The Cursed Computer Iceberg Meme
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this is not a hall of shame. the intent is to awaken you to many of the peculiarities and weirdness of computers. hopefully, after reading these articles, you will have learned a lot and will embrace chaos.

All the words in the picture are links!

    • magikmw@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      This literally saved me from clicking away with a sensible chuckle. There goes my evening.

  • Black616Angel@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    Having some of them as Twitter-links was not that good of an idea…

    And it has that awesome xerox scanner bug found by David Kriesel! 😂

    I watch his talk (german) like once or twice a year, because it is that funny!

  • mateG@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 year ago

    I was surprised by how many of these I already knew but also horrified at some of the things I have now read about

        • entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org
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          1 year ago

          As someone who professionally writes code that has to ingest mail carrier invoices/other CSVs, this is probably the worst I’ve seen, but some of the files I’ve dealt with were … let’s say comparably frustrating.

          Mostly it’s because mail carriers tend to write these files for humans/accountants to read and audit, so they’ll pull shit like putting in a whole differently-formatted chart above the actual CSV formatted table, or sending us password-protected, encrypted XSLX files that we need a human to decrypt using Excel before we can ingest it with our data tools.

          Leave it to Japan to take it to the extreme by making their software in a fully bespoke way.