Semi-Hemi-Demigod

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 1 month ago

When I need to do stupid tasks like timesheets and emails I unplug. The lack of screen space means I don't get distracted.

When I need to do hard work I dock my system and use my dual 4Ks to maximize visual bandwidth.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 1 month ago

I'm less concerned with them being effective and more concerned they'll fuck up and kick off Kessler Syndrome

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 1 month ago

We can't have pop-up headlights because of pedestrian safety, but you can buy a 5,000 pound vehicle that does 0-60 in three seconds and has a hood level with most people's heads because that's totally safe for pedestrians.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 1 month ago

I don't have any resources but my Volvo has a long, low hood and a heavily padded engine cover

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 1 month ago

You know what, being a dev myself that’s something I’ll try as a hobby project. We’ll see how it work out.

That's what heroes do

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 1 month ago

I could see it being useful if it was an accessory to your phone. Not having to dig my phone out of my pocket to take a picture of something to look it up, or having a push-to-talk badge or pendant would make it more convenient, especially for folks like me who don't wear watches. And with Bluetooth it would have decent battery life.

But the damn thing can't even set a timer.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 1 month ago

Managers realized that the nerds' autism could be exploited for profit

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 1 month ago

Apple has a ton of engineering experience with hinges from their laptop days, and even the old lampshade-style iMac.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 1 month ago

Yeah, you tend to learn from those sort of mistakes

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 1 month ago

I think it has more to do with maintaining a manufacturing base for defense than it is about jobs or the economy.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 1 month ago

Nation-states were a stupid idea to begin with

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 1 month ago

Did the union buster bluster buffalo the buffalo Buffalo buffalo?

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 1 month ago

It's a way to cut headcount without doing layoffs. It's usually followed one or two quarters later by an actual layoff.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 1 month ago

I remember when commercial breaks were the time when you went to the bathroom/got snacks and then ran back and jumped over the couch to get back before the show started again.

But most ads don't work on a conscious level. They're there to make whatever is being advertised seem normal and good, like birds singing in the trees, background noise you associate with good feelings. The point isn't to get people to engage rationally. The point is to elicit positive emotions and associate them with a brand.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 1 month ago

I don't think I'm going to ever buy a car made after 2020. Maybe earlier. None of the new features really appeal to me, and there are a lot of things like this that actively turn me off from wanting a new car.

If they could just give me an electric version of a 1985 VW Golf I'd be happy as a clam. But they want to put me in some lumpy, heavy, clumsy CUV with tracking technology and all the touchscreens and I don't like it.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 1 month ago

They're boosting their sign up numbers by putting porn behind it. I bet it's not even that racy, they just know that humans are motivated by something potentially titillating

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 1 month ago

I love how microchips look like really well-organized Factorio maps

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 1 month ago

I think the reason they're useful for writing code is that there's a third party - the parser or compiler - that checks their work. I've used LLMs to write code as well, and it didn't always get me something that worked but I was easily able to catch the error.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

Intermediate? Nah, junior. They're cheaper after all.

But senior devs do a lot more than output code. Sometimes - like Bill Atkinson's famous -2000 line change to Quickdraw - their jobs involve a lot of complex logic and very little actual code output.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 1 month ago

favored increasing revenue from ads instead of user experience and functionality

That just makes sense. Companies want to make their customers happy, and users aren't Google's customers

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 2 months ago

The Electric Monk was a labour-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder. Dishwashers washed tedious dishes for you, thus saving you the bother of washing them yourself, video recorders watched tedious television for you, thus saving you the bother of looking at it yourself; Electric Monks believed things for you, thus saving you what was becoming an increasingly onerous task, that of believing all the things the world expected you to believe.

