TacticsConsort

TacticsConsort , 2 days ago

There's not going to be anything 'arbitrary' about those inspections... In a bad way.

TacticsConsort , 5 days ago

They haven't gone overboard with THIS one, because they already went way the fuck overboard years ago and never got back on board

Man I'm gonna have to bite the bullet and make my next machine a linux one

TacticsConsort , 8 days ago

Fun fact, a Tesla spokesperson describing the car's features was talking about how they wanted something on the car that didn't make it to final release and said "But sadly we couldn't get that law changed", which does... kind of imply that they lobbied the regulatory bodies into allowing this piece of shit to exist.

TacticsConsort , 10 days ago

Somehow this is worse than Reddit. Sure Reddit isn't good, but at least Reddit was sane enough to understand concepts like 'working too much is deeply unhealthy both physically and mentally' and 'corporations should not hold absolute power'

TacticsConsort , 21 days ago

Lies, there's no knot in this list

TacticsConsort , 1 month ago

https://yiffit.net/pictrs/image/e98482ae-e84c-45a5-a304-43b12ef1a3ab.png

In the interest of transparency, I don't know if this guy is telling the truth, but it feels very plausible.

TacticsConsort , 1 month ago

What about Firefox? Can't say that I've ever heard of Kagi myself, what makes it so special?

TacticsConsort , 1 month ago

Aside from the usual conundrum of "any way to not starve or become homeless that doesn't involve whoring out to corporations has been removed from society", Tesla... wasn't always like this. Musk didn't found it. Musk didn't build it. He just bought it so he could pretend to be clever.

TacticsConsort , 1 month ago

Holy fuck. I knew that AI did use above average amounts of power, but THIRTY FUCKING PERCENT added to the total emissions of a data giant like Microsoft????? That's absurd! How the hell did they create something so inefficient??

TacticsConsort , 1 month ago

Well... that's probably the most expected thing to ever be expected. It was never a matter of 'if', it was a matter of when.

TacticsConsort , 3 months ago

Gotta say, I'm a blue collar who also builds sensitive machinery, have been doing so for six years now.

There is a VERY sharp divide in how well I consider myself to have mastered certain aspects of the job.

Someone fucking kill me: I'm doing this job for the first time and I'm having to spend ages sifting through our processes that may not be documented in enough detail to do the job perfectly. The job is legally safe because I'm following the rules but god I don't like it. Takes about three times as long as a 'normal' task.

This is fine: I've done the job enough to know how everything goes together, what torque to use where, and if there's anything I should really be doing that isn't in the instructions, or if there's an instruction mismatch.

Mastery: I can not only do the job, I actually understand the explicit purpose and function of everything I'm putting together on an intimate level, and can use my knowledge of that purpose and function to make god damn sure that what I'm putting out is top quality. As probably the least sensitive example of this, this is stuff like knowing that the particular brand of no-mixing-needed paint we use can sometimes develop a sediment layer of its' pigments on the bottom that requires you to mix it with a stick for the paint to perform properly, and that you can tell when the paint is experiencing this issue because it'll be off-colour due to the lack of pigment; and if you don't resolve this issue the paint won't adhere to surfaces correctly and is liable to flake off.

I've been doing this for six years and there are only a handful of aspects of my job I consider myself to have complete mastery over. I don't think I'm the best worker out there, not by a long shot, but to me the idea that you can just lose and replace your workforce when dealing with complicated machinery is about as stupid as the notion that AI can replicate the human mind (It can't unless you abandon the von-neumann computer design).

TacticsConsort , 4 months ago

It takes luck to get an opportunity.

It takes skill to capitalize on that opportunity.

Of all extremely important life lessons to have had firmly pointed out to me, I would never have expected something this grounded and helpful to have come from a minecraft youtuber, but such is life. (Technoblade's three videos on the Potato War)

TacticsConsort , 4 months ago

Honestly, a profoundly weird experience that I had recently... was playing Dragonstrike (released in 1992 I think?) for DOS, for the first time.

Objectively this game is the very definition of 'limited by the technology of its time'. It's a flight sim made before a mouse was a standard computer accessory. I think the biggest in-game sprites are maybe 50 by 50 pixels. It's outstandingly difficult to play.

And yet... compared to modern games, when I'm playing this, it really just hits me over and over again how they made every single decision correctly. The game has an excellent premise. The storytelling may be simple but it's good. The core gameplay loop is fun, and your kit feels like it's complete and well-made, and there's no stupid gacha mechanics or grinding or oversexualized poster girl or daily quests to try and force you to play X amount of hours. It's just for fun. And it IS fun, despite the most unbelievably dated graphics I've ever seen. If this game was made just a few years later, it would've been outstanding.

TacticsConsort , 5 months ago

I'm not an expert but I think this is code that can be used to make text larger and bolder- in other words, STRONG text.

And you can see that the text being modified by those commands, in the middle of them... is 'Password'

So they're literally creating a Strong Password