Ok but that’s just evil.

They painted it at a T junction, you can see there’s a road coming from the opposite direction, and at night, anybody who’s not local could have fallen for that and just assumed it was normal crossroads.

There’s also barely, if any, sidewalk in front of the painting, that could at least have alerted the driver.

It’s pure luck that the guy wasn’t driving fast, or there’d be dead bodies because of this stupid prank. This needs jail time, even if suspended.

This is 100% the reason for the documentary in the first place. Quote from the director:

My dream would be that when people watch it, they take flat Eartherism as an analogy to something they believe in, because it’s so easy to demonize another group or another person for something they think but you’re kind of just as guilty if you do that.

These are humans, people that are missing something in their lives, and this community and their “secret knowledge” grants them that.

I see the SovCit movement as exactly the same thing, but when one digs deep enough, maybe one finds the same in the fanatical MAGA crowds, and in the most fervent religious people, and it’s not a coincidence that there’s an overlap in membership between these groups…

“And that’s when enshitification kicked in”

But even the “plain” pringles, I swear they used to be tasty as sin. Nowadays they feel like I’m chewing sawdust crackers or something…

New rule: If nobody is holding the sword, there’s no longer any “up”, and everything just floats about

You don’t look a day over 20, good job surviving!

You’re not even deep-frying it? Barbarian…

I have been using Mint for a long while now, and I’ve been very happy with it. Can’t say I’ve felt the need to try anything else…

I was surprised at the amount of things that just broke when I tried Wayland a couple of months ago, but that’s a lot of time to fix bugs and implement missing features.

I’m scared to ask, but is there context to this?

The guy who has to pick them up is livid, I’m sure.

A more serious answer - it depends greatly on where I’m working and what we’re doing.

I’ve worked in places where we’d receive outsource work. Usually we’d get fairly detailed instructions about what to do and what to avoid, that were discussed between our PMs/architects and the client, including tests for example that were agreed upon. You were supposed to follow those to the letter, but the most important part was that you needed to deliver quickly because the customer wanted to keep costs to a minimum. “Useless questions” (from their perspective) were seriously frowned upon, so if it wasn’t specified, the expected approach was to do whatever was quicker.

This occasionally lead to situations where their QC/UATs would identify issues with their business rules, but as long as it was compliant with the requirements we received, it would then come back to be changed (at additional cost, depending on how big the change needed to be).

Once accepted though, job done, grab your next work item and move on. Months later they could run into a situation like the one in the printer and come back asking for a fix, but very likely that would go into the CR bucket and a quote would be provided.

Of course if you’re working for a company that actually cares about what they’re building, the philosophy is completely different. If I’m working on our products, then I build a good understanding of what I’m working on, and I’m expected to flag any concerns or issues I encounter even before it reaches QC.

That said, I’ve never heard of a developer ever being criminally charged other than intentional misconduct - like, in the world. Look at the IBM Queensland Health payroll system fiasco, I’m not sure anyone was even fired, let alone prosecuted.

Or even the Boeing 737-MAX crashes - how do you build a system that pitches the nose down repeatedly, without limitations? Those guys who worked on the MCAS software would 100% have considered a scenario where an angle-of-attack sensor would provide bad data, and the consequences of repeated trim, but alas - 2 planes crashed, 350 people died, and what are the consequences? Some payouts…

Look around you, you’ll find “unrestricted fields in a public-facing app” (from a practical perspective) everywhere. Shrek’s script has what, less than 50k characters? That’s nothing, you can fit that in a Facebook post and still have more than enough to write a full movie review.

Where this would likely raise flags is when somebody decided that it needs to be printed, but that could be a different team, maybe outsourced, maybe after the main app was developed, maybe it’s just some “plug-and-play” system that also handles bulk printing jobs, who knows.

100% accurate, though vibe coding is optional.

If I have a set of requirements that don’t mention any type of restriction, then I won’t arbitrarily add one - as far as I know, I could be breaking intended functionality. If I’m invested in this, I’ll add it to the list of stuff that needs clarification, otherwise it’s gonna ship as specified, and eventually someone’s gonna file a change request.

It’s like they could create a socialist party, so that America actually has at least one left-leaning party.

No, the mainline Democratic party is nowhere near being left wing.

He’s much better at communicating and dealing with the present day republican tactics than most in the party, but we know that, at heart, they all have corporate greed as their master.

The first two are the most definite reason I’ve killed a lot of plants.

A friend came over and nearly screamed “you should be watering these every 2 WEEKS NOT 2 DAYS!!”.

But what do you mean that 5m from a window is “too dark”? I can see fine…

What OS is this? Don’t recognise that daemon, nor a tool called ance, but I can get behind the chown alias.

Piano players are not expected to carry their piano. Cellists be dragging that thing through a crowded subway train :(

. * cries in cello *