I’m not convinced a parent who didn’t notice the pram rolling towards a moving train, and who hadn’t strapped the child in, is going to notice an extra sign… Hopefully this lucky escape will be enough of a wake-up call :/.

It’s like the number of kids who get left in the back of cars (most dangerously in hot climates) led to dashboard warnings to check the rear seats. These work for a week or so, and then also just become wallpaper.

I hope they’ve been taken outside the environment now.

Shame they don’t have anything to like, you know, build them a home out of.

It’s Canadian is what it is. Explains all.

Finally a gif with sound (in my head).

No, tiny bits of hidden software. It’s not a very efficient way of distributing code, but it was fun.

I’m a software engineer and I built a trebuchet during lockdown to launch Easter eggs at the neighbours’ gardens since we weren’t allowed to go see them.

I wandered in here from computer science, and I’m going back to solving parallel cache coherency for a bit of light relief.

And likely Crowdstrike will have their own insurance. At the end of the day, it’s just gamblers sitting at the table, moving the chips around.

Big employer in the uk back in the day would fine your boss if you parked outside the lines. People were pretty attentive to how they parked…

Lelete dater.

That one is … far away.

I learnt that when I was about 7 after shouting it at my dad in front of a crowd of people.

This Antex is about 30 years old, has a heat resistant cap and is still going strong :) Don’t know what they’re like these days but I’d recommend on my experience.

Saddameurysm.

What part of the rest of the world are you in?

Looks like OP tried to switch broadband providers half way through posting…

Quite right. XBumpick 2.3 was only ever released in the US, after ‘the incident’ back in 1996.

Yeah, backups are useless unless you restore and test regularly. But it’s one more step of admin that few people / organisations do sadly.