Reminds of this bucket-line system

Similar with “get up, Trinity” from The Matrix’s opening scene.

No safety, smoking first

hyphen became a plus? Dalí didn’t have a spare engine because their working spare engine wasn’t purged of fuel that wouldn’t be legal to burn in US coastal waters.

And destroyed the Baltimore bridge because their backup engines were split between legal fuel and “international waters” fuel.

jwz.org/blog, for obvious reasons.

His telling of this event [severely jetlagged] adds even more to the story.

So, you already pressed the button?

Your last example reminds me of someone editing Wikipedia to list Ronnie O’Sullivan as the winner of the World Open, about 20 minutes before the final match finished.

They were right, and anyone would agree that it was all-but-certain, but it hadn’t actually happened yet.

Right, an original at Mosaic [Netscape] before it got into that fight with Internet Explorer, went open-source, and became Mozilla.

The original developer has a great blog, and has commented on this

This computer.

re #7, I hope they are also saying no ‘secret questions’ to reset the password?

That was so insane - “we need a unique number, let’s just use the MAC” - it was like people didn’t even think through any of the implications when making ipv6 address schemes.

Similar with the address proposals that ignored the need to minimise the size of core internet routing tables.

Firefighter, cook, medic, manager, air traffic controller, pilot, driver, heavy equipment operator…

Substitute Chaos Bringer to really give everyone flashbacks

Main menu theme, Myth II Soulblighter

I like it here, from RimWorld.

When your first notification about the change is a Mastodon post telling you to look for a pre-checked checkbox that wasn’t there before…

Today you, tomorrow me