I like to use Oregon Trail generation too. It’s the perfect label for those of us who essentially had computers inserted into our childhoods at some point.
Computers pre-date us by a lot, obviously, but it’s more about the mass market computers (and home video game systems) that normal people could access.
Oh nice. Does your system FINALLY provide enough addreses for every Planck volume in the observable universe? It’s been frickin amateur hour, this internet thing.
Nope, I’m not sure I even looked for one yet. I don’t need auto sync and/or backup for my work since that’s mostly in GitHub and JIRA and the like. But it’s still convenient to be able to throw a file in there at times.
Insert “use Linux” joke. But I’m absolutely serious when I say that using my company’s M365 stuff using the web versions in Firefox on Linux is pretty pleasant.
I was thinking MAANA
Definitely. The context just seemed to be people who know what OSs are.
I get the sense that both of those two things are somewhat true here. They’re getting rid of 10, and people want to avoid 11.
I think the spirit of the comic remains intact even if the math and assumptions are easily attacked.
I didn’t mean for that to rhyme.
I have one you should love. And by that I mean hate.
Over a decade ago I was installing some equipment I designed, training the operators, etc. There were electrical and software components to the system, and it was used to test products coming out of final assembly.
The very first thing that happened was the operator taking the stapled-together stack of detailed instructions I gave them, dropping it on the work bench, and using it as a mouse pad to start aimlessly clicking around.
Please add me to that newsletter, and may the billboards be cast from your sight, brother!
The engineer in the joke should have ordered some Bobby Tables for dessert.
Good to see the party of small government at it again, not that they ever stopped.
Removed by mod
Aha! He wrote git!
I KNEW I saw that name somewhere before.
Sad American upvote for that. I can’t imagine how this country must look to people around the world.
Starlink is probably a stopgap measure for areas that still have to build up the physical infrastructure for the real solution.
It’s more of a solution for having internet available just about anywhere. Probably good for various emergency/rescue scenarios.
The modern glutton cares only about acquiring resources, not whether those resources make them happy or if their acquisition makes others miserable.
And with steer by wire like in the cybertruck, they could fully disable it.
I have always considered myself an engineer because I’m part of a multidisciplinary engineering organization designing a physical product that has embedded software. And “engineer” is the word at the end of my degrees, I guess.
But if somebody called me by any of those terms in the OP I would answer. And if somebody who works on an app or a video game calls themselves an engineer, it wouldn’t raise an eyebrow.
My only conclusion is that we here, who spend our days specifying exactly what we want computers to do, are not so great specifying ourselves exactly.
Add on top of this “maybe you don’t need to worry about criticizing others in the first place” and you’re well on your way to a happier existence.
Disclaimer: of course thinking critically is important, and there are areas where you’d be irresponsible not to be critical of others. I’m talking about the IV drip of negativity of constantly getting annoyed at things that don’t affect you.