Exactly.

Fuck, I agree with MTG this morning? And I was off to such a good start today.

The collective man-hours this would have saved people, if we had it back in 1999, would be staggering.

people love over engineering the fuck out of technology

Exhibit A: 2.85 Million packages, as of mid-2023

Like everything in Idocracy, you take something everyday and make it more streamlined and efficient, then stupider, then repeat the stupid part a few more times.

In this case we see the evolution of the employee smock, apron, and id badge, into one all-purpose garment. It’s even one-size-fits-all.

Rust is still in the locker room having an argument with their coach (borrow checker).

War boys from Fury Road?

This describes how most people have it deployed, yes.

It gets real fun when you have custom Java plugins, Groovy script, BASH script, Windows runners, and Linux runners, all in play at the same time. Much of which is held together with hopes, dreams, and unicorn farts, willed into existence by wizards that haven’t worked there in over seven years. If upper management could even comprehend the level of deferred maintenance and haphazard software hackery that birthed this electronic Gordian knot, this unholy union of decrepit software and company policy, they wouldn’t sleep. Ever.

It really should be “parlay.txt”.

Or more subtly, when the command uses BSD (nowadays Go) style single-dash args, so it wants -help and not --help.

That’s $400k worth of house and $500k worth of windows. Lotta big custom glass in there.

FROM Software: Fuck that, we’re doing fog-walls.

It’s outstanding at bridging the gap between “I need to mash these two concepts/technologies together” and “the answer is spread across six different StackOverflow threads.” Hunting that stuff down using Google has been a delicate operation even at the best of times in the last 25 years, but it always took a lot of time. With an LLM and each such query, I’ve saved hours, maybe even whole workdays. Fact-checking an AI takes far less effort.

The Trade Federation greatly appreciates useful imports.

Until the next day when they had the realisation that MSDN windows API docs are garbage, tried the supposedly not-working flag and it actually did work.

This now leaves us with an uncomfortable question: is the real bug in the docs, or the API implementation? If it’s the latter, it’s at risk of being patched out since the behavior doesn’t match the docs.

Edit: did a grammar.

some center right pro elite politician got criticised so much they left the platform.

Sounds like the exact right amount of inclusion and radicalism to me.

Rebuilding with period-correct tools and techniques. At least, as best as can be pulled together based on archaeology and the scant documentation we have from the time. The videos make it very clear where he’s taking license and where he’s not, which makes his already top-shelf presentation style that much more entertaining.

This project has also taken forever due to our host taking breaks to work with people on actual peer-reviewed publications about all this. It’s really an enormous project that is contributing to the intersection of engineering and archaeology in profound ways.

It’s worse if you have ever worked in food service. “App” is short for “appetizer”.

::cries in very specific form of confusion::

It’s not stupid if it works. I also love the use of (readily available) automotive fuses.

It’s all good man. If that came across as a sharp criticism of this work, I apologize. Usually, folks stir up debate on these things without any of it directed at the author. My text doesn’t convey this sentiment at all, so I left it open for interpretation. Rest assured, I got a good chuckle from this meme and simply want to express a personal opinion on what I would have done differently (had I not been too lazy to make a meme myself). I’ll go clean up my comment to help make all this clear to others. Thanks for understanding.

ASM is much closer to true neutral. There are no high-level language rules/laws, no other man-made constructs on top of the silicon. We are speaking the language of machines, forever moving bytes between registers and addresses. Nothing more.

Edit: to be clear, the meme is great as-is. But I’m left wondering if this observation would also fit the format?