How much red could a red-hat hat…

I actually had a use-case for a smart switch (I wanted it to automatically turn off after a certain amount of time). In the end, I went back to a dumb-switch after a frustrating diagnosis, maybe I’m biased/lucky to never have had a light-switch fail, but I didn’t even consider it as the potential fault until I electrically proved it…

Like CO2 lasers, I wonder if it can be damaging to the human eye, even if invisible.

How fortunate, I was just looking for such a thing!

Wondering about those “making citizens” instructions on the wall.

lol… if they had a job that was ONLY writing unit tests, I would take it!

Kind of the reverse… more lamenting the loss of QA and SRE roles in favor of mechanical (AI) code reviewers and non-technical persons rubber-stamping an increasingly deep pipeline that change requests must traverse.

I know, right? Thermostats have worked since (and were invented some time in) the 1600’s, but now… no, no no… we’ve got to loop in “the whole internet” as a dependency (not to mention one’s smartphone, and probably a payment system for an ongoing monthly subscription). Even with the incentive of being continuously paid, they can’t keep it working, because it has gotten too complex and greed has gummed up the gears.

For a minute, I thought this was satire.

With that typo, it sounds like a personal insult. :)

Well, it does kinda make sense that all-ones and all-zeros would be equidistant from alternating, but there are two alternating sequences (one starting with 0 and another starting with 1).

Just dumb expert-blindness…

Thanks, I see that now. While reading it, I think the story lost credibility for me around “time mechanic” (which likely was Dad’s white lie), and I presumed it was another one of those posts that takes a hard-left into fantasy land… also didn’t help that my son watches and believes the plethora of minecraft hoax videos, and that I knew about the water portal hoax, but not the mod… also curse of knowledge painted the ambiguous “learning mods” as a development effort, not learning how to install/use.

Perfume-wearing dad…

Cool story. I might believe one could learn to make a “portal mod” in a day, but not a new dimension and worldgen.

Does she want the nickname, or want a pet kitten?

By extension, ufo and alien abduction stories may be likened to animals trying to get others to believe they saw a tree flash a brilliant light late at night.

So turtles are liquid too, huh…?

I wonder if they optimize for names & faces that sound/look familiar.

Open the pod bay doors…