@nowster @GossiTheDog It's not Watcom, it's Eliza.

@cgudrian @GossiTheDog In this specific case, the mention of HackerOne shows that the AI user is looking for bug bounty. There's a lot of this sort of thing - mindless pasting of AI slop into vuln reports, in the hope that a handler will mess up and award them a bounty.

@neil "We used to optimise code, back in my day, now, do any of you kids know how to find performance bottlenecks and fix them? Anyone?"

@neil I am treated like a confused old fart when I tell people applications and web sites used to be _faster_, not slower. And applications and web sites used to be distinct things.
"Our web site processes twenty orders a second"
"Wow, I'm sorry, have you tried running it on a yam instead of a potato?"

@georgetakei It's hard to hold down the shift key with one finger and reach all the way over to the L, when you're only typing with one hand.

@georgetakei Americans need to get out more. See how the world lives. Then they might come back and demand something better of their employers and their government. Then they might recognise that socialism and communism are very different things.

@infobeautiful 0666 is a nice black dot, but 6660 is bright orange. Hmmm. Weird, that there are other unexplained black dots in such a sea of orange.

@ColinTheMathmo Sometimes I'll threaten to shoot it just because it's a printer. These things need to learn their place.

@jessie I like to remind my team of the guy I worked with, who died of a heart-attack at his home-office desk while working late one night, when I insist on documentation.
It's a lot more effective than "what if you win the lottery?" and doesn't draw nearly the same level of HR disapproval as "what if you got run over by my bus?"

@ColinTheMathmo Given recent projects of mine, there needs to be a word not quite as mean as "spite", for "I love you and deeply respect your opinion on whether this is possible, but I'm doing it anyway... and there it is, done!"