Ah, he has hayfever. Gottit. Has he tried a dangerous medical procedure to rid himself of it that may bring long term issues yet?... Again?
Old(er) software developer. I don't think this is a good idea at all. But I've had worse. The future is in people, not computers.
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Ah, he has hayfever. Gottit. Has he tried a dangerous medical procedure to rid himself of it that may bring long term issues yet?... Again?
Actually started hyperventilating a little. It's really happening. I thought the D&D set was interesting but didn't participate. I haven't played enough Final Fantasy really want that set. But this... This I am jumping into both feet.
Both those companies involve bubbles.
Don't be so sure. Hate can keep you alive a loooooong time.
For anyone wondering why a slim majority of us decided for Brexit. We need Full Fact. And they need the budget of a small country. Because engagement driven. Social media is so good at its job, and informing you truthfully is not part of it.
It was mine! After struggling to just browse the web with 8gb of ram. Linux Mint was a good match with out of the box wifi support, but would have gone lighter if the distros supported the wifi adapter.
He knows what pervasive means, right? That's marketing now I guess. Assuming they have to market something they're going to force on all its users. God this timeline is terrible.
Never pass up a chance to post this speech.
Well nobody's done it yet. Unless they have and dreams are our alt selves consciousness breaking through.
Ahem, The Ritual (2017) is right there...
Management would rather spend hundreds of thousands on stupid activities, than modest pay rises or extra days leave.
Ah, she wanted to be the only one for miles to film her parasitic influence videos, didn't she?
The 'I'm a smart guy and I though AI was smart. Watch as we prove each other wrong' is the worst genre of non fiction. Something about AI is smart enough, insidious enough to trick people into thinking it's better than employing a junior dev you can yell at.
Technically a Caesar cipher is military-grade encryption. They donât mention *which* military
And Welsh! The divine language according to St Maude and that one Evil Dead movie.
The real problem is why we're having 100+ attendance meetings when they would have never thought of doing something so wasteful pre-covid. 'We want to see you as we discuss productivity and rob you collectively of about 3 weeks of working time'.
We thought we were getting Mr safe and boring in the UK in Starmer. Guess who he threw under the bus? Time will tell, but making all the same mistakes as the previous govt, to court the extreme right, seems to be a bipartisan policy.
This is judt embarrassing. AI tech bros have convinced Starmer they are essential to life, and the son of a toolmaker just wanted help putting his credit card details into Yahoo! auctions.
Do you think another bag for life would help?
Turtles all the way down. Yup, there's always a trade off. But thankfully for me, no lunatic is demanding Full Stack Development that bottoms out at the machine language level!
We've had 'developerless' frameworks for a long time. They've always needed an actual developer to do more than the basics. AI and Vibe Coding is just another low hanging fruit offered as a premium experience by con men.
If only there was a sign nature hates the direction we're going...
But... They can still look in a dictionary? Or an encyclopedia? Or go to the library?
You're old enough to be aware of Apple's shenanigans. But, it is getting harder and harder to buy things for life.
Death... AND cleaning? Wishlisted.
Happy to have the biggest and most amount of trees in our small garden. We get wildlife we should never expect in a developed suburb: woodpeckers, badgers, foxes, hedgehogs, bluejays, so many finches and tits, once even a grouse that looked very, very lost. No, MIL, we don't need to trim them.
Great, now the oceans will be swarming with those bloody turtles. I hope you're happy.
Survivorship bias. There has always been a lot of crap published, but 'old sci fi' is good because noone is trawling through old Wierd Stories. All the good stories were republished again and again. OTOH, The Three Body Problem won a Hugo and it is a dense tome of expository tripe.
We get this at work. People using copilot to transcribe a meeting and NEVER checking its accuracy. How could you? You aren't presented with the transcript to edit until after. So meeting minutes, which are meant to settle arguments now hallucinate fictional characters in attendance.
Oh, are we at the part of the nightmare where people who refuse to watch a video will take the transcript designed to ensure comprehension, and feed it into a black box they can't verify, then assume it will understand as well as a human? You know you don't have to watch the video, right?
Or else with some other acute brain trauma. In fact what's that pea sized tumor that turns people in to dunning krugger assholes? That's AI.
Lupas 2000 was my go to. It could rename using an auto number and folder path. But windows only, and Linux has a built in batch renamer there ALMOST no need to have a better tool... Almost.
I'm not the one complaining, but that's an abusive relationship, right there. I cut them off when they decided to help subvert democracies around the world. But you do you.
Oh, did they finish all the investigations into that mob trying to burn down a hotel? Or are they saying violent protest is the safest way for protestors?
You could just... Not use it and delete your account? There's bound to be an app or plugging that let's you scrape your images before you go.
