undebuggable

Year 2014 and we can't even get a color photo from a comet.

It worked out. Philae lander with harpoons was comparably complex but mostly failed unfortunately.

I have the same with my email address. There seriously exist people out there who think that if they start to give away everywhere an email address, this email address will become theirs. Then there are many service providers and institutions who don't verify an email but simply start sending stuff to it.

lost+found is the Thumbs.db and .DS_Store of Linux

Ah so that's why they're going it! In front of TV I always feel like the dumbest person around.

That's all true. As a kid I was watching with sister a children's show in TV. The actor on the screen asked a question followed by silence. My sister yelled the answer at the TV, then the actor said something like "you're right kid". I was flabbergasted.

I heard he is still there at 20 meters banging a pair of rocks together.

In France who has the right of way? The car that is already in the roundabout or the car entering the roundabout?

Actually it's pretty consistent all across Europe. Almost everywhere, every entrance to the roundabout has the yield sign [1]. Without the yield sign, every incoming traffic is right hand traffic and those already on the roundabout have to give a way.

Now the trick is that yield signs at the entrance are so common that drivers assume they are always there.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yield_sign

the portal used incrementing numeric user IDs

every account was provisioned with a static default password

Hehehe. I failed countless job interviews for mistakes much less serious than that. Yet someone gets the job while making worse mistakes, and there are plenty of such systems on production handling real people's data.

Shiny side is for wrapping the end of banana, the matte for the other end.

Now ask the question of all questions "how many car washes are in the entire country?".

There was more meeting time and salary budget involved in picking the yellow-red gradient inside a pen from the first icon on the left, that in the entire process of creating and releasing the icon first from the right.

https://ow.cx/

I'm tired of using technology, boss.

It already exists - tldr. Use it side by side with man.

https://xkcd.com/208/

You say you know the regular expression for an address? hehe

I use my cargo gliders only for full scale landing operations.

Without comments it's much simpler and cheaper than a $5 VPS and a random CMS, with comments it's much complicated and expensive than a $5 VPS and a random CMS.

There are three career stages. First you're not qualified enough, then for a moment you're overqualified, and at last you're too old. The last stage occurs few decades before statutory retirement age.

The web was truly a hyper idea!

I was never able to build mental model of Alexanderplatz in Berlin. Most of the times was simply following the signs and yup, the layout is complicated.

Imagine the horror when a random stranger finally installs and sets up that bloody printer on your laptop.

I guess the Danish mega project is kamelåså.

Jetsons cartoon, Back to The Future, Space Odyssey, even more distant predictions [1]? That's from the top of my head without even searching thoroughly.

[1] https://news.artnet.com/app/news-upload/2021/09/1280px-Franc...

Skype made the the first major milestone. The software and network parts were "simply working" but the hardware part, CRT displays, headsets, and webcams, were still plasticky and tacky.

That's one of the reasons why touchscreen smartphones dominated the market in less than one decade. They made the dream of "real-time videotelephony from a rectangle" come true, a dream which had been present in literature and culture for around hundred of years.

hammer time

Internet gave me a more wicked explanation of this phrase, thus the internet is superior to AI.

Professional badminton looks silly enough, but this move is beyond silly. Is it even legal to apply spin with fingers?

Import transaction history into spreadsheet reversing the rows if necessary to start with 1st Jan at the top. This way you can make calculations mid year or mid month then complete them after receiving full statement only by appending rows, hitherto row numbers remain unchanged.

The same here. Oftentimes Google Maps switches to most exotic language "because of reasons". Then I set it manually to my preferred language, for decades now, and it's been the same language all the time. Are they trying to say with poker face "we don't track you"? I don't think my home-grown privacy habits are that good, somehow they manage to show me an ad of "blue sneakers" someone in the household mentioned this morning.