I’m old. I used the Internet before there was a “World-Wide Web” - so no web pages. I used telnet to connect to other computers, where generally I had to have a login. At home I only had dialup, but the school computers had Internet access. Those connections did include Usenet discussions, which were kind of like a primitive version of Lemmy.
I guess if I think about it, it’s a tiny fraction of the number of accords or stuff that I see. But their awfulness stands out so much that they always register.
I’m kind of surprised at how many of them I see. I’m not sure it’s just that they stand out so much or if I live in an area (Southern California) where they’re more popular, but they’re so awful in person that it’s hard to get my head around.
That one is still right once a day
The least awful are the ones that just occasionally say “You are currently number <x> in the queue and your estimated wait time is <y>.”
Me too, and likewise
You can tell it’s old because the note is in cursive.
Brother, the entire point of Ask communities is people asking questions they could technically search.
As Ember pointed out, no, that’s not the point of the community. It’s for open ended, thought provoking questions.
That person was saying he thought that because it was marked nsfw, and you didn’t address that, you just attacked him. Your response seems out of line.
Huh, interesting, I don’t think I’ve ever noticed that. Thanks.
What’s with all the downvotes on this post?
I hadn’t heard that one, but not surprising at this point.
I can hear the people saying, “I really want a Tesla, but I don’t want people to think I’m a Nazi sympathiser. I know, I’ll get a sticker…”
Sometimes those stickers are on models that came out after we all knew what Musk is.
When they’re fresh they aren’t super hard, but they get harder as they get older.
I don’t consider them chocolate, but I like them. I also like their fruit and vanilla ones.
So was it a government (state or federal) water treatment plant? If so, I can tell you how it happened. The government contracting agencies have boilerplate text they’re supposed to add to contracts to make sure salient requirements get flowed. They’re supposed to delete or tailor anything that doesn’t make sense, but the contracts people aren’t usually very technical. We had requirements flowed to us about password management and account monitoring, but no one logs into a rocket engine or a torpedo. When we’d point it out, they’d say “oops, we should have deleted that.”
Probably a bleed-over from the embedded side. Spent a lot of years working embedded control systems for NASA and DoD - bare metal systems, often interrupt driven - and it was common to have 50% margin requirements. They know those systems will grow over time, and they often have lifespans measured in decades.
My fun skill when I was in college was that when a modem/fax called I could whistle in a way that made it think it had reached another modem and connect. Couldn’t do anything past that, but it was funny.