Well it is made for Adults. Don't know many kids with $100+ burning a hole in their pocket. Enjoy, but don't feel guilty.
Goddamn this makes me feel home sick now that I live in the suburbs.
They voted knowing he was a sexual abuser, a rapist, and a con man, while Clinton may have had some emails on a server, and Harris laughed. Why would they care about other people's kids? This is the pro-life party!
Ooof, got us down to the basic outfit our girlfriends picked out for us.
Intel in 1985 starts manufacturing biblically accurate Angels. 4 years later the Berlin wall falls, and Russia soon says the cold war was a dumb idea and can't we all just be friends?
Hahahahaha⊠Brexit has been a success⊠I can hardly breathe. Can âLordâ Frost get any more ridiculous?
This so bloody stupid. How were the Tories meant to govern if they had forgotten how to, David? After being the majority ruling government since joining the EU, David. You stupid potato sack of skin. Even his tin-eared jingoistic takes are fucking stupid. Section the cunt.
Knowing Trump, he paid some guy for gold leaf, just got acrylic instead, and pocketed the difference. It'll start peeling by the time his term is up.
Oh managing anger has been a theme for us since our kid was 3. He does so well now, and sometimes I feel like we ask a lot from that 6yo brain. And then we hear unprompted from 3 different parents how his friend had a gigantic violent meltdown in the park, and maybe we're doing ok.
Not sure we even played like it was 1992 in 1992, that super scopes would give crooked necks to the still-growing young vertabrea holding them!
Unused, or pre-chewed? Either will tell you a lot about the class.
They don't want more people, they want more people UNDER them. New gods for a new world. It was chilling how Thiel took a long hard think 'if humanity should survive', and then rambled incoherently about he personally could live on. They are all of them the private bunker owners in World War Z.
The 'computers are just magic' feeling amongst the tech illiterate is a double edged sword.
The 'OpenAI deleted all my beloved AI models' complaints lose a little of their sincerity when you realise many used the new model to write the complaint.
Everybody laugh. Roll on snare drum. Spaghettis.
And the uniform is a brown shirt, is it not?
Rather than hiring more staff, or listening to our complaints, my boss made all 14 of us in IT read the one copy of this book (it isn't long). No spoilers but I read it, said 'You're right boss, complaining really does nothing' and resigned shortly after. Several followed suit. Thanks Alex.
People say âyou canât put the genie back in the bottleâ re: technology. But thatâs why the bottle was there in the first place. Someone decided it was bad having the genie running loose, and bottled it.
'Is anybody else's VPN acting up?' x 100
And time. And patience. And patience and time. And so forth. No wonder I don't want to do anything...
I love dropout, but I will never be 'hungie'.
Beautiful.
We need safe routes, but with right wing press and social media reacting to every Lab policy, not reporting the good stuff, stirring riots for clicks, I wouldn't be surprised if they play everything close to the chest for another 4 years. Maybe we'll end up a better country without realising it?
We're all laughing as if we haven't all seen a movie about some guy who hates his job and regrets starting a family only to be magically body swapped in to an animal. This is just a normal Wednesday for the ancient mysterious wishing vase.
Just saw that the state pension age could hit 80, and as scary as it might be to work until then, having seen my retired neighbours loose their damned minds watching tv or mowing grass that doesn't grow if they don't look for work (like charity or family) I'm glad I'm not retiring for a while!
To destroy the industrial evil theft machine, you must become the industrial Greek horse salesman.
So how good is LinkedIn? Well I just spotted the profile of a guy I went to school with. A friend. A guy I hung out with often. And apparently he went to the same university as me, at the same time as me, studying the same course as me. And I never once saw him in lectures or labs... So...
You 'could' browse them for free. But why would you?
As much as I loath this... Do you know what every job vacancy is? A numbers game. You'd be surprised how few applicants actually get through based on annoying hurdles like this. And how many working humans you'll meet that would fail a Turing test once you do get that job. Stay strong folks.
I think that's part of the 'woke' problem is that to a lot of people it means non-white, non-straight, and even non-male. We spend way to much time trying to understand impossible insane standards set by extremists amplified by a social media we've decided is somehow important in daily life.
The best show I'm sure you're NOT meant to enjoy.
That's actually very sweet of you. I'll do it because I collect these things like a nerdy serial killer taking trophies. But you can say you got the word out and whatnot and earn the respect of some teenagers.
Mega Samus? Rock Samus?
Congratulations! That's a good picture, we never got anything as clear. You are in for a treat.
I too dream of electrical insulation walls. Just wall to wall exposed system boards and blinking LEDs. The interior of the Event Horizon's computer system? I think that would be lovely with shifting rgb lights, actually.
