The Daily WTF: Curious Perversions in Information Technology

It Figures

by Lyle Seaman in Error'd on 2024-11-29

...or actually, it doesn't. A few fans found figures that just didn't add up. Here they are.

Steven J Pemberton deserves full credit for this finding. "My bank helpfully reminds me when it's time to pay my bill, and normally has no problem getting it right. But this month, the message sent Today 08:02, telling me I had to pay by tomorrow 21-Nov was sent on... 21-Nov. The amount I owed was missing the decimal point. They then apologised for freaking me out, but got that wrong too, by not replacing the placeholder for the amount I really needed to pay. "

11 comments - Last comment @ 2024-12-04

Three Little Nyms

by Lyle Seaman in Error'd on 2024-11-22

"Because 9.975 was just a *little* bit too small," explains our first anonymous helper.

14 comments - Last comment @ 2024-11-25

Tangled Up In Blue

by Lyle Seaman in Error'd on 2024-11-15

...Screens of Death. Photos of failures in kiosk-mode always strike me as akin to the wizard being exposed behind his curtain. Yeah, that shiny thing is after all just some Windows PC on a stick. Here are a few that aren't particularly recent, but they're real.

Jared S. augurs ill: "Seen in downtown Mountain View, CA: In Silicon Valley AI has taken over. There is no past, there is no future, and strangely, even the present is totally buggered. However, you're free to restore the present if you wish."

5 comments - Last comment @ 2024-11-18

Relatively Speaking

by Lyle Seaman in Error'd on 2024-11-08

Amateur physicist B.J. is going on vacation, but he likes to plan things right down to the zeptosecond. "Assume the flight accelerates at a constant speed for the first half of the flight, and decelerates at the same rate for the second half. 1) What speed does the plane need to reach to have that level of time dilation? 2) What is the distance between the airports?"

13 comments - Last comment @ 2024-11-10

Alternative Maths

by Lyle Seaman in Error'd on 2024-11-01

"Check out Visual Studio optimizing their rating system to only include the ratings used," shared Fiorenzo R. Imagine the performance gain!

21 comments - Last comment @ 2024-11-03