qupada

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What a great idea⁩ ⁨⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  But also at regular checkouts.

  You've just stood there motionless for the last 4 minutes, while someone else (potentially two people) scanned and bagged your purchases for you.

  How is it that JUST NOW is the time you've decided is right to rummage through your bag for your wallet/purse, or check your banking app on your phone to see if the account actually has money in it? What were you doing for the rest of the time that was so vitally important?

  I swear you can just about hear the birds flying around in their head sometimes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I can still smell them⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  "Anyone who says they hate farts is choosing to have less joy in their life, but the same amount of farts"

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic boss Tim Sweeney thinks stores like Steam should stop labelling games as being made with AI: 'It makes no sense,' he says, because 'AI will be involved in nearly all future production⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  First game I ever bought.

  Mailed a freaking cheque internationally, and got a box of 3.5" floppy disks back about 6 weeks later.

  Wild times.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are Hard Drives Getting Better? Let’s Revisit the Bathtub Curve⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It was the 3TB ST3000DM001 that was the really terrible one.

  (so bad it has its own Wikipedia page)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A little bit of Monica in my life, a little bit of Erica by my side⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Old-timey doctors had a word for that procedure... "lobotomy". Cleaned your mind right out.

  Would you also like some heroin or cocaine?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thanks Kubuntu, I hate it.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I've always heard this as

  "the two hardest problems in computer science are naming variables, cache invalidation, and off-by-one errors"

  Yours is a nice subtle variant, I like it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨choice⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If their case is too solid, try eating more fibre.