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Can I lick it? Yes you can. (feddit.de)
submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago (7 children)

A quick question, should the software engineer lick the monitor screen or the keyboard?

I… uh… am asking for a friend who is a software engineer.

I am a butterfly instructor.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

the motherboard. how else can you tell that it is working?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

Given most software engineers develop in a cloud environment, I would… I mean my friend would have to shove their head into a server rack that is consuming high amounts of wattage. My friend would then have to try reaching for the motherboard by extending their tongue.

The only problem I see here is travelling to the data centre which are often located in different countries or even continents. I am not sure if their employer would cover that expense.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

ssh into the server and lick your desktop's motherboard

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Gives a whole new meaning to SSH tunnelling.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Quantum properties of SSH

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Also, I don't know if Amazon will let my friend in a similar situation into their data centers to lick the AWS motherboards.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

AMZN can charge extra as part of their AWS plan to allow enhanced debugging.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Given most software engineers develop in a cloud environment

This is 100% false

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Most keyboards get really gross after a while and are hardly ever cleaned. I'd go for the monitor.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This is why they never get cleaned, you gotta start somewhere. Lick the keyboard!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Apple could have avoided an entire lawsuit for their butterfly keyboards, if their users did this one thing. SMH.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

The butterflies. Someone needs to see if they taste of butter.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I have eaten fried moth. Tasted much like almond

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

They taste more like flies and less like butter.

SourceDon’t ask.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Isn't there a game where if you put ketchup on the disc it does something to make it easier to speedrun? So licking might be too unreasonable

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Thanks for sharing the insight. Apparently, it was a speed run hack on Xbox for an old SpongeBob game.

So, there’s some precedent set in the field of computer peripheral licking to improve results.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Lmao dammit emacs

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Licking is for mouses and touch-pads.

Use the onLick() event.