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“Because 9.975 was just a *little* bit too small,” explains our first anonymous helper. Our second anonymous helper tells us “While looking up how to find my banks branch using a blank check, I came across this site that seems to have used AI to write their posts. Didn’t expect to learn about git […]
…Screens of Death. Photos of failures in kiosk-mode always strike me as akin to the wizard being exposed behind his curtain. Yeah, that shiny thing is after all just some Windows PC on a stick. Here are a few that aren't particularly recent, but they're real. Jared S. augurs ill: "Seen in downtown Mountain View, […]
Amateur physicist B.J. is going on vacation, but he likes to plan things right down to the zeptosecond. "Assume the flight accelerates at a constant speed for the first half of the flight, and decelerates at the same rate for the second half. 1) What speed does the plane need to reach to have that […]
“Check out Visual Studio optimizing their rating system to only include the ratings used,” shared Fiorenzo R. Imagine the performance gain! “This sounds about right,” says Colin A. “Wow! Must snap up some sweet Anker kit with this amazing offer; but less than four days to go!” exclaims Dave L., who then goes […]
No obvious pattern fell out of last week's submissions for Error'd, but I did especially like Caleb Su's example. Michael R. , apparently still job hunting, reports "I have signed up to outlier.ai to make some $$$ on the side. No instructions necessary." Peter G. repeats a recurring theme of lost packages, saying "(Insert […]
The most common type of submission Error’d receives are simple, stupid, data problems on Amazon. The text doesn’t match the image, the pricing is goofy, or some other mixup that are just bound to happen with a database of zillions of products uploaded by a plethora of barely-literate mountain village drop-shippers. So I don’t usually […]
…to know which way the wind blows. This week, it’s been an ill one. Two of our readers sent us references to the BBC’s reports on unusual weather in Bristol – one from the web, and one mobile. Maybe that will help you deduce the source of this error. Frist, Graham F. shared a screenshot […]