I have been surprised to find that some people who are in technology
fields don’t have a clear grasp on the difference between RAM and “disk” storage.
Or perhaps more accurately these days, “Direct Access Storage Devices.” I’ve
eventually become accustomed to it from ordinary folks, but
PC World?
An anonymous reader sent in this one, explaining
“Yep. According to PC World Starfield will require 125
GB of available RAM so you’ll need at least 128 GB or more RAM installed to play.
The Steam page correctly list the item as Storage: 125 GB available space
so this is completely on PC World. To add insult to injury the post is titled
Bethesda’s Starfield PC system requirements: An SSD is mandatory
so you’d expect at the very least to get the storage requirements right.
Rush to print, trip and fall flat on your face. Thanks for the WTF, PC World!”
Child prodigy
Colin C.
puzzled
“I’m really not sure how I created files seven years before I was born; maybe I’m just precocious.”
Poet
Paweł Szymański lamented that he can’t squeeze
the word about into a haiku, reciting
“Haiku writers hate
When people use this one
Very simple trick”
Time Lord
Neil G.
declares AWS knows how to do chronological sorting.
“This really made it easy to find the Load Balancer that got created yesterday…”
Convalescing
Adam R. thinks that bad math is an insurance WTF.
“My bill said I owed $146.66 as of 7/5, with one insurance
claim still pending. Now as I go to pay the bill, they
claim I owe $238.77, but clearly something doesn’t add up
here: the math still says I should owe $146.66 from these
numbers. I *presume* this is because the insurance claim
settled during the interim, and they updated the balance,
but not the charges.” I can tell you, bad math is not
even the beginning of insurance WTFs.
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