Unfortunately this Electric Monk had developed a fault, and had started to believe all kinds of things, more or less at random. It was even beginning to believe things they’d have difficulty believing in Salt Lake City. It had never heard of Salt Lake City, of course. Nor had it ever heard of a quingigillion, which was roughly the number of miles between this valley and the Great Salt Lake of Utah.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 2 months ago

These higher-paid workers used to be promoted to senior management or even executive roles. But since people are working longer than ever, those roles aren't available and people are getting stuck.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 2 months ago

And then programs it to play a nice game of chess

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 2 months ago

He's still got the weight of the heavens, just in his mind.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 2 months ago

I love how marketing people are so abnormal that they need tips on not sounding like a bot.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 2 months ago

I agree that the tech isn't there, but unless we figure out some new physics it's going to be impossible to put enough battery, computing power, and cooling capacity in something the size of sunglasses. So the tech for VR like we really want is at least 20 years away, if not more.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 2 months ago

The US government has always cared more about national security than the privacy of its citizens.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

I've worked for a couple startups and you're absolutely right. If you make a profit you pay taxes on that money, so startups like to spend most of the money they bring in. They also want to show revenue growth, since that's what investors like to see. You grow revenue by getting more paying customers. And you do that by doing what your customers want.

When you go public, your goal is to increase shareholder value. So you do this by reducing costs and finding ways to wring customers out of revenue. You find ways to nickle and dime customers out of revenue so much you develop an entire branch of law devoted to you suing your customers

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 2 months ago

MFW I show up in proper obscure cosplay

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 2 months ago

Also if I made something with "federation" I wouldn't be surprised if a bunch of Trek nerds showed up

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 2 months ago

Mattermost has voice chat now so you can ditch Skype

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 2 months ago

Knowing specific features of a language is one thing, but not being able to even pseudocode a FizzBuzz shows they lack the basic logical problem solving ability that programmers need.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 2 months ago

Light pollution means you don't even need clouds to miss the stars

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 2 months ago

So what? It figured out The Answer, big whoop.

Get back to me when it figures out The Question.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 2 months ago

One of the rules of branding is to choose a unique name to prevent confusion. Half the time I see the X logo I don't know if they're talking about X11 or the website formerly known as Twitter

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 2 months ago

If you've got a problem with Canada gooses you got a problem with me and I suggest you let that one marinate.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 2 months ago

A few years ago I moved from the mountains to the suburbs and I hate it and can't wait to get back.

I miss the stars...

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 2 months ago

When I lived in the boonies I had a house like that. It was on a windy mountain road that was rarely traveled except on Sundays when people would drive their classic cars around. I could sit there with a beer after mowing my lawn and have my own private parade, and walk the couple miles into town no problem.

For work I just had to walk down the hall because shipping my brain through meatspace to push buttons in a different place is stupid.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 2 months ago

I really love being alone so it worked great for me. I hardly left my property and had so much upkeep to perform that I got in great shape.

But if you're a person who likes people and needs human interaction I wouldn't recommend it. Unless you really like Zoom calls.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 2 months ago

This is the best eclipse meme... in the wuhhhld

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 2 months ago

My kids live within easy walking distance of most of their friends, but they don't hang out nearly as much as they want to because there's a stroad between them.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 2 months ago

Pennsylvania tuxedo

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 2 months ago

For me it's comfort. I'd rather deal with being a little cold outside over being too hot inside, especially if I'm only outside for a half hour tops.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 2 months ago

I was just saying in another thread how we live in a corporate feudal state, and Zuckerberg is a tiny lord with terrible fashion and interior decorating sense.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 2 months ago

Nginx also increased in popularity around that time, giving more competition to IIS. Most of the web stacks I've seen recently are running Nginx.

(I'm an HAProxy man myself.)

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 2 months ago

How are we defining a web server? Because to me it's "the thing listening on Port 80 or 443 that responds to HTTP requests."

And, yes, I know they do more than that, but they also do those things quite a bit.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 2 months ago

I've got over 20 years of experience in the field. I've configured both of them as reverse proxies and web servers.

If Nginx is accepting connections on ports 80 and 443, terminating SSL, and responding to HTTP requests, that makes it a web server. Especially if it's responding with static content.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 2 months ago

There is, but since color printers are the ones that were used in counterfeiting most black and white printers don't do that sort of thing. Plus I don't know how you'd encode that much information in black and white without making it visible on the paper.