https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2011/10/the-energy-trap/

50/50 for me. Last update didn’t shut down, one before that did.

Updates only make products worse, not better.

That meme’s been on the front page every day for the last week. Did karma farming bots make their way here?

Surprisingly more readable than standard C++

Unix was originally a networked system that many terminals would connect to. Being able to actually reach the machine meant that you had authority.

It’s the same today. If someone has physical access, the system is so screwed that you can just give total privileges anyways.

I also used to have that message but it seems like they’ve got that back in order.

I remember that back then you could download an extension to pretend your user agent was Chrome and Teams would work flawlessly.

Working as a software engineer developing for the IT team, I understand the system I’m developing on, but not the system I’m developing.

Jira customfields give me nightmares.

Yep.

But reading one outdated line of English is worse than reading 5 lines of code and seeing the true picture.

Teams is still horribly optimized and barely works though. I love having to restart my computer in order to be able to sign in.

Protip: It’s much faster and more stable when just opened as a webpage in Firefox

Stage 2: it works and you feel the dread that you won’t hunt that bug down until it crashes prod.

Poland’s got Jehovah’s Witnesses. Also in recent years there’s an uptick in street preachers and and various other bullshit.

Always skip the accepted answer and use the second or third one.