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noufalibrahim on Dec 25, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: macOS menu bar app that shows how full the ISS uri...

A bit of a drip if you ask me. The whole thing reeks of stale body fluids. Why don't you piss off and make something useful?

Seriously though, this is a hits the sweet spot of being useless and funny perfectly.

jaennaet on Dec 25, 2024 [–]

Exactly what I was going for.

I'd rather make something funny (but also kind of interesting) than useful any day.

noufalibrahim on Dec 25, 2024 | [–]

I remember David Beazley of SWIG fame saying that he uses this as a metric. Include stuff in the course that makes people say... " I don't know how that's useful but damn that is cool".

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