Okay yes. This was what I thought it was. My second grade teacher read this to us once, and the thing about drawing the drapes has stuck with me for most of my life. She's a complete fuckup who ruins everything, but she's good at baking pies so that makes it okay.

They shoulda said that more gooder

Even excluding cosmic rays and other random bit flips, it's still not just "you" unless you designed the whole thing starting with sand and copper (and high quality only, none of this Ea-Nasir stuff) and wrote all the software starting from machine code.

Really what a computer does is the composition of what's it's told to do by you, the devs of the app you're using, the devs of the compiler that compiled the app, the devs of OS that compiler ran on..., the devs of the OS the app is running on, the devs of the compiler of that OS, the devs of the OS that OS compiler ran on..., ...The UEFI devs (and their compilers, etc.), the motherboard manufacturer and their design software..., the RAM manufacturer..., the CPU designer..., GPU..., etc.

That's not true there is stuff like race conditions, galactic which energy beams, broken cpus, computational bit flips, ram bit flips and stuff like row hammer, just as an example list, where the computer is very likely to not do what you said and not do what you meant

Edit: depending what you do even https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_epsilon could be a problem

Except when I use them. Then there are error messages for the error messages that no one has seen before because I tried to print something.

There's certainly going to be a lot of interpretations of "blow" and, subsequently, taking frustrated statements of "fuck" literally

Damn you too? I was like 8 years old thinking to myself, here we have an asshole, who is clearly inept, and yet her reputation never suffers.

It's an evergreen blog post, but it hits different in the age of code generating agents. Less of a commiseration in the eccentricities of writing code, more nostalgic for the before times. That could just be forced usage of those agents at work talking though

I feel this a lot, especially as someone who enjoys computers and such. Why does my phone not do what I tell it to? Why did we as a society choose that Google should have more say than an end user? It sucks. The one that gets me the most is that you'll try to do things sometimes and it has the audacity to say things are not allowed by the admin. FUCKER I OWN YOUUUUU, WHY AM I NOT THE ADMIN???

The plural of Surgeon General is Surgeons General.

The past tense of Surgeons General is Surgeoned General.

"General" is descriptive, not like a military title, and therefore isn't pluralized. "Bedelia" isn't indicative of the status of the Amelia, it's just her surname. Pluralizing Amelia instead of Bedelia implies there's another kind of Amelia she could be, which sadly isn't the case. She's doomed to be that dumb forever.