Post #1979243
2026-04-20 16:28 UTC
@camertron in tech, there's an xkcd for this concept: https://xkcd.com/303/
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@macronencer@mastodon.scot 2026-04-21 17:15
@draNgNon @camertron Thank you, I came here to post this but you were here before me :) I actually have the xkcd tee shirt for this one. "I'm not slacking off, my code's compiling." Anecdote time. The PDP11-45 at my university took ages to compile my Pascal code, and we were accessing it via a terminal emulator running on BBC micros. I cloned the emulator and tweaked it to play the Hallelujah Chorus when an asterisk appeared (end of compilation) so I could hear it from across the room.