. Does Marlowe have to remember to breathe a lot or something?jbriggs444 said:
One of the first data centers I designed around 1995, the research labs were located on San Andreas fault lines. We used reflexive memory and multiple disk drives to duplicate the databases locally, and co-located to a secure commercial data center off major faults.Ibix said:We once got to the airport and found our airline's staff logging check-ins by hand. Don't know if true or not, but the story we heard was that there had been a fire in their data center, and the backup data center was in the same building.
At least the safety record suggests that their pilots are a bit better at their jobs...
Technically we all have only three minutes left to live, but every breath we take resets the countdown.Ibix said:I'm glad my brain and nervous system automates a bunch of the stuff the other organs do, though. Imagine having to remember to breathe all the time...