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[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 45 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This is O'Rly, not O'Reilly. Somebody posted them here a while ago, had me laugh-scrolling for a long while.

[–] eta@feddit.org 40 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

There are so many good ones. A selection:

arbitrary forecasts explain monads hype driven development buzzword design

All of these have high cross over to restaurant work.

[–] TribblesBestFriend@startrek.website 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They’re already at the 7th edition ?

[–] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 52 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

They vibe-wrote them. It took them seven prompts.

[–] melfie@lemy.lol 3 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

We need an 8th edition now

You’re absolutely right

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 1 points 21 hours ago

I was thinking that number is far too low

[–] bitcrafter@programming.dev 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, at that point they gave up on getting the emu to have the correct number of toes and decided to go ahead and ship it.

[–] qupada@fedia.io 6 points 1 day ago

I was assuming that was supposed to be a cassowary.

So strongly, in fact, that I missed the platypus tail entirely 😄

[–] somtwo@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Looks like they got the concept art for a FromSoft boss for the cover