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🚨 BREAKING NEWS: The latest gadget for tech masochists – the "Pro Max 5x" – guzzles your data like a toddler with a juice box. 🍹 1.5 hours of "moderate usage" later, you're left pondering if "Pro Max" is short for "Professional Maximum #Inefficiency." 🙄
https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/45756 #technews #gadgets #datausage #productreview #breakingnews #HackerNews #ngated

[BUG] Pro Max 5x Quota Exhausted in 1.5 Hours Despite Moderate Usage · Issue #45756 · anthropics/claude-code

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blog.TO Apr 10

Ex-Toronto Raptor DeMar DeRozan claps back at claim teams were better without him
When you're a professional basketball star playing in front of thousands of fans every other night, not everyone is going to be a fan of your game.Former Toronto Raptors star DeMar DeRozan is having a difficult season with the last‑place Sacramento Kings, and a podcaster has called him out for inefficiency, claiming...
https://www.blogto.com/sports_play/2026/04/ex-toronto-raptors-demar-derozan-claim-teams-better/

ResearchBuzz: Firehose Mar 21

TrendWatching: Moogle Gaps serves up misdirections instead of shortest routes — and that’s the point. “Whipped up by two Australian ex-Droga5 creatives, Paul Meates and Henry Kimber, Moogle Gaps is an anti-wayfinder. Users input their navigational query as they normally would, but instead of the most efficient route from A to B, the app offers misdirections — or as its builders put it, ‘a […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/21/trendwatching-moogle-gaps-serves-up-misdirections-instead-of-shortest-routes-and-thats-the-point/

TrendWatching: Moogle Gaps serves up misdirections instead of shortest routes — and that’s the point

ResearchBuzz: Firehose

CBC Manitoba Mar 16

Estimated wait times at Winnipeg emergency departments 'quite inaccurate' at times: memo
The system behind the emergency department wait times Winnipeggers see online had multiple flaws that made waits sometimes lower than they should, an internal memo shows.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/manitoba-er-wait-time-board-estimates-inaccurate-9.7129014?cmp=rss

WIST Quotations Mar 2

A quotation from Eugene McCarthy

The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.

Eugene McCarthy (1916-2005) American politician, poet, activist
Quoted (1979-02-12), “People: On the Record” section, Time Magazine

More about this quote: wist.info/mccarthy-eugene/5915…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #eugenemccarthy #bureaucracy #efficiency #executivepower #friction #government #inefficiency #liberty #operations #power #redtape

McCarthy, Eugene - Quoted (1979-02-12), "People: On the Record" section, Time Magazine | WIST Quotations

The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty. (Backup Source). See Truman (1959).

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N-gated Hacker News Feb 27

🥳 Ah, the timeless joy of explaining quadtrees to an audience who couldn't care less! 🌳 Why not just spend an afternoon watching paint dry instead? 🎨 It's a hands-on guide to wasting perfectly good processor cycles while pretending to teach efficiency! 🕰️
https://growingswe.com/blog/quadtrees #quadtree #humor #inefficiency #tech #education #programming #HackerNews #ngated

An interactive intro to quadtrees

An interactive exploration of quadtrees. Start with brute-force spatial search, build recursive space partitioning step by step, then use it for point lookups, range queries, nearest-neighbor search, collision detection, and image compression.

Sam Kurth Feb 24

Can I just replace the cord? Why do I need this other stuff? #inefficiency

https://turnsout.com/journal/2026/2/23/that-doesnt-seem-efficient

That Doesn't Seem Efficient — turnsout.com

One of my ISP has decided to grant a bump to the fiber connection from 1 to 3 gigs to make us a “multi-gig city”. So to get this service, they sent me an email and stated I needed to contact and get it done via chat. I figure what’s the worst it can be, some AI nonsense that just upgrades it? Or

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WIST Quotations Feb 16

A quotation from Montesquieu

When the savages of Louisiana want some fruit, they cut down the tree at the base and gather the fruit. That is how a despotic government works.

[Quand les sauvages de la Louisiane veulent avoir du fruit, ils coupent l’arbre au pied, & cueillent le fruit. Voilà le gouvernement despotique.]

Charles-Lewis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755) French political philosopher
Spirit of Laws [The Spirit of the Laws; De l’esprit des lois], Book 5, ch. 13 (5.13) (1748) [tr. Stewart (2018)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montesquieu/82151/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montesquieu #spoils #autocracy #despotism #destruction #devastation #exploitation #inefficiency #pillage #taking #thoughtlessness #tyranny #unsustainability

Montesquieu - Spirit of Laws [The Spirit of the Laws; De l’esprit des lois], Book 5, ch. 13 (5.13) (1748) [tr. Stewart (2018)] | WIST Quotations

When the savages of Louisiana want some fruit, they cut down the tree at the base and gather the fruit. That is how a despotic government works. [Quand les sauvages de la Louisiane veulent avoir du fruit, ils coupent l’arbre au pied, & cueillent le fruit. Voilà le gouvernement despotique.]…

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Stefano Marinelli Feb 9

For years, I watched without understanding why my wife's iPad could sit in standby for weeks and still hold a charge, while mine would drain in two days without even being used. This went on for years - both are 2020 models and lightly used.

A week ago, by chance, I stumbled upon a post from someone mentioning that keeping the Pencil and Magic Keyboard attached, even when not in use, kills the battery in just a few days. I had never made the connection. Over a week ago, I disconnected everything and put the iPad in standby, connected to Wi-Fi, with 78% battery. I just turned it on: 54%.I can only think about how much I’ve needlessly ruined the battery over these six years out of ignorance (or was it inefficiency?).

#IT #BatteryLife #Inefficiency

N-gated Hacker News Jan 10

🚨 Breaking: Microsoft bravely sets a new world record for #inefficiency with Windows 11, a groundbreaking achievement in the art of doing less with more. 🤦‍♂️ Meanwhile, users are left reminiscing fondly about the blistering speed of dial-up internet. 🐢💨
https://www.eteknix.com/microsoft-may-have-created-the-slowest-windows-in-25-years-with-windows-11/ #MicrosoftWindows11 #TechNews #DialUpNostalgia #BreakingNews #HackerNews #ngated

Microsoft May Have Created the Slowest Windows in 25 Years with Windows 11

When it comes to performance, it’s hard to find users who are completely satisfied with Windows 11. Many believe it’s filled with unnecessary features that are difficult to disable. According to a rec

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