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To be fair, your explanations have been pretty shit, so

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My crazy wacko conspiracy theory - software development is just a really weird discipline, most of the people in the field are bad at it, and it doesn't have the same amount of standardization and regulation that other engineering fields have, so doing it "right" looks a lot fuzzier than doing, say, civil engineering "right".

The biggest thing though is that most people are bad at it. It's really hard to evaluate high level organizational concepts like waterfall vs. agile when we still have developers arguing over the usefulness of unit tests.

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One of my old laptops had the little nub mouse, but it would rub my finger tips raw if I used it too much, from the grippy texture on it

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pointing devices are overdue for revolution on portables.

Tilt control laptops when

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I feel like that would be hard to implement alongside tilt controls

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"I'll only vote for you if you do this, otherwise I'll vote third party" then they have an incentive to do the thing in order to earn your vote.

Don't they only have an incentive to do the thing if the third party you vote for instead has a chance to beat them? Which will never be the case unless we see voting reform.

zalgotext ,

That seems like an over-simplified or even naive example. Like, a candidate moving their platform has just as much chance to lose 5% of their base as it does picking up those third party votes.

Also, realistically, there isn't one singular thing that people vote third party for - there's lots of little "one things" that particular individuals vote third party over, so it's a more difficult matter than simply "moving closer to those party's positions" - it's going out and figuring out what exact positions those votes left you for and trying to incorporate them piecemeal into your platform, all in a way that maintains your current base, or at least gains you more votes than you lose...

IDK man, I don't see the draw there. Surely it's much easier to find that 5% in centrists or undecided voters, rather than the very principled people that decide to vote third party.

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I won't be blaming the left. I'll be blaming a lack of voting reform, because I don't think voting for a third party is an effective solution.

zalgotext ,

My favorite thing about this is I was using Hangouts for SMS messaging for like two years after they said they'd stop supporting it. I don't know if I just got lucky and someone forgot to turn off a server somewhere or what, but even their inconsistency is inconsistent.

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I like to melt a little pecorino into my glue, the salty sharpness really complements the glue flavor

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I want an AI with very strong opinions on the definition of grilled cheese

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The list of things people haven't cummed in is definitely shorter than the list of things they have

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The term "hallucination" has been used for years in AI/ML academia. I reading about AI hallucinations ten years ago when I was in college. The term was originally coined by researchers and mathematicians, not the snake oil salesman pushing AI today.

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That... isn't what they said

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Yeah you're still missing the point

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The cutscenes in most Zelda games are like 20 seconds long

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Yeah putting cars on trains is the opposite of a solution lol. All that cargo space used on a car probably just ends up driving the cost of the train ticket up for everyone. If you really need a car, rent one at your destination, like you would when flying.

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Best we can do is mass layoffs and a strictly enforced return-to-office policy

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we struggle getting wifi to work

No we don't

zalgotext ,

Yeah it's a good question, and I think the answer should be: it shouldn't. Instead of cracking down on one platform or another, they should be cracking down on the bad behaviors built into those platforms.

But alas, that would require us to elect politicians that understand an ounce of nuance

X automatically changed 'Twitter' to 'X' in domain names, breaking legit URLs (mashable.com)

On Monday, it appears X attempted to encourage users to cease referring to it as Twitter and instead adopt the name X. Some users began noticing that posts viewed via X for iOS were changing any references of "Twitter.com" to "X.com" automatically....

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Not just petty, but incredibly stupid. He bought one of the most recognizable brands on the planet. Everyone knows what a tweet is, a retweet, a quote tweet, hell, hashtags exploded in popularity because of Twitter. An entire community (re: customer base) self-organizing and inventing the concepts of your product for you, organically and for free - it's any business owner's wettest of wet dreams.

And then he threw that all down the drain because he couldn't recognize what was right in front of his face. Either that or he did recognize, but still wanted to relive some tech fantasy he cooked up twenty years ago and can't let go of. Either way, astronomically, gigantically, absolutely unfathomably stupid.

zalgotext ,

You don't harvest someone else's food silly, you find an abandoned or secluded plot that no one's using and plant your own food crops there

Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads (www.lowpass.cc)

Roku is exploring ways to show consumers ads on its TVs even when they are not using its streaming platform: The company has been looking into injecting ads into the video feeds of third-party devices connected to its TVs, according to a recent patent filing.  ...

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"Drink verification can"

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You have a fundamental misunderstanding of unions

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Blockchain (assuming that's what your digital receipts are based on) has no concept of identity. They're anonymous by design. Because of that, the concept of "ownership" doesn't really jive with blockchain, because the concept of "ownership" is inherently based on identity. All blockchain is good for is "yes, this transaction is valid", or "no, this transaction is invalid", where a "transaction" is simply the transfer of digital goods (cryptocurrency, nfts, whatever else) from one crypto wallet to another. Anyone with the keys to a particular crypto wallet can access the contents of said wallet, whether they "own" it or not.

