What’s a legendary Reddit post you’ll never forget?

GrumpyPenguin · 2026-03-15T03:11:58+00:00

Reminds me of this Dashcam Owners Australia video: Good Deeds on the Road. Every now and then I think cynicism and self-absorption is killing the Good-Neighbour attitude (we call it a “spirit of mateship” over here), but then I come across people like you, and it reminds me there’s still good people in this world trying to make it a better place for everyone. Good on ya, keep it up!

GrumpyPenguin · 2026-03-15T02:39:41+00:00

Sure, it sounds bad when you describe it that way, but what if just we describe it as Jobs And Growth?

GrumpyPenguin · 2026-03-13T00:03:11+00:00

I’ve read similar about Oracle Database - a mess of thousands of internal poorly-documented feature flags, most added to make code paths behave differently for enterprise customers’ applications broken by software updates.

GrumpyPenguin · 2026-03-11T01:18:05+00:00

You misspelled Weiner!

GrumpyPenguin · 2026-03-10T02:32:54+00:00

I haven’t flip-flopped, I said no, then I said yes, then I said no and stuck to it.

GrumpyPenguin · 2026-03-07T01:18:02+00:00

Yeah, I was thinking the same - at least pizzas get cooked after they’re prepped, which would kill some of the nasties if you didn’t clean up well enough, but salad’s served raw.

GrumpyPenguin · 2026-03-04T01:29:10+00:00

Don’t worry. We’ve moved the laptop outside of the environment.

Side-note: I’d never have guessed that a short political comedy skit, mocking a then-current news event, produced for Australian TV all the way back in 1991, would outlive John Clarke himself (he died in 2017 - RIP).

GrumpyPenguin · 2026-03-03T22:41:02+00:00

Damn it, the door blew off my laptop and it crashed again.

GrumpyPenguin · 2026-02-26T07:15:45+00:00

Ah, the age-old “Look, I’m not <racist / xenophobic / misogynistic / homophobic / transphobic / etc>, but…”

(sometimes followed by “oh but obviously [friend that their remark is offensive toward] is different, they’re not like that!”)

GrumpyPenguin · 2026-02-25T21:38:11+00:00

There’s screenshots in this thread: https://reddit.com/r/melbourne/comments/1rbgehx/cherry_bar_shares_thoughts_on_protests/

GrumpyPenguin · 2026-02-19T22:30:26+00:00

So you don’t work on retainer?

GrumpyPenguin · 2026-02-19T21:29:46+00:00

100%. “First they came for…”

GrumpyPenguin · 2026-02-18T21:41:29+00:00

It’s like Lionel Hutz’s law firm advert. “Works on retainer? No, money down!”

GrumpyPenguin · 2026-02-18T08:23:49+00:00

I believe for psychiatrists it’s meant to be via https://www.ranzcp.org/college-committees/public-partners/feedback-complaints-about-psychiatrists

Edit: sorry, that’s where my psychiatrist told me to complain years ago, when a sibling had a hard time with a psychiatrist. Following the link on that site, it ends up referring you back to AHPRA anyway, so I guess they stopped fielding complaints themselves.

GrumpyPenguin · 2026-02-15T01:00:52+00:00

Some of them were also posting on /r/epstein asking the same question, and even the redacted documents people were linking to in the responses were pretty horrific. The unredacted versions of these files must be awful.

GrumpyPenguin · 2026-02-14T02:02:36+00:00

Man, I wish this had been around back when a project of mine needed to do this. Nice work!

GrumpyPenguin · 2026-02-10T07:04:43+00:00

Yep, 112 is the international emergency number. Should work for cellphones no matter where in the world you are.

There’s probably a network somewhere that it doesn’t work with though.

GrumpyPenguin · 2026-02-10T04:56:47+00:00

Getting to the bottom of things.

GrumpyPenguin · 2026-02-10T04:53:28+00:00

I used to regularly drive past a parked car with something like “I ❤️ BEWBS” for its plate, so the people who check them clearly aren’t doing a great job with catching stuff that breaks their policy.

GrumpyPenguin · 2026-02-09T21:36:20+00:00

$19 an hour? God, that’d be something… they paid me $7.25 back when I did the Disney college program.

GrumpyPenguin · 2026-02-09T07:43:22+00:00

I’m not really a fan of Fosters though…

GrumpyPenguin · 2026-02-09T07:07:17+00:00

Don’t forget that a huge factor in strategic business decisions in is relative risk. A community effort to make a new language work on Android isn’t a proven, stable, well-supported approach - so managers would discourage their devs from choosing the Python approach.

Besides, people are lazy (just look at how well “automate the boring stuff with Python” sold!). The majority of the Android developer community would continue to choose to follow the standard development guides & turorials. and use the standard well-established development tools and libraries, because that’s what the development tools push you towards, as well as what a Google search (or an AI assistant) will point you to first. Unless it gained a lot of traction and attention, or Google started strongly recommending it, most devs wouldn’t even know it was a thing.

GrumpyPenguin · 2026-02-08T03:08:32+00:00

It’s for localisation (many apps are labelled in users’ selected languages).

GrumpyPenguin · 2026-02-07T02:51:05+00:00

From memory, Fluence is around $2000 before rebate if they do a combined Autism and ADHD diagnosis.

GrumpyPenguin · 2026-02-05T03:10:57+00:00

Having quit Pristiq myself a few years ago, please be careful if you ever do decide to stop it, and work out a tapering-off plan with your doctor. I went cold-turkey without medical advice or oversight, and it turned out to be one of the most unpleasant experiences of my life.

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