I think I knew it was a clit mouse before I was looking on the internet for porn. IBM laptops were well respected and highly available on the secondhand market - I got my university machine from an excess (obsolete) business equipment auction for something like fifty bucks and looking up the machine on Usenet introduced me to the term
The op picture is from the UK, since it refers to the NHS. An Australian sign like that would say Medicare
But yes, it’s people cosplaying blue collar
https://xkcd.com/303/ vs this guy who thinks 20 seconds is a long time
Following computer security stuff makes every smart thing suspicious
Socks are built to lowest cost. If you want good socks, get wool or cotton from a small company, but expect to pay more
Lower quality? Modern houses here (Canberra, Australia) typically have all the energy stars (compared to my '70s place’s half a star), are much larger and are proof against termites
A 2026 house beats mine in every respect
Sometimes documentation doesn’t help. My workplace used to be waterfall and we still have systems analysts producing documentation
One piece of work came to my team as “this calculation fails in this case and we can’t tell why”
Looking at it there were two updates in the documentation showing updates ten years ago the first fixing that corner case with the second fixing a side effect of the fix
Why didn’t it work? It was never built, or perhaps built but never merged
On the good side we have an excellent plan for how to fix that corner case, on the bad side we aren’t funded to do that amount of work so we have to half arse a solution
Sorry, you were hired as a prompt engineer, your prompt wasn’t good enough to make perfect code, so you are fired
I got a couple of good ones:
When I first opened it, deepseek also had a correct clock, but I accidentally refreshed the page when I scrolled up to double check its time, second time through only these two were right
Ed. Names are below the clock, the top one was by the clock drawing champion Kimi K2
Yeah big vehicles are a problem in Australia too