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bitwaba ,

E-T-C

bitwaba ,

I'd have gone with tar --help

bitwaba ,

I'm always hard when someone talks about Gentoo!

bitwaba ,

Is that before or after you talk about unity not being that bad?

bitwaba ,

That does sound hard!

bitwaba ,

You can easily regulate against that.

bitwaba ,

Sure. That's step two. You gotta do step one first.

bitwaba ,

Leave some for the llama's ass though.

bitwaba ,

"Do I look like I know what a jpeg is?"

bitwaba ,

I remember building my gaming machine in 2008 and put 4GB (2x2) in, then RAM prices tanked 6 months later so I added another 4GB. I remember having lots of conversations where I was like "yeah, 8GB is over kill" but what I didn't expect is that it was such overkill that when I built my next machine in 2012, I still only put 8GB on it.

It wasn't until 2019 that I built a machine and put 16GB in it. I ran on 8GB for over a decade. Pretty impressive for gaming.

bitwaba ,

All windows and Linux versions I've run since 2008 supported 64 bit. The games I was running might not have, but I can't really be held responsible for what they want to write. Also, multitasking has always been a thing, and chrome came out in 2008 as well, so the single task 4GB limitations hasn't really been an issue for a while as far as gaming/regular desktop usage goes(unless, again, the applications you're running aren't written to support 64bit/more than 4GB, which you can't really be held responsible for.)

bitwaba ,

Yeah. Let's let him teach a Finance 101 class.

I'd be interested in the lessons a guy that approved a 40% headcount increase then did layoffs and said "I take full responsibility" can teach anyone.

How's the saying go? Those that can, do. Those that can't, teach.. Go on professor. Schools us. The Investors are listening.

bitwaba ,

Beatings will continue until

bitwaba ,

Google will always be part of FAANG. It's in the name.

But if they fail in AI and their advertising business dries up (which if you listen to earnings calls, is pretty much all anyone is concerned about), then their name won't be stapled to FAANG anymore. It'll just be FAAN. When you run the gamble of having great talent but wasting it, eventually you reach the point where you're no longer a desirable location for the talent in the first place.

bitwaba ,

I prefer pineapple, liquorice, and a dusting of whatever you can scrape from that space between the toilet and the toilet seat.

bitwaba ,

This is how every ISP in the US has acted for the last 2.5 decades. They got their money handout from the government to kickstart broadband country wide (which is why we ended up with oligopolies with things like Cox operating in one county and Comcast operating in another with a little handshake agreement to stay on each other's side of the imaginary line), under the assumption that those ISPs would continue to maintain and grow those networks as the needs increased. So now everyone has broadband and who gives a shit what the advertised speeds are, because at least they're better than dial up.

Then a few years later, it becomes clear that they need to upgrade to keep up with the growing traffic demands from services like YouTube and Netflix, which highlights that 1) they want to charge customers more for something the government paid them to build and that they had advertised to the customers without ever actually delivering in the first place, and 2) they pocketed all the money they were supposed to be using to do incremental upgrades along the way.

So, now they say they don't have money for upgrades, so they need to hike prices so the customers can find the upgrades (which for the customers means they're paying for something they won't even receive until some time in the future), and they start looking for other avenue for money to find this (or just grow revenue on general, cuz capitalism "up and to the right") which is where net neutrality comes in: ISPs turn around and go "hey man we gotta upgrade our network to serve your YouTube and Netflix content, so you should pay for it! You rake in billions. Where's our slice of the pie?!"

And that sounds like a somewhat reasonable argument.... until you realize that their network has already been paid for twice, once by the government, and a second time by the customers. And now they want to charge the companies making money off the Internet users to pay to upgrade it for a 3rd revenue stream. Their justification being "well they're OUR customers! You need to pay US a cut so you can reach them!" (which is not that far off from the same reasoning the mob or drug dealers use if you try to set up on their turf)

They're shitty scummy companies run by shitty scummy people. It's skipping over the principle of the internet: it's a pay-to-get-on service (or if you consider the fact that most internet traffic historically is porn, a pay-to-get-off service. HEY-OH!...).

Paying for consumption is sensible. Like any other service, it takes money to operate it, and the more someone uses, the more it costs to operate. But to charge the upstream providers of there service those customers want to access is just absurd. It's like your home customers paying for electricity, then the electric company trying to charge Black and Decker a cut of their revenue to have toasters on their electric network.

