Title text: There are probably children out there holding down spacebar to stay warm in the winter! YOUR UPDATE MURDERS CHILDREN.
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[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.
Not in my experience. The three most dangerous things in the world are:
Haha as a programmer who has worked on a handful of soldering projects this is so true.
I should put down the soldering iron I guess
would make my electronics projects less horrible
What about the designer… Can they program
No. Usually not really
This is why most open source projects are ugly
One sentence horror story:
Full-stack developer.
“So I’ve been thinking…”
“Well that’s dangerous!”
Pretty much: everyone’s dumb when they’re talking about shit they don’t know about and have no experience with. If you let people collaborate organically though, they can understand eachother better and come up with much better ideas than if they were each working separately in their own separate little departments and communicating via help desk tickets and bug reports