My home coffee machine has a resistive heater for its water cylinder and no other electronics. It’s an otherwise fully manual lever machine

Though I use an electric kettle to heat the water and an electric grinder to grind the coffee beans

Following computer security stuff makes every smart thing suspicious

Shame he didn’t know about lever machines

Socks are built to lowest cost. If you want good socks, get wool or cotton from a small company

Lower quality? Modern houses here (Canberra, Australia) typically have all the energy stars (compared to my '70s place’s half a star), are much larger and are proof against termites

A 2026 house beats mine in every respect

Sometimes documentation doesn’t help. My workplace used to be waterfall and we still have systems analysts producing documentation

One piece of work came to my team as “this calculation fails in this case and we can’t tell why”

Looking at it there were two updates in the documentation showing updates ten years ago the first fixing that corner case with the second fixing a side effect of the fix

Why didn’t it work? It was never built, or perhaps built but never merged

On the good side we have an excellent plan for how to fix that corner case, on the bad side we aren’t funded to do that amount of work so we have to half arse a solution

Sorry, you were hired as a prompt engineer, your prompt wasn’t good enough to make perfect code, so you are fired

Presuming you don’t play Palladium fantasy, since no one does, you could steal this critter

Corpse creature

Lies in ruins looking like a week old corpse, wearing something obvious and valuable, such as a gold pendant

When someone tries to remove the valuable the corpse creature grabs them strongly by the neck and strangles them

The corpse creature doesn’t collect loot, doesn’t eat their kills, it’s just out to bait and murder

In the Palladium system it has a strength of 23, you’d probably want to make it moderately powerful but only on its first attack

If a group approaches it’ll keep playing dead, it only attacks lone individuals

I have had that experience, then I realised I used oauth on that site. CTRL+refreshed the page and it did the auto login. No idea how I got a log in prompt that one time; probably clicked login before the page finished loading

The site had disabled password login for users who had changed to oauth

When one provides correction for someone is much better to do that than to reply “*whose”

You don’t need to read it if you don’t want to

It’s very tempting to use that (maybe with several random usernames to select from) as the insufficiently strong password error message

It’s probably just a little too user hostile though

Many of those will progress to password even if the user doesn’t exist

I found all of them

Edit to add: thank you for an hour of fun

I have done the romance bits with all of them. Lae’zel is the most fun, Gale is the sexiest, Shadow is all promise then cut to the morning after

You don’t need a GUI to use a mouse, we could even use a mouse in command line MS-DOS

Most real life dual wielded weapons were not matched, sword and dagger, katana (one handedb long sword) and wakizashi (short sword)

Profanity is against the rules here? It doesn’t say so in the sidebar

Probably a low quality cable

It’s even allowed to be randomly unplugged while delivering maximum power

Chat GPT can work in perl. It has eaten the entire CPAN so had had a lot of examples