Every time.

I have left this as an exercise for the reader.

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I didn’t take into account this nuance. I agree.

To be completely fair, a competent Linux enterprise desktop team would force regular kernel and package updates on the users, too. Keeping up to date is crucial to network security and y’all have all kinds of juicy stuff on your work machines, regardless of the underlying operating system.

And you teach this story to your children! There’s hope for you Humans yet, Doctor.

I also appreciate that, perhaps, it’s the art department adding their own layers to things on top of the dialogue. There’s just so much happening in the background that is never mentioned/noticed by the characters; it’s all for us to enjoy instead.

The giant skeleton is probably my favorite reference like this.

I completely missed that this exchange is a Spaceballs reference, and now I’m kinda mad at myself.

Why not both?

But we do have a QA department. I’ll leave it to the reader to decide if that’s humane or not.

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You had my interest in the cocktail, but you get my upvote for this stealth beans post.

Ah yes, my old frenemy: procrastinate until the anxiety mounts to near-panic, then ride the adrenaline through the hyperfocus tunnel all the way to “job’s done just before it’s too late” Town.

I much prefer coffee, but man, Earl Grey has an amazing aroma to it.

Same here. At first, I thought I was going to get a better Discord experience with the dedicated ‘app’. Nope. Another web app crammed into Electron, multiplying the overall browser footprint on my system. It now happily lives on in a normal browser tab where my ad blockers and user-scripts claw back local control of things.

Hey, kudos for finding multiple anti-patterns all in one place like that. I didn’t even think about “underpowered desktop as company server” as another pattern, but here we are.

Sorry you didn’t get the contract, but that sounds like a blessing in disguise to be honest.

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The amount of work I have completed with Tampermonkey in situations like this should have made that same IT department quite anxious.

I mean, it’s a pretty good illustration of a deadlock. Most traffic intersections, especially 4-way stops are basically mutexes anyway.

Jamming a circle though… that’s like deadlocking a ring buffer message queue with threaded consumers. Or something. It’s just a spectacular way to break stuff any way you slice it.

That environment was wild though. At the time, you basically needed to be an electrical engineer and/or a licensed HAM operator, just to have your head wrapped around how it all worked. Familiarity with the very electronics of the thing, even modifying the hardware directly when needed, was crucial to operating that old tech.

Fellow tech-trash-disposal-engineer here. I’ve made a killing on replacing corporate anti-patterns. My career features such hits and old-time classics like:

• email as workflow
• email as version control
• email as project management
• email as literally anything other than email
• excel as an relational database
• excel as project management
• help, our wiki is out of control
• U-drive as a multi-user collaboration solution
• The CEO’s nephew wrote this 8 years ago and we can’t get rid of it

In all of these cases, there were always better answers that maybe just cost a little bit more. AI will absolutely cause some players to train-wreck their business, all to save a buck, and we’ll all be there to help clean up. Count on it.