At this point, I think the internet should be treated like any other utility. It suffers from the same infrastructure problems that gas, electricity, water, sewer, and telephone does: building multiple physical infrastructure networks on top of each other isn't sensible if someone is only going to use one of those networks to provide their service. Lots of those services are privatized in the US already, but they're also heavily regulated compared to regular free market industries. I mean... The government practically bought the ISPs out once already when they gave them the money to build the broadband networks. But because we had a giant swing of "big-gubment bad!" they just forked the money over without any strings attached to determine how those companies operated later.

bitwaba ,

"Windows is easy. I just install it and it works. What's so great about Linux?"

"You can customize it however you want"

"Oh yeah that sounds amazing. Okay I installed Linux, how do I make a customized desktop and set of desktop animations to record YouTube videos of so I can show off my uniqueness through my ability to customize?!?!"

"Read this long ass article and try to understand what it says to do"

"Ugh! This was way easier on Windows!"

"No. You've never done this on Windows."

bitwaba ,

This is why being pedantic usually backfires

No shit. You're giving us a master class on it right now.

bitwaba ,

blocked

bitwaba ,

duckdom

I never thought I'd find a duck with a whip attractive, but here we are...

bitwaba ,

Large scale data centers, like the ones that end up in the news for FAANG are ~100 megawatt footprints.

I have no idea where you're getting 3.4 megawatts as the largest data center in the US, but that is wildly undersized.

bitwaba ,

Sweet hat, I like fried chicken to.

Without any additional context, this is the greatest sentence I've ever read.

bitwaba ,

leave half a million in RSUs

I'm not sure if it's intentionally being left out here, but if you have half a million in unvested stock, any competing offer from another FAANG company is likely giving you a stock match, or at least somewhere close to match.

The golden handcuffs aren't as tight as people make them seem.

bitwaba ,

They're below average devs because they compensate with better than average negotiation skills.

bitwaba ,

They eventually will be.

bitwaba ,

"there's nothing wrong with California that a good earthquake wouldn't fix". Heard that one a few times.

bitwaba ,

High chance of product purchase.

bitwaba ,

TL;DR angels are whores.

bitwaba ,

Anything's a baby if you're brave enough?

Amidoinitright?

bitwaba ,

I would, but I'm stuck inside vim accidentally and don't know how to exit

bitwaba ,

Google's operations are absolutely built around the idea of easy rollback. Their products, and the their entire product ecosystem, are not.

bitwaba ,

There's the old adage that "if everything hurts when you poke it your finger is broken"

I feel Iike the correct application of this analogy here is "if everyone you examine is a bastard, you're the bastard."

bitwaba ,

That's reasonable, but you're forgetting the part where the CEOs don't want to be the CEO anymore. They've got billions and want to spend it doing shit like wifi weather balloons or self driving cars. So they look for someone to replace them, and that replacement doesn't have the tenure in the position to say "stop the bullshit, I want good products, not half baked 'revenue generators'".

But they do have an army of MBAs in the CFOs office telling them quarterly ad revenue is down 3% year over year, which means the world is ending, so they need to pump those numbers while everyone cashes out their stock before the rest of the stock holders realize the plan is to leave them now holding the bag for the now worthless-page-of-ads-before-search-results company.

bitwaba ,

Whatever happened to that?

He took all the money he was going to use to do that, put it in a duffelbag with X written on the side, and burned it.

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bitwaba ,

It's not that the clickbait is bringing in $9B, it's that it would cost $9B to moderate it.

bitwaba ,

That's how I got my first girlfriend.

bitwaba ,

yay

bitwaba ,

Use two tildes (~) before and after:

Google: don't be ~~evil~~

Google: don't be evil

bitwaba ,

I don't know, I kind of like the idea of someone deciding their company motto is to not exist at all.

bitwaba ,

"sometimes it's okay to skip class"

bitwaba ,

Across several accounts

I choose to believe those tankies are doing the same, and it's just one tankie you're arguing with. In fact all tankies arguments on Lemmy are just at argument between you and other said tankie dude on new accounts.

bitwaba ,

He was asking for reasons to not use Arch... Installing by hand is (more than)half the fun.

bitwaba , (edited )

It says that in the article

Edit: not really sure why I got downvoted. The whole article is like 20 sentences. This isn't some kind of high brow journalism. The whole thing takes less than a minute to read.

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    bitwaba ,

    Not too long until he ruins that planet too...

    bitwaba ,

    The floor is covered in horse shit. Sounds like Arch to me!

    (I kid, I kid.... I run arch btw)

    bitwaba ,

    I think the free trial is now up to level 70/stormblood.

    bitwaba ,

    And it has for like 15 years.

    bitwaba ,

    Name the 5 greatest rappers of all time

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