The Daily WTF: Curious Perversions in Information Technology

Tangled Up In Blue

by Lyle Seaman in Error'd on 2024-11-15

...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, CA: In Silicon Valley AI has taken over. There is no past, there is no future, and strangely, even the present is totally buggered. However, you're free to restore the present if you wish."

2 comments - Last comment @ 08:08

Relatively Speaking

by Lyle Seaman in Error'd on 2024-11-08

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 level of time dilation? 2) What is the distance between the airports?"

13 comments - Last comment @ 2024-11-10

Alternative Maths

by Lyle Seaman in Error'd on 2024-11-01

"Check out Visual Studio optimizing their rating system to only include the ratings used," shared Fiorenzo R. Imagine the performance gain!

21 comments - Last comment @ 2024-11-03