#inefficiency — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #inefficiency, aggregated by home.social.
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Oh, joy! Yet another tool claiming to "streamline" your PR workflow. 🚀 Because clearly, what every developer needs is more #software to tell them they need software to tell them they need to merge their software. 🙄 #InceptionOfInefficiency
https://haystackeditor.com/ #PRworkflow #tools #inefficiency #developerhumor #technews #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 -
🚨 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 […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/21/trendwatching-moogle-gaps-serves-up-misdirections-instead-of-shortest-routes-and-thats-the-point/ -
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 […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/21/trendwatching-moogle-gaps-serves-up-misdirections-instead-of-shortest-routes-and-thats-the-point/ -
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 […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/21/trendwatching-moogle-gaps-serves-up-misdirections-instead-of-shortest-routes-and-thats-the-point/ -
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 […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/21/trendwatching-moogle-gaps-serves-up-misdirections-instead-of-shortest-routes-and-thats-the-point/ -
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 MagazineMore about this quote: wist.info/mccarthy-eugene/5915…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #eugenemccarthy #bureaucracy #efficiency #executivepower #friction #government #inefficiency #liberty #operations #power #redtape
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🥳 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 -
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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🚨 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 -
Best Video Essay (new category!): In Defense of Inefficiency by Zoe Bee
We live in a world that celebrates efficiency as a great virtue, especially in our jobs but also in how we spend our free time. I’ve often felt in the past that every moment of idle dreaming or hanging around or doing nothing is “wasted time” that could’ve been spent on a chore, a hobby, a creative project, or organizing an event. Yet as Zoe Bee argues eloquently in this video essay, there are many things that are easily lost when we focus on efficiency too much. In fact, in many cases focusing on efficiency is an absurd concept (for example, how do you enjoy a piece of music more efficiently?) As a teacher, Zoe takes a lot of examples of how ‘efficiency’ can cause harm from education, but the lessons themselves are certainly applicable in a far wider context.
I can highly recommend watching the full 1h video, since all the tangents and detours are a nice illustration of how inefficiency can improve communication. But there is also a 5 minute version that is more efficient but worse in precisely the ways that the video explains. And if you can’t get enough, there are plenty of other great videos on Zoe’s channel.
As a little bonus, I also want to recommend two more books that are both celebrations of inefficiency in their own right: Momo by Michael Ende (better known for writing The Neverending Story) which is about a young girl with the superpower of being very good at listening who fights mysterious time-stealing creatures with antimemetic powers, and Nothing To Grasp by Joan Tollifson which is a non-fiction book about non-dual insight that just celebrates everything that is, exactly how it is.
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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, 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, 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, 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 -
RL is more information inefficient than you thought
https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/bits-per-sample
#HackerNews #RL #information #inefficiency #AI #research #machinelearning #dataanalysis
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🤔 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 -
🤔 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 -
🤔 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 -
🤔 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 -
🥳🤦♂️ "Save tokens with images!" they said, as if trading a 50x larger file is the genius move we've all been waiting for. Welcome to 2025, where we solve inefficiencies by multiplying problems. 😂🚀
https://pagewatch.ai/blog/post/llm-text-as-image-tokens/ #SaveTokens #Images #Inefficiency #TechHumor #HackerNews #ngated -
DOGE’s “Efficiency” Theater Comes Full Circle: Trump Admin Scrambles To Rehire The Very Workers Musk Fired To “Save Money”
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"A Novice Defense Secretary Lectures the Brass on What It Takes to Win. Senior officers, summoned from around the world, are entrusted to manage complex military operations. They got a lecture on fitness and grooming standards":
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/us/politics/hegseth-military-officers.html
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"5 Takeaways From Trump’s Address to Generals and Admirals":
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/us/politics/trump-speech-military-takeaways.html
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Ah, the age-old art of turning CPUs into overworked, overheated existentialists 🤖💥. Join us on a merry jaunt through the enchanted land of #inefficiency, where profiling and #debugging are just wizard spells to summon more #chaos. Remember, kids, real pros know that maximizing waste is the pinnacle of tech prowess! 🎩✨
https://mostlynerdless.de/blog/2025/09/19/how-to-waste-cpu-like-a-professional/ #CPUoverload #techhumor #existentialism #HackerNews #ngated -
Matches my experience in large companies 😅:
“The Enterprise Experience”, ‘Church Of Turing’ (https://churchofturing.github.io/the-enterprise-experience.html).
Via HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44932980
On Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/s/i8eoxa/enterprise_experience
#Work #Rants #Culture #Inefficiency #CorporateLife #EnterpriseSoftware
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A quotation from Wendell Berry
It is impossible to think that constitutional government can be suspended in a time of danger, in deference to the greater “efficiency” of centralized power, and then easily or quickly restored. Efficiency may be a political virtue, but only if strictly limited. Our Constitution, by its separation of powers and its system of checks and balances, acts as a restraint upon efficiency by denying exclusive power to any branch of government. The logic of governmental efficiency, unchecked, runs straight on, not only to dictatorship, but also to torture, assassination, and other abominations.