So yes, the receipt cannot be forged. The receipt is next to useless though, because all it says is "here's a record of this valid transaction between these two crypto wallets" - there's no record of real, actual ownership or identification involved. And at the end of the day, bits are bits. You can wave your receipt at me all day and claim your bits are the "real" ones, but they're no different from my bits that I downloaded from Twitter.

zalgotext ,

No they can't. They can cryptographically prove that a particular transaction on the ledger is valid. That transaction is not linked to an identity, by design, so it means absolutely nothing as far as ownership goes.

zalgotext ,

You just proved my point. By itself, blockchain cannot do identification. You need to use something external like private key signatures to do that.

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Linux isn't a company you waffle

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I'll take a swing at this one.

A good interface has well defined inputs and outputs. A lot of interactions with iOS/MacOS software/applications have decently defined inputs via their UIs, but finding the outputs of those UIs can be a Sysiphysian effort. Figuring out where those outputs are beyond the defaults like "downloads from a browser end up in the Downloads folder" or "documents saved in the Pages app end up in the Documents" folder is frequently non-trivial.

It ends up being that the easiest way to find a file is to just open the original app you created it in, and find it in it's history or whatever. To a non-technical person, this creates the impression that the only way to interact with those files is with the original app it was created in, which ends up limiting what people think they can do with their devices, and creates a bit of a walled garden effect.

So I suppose that the blanket statement of "it's not an interface" isn't completely fair. What is fair though, is to say that "it's a bad interface", if the average user can't readily find said interface's output.

zalgotext ,

Yup! I'm not the original commenter, so that's just my interpretation of the original comment you replied to. But it sounds like you get my drift

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They deserve praise and a living wage

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I respect your opinion, but it's one of the stupidest I've ever heard

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Or Keen Games, the makers of Enshrouded (and as far as I know, unrelated to Keen Software House)

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Brute force protection

@memes

zalgotext ,

It doesn't really even protect against online attacks though. Like, if you're going through a list of known accounts, by definition it won't be any of those accounts' first time logging in, right?

And if you're not going through a list of known accounts, good luck getting anywhere with your attack any time this millennia

zalgotext ,

Function naming could use some work then, it's not obvious that isFirstLoginAttempt would be session-aware.

Sorry, I'll stop being pedantic now

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Yeah I remember when TikTok was first getting popular in the States, and some reverse engineer I followed on Twitter posted his findings about it, and it was honestly pretty terrifying. Like unfettered access to your device, regardless of permissions granted, and remote code execution capabilities kind of terrifying. I don't think Spotify does that lmao

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The whole "you have to clean up after yourself" part is a major turnoff for me.

I mean, yeah you're expected to be respectful of the space you're using. If you make a mess, you're expected to clean it up or pay an extra cleaning fee. There's a really easy way around that though - don't make a mess. Seems reasonable to me.

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Every Airbnb I've ever stayed in doesn't make me do any of that. Obviously if the trash gets full, I'd take it out, but it's never been a requirement. The furthest I've ever had to go with bedding/towels is to remove them from the beds and pile them up on the floor. Similar with dishes, I've only ever had to put them in the dishwasher, never wash them myself.

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No Airbnb I've ever stayed in has mandated that the beds be made.

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in a way that you can't see what is going to be installed.

You can look at the Dockerfile and see every single step that goes into building a particular image.

It is also double resource heater.

That's patently false.

And it has many frequent vulnerabilities

Dawg have you ever actually used docker?

zalgotext ,

You might be thinking of the Steam Link

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In most cases, no. You have to use the built in "smart" software to change inputs.

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People are probably making a stink because Roku is pushing out these messages to all their TVs, and people don't typically read mile-long EULAs. When's the last time you read one?

zalgotext ,

No shit that's a different experience, who in this thread is suggesting running fucking Arch on their server farm? Lmao

A lot of Redditors hate the Reddit IPO | Reddit warned us that its users were a risk factor, and boy do they sound excited about shorting its stock. (www.theverge.com)

A lot of Redditors hate the Reddit IPO | Reddit warned us that its users were a risk factor, and boy do they sound excited about shorting its stock.::Reddit seems like a likely candidate for a meme stock. But the actual reaction suggests that r/WallStreetBets isn’t going to send the stock to the moon.

zalgotext ,

I don’t get why, if these people hate Reddit so much and they want the IPO to fail, why are they still using the platform?

Could be several reasons:

  • they're addicted
  • they don't know any alternatives
  • they still like using the platform, they just disagree with the financial/executive decisions being made
  • the alternatives don't have equivalent communities
  • their communities don't want to move to an alternative
  • they like the alternatives even less than Reddit
zalgotext ,

Gisney, pronounced "jizz knee"

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They already made those "redundancy" cuts last year. This last round of layoffs was a bunch of software devs and artists of all experience levels, and basically the entire esports divisions for both Overwatch and CoD.

Also keep in mind, this was a record year for Blizzard, profits wise.

zalgotext ,

Unfortunately I can't find any good articles anymore, but I do remember seeing a lot of people posting about it on Twitter. I believe the earlier layoffs happened right around October of last year though.

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