Technically Labeled, Practically Useless

Description

The image shows a power strip with several adapters and plugs connected, and each visible item has a white label that simply says "PLUG". A caption across the bottom reads "My wife asked me to label the plugs...". The humor is that the instruction was followed literally but not usefully: the labels identify the object class, not the device, purpose, or owner. In software terms, it is the same failure mode as naming every variable `data` or writing documentation that is true but operationally worthless.

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick This is how you get a codebase where every service is named `Service` and every incident is named `Incident`.

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

This is how you get a codebase where every service is named `Service` and every incident is named `Incident`.
@whpho 5y

bruh
@farkasma 5y

why the fuck is one of them going the wrong way
1. @unexpiredmilk 5y
  
  This is his way of Jedi.
@RiedleroD 5y

I accidentally unplugged teachers equipment twice because their stuff was plugged in in the same spot as the school computers and the plugs were unlabeled.
1. @RiedleroD 5y
  
  first time it was straight up the teachers computer while they were working on it, second time, it was only the projector.
Deleted Account 5y

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