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NBJack,

Damn…what is this, r/seattle?

Don’t forget the fact that despite it’s just a cheeseburger, it’s named “The Vonderbilt Wonder”, “Halfsie Pattsies”, or “Edmonton the Second”. Ideally on a menu so scant on details it’s hard to tell the french fries from the extra avocado.

NBJack,

I’d rather see the savings in the army of Javascript I apparently need today for the ‘modern’ web experience. Image files have gotten lots of love, but hey, here’s a shitty 27 year old language designed for validating form input!

NBJack,

Want that cool image as a background? Whoops.

Want to use that image with that nifty ML tool you downloaded? Uh oh.

That random web service at least five years old with an upload field for an image? Roll the dice; win on snake eyes.

Want to use that picture as an avatar in a forum that isn’t that popular? Hmmm.

How about that WordPress blog of yours? Hopefully on 5.8 or better; otherwise unsupported natively.

Would you like thumbnails on these downloads in your favorite Linix distro? Uh, maybe; Ubuntu didn’t get it until 22.10.

How about Windows? Well, 11 is fine, but 10 needs an extension.

None of this can’t be overcome with some effort, but it’s kind of painful right now.

NBJack,

How broken are we talking here? Like, installation is kinda borked but technically works broken, or purge it with fire and salt the storage medium broken?

I have often busted my machine learning rig as it runs an ancient (but spacious VRAM) GPU. If I upgrade the drivers by accident, it takes an average of 1-2 days to make everything happy again.

I used to be more cavalier with my boot partitions; I am no stranger to a busy box for repairs. Best moments are when I used to try and adjust a live partition to make more room for the swap partition (or vice versa).

I have screwed up more Raspberry PI installations than I care to count. Usually by my own hand.

I have completely broken Xwindows multiple times due to drivers, trying to go between desktop environments, and most frequently trying to get video cards to work that aren’t natively supported.

NBJack,

Sure, and it has nothing to do with the big ass vehicles being churned out due to loopholes in US law.

distilled.earth/…/the-loophole-that-made-cars-in-…

NBJack,

“I just heart my Ubuntu, and my computer friend was right: this was easy to install!.. wait a sec. What do you mean it’s only got 3 months of support left?!? You told me to get the latest version!”

NBJack,

Hahaha!..

Oh shit, you’re serious.

Does the American accent or British accent sound better?

I grew up with a thick Australian accent with a drawl I dislike, and have been consciously trying to change it for a while. The problem is I tried to make it sound more American at first but keep getting drawn to speaking “Britishly”. Now it’s a Frankenstein of all 3 accents and I don’t know what to go with....

NBJack,

Hey, as an American I found that quite…ah, accurate.

It does vary by which part of the states you get someone from, but yes, apparently we get quite loud (if only to speak over our abundant amounts of cars and gunfire). And is charming as it can be to some, the variations in accents you find on the south and eastern areas in particular can get old quick.

NBJack,

Yes! It’s the epitome of clarity. I gotta admit, when I hear the accent, I immediately assume the person is American.

Cyberpunk runs 30% faster on linux than on windows 11 (m.youtube.com)

The YouTube channel “Maximum Fury” conducted a technical test of the new Cyberpunk add-on called “Phantom Liberty” on an older AMD hardware system, testing it separately on Linux and Windows 11. The Linux system, specifically the Fedora distribution called Nobara, performed significantly better, delivering 31% more...

NBJack,

Windows 11 is trash. Microsoft kept boasting it was “faster” than 10, but it is (unsurprisingly?) heavy in some weird areas, including a less snappy start menu, more telemetry, invasive integration with their software, you name it. Tried one machine in my collection to try it via an upgrade (a Microsoft Surface Pro 6), and the performance was so bad I ended up going back to Windows 10. Multi-second lag just to get to the program shortcuts is a really bad sign.

TIL In the Hot Coffee lawsuit against McDonalds,punitive damages were given due to McDonalds intentionally overheating coffee to save money on refills (www.poolelg.com)

During the trial it was revealed that McDonald’s knew that heating their coffee to this temperature would be dangerous, but they did it anyways because it would save them money. When you serve coffee that is too hot to drink, it will take much longer for a person to drink their coffee, which means that McDonald’s will not...

NBJack,

Yeah, it was kinda the stuff of nightmares. I think it actually… fused … some things together.

Linux can be used at your workplaces (lemmy.ml)

I’m just tired. On the last post about having Linux at our work, many people that seems to be an IT worker said there have been several issues with Linux that was not easy to manipulate or control like they do with Windows, but I think they just are lazy to find out ways to provide this support. Because Google forces all their...

NBJack,

Yes. So much yes.

Sure, at least half of the FAANG use Linux. But they use a homegrown Linux flavor often maintained by an entire dedicated team. Not some random ass Ubuntu or Mint ISO you downloaded; these images are custom tailored to the workflows, dev needs, security needs, and even package management needs of the corporation. They often carry a complete profile template that integrates with whatever they’ve chosen to enforce authentication, have a lavish on-board remote monitoring system, you name it.

NBJack,

Not safe enough. Give it another decade; I’m sure they’ll get around to ruining it by then.

NBJack,

Ah, yes, what a nice way to be sliced into a thousand pieces at once if you trip. Even more fun if they get knocked out of their retention mode.

