For technical issues I’ve come to the conclusion that if there are no other people asking the same question, then I need to re-think my approach, because I’m probably doing something silly.

That’s even more infuriating than when you used Google to find a thread where someone asks the exact question you have, and there is only one response and it’s someone saying “use Google”.

I thought they did have a stop button. I recall a video James May made of a Waymo that had one. I could be wrong. But, the article doesn’t say anything about whether one was present and if the occupants tried it.

Edit: I just got home and rewatched the video. No, there’s no emergency stop button. There is a “pull over” button on the passenger touchscreen console and the app, but that’s about it. A bit concerning!

Public institutions would be better using something like Mastodon for announcements. They’d have the option to retain full control over their instance and citizens wouldn’t need an account to access it.

If you tried to design something to intentionally hook cables it would still fail more than that happens. Infuriating.

That was part of its charm for me. Red Dwarf was the same; the lack of budget somehow made it funnier.

Depressingly, I suspect an executive would consider me far less productive because I only did 5 lines of change and the junior dev would have done thousands…

Probably the very same execs that use phrases like “Do more with less!” and then completely miss the point when true efficiency stares them in the face.

Imagine if, in 2019, you got a flash-forward to that statement. I wonder what terrors your imagination would conjour up, and whether they’d be better or worse than reality.