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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] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Not in my experience. The three most dangerous things in the world are:

  • A programmer with a soldering iron.
  • An HVAC tech with a software patch.
  • A user with an idea.
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Haha as a programmer who has worked on a handful of soldering projects this is so true.

[–] Still 11 points 1 year ago

I should put down the soldering iron I guess

would make my electronics projects less horrible

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"So I've been thinking..."

"Well that's dangerous!"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What about the designer... Can they program

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

No. Usually not really

This is why most open source projects are ugly

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

One sentence horror story:

Full-stack developer.

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

What if I'm a bit of both?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I recently had a user claim the upgrade from office 2019 to 365 broke her laptop screen.