Programming Jokes: Lame, Science & Math Jokes!

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[Borg]

I was having trouble with my internet at the farm, so I moved the modem to the barn.

Now I have stable wifi.

 

[berkeman]

Now I have stable wifi.

Oh my gawd...

 

[Tom.G]

I was having trouble with my internet at the farm, so I moved the modem to the barn.

Now I have stable wifi.


It may be stable but, I bet its thruput stinks.

 

[Borg]

It may be stable but, I bet its thruput stinks.

There must be a lot of people with the same setup since there's so much manure on the internet.

 

[Borg]

Thanks to autocorrect, 1 in 5 children will be getting a visit from Satan this Christmas.

 

[OCR]

I was having trouble with my internet at the farm, so I moved the modem to the barn.

Actually, that was a rather lofty idea. . . .
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[Borg]

Actually, that was a rather lofty idea. . . .
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Just don't move it to the chicken coop. It will get fowled up.

 

[jbriggs444]

Just don't move it to the chicken coop. It will get fowled up.

According to this Wikipedia article, performance can be relatively poor. Also note the out of order delivery.

$ ping -c 9 -i 900 10.0.3.1
PING 10.0.3.1 (10.0.3.1): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 10.0.3.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=6165731.1 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.3.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=255 time=3211900.8 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.3.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=5124922.8 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.3.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=6388671.9 ms

 

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[berkeman]

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Yep, we actually had something very similar in our Emergency Evacuation Plan for employees. "Save your work, grab your wallet/purse and keys and evacuate the building to the assembly area".

 

[Wrichik Basu]

Save your work

In the cloud, I believe? The hard disk won't be very helpful in case of a fire…

 

[berkeman]

In the cloud, I believe? The hard disk won't be very helpful in case of a fire…

As long as the HDD survives the drenching by the sprinklers, we should still have the data. That was back in the pre-cloud days (AKA the Stone Age).

 

[Ibix]

In the cloud, I believe? The hard disk won't be very helpful in case of a fire…

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...

 

[berkeman]

and the backup data center was in the same building.

Oops...

 

[Borg]

Maybe they even had the backups on the same drives.

 

[Bandersnatch]

Good news is, they kept paper copies of all the data. Bad news is, that's where the fire started.

 

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[Borg]

This has been me more times than I'll admit.

 

[Borg]

I think that there's more than one programmer who's wanted to do this.

 

[Ibix]

I think that there's more than one programmer who's wanted to do this.

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That'd be an interesting interview.
"So, what attracts you to work at our company?"
"Ticket AB1234 in your issue tracker."

 

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[Ibix]

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Hey, I resemble that remark!

 

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Just one more try...

 

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[Ibix]

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I had one of those today.

"Thanks for your code to help me with my task, but when I do <this> it breaks."

"I must admit it never occurred to me that anyone would try anything as bizarre as that..."

(I was a bit more diplomatic - the kid's bright enough, but not very experienced.)

 

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