#inefficiency — Public Fediverse posts

🚨 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

🚨 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

🚨 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

🚨 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

🚨 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

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 […]

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

🥳 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

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

🚨 Breaking: Microsoft bravely sets a new world record for #inefficiency with Windows 11, a groundbreaking achievement in the art of doing less with more. 🤦‍♂️ Meanwhile, users are left reminiscing fondly about the blistering speed of dial-up internet. 🐢💨
https://www.eteknix.com/microsoft-may-have-created-the-slowest-windows-in-25-years-with-windows-11/ #MicrosoftWindows11 #TechNews #DialUpNostalgia #BreakingNews #HackerNews #ngated

Ah, the cutting-edge revelations of 2023: apparently, real life is the ultimate laggy browser waiting on JavaScript and cookies 🍪 to process its own #inefficiency 🤦‍♂️. Really makes you wonder if our neurons are just executing outdated scripts from Netscape Navigator. 🤓
https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/bits-per-sample #cuttingedge2023 #realworld #techhumor #outdatedscripts #javascriptcookies #HackerNews #ngated

🤔 Ah, yes, the genius move from #HP and Dell—a grand display of corporate wizardry where they graciously provide you with a Ferrari engine and then disable the turbo. 🚗✨ Who needs efficient video decoding when you can have that sweet, sweet CPU power doing... absolutely nothing? 🙃
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/11/hp-and-dell-disable-hevc-support-built-into-their-laptops-cpus/ #corporatewizardry #Dell #techfail #videoencoding #inefficiency #HackerNews #ngated

🐍🎉 "Boa: #Rust meets #JavaScript in the least thrilling #crossover since your last family reunion. Because clearly, we needed yet another way to not use JavaScript efficiently. 🙃"
https://github.com/boa-dev/boa #Boa #familyreunion #inefficiency #HackerNews #ngated

DOGE’s “Efficiency” Theater Comes Full Circle: Trump Admin Scrambles To Rehire The Very Workers Musk Fired To “Save Money”

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2025/10/01/doges-efficiency-theater-comes-full-circle-trump-admin-scrambles-to-rehire-the-very-workers-musk-fired-to-save-money/

A quotation from Franklin Roosevelt

   Once it is realized that business monopoly in America paralyzes the system of free enterprise on which it is grafted, and is as fatal to those who manipulate it as to the people who suffer beneath its impositions, action by the government to eliminate these artificial restraints will be welcomed by industry throughout the nation.
   For idle factories and idle workers profit no man.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) American lawyer, politician, statesman, US President (1933-1945)
Message (1938-04-29) to Congress, On Curbing Monopolies

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/roosevelt-franklin-d…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #franklinroosevelt #franklindroosevelt #franklindelanoroosevelt #competition #economicinjustice #economicinterests #freeenterprise #freemarket #inefficiency #monopoly #regulation

Global, regional, and national #HealthCare #inefficiency and associated factors in 201 countries, 1995–2022: a stochastic frontier meta-analysis for the #GlobalBurdenOfDiseaseStudy 2023

#TheLancetGlobalHealth

"Expanding government-provided health-care coverage would decrease the inefficiency of the health-care system. Countries should also focus on strengthening #democracy, building #infrastructure, and increasing the use of, and access to, #PreventiveCare."

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(25)00178-0/fulltext

Ah yes, *another* tech solution nobody asked for: "Ovld – Now You Too Can Experience the Joy of Overcomplexifying #Python Function Calls!" 🙄 Because what Python *really* needed was more feature-bloat under the guise of 'efficiency' 🚀.
https://github.com/breuleux/ovld #techsolutions #featurebloat #overcomplexity #inefficiency #programminghumor #HackerNews #ngated

A quotation from Will Rogers

Talk of opening seven thousand closed banks. That will put over a half-million bank vice-presidents back on the payroll.

Will Rogers (1879-1935) American humorist
Column (1933-09-25), “Daily Telegram”

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/rogers-will/76816/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #willrogers #inefficiency #banks #bigbusiness ??#bureaucracy #management #vicepresident

The first 100 days of the current administration is marked by deliberate incompetence: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/donald-trump-100-days-to-break-the-government-doge-musk/

#motherjones #47 #doge #elonmusk #stupidity #authoritarianism #inefficiency #waste #timmurphy #first100days

Bloody hell, this is awful - who would have guessed that US studios live in the past and don't pay in the present? I suppose this actor could endorse the cheques to his American agent and the agent could cash them and pay him https://www.irishtimes.com/your-money/2024/05/30/the-sad-story-of-the-actor-with-a-drawer-full-of-cheques-he-just-cant-cash/
#UScheques #UScheck #globalisation
#residuals #PTSB #inefficiency #profitharvesting