Yeah, when I hauled my groceries by bicycle, I wouldn’t want the larger sizes… But I also wouldn’t be bitching out the person who isn’t involved in the decision process…

On a related note, error messages. When I ask you what it says, tell me what it says, not what you think it means. If it meant what you thought it meant, you wouldn’t be asking me for help.

You could, but then we wouldn’t be talking about a carbon paper roller thingy…

Knuckle-buster was the industry term, and they were already obsolete 20 years ago…

Not sure how much good that’ll be… A lot of banks are giving out cards where the numbers are only printed, I haven’t had one with raised numbers in years.

Bootable USB stick?

Bingo. I work for a small software company, so I expect shit like this to go out to production every so often and cause trouble for our couple tens of thousands of clients… But I can’t fathom how any company with worldwide reach can let it happen…

Why not?

interesting if you’re interested in the topic

The first rule of tautology club is the first rule of tautology club.

I ran into this recently. Trying to get access to a credit union’s system as a vendor, they had a captcha that was the old style image of distorted text, with a text box labeled “are you a robot?”. Having the tendency to take things literally, I initially typed “no” into the box. That was not the right answer.

In other words… differently.

Newton’s theory of gravity … severely inaccurate.

Except it’s not - it’s accurate enough within certain limits to still be useful today. It’s only inaccurate in extreme cases. Relativity is more accurate, sure, but outside of the extremes, it’s more complex than Newton’s and not worth the extra trouble.

GPS wouldn’t work if you were correct.

Common misconception. It would work fine, just differently.

I’m super picky, but I like Hawaiian pizza, so I don’t think it’s that…

Base 16 is great when you’re interacting with a computer, but aside from that, not much. Only being divisible by 2 is kind of a pain in the real world.

Didn’t trey parker & matt stone already do that?

I guess that was Jesus vs Santa Claus…

Church lady has entered the chat…

I had a crazy Catholic prepper neighbor way back in '99 (she was the hipster of preppers, one of the things she railed about was all the people prepping just for y2k when she had already been doing it for years, but that’s another story) and one of her things was how evil bill gates was- so I told her Linux was evil-er because of the daemons. Gave her a lot to think about.

Nobody else can see the files on your c:\ drive. Designing a “website” means little if you don’t have a place to host it

Go home, robot, you’re drunk