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We already knew cats ruled the world.
I guess it's no surprise the Meow 9000 AI is taking over the internet 
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"Recommands"?
Gotta love comic strips with typos.
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This is a French comic, translated to English...With typo twice a week...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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I did not know that. Where can one see the original?
I also haven't really noticed nearly as many typos as you're suggesting.
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In most cases they fix typo after someone comments on it...
To see it in French replace en to fr in the link...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Are you sure it's originally made in French? 2 things make me question that:
a) Why would they keep using "AI", an English acronym, in the French version?
b) Why would they show a screenshot in English, which means you have to read English anyway to get the punch line.
[Edit]
OK...from the site's About Us:
"Our illustrator is self-confessed geek Etienne Issartial. Stories and texts are by Thomas Gx, and are translated into English by Mark Nightingale"
My questions still stand however. 
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Maybe they use AI as a technical term...I'm speaking Hebrew all day long, but some terms I use in it's English/technical form...AI is one of them...I would not say 'artificial intelligence' in Hebrew, but AI in English...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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HD memory that is.
I currently have 223 GB of SSD memory, which is waaaaaaaay to little for multiple Virtual Machines... 
We've got different customers and projects that all require specific versions of tools and different VPN clients.
So virtualization seems the key. It also means I currently have three Windows installs, three Visual Studio installs, two SQL Server Management Studio installs, etc.
On a 223 GB machine 
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Sander Rossel wrote: waaaaaaaay to little
D'ya think? I've got 3 x 1TB for just a single OS installation and I've been wondering whether that's enough for a week or so! 
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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3TB for a week? What do you do? Keep all your backups, data, and software on your local machine? 
I need Visual Studio, SQL Server, some tools like SourceTree, Git, VPN client...
I'm currently getting pretty far with 50GB for a single project
Although 50GB does require me to uninstall/not install everything I really don't need
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I do work with VMs for some years and in my experience you need something between 80 to 120 GB to a decent one, that's one you use for work...VMs for test can get on with 20 to 60 GB, depending on the applications you need for the test environment...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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We have separate test and build servers.
Luckily I don't need a VM for that as well.
So you have one or two VM's on your machine at a time and everything else on an external disk?
Switching is a pain. Especially last week when I got a new VM for a project I was already working on (in an old VM). I couldn't have the old and new environment on my laptop at the same time.
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I have 11 VMs at this point - running 2 to 5 concurrently...
I'm using seamless mode (I have VirtualBox), so no switching at all...
I have a 8 core, 64GB, 320GB SSD, 2TB HDD machine and all on the drivers...The machines are sitting on the SSD, but the data is on the HDD on shared folders, so all can access...External drives are for backup only...
Sander Rossel wrote: I couldn't have the old and new environment on my laptop at the same time.
Now, that's interesting...I had never problem to run two VMs at the same time...Maybe you share resources in the wrong way...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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I have no idea how much space the company uses on their virtualized environment, but there's never enough space.
Personally, 1 Gb is all I need; but I doubt that you can run a modern Visual Studio in such an environment
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: Personally, 1 Gb is all I need; but I doubt that you can run a modern Visual Studio in such an environment
So what's your editor then, Notepad?
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MonoDevelop
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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I have a 237 GB SSD for my system drive and a 931 GB HDD that spins up in less than a second for data. All my data is on the regular drive. Even if it has spun down, I notice no delay in accessing anything on it (other than program startup delays, although the SSD does help, some programs just seem to sit there for no reason other than to waste time. I'm looking at you, Visual Studio).
No virtual machines, though. I also have a 4TB USB 3.0 external drive that I'm not using right now. I am planning on putting Portable VirtualBox[^] on it with some Linux VMs, though.
I got that drive on sale for $50. Seriously. I thought it was a typo, but it wasn't! Normal Price: $398.99. Yeah.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Brisingr Aerowing wrote: I got that drive on sale for $50. Seriously. I thought it was a typo, but it wasn't! Normal Price: $398.99. Yeah.
Nice!
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There was a major overstock of them and they needed to be sold. They were sold out by the end of the day.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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If it doesn't fit in 640K it ain't worth doing.
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The days of 32K (that's "kay") being a ton of memory are long gone. Storage? You mean cassette tapes??? 
Marc
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That's really interesting...We all got to used for big machines with - theoretically - endless resources...A half a year back I got into a project, using Arduino as the 'brain'...My young companion for the project, never had the experience to see, how much can be put into 32K...He was shocked...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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I could probably do with 32K if Visual Studio would fit on that 
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Still, I cannot understand why windows need 16Gb, or a printer driver 4Gb, ... I think memory is too cheap, and everybody goes the easy way of not caring about storage space anymore. Long see optimization... I had the secret hope that the requirement of "everything" being "downloadable from our website" would refrain from proposing gb downloads with 4 figures , but it does not seem to be the case. So I had to wait 45min for playing a game loaded on tape 25 years ago, now I have to wait 45min to download the 220Gb of the game I want to play. Where is the improvement? 
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