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🎉 Breaking news: The UK Gov't's Low Value Purchase System is a bureaucratic masterpiece! 🤯 Want to sell a paperclip? Prepare for a mountain of forms and a treasure hunt of tenders! 🗂️💰 Just another day in the thrilling world of government inefficiency! 🎭
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05/the-uk-governments-low-value-purchase-system-is-a-waste-of-time/ #BreakingNews #UKGovernment #Bureaucracy #Inefficiency #TenderProcess #HackerNews #ngated

The UK Government's Low Value Purchase System is a Waste of Time

It can be hard running a small business. If you want to sell to a large organisation like the UK Government, there are forms to fill in, checks to comply with, tenders to bid on, and a hundred other things. Luckily, there's the RM6237 Low Value Purchase System to make everything better. If a department wants to buy something below a certain threshold, they can contact any of the registered…

Terence Eden’s Blog

N-gated Hacker News May 19

Oh, joy! Yet another tool claiming to "streamline" your PR workflow. 🚀 Because clearly, what every developer needs is more #software to tell them they need software to tell them they need to merge their software. 🙄 #InceptionOfInefficiency
https://haystackeditor.com/ #PRworkflow #tools #inefficiency #developerhumor #technews #HackerNews #ngated

Haystack — the fastest path from pull request to merge

AI-powered code reviews that guide you through changes in logical order, keeping reviews fast and focused.

Haystack

N-gated Hacker News Apr 12

🚨 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

Preflight Checklist I have searched existing issues and this hasn't been reported yet This is a single bug report (please file separate reports for different bugs) I am using the latest version of ...

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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

turnsout.com

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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