Wendell Berry (b. 1934) American farmer, educator, poet, conservationist
Essay (2003-02-09), “A Citizen’s Response,” sec. 3, Citizenship Papers (2003)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/berry-wendell/17687/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #wendellberry #checksandbalances #Constitution #efficiency #government #inefficiency #power #separationofpowers #tyranny
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~ DOGE wasted $21.7 billion in taxpayer funds, according to a new US Senate committee report.
The biggest waste was in paying federal employees to stay home from work.
#USA #USGov #USpol #trump #DOGE #inefficiency #DOGI
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https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/doge-federal-employees-reductions-in-force-rif-rcna222536
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~ DOGE wasted $21.7 billion in taxpayer funds, according to a new US Senate committee report.
The biggest waste was in paying federal employees to stay home from work.
#USA #USGov #USpol #trump #DOGE #inefficiency #DOGI
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https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/doge-federal-employees-reductions-in-force-rif-rcna222536
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~ DOGE wasted $21.7 billion in taxpayer funds, according to a new US Senate committee report.
The biggest waste was in paying federal employees to stay home from work.
#USA #USGov #USpol #trump #DOGE #inefficiency #DOGI
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https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/doge-federal-employees-reductions-in-force-rif-rcna222536
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~ DOGE wasted $21.7 billion in taxpayer funds, according to a new US Senate committee report.
The biggest waste was in paying federal employees to stay home from work.
#USA #USGov #USpol #trump #DOGE #inefficiency #DOGI
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https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/doge-federal-employees-reductions-in-force-rif-rcna222536
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~ DOGE wasted $21.7 billion in taxpayer funds, according to a new US Senate committee report.
The biggest waste was in paying federal employees to stay home from work.
#USA #USGov #USpol #trump #DOGE #inefficiency #DOGI
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https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/doge-federal-employees-reductions-in-force-rif-rcna222536
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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 MonopoliesSourcing, notes: wist.info/roosevelt-franklin-d…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #franklinroosevelt #franklindroosevelt #franklindelanoroosevelt #competition #economicinjustice #economicinterests #freeenterprise #freemarket #inefficiency #monopoly #regulation
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Global, regional, and national #HealthCare #inefficiency and associated factors in 201 countries, 1995–2022: a stochastic frontier meta-analysis for the #GlobalBurdenOfDiseaseStudy 2023
"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
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Global, regional, and national #HealthCare #inefficiency and associated factors in 201 countries, 1995–2022: a stochastic frontier meta-analysis for the #GlobalBurdenOfDiseaseStudy 2023
"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
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Ah, Gemini API's "batch mode" – because apparently, processing singularly was just too mainstream for Google's hipster #developers. 🚀🤓 Now you can experience #inefficiency *en masse* while pretending to be productive! 🎉🤖
https://developers.googleblog.com/en/scale-your-ai-workloads-batch-mode-gemini-api/ #GeminiAPI #batchmode #Google #techhumor #productivity #HackerNews #ngated -
Ah, the majestic "vibe code"—an enigma wrapped in a riddle and buried in a landfill of #spaghetti #syntax. 🤖 Apparently, reviewing it is like trying to tango in a minefield, so just #vibe with the #inefficiency and feel superior! 😂
https://monadical.com/posts/vibe-code-how-to-stay-in-control.html #code #tech #humor #coding #challenges #HackerNews #ngated -
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 -
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
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🧐Imho #WHO (& #UN) are afflicted by a #chronic #malaise of gross #inefficiency in #critical #treaty #enactment.
WHO adopts #landmark #pandemic #agreement
"after more than 3 years of negotiations sparked by shock of #Covid19.. Countries still hv to thrash out details of agreement's Pathogen Access & Benefit-Sharing (PABS) mechanism. Once #PABS system is finalised, e agreement can then be #ratified by members, with 60 #ratifications required for treaty to enter into force"
https://www.bangkokpost.com/world/3030332/who-adopts-landmark-pandemic-agreement -
🧐Imho #WHO (& #UN) are afflicted by a #chronic #malaise of gross #inefficiency in #critical #treaty #enactment.
WHO adopts #landmark #pandemic #agreement
"after more than 3 years of negotiations sparked by shock of #Covid19.. Countries still hv to thrash out details of agreement's Pathogen Access & Benefit-Sharing (PABS) mechanism. Once #PABS system is finalised, e agreement can then be #ratified by members, with 60 #ratifications required for treaty to enter into force"
https://www.bangkokpost.com/world/3030332/who-adopts-landmark-pandemic-agreement