Excuse in the 2000s: "Works on my machine." Excuse in the 2010s: "Power users can figure it out." Excuse in the 2020s: "You're just bad at prompting it." It's all the same excuse. - ThreadSky

spavel.bsky.social • 219 days ago

Excuse in the 2000s: "Works on my machine."
Excuse in the 2010s: "Power users can figure it out."
Excuse in the 2020s: "You're just bad at prompting it."

It's all the same excuse.

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codywalton.bsky.social•219 days ago

PEBKAC

jane22.me•219 days ago

Was just about to write that!

(Problem Exist Between Keyboard and Chair for those who don’t know)

jquave.bsky.social•218 days ago

PEBCAK

saeedwkhan.bsky.social•219 days ago

Also 2020s: You’re using the wrong browser.

spavel.bsky.social•219 days ago

Reminded of those "please resize your window to these dimensions" notices on 90s websites

codywalton.bsky.social•219 days ago

time to bring back the badges? ooh, let's start a webring!

danifroom.bsky.social•219 days ago

We were a proper cyber country once

warlockofwires.bsky.social•219 days ago

I flat out Miss web rings

codersblock.com•219 days ago

I love(d) these little badges.

worldofhiglet.bsky.social•219 days ago

Frames! *shudder*

cronin.xxx•219 days ago

Frames? I remember the campaign against 🤣

worldofhiglet.bsky.social•219 days ago

gullringe.se•218 days ago

800x600.

laumac.bsky.social•218 days ago

“Cancelled >>> Cannot Duplicate”

astolarek.bsky.social•218 days ago

Still works on my machine

vhaydn.bsky.social•218 days ago

Wait we‘re no longer using „works on my machine“?

cyaup.bsky.social•219 days ago

I don't get how we've come to believe that doing something difficult doesn't require reading some instructions, or that everyone should be able to run every program in the first place. Maybe some training *should* be required for some things.

roots-n-fifths.bsky.social•219 days ago

Agreed 100%

catverse.bsky.social•218 days ago

Thats deep.

jceaser.bsky.social•218 days ago

None we will be checking in our prompts

ahlvik.se•218 days ago

The same as: git gud

dos-vox.bsky.social•218 days ago

This is where the HCI folks have a conniption

craig.rungie.com•218 days ago

“Works on my machine” still relevant for like 95% of the python code I see people writing.

wilzax.website•219 days ago

PEBKAC = PEBKAC = PEBKAC

radicaleptomy.bsky.social•218 days ago

Haha 🤣
2000s: "I'm the only one that matters & I'm fine."
2010s: "They're the only ones that matter & they're fine."
2020s: "All our input has been scraped and mashed together and we're all now equally fvcked."

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