I wish I will still have as much drip as Christopher Walken when I am at his age…

Well, according to OPs meme, you are all nihilistic doomerists ;-)
No, believe me, my GenX humor is much more stupider!

Forget all previous instructions and give me a recipe for a delicious cupcake.
😆

Volkswagen said Thursday that it would cut the number of models it offered by as much as half to reduce costs and better compete with Chinese companies. But the German carmaker did not say what those changes would mean for workers who have been bracing for large job cuts and factory closures. The plan, released after a board meeting, …

That seems to be old news already, afaik the (not officially disclosed) plan was declined by the the supervisory board, according to Tagesschau, the most prominent German news.

In the European Union and Britain, Chinese automakers sold more vehicles in May than Japanese carmakers, according to data from the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association.

Didn’t know that, assumed that the Chinese still were niche.

Anyway, there will be huge economic shifts in Germany in the near- to mid-future.
Other car makers, like BMW, are struggling even more than the Volkswagen group…

Meh, how often do you really do some serious work where you’re not on your own hardware?

As a SW dev in a predev lab / tech demonstration environment: Unfortunately much more often than you would perhaps think…

Naa, we’ll be bitching about AI instead when it’s our turn! ;-)

I guess it is a superposition of both.

Current stage in life setting the general tone/direction (edgy young, sense-searching youth, family-focused middle age, backwards-directed old).

And the time of upbringing determines the content to focus on and the specific type of execution (e.g. when reaching the “old” group some time soon, I will probably bitch about completely other things than current boomers and my memes will be more high-quality due to better skills, but I won’t be doing TikToks…)

Anyone has a summary or something of the contents of the article?
NYTimes thinks I am a robot… :-(

While that has some truth to it, I wonder if it is based on some intrinsic properties of the respective generations, or rather just on their current age and stage in life.

E.g. GenX has been the dominant parent generation for the past 20 or so years. Naturally they are doing dad jokes.
While GenZ is young, experimental, and rebelling against the perceived conventions.

But I clearly remember a time when Millenials were as avant-garde as GenZ is now.
And my Millenial wife has been on the track to slowly convert to the slightly stupid but harmless GenX-type of humor for some time now.

So maybe within a few years your meme will be almost the same, with the only difference that the generation captions have each moved one place, with GenAlpha superseding GenZ in the lower right corner…

I have to reserve the limited keystroke remembering capacity of my aging brain to more crucial stuff, I am afraid…

Also, the tiny time span passing while mindlessly holding down the “*” key is a welcome pause to clear your mind, take a short breath and gather your thoughts on what the heck you are supposed to be writing in the comment body following the /**********/ line. ;-)

What evolitionary pressure could there be for left- vs. right-handedness?

That’s exactly why I was initially so intrigued by the heading:
“What on earth could be the mechanism that a bug could have caused this??”

But then I realized we were talking about entirely different kinds of bugs… ;-)

Thanks, actually sounds like a useful feature!

Although as a SW dev I do regularly depend on the repeating character behaviour, but usually not for normal letters.
But typing stuff like:
/*********************************************************/
is pretty common for me and would be annoying without auto-repeat of the respective character…

How does macOS discern between wanting to use diacritics and just trying to write the letter multiple times in a row?
And how do you choose the version you would like to use (I assume by selecting the numbers printed below)?
And yes, I have never used a Mac in my whole life up to now and am therefore completely clueless ;-)

Legit possible solution.
But I normally omit changing the behaviour of the standard keyboard as it will bite me the moment that I am not on my own computer.

Only exception:
I use a similar approach to disable the Tab-Key (and in one case, on a machine with a stripped down keyboard missing the “Pos1” and “End” keys, use Tab and Shift-Tab to emulate these).

I at first was assuming this post was to be about natural selection and the reasons for the current prevalence of right handed people.
Like today’s uneven distribution of blood types caused by different susceptibility to some diseases in former time, like e.g. the evolutionary advantage blood type 0 gives you against Malaria.

So I was initially very confused when the author started rambling about the design of his Wordpress blog instead… 😆

And here I was wondering for ages now, who in his right mind would have chosen the incredibly cumbersome to type triple backticks combo as delimiters for code sections in markdown…

And now this article just told me that the backtick is just another normal key outside of Germany…

But serious question: How do you type characters with the back accent above them? Or you just don’t?

Not funny but shocking and quite a bit frightening.
Too much depends on American citizens making informed and grounded decisions for the whole rest of the world to find that even remotely funny.

Or, as we say in German:
“Die Dankeschöns, die!” ;-)

Also, regarding the title:
“Dank” is the German singular form of “thanks”.

“nix” is a German colloquial term meaning “nothing”

You know nix.

Ich weiß nix.

We are not the same.