@PancreasThief
@Nymdok
You mean people would download a random executable file from a discussion forum and run it locally? Crazy times!
(To be fair, it is still safer to do that than browse the web without an adblocker.)
Yes, I will vote for Kamala Harris.
Someone sent me this comic the other day, though, and I confess I've lost my patience. I will vote for Kamala Harris. But in returnโwell, as my relief at Biden dropping out a year too late has settled into disgust, I do have a few words.
For
@the_moviebob
It's 1995, and I'm explaining online that there's no objective standard for art.
It's 2003, and I'm explaining online that there's no objective standard for art.
It's 2016, and I'm explaining online that there's no objective standard for art.
It's 2022, and I'm explaining onli
I am a Christian and I HATE Easter.
I hate the narratives about salvation from sin. I hate substitutionary atonement theories. I hate pretending a dude died for a weekend and then that means I wonโt have to be tortured by his daddy.
I hate Easter and I love Christianity.
I built a house. I wired it myself. The smartest device on the electrical system is a mechanical timer. Do yourself a favor and stay away from "smart" stuff. Best case, you're in the dark until AWS is back up. Worst, you're locked out of your house because a server in China died.
People take light switches for granted because theyโreโwell, pretty boring. But smart switches can let you control an entire houseโs lighting with one tap, whether youโre at the office, on vacation, or in bed for the night.
Might be conservative-coded opinion but it genuinely pains me that these people have equal voting rights to actual political activists and organizers and educated people actively paying attention to politics
Ottawa Police Chief says even if protesters โretreat and go homeโ, theyโll be hunted and punished.
Meaning they have ZERO incentive to leave.
Because cowering wonโt save them.
@PCGamesN
@orthonormalist
In the M1 Tank Platoon manual from MicroProse, back in the '90s they tell the story of how they ended up FOIA'ing the manuals for designing the in-game screens.
@ChopShouter
@MorlockP
I'm going to use an AI image generator that can't get the number of arms/hands right to create a facepalm image. Because two are not enough for this.
@frobnosticus
@othiym23
@MammonMachine
My $0.02: SEO vs. search engine has been a cat and mouse game since forever. But things worked because ad money followed the better engine. Two things broke that: Google taking over most of the search market and becoming its own ad dealer. Incentives changed.
creator of the musket: yeah this thing is great. just donโt miss
guy: what happens if you miss
musket creator: just donโt miss. youโre fucked if you miss
guy: well does it have really good aim
musket creator: no
When a Chinese welder is told to weld something but some of the parts are the wrong size, does he tell his boss?
No. He has been trained since birth with CCP propaganda to be completely subservient, to not think for himself & to never question authority. So he just does his job.
@RahmSJ
@ElamBend
Works the other way too. Try explaining the line "and the papers want to know whose shirts you wear" (David Bowie, Space Oddity) to a 12 year old today.
For me one of the biggest surprises about current generative AI research is that it yields artificial pseudo-intellectuals: programs that, given sufficient examples to copy, can do a plausible imitation of talking about something they understand.
Mock an iconic classical painting in front of a world-wide audience. Nobody bats an eye.
Sell French tacos at the Olympics. Everyone loses their minds.
@BostonDelendEst
@wewiththey
The only reason you don't have Mexicans playing hockey is that we're conditioned that when you tie a blade to someone's foot it's a fight to the death.
@unconed
Two decades ago you could walk out of a hotel, step up to a vendor cart and get a baguette with ham and cheese in under 5 min. Retvrn to actually French fast food.
"Why pemdas?" is a good question, and wordcels should be able to put their calculators in L-R mode if they want.
Probably a computer calculator that looks like a cheap 80s Casio should by default behave like one.
@TellYourSonThis
I consider myself quite smart (+3 std dev at least). I don't consider myself smarter than centuries of accumulated wisdom, thus I'm religious.
Harvard's insurer won't pay Harvard's legal fees in the affirmative action litigation because somebody forgot to tell the insurer the school had been sued. Somebody in the general counsel's office needs to walk the plank.
I encourage anyone involved with
@FreeStateNH
to watch this video and seriously reconsider their contribution. Just like Jeremy, the day you are disliked by someone in their "corp structure" you will be kicked off (but they'll keep your money).
It was a good run, but the web is now thoroughly broken. Coworker asked for some reference to compare Verilog, SystemVerilog, and VHDL. The first results page of all major search engines are useless farmed content with zero insight on the question.
@orthonormalist
Everyone in software has read The Mythical Man Month.
Everyone who got promoted to your skip's position in a big corporation did so by making promises that ignore its lessons.
My hot take: this isn't real. Nobody can actually "see" stuff that doesn't exist in the way implied here unless they're actively hallucinating. This is just an issue of these things being extremely hard to explain using language, and people using words in subtly different ways.
.
@Wendys
is planning to try out โsurge pricingโ โ that means you could pay more for your lunch, even if the cost to Wendyโs stays exactly the same.
Itโs price gouging plain and simple, and American families have had enough.
I'm thinking of drafting a "๐๐ฎ๐ฆ๐๐ง๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐๐ง๐ข๐ญ๐๐ ๐๐จ๐ซ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐๐ซ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ" contract for people to sign.
It would specify the following deal amongst all humans in the multiverse:
- We will all work together to create a human-positive singularity in which
I tried to message
@HoustonChron
, but they don't take DMs so I guess they want it public.
Does your paper support this behavior from your employees?
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OSHA as of 9/2021
If as a condition of Employment VAX. is mandated
*Any adverse reaction/Injury is considered Work Related and will be Recorded as Such . .