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xkcd #1172: Workflow (imgs.xkcd.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Title text: There are probably children out there holding down spacebar to stay warm in the winter! YOUR UPDATE MURDERS CHILDREN.


Transcript[Changelog for version 10.17 of a piece of software.]

One change listed: "The CPU no longer overheats when you hold down the spacebar"
Comments: LongtimeUser4 writes: This update broke my workflow! My control key is hard to reach, so I hold spacebar instead, and I configured Emacs to interpret a rapid temperature rise as "control".
Admin writes: That's horrifying.
LongtimeUser4 writes: Look, my setup works for me. Just add an option to reenable spacebar heating.

Every change breaks someone's workflow.


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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sounds awfully familiar. One of our customer wanted a very specific option our system does not provide - because it makes no sense at all. But instead that the customer discusses what is good and what is not, based on our >40 years of international experience in the field, we just got a bunch of drawings telling me that I should do something in the way a political committee with no professional input had decided.

Customer pays for it, customer gets it. Fun fact: I know they will get sick of what they cooked up in no time, so I already installed a "kill switch". As soon as they get sick of their stupid idea, I can reverse it with a single option. Bossman says to take the same amount of money for switching it back, and he knows they will pay.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What's the option, if you don't mind me asking?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is there a remindme bot or smt? hahaha

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I saw somebody mention that you can use a mastodon remind me bot on lemmy just fine. But I don't remember what the name of the bot was.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wow, that sounds great. Hopefully someone remembers the name soon.

@[email protected] 1 hour

@[email protected]

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

@can Here is your reminder!

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

@can Ok, I will remind you on Thursday Aug 3, 2023 at 1:23 PM PDT.