…and if they can day that with a straight face, give them an Oscar!

(I say this as a kiwi looking from afar)

And it was always temporary!

I’ve had less fall out than I had cases where the screw stuck in the socket and it started unscrewing out of the motherboard that I just gave up on them altogether

Holy crap, is it still working?

I thought nitter died…

Wow, that’s amazing - thanks!

No, not at all - I think it’s hilarious! You’ve completely misread me

I was just curious as to why them (obviously we’ve got to pick on someone)

I’ll never turn down G&T, but more importantly, what did Belgium ever do to you? I’m just curious…

If you’ve got a spinning wheel of ‘who’s gonna get it today’ and Belgium came up, that’s fine, too

Well, I guess it is racist Wednesday for some of the planet currently, even if not my timezone …but why them?

Everything about marketing I absolutely despise. It’s all lies sowing a hunger within that their product will satisfy a need.

A bullet is too good for them!

…or we’ll eat you!

And anyone who knows what they’re doing would have built in decent safeguards - obviously hindsight is a luxury here, but there’s a reason there’s a whole lot of checking that goes on when others are downloading update content over a hostile network… Input validation is a thing, and all that.

They just weren’t very mature on that front, and now we all got to laugh at them but everyone else made similar mistakes along the way, just most of them started their journey decades ago (thinking windows update, etc), so we forget about the learning curve they suffered through building a resilient process

Amen!

Well, there was that time they included a rootkit in their audio CDs (this went on for a couple of years. Wikipedia)

Really? Wow…

…guilty as charged

Holy shit, you’re a madman

The demo scene was always technically amazing

…how did I fail to see that coming?

Respect though - the world needs more eaters

…but isn’t that what we have you for?

Sorry, I’m just being a wanker. It’d be a shame to waste this superpower!

What were the useful scenarios, if you don’t mind?

It’s coming up in an odd way in the mountain biking community, where they talk about min-maxing.

The idea is minimum budget, maximum effect for that expense (what’s the best I can do with the bike I’ve got, rather than going the ‘full midlife crisis’/orthodontist approach of spending $15-25k on what’s basically the latest handbag bike).