How would you even know?! He could be any menace!
After I fixed my then 4yo's toy lawnower with duct tape and twigs, he said 'Good job, Dad! You fixed it. High Five!', and I've never needed any praise from anyone but him. A note from him that says 'dad I luv you' is one of my most treasured possessions. Parents get it.
Not a fan of useless crappy 3d printing, but thinking of the backlash printers get for selling cool articulated models at craft faires, surrounded by folks selling cheap shit manufactured by children, or buying ready mix off the shelf. Really? Your home made donut recipe requires soy flour?
But if those payment processors don't refuse payments for porn (one of the biggest industries), then those evangelical protest groups will stop buying bibles... Or something. Actually makes me wonder how much they skim from religious donations, and is it more than porn?
I still aim to be as cool as this movie.
I can't believe it's been 2 years since my boy started school. 2 years watching him become a smart, literate, emotionally attentive child. And 2 years listening to the laziest able parents (with living grand parents for constant support, if not holidays) whine about how difficult it all is.
God damn, I know you'll have your own worries, but I envy you. That sounds lovely. I'm not going to wish it away but my kid only just got old enough to be dropped off at a class, and I spent the hour reading Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Such a strange, nice experience.
Hated him in the start, loved him by the end. He definitely gave off 'the worst guy you know just made a good point' vibe. Textbook good gundam character development.
'Yah did it didn't you, you sonnofabitch.'
I never considered they may be AI generated. I've done them by hand and it takes soooo long! I feel cheated.
'Sahcks?' always gets me. But then, I do appreciate a good pair of socks.
GDPR at no point says you can't transfer customer data from your old website to the new. It does however have a lot to say about deleting data without a good reason. Like the Online Security Act, there are plenty of people happy to misinterpret the law and choose the easiest path for them.
I think it's really great that ICE are hiring all these illiterate overweight men. They can't be expected to know a word like Immigration (or Customs) but they got the Enforcement down. DEI in action if ever I saw it.
My partner is blind from birth, and works full time at a senior position. Like you, there is no 'maybe they'll get better?' They need to stop wasting money on this nonsense and let people get the best job they can so they can pay taxes for the good of country.
If anybody else has to go through this, BURY them in paper work. List every hardship your sickness or disability puts you through, no mater how trivial it seems to you compared to other problems. My partner was reviewed, we sent back a volume of extra pages. She ended up getting more. Fuck them.
I love games that have drop in tutorials to relearn the game mechanics. The irony here is I can't remember the name of any that do this đ
But there are no b... Oh...
We have such a simple understanding of food that now we have to worry about fibre because some people are replacing their ultra processed diet with another. Conflating upfs with basic healthy macronutrients is why the avg family can never 'just eat healthy'. Healthy diets can't be copyrighted.
'This turns a slow, laborious craft into something more like a creative conversation.' You need two people conduct a 'creative' conversation. This is vile.
I'm picturing something somehow more disturbing than The Mad God
They'll release the AI of equivalent Ms PacMan. And then men the world over will be able to direct their febrile rage towards her because she made one female character NOT a supermodel.
Open notepad.exe Write the word 'Halo' Save and close Double click to play your newly written game.
Another reason I don't think I'll ever retire: my 60+ year old neighbour has spent the best part of the morning mowing his lawn. It is 4x4m patch of grass. It should take 10 minutes. Today it should take 0 minutes because due to the heat, it's not growing at all! The 'garden' is brown!
Leto seems like the kind of guy who would insist on his entourage carry him in on their shoulders in the style of the Akira slide, and then insist he invented it.
Yeah Kev, what did make the Westley Snipes movies so cool? Just rip off Vampire - The Masquerade again and be done with it. Let's not overthink this.
If you can sideload apps, Smart Tube is the way to go. Your youtube account, with no adds, and you can even auto skip non content sections of video like self promotion or sponsors. Once it installs, it'll keep itself updated rather than needing another side load.
I get the concerns of authoritarianism, but really even those are getting drowned out by adult voices complaining they're being asked to take some responsibility and do something adult. I do not care for for these people. If you can't learn how to escape, you deserve your walled garden.
As millenials, we might be the last generation in a while capable riding changes in tech. We've had to learn what generations after (and before) have been given freely. So if this spurs a new generation of savvy thinkers who don't scratch their head when wifi plays up, I'm ok with that too. 6
There are exceptions: BlueSky, some Mastadons. But once greed takes root, everyone suffers. I'm an elder millennial. I can program a VCR just by tinkering. I know how to set up a wifi, why the printer stops working. I don't assume my phone will be connected everywhere. I'm ok using a VPN. 5