Is there a rubbing alcohol dispenser that sprays from the adjacent room after you go through? In case the first set of blood-curdling screams aren’t loud enough.

NBJack,

“Number one, you can’t build that now. Those tanks just took out your north power supply.”

“Captain, I assure you I can build the radar. I only need five units to-”

“THERE ARE FOUR LIGHTS!”

NBJack,

Yeah, that was a good one. Worf got that plant petal on him after the away mission, and boom: Wordi.

NBJack,

Did you actually watch the video?

He literally presents a list of reasons around 5:12. Then he goes on to describe how formaldehyde already affects him.

Resin priting can be a lot of fun, but he’s correct: that shit is toxic. It needs to be respected, and he’s also correct in pointing out the carbon filter on many printers is basically a placebo for the consumer.

Still don’t believe him? Fine. Go checkout the small book that is the set of warnings with this stuff from a resin producer: entropyresins.com/safety/epoxy-safety-tips/

NBJack,

I can’t put my finger on it, but I think there’s been an uptick also in posts purely in the form of increasing engagement. Safe ‘bets’ on getting responses (i.e. ++ to AskReddit), remarkably bland headlines, and just shit that reminds me of controversy of the “jumpstart” of automated bots they used in the earlier days.

NBJack,

This won’t hold true if your RAM gets to the limit, and you end up creeping into swap space. If you do, everything becomes a potentially streamed asset! While certainly not ideal, you’ll feel it harder on a HDD vs. SSD. Remember, you need at least 16GB of RAM for this monster, which these days is basically standard on most PCs (and about 70% of all Steam users as of August have no more than 16).

NBJack,

Oh boy, here we go (inhales):

Agile isn’t that bad. People just believe they are more productive if they are “heads down” and not held accountable for what they write/do.

Functional programming isn’t that great and doesn’t solve all of the world’s problems; it just pushes the issues with state to other parts of your design, and doesn’t scale well in deeply nested solutions.

IDEs with proper code support (i.e. automatic structure analysis, autocomplete, etc.) are one of the best ways to deal with a large codebase that needs refactoring. Doing widescale refactors without one is asking for trouble. If you believe you don’t need it, either your codebase is just that small (which is fine) or playing with fire.

Much of the advice out there on architecture and tooling isn’t properly contextualized on the codebase, market, and team situation. If you believe you have the One True Architecture Solution, you are naive. (Ex. Microservices, large complex code pipelines, monorepos, etc.) Be especially wary of anything from FAANG engineering blogs unless you are also in another letter of FAANG.

There. Got it out of my system. Have fun dissecting it.

NBJack,

One Note. I have yet to see anything from anyone come close. Works with all of my devices, allows me to use a stylus for designs on an infinite graph paper canvas, and damned good at note taking.

NBJack,

Linux can be just as much of a slow-ass OS. The real issue is all of the crap everyone wants to do is the browser now.

NBJack,

Load bearing whitespace. Damn, I love that phrase.

Also, if you have to have agreement on the tabs or spaces argument in your codebase in order to get it to compile, you have already lost.

NBJack,

How much of that python is written in a shared codebase with multiple active contributors? When was the last time you refactored a module?

Tabs and spaces are invisible. Semicolons are not.

NBJack,

The nuances of Go syntax requirements are stupid at times, but I am shocked at how much it helps readability.

NBJack,

Someone hasn’t read en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Silver_Bullet yet.

If abstraction was going to kill it, it would have died a thousand deaths already.

NBJack,

(That’s the joke!)

NBJack,

Python should not be used for production environments, or anything facing the user directly. You are only inviting pain and suffering.

NBJack,

The mark of a true master.

NBJack,

Ouch! Red flag. Sucks to get rejected, but maybe you dodged a bullet.

NBJack,

quirksmode.org/css/ has entered the chat.

NBJack,

You know, I wish it wasn’t. Much of Amazon was on a version of Perl for years (and may still be) for almost all of their front end hosting. Facebook has transformed PHP into Hack (which is better for types, though technically not strongly typed), strongly suggesting they were running PHP until 2014. Let’s not forget what WordPress is still in PHP too.

NBJack,

I can’t speak for your managers, but my past managers didn’t need Agile to f things up. They can do that with anything!

NBJack,

Maaannnn… I got another steering wheel. Anyone willing to trade for an ignition system? I’ll settle for two NPCs who will get out and push!

NBJack,

Let’s not forget HP making an “update” that effectively self-destructed the printer for use if you don’t use their cartridges. Evem after the public outcry and back pedaling by the company with a new bios update, my printer still “manifested” the same problem they intentionally introduced.

Replaced parts, tried other things, then just said “forget it” and replaced it with a more expensive color laser from a competitor. Happiness and reliable printing ensued.

NBJack,

This is the real answer to this question. Not just an invention to unfairly evaluate folks (and charge them originally to see it!), but nothing more than a “how much we can fleece you for” score that has become so widely embraced you can’t ignore it.

NBJack,

Well, let’s at least keep tabs on it.

I just got my steam deck RMAed after 1.5 years. Guess what was the first thing I did when It turned on.

I had some performance problems. Suddenly, steam deck lost about 60% of its performance in games. My troubleshooting didn’t help. After that, I contacted steam support. We were talking for about a week, but nothing helped, so they agreed to send me a replacement....

NBJack,

Welcome to V1 of a brand new hardware platform.

You could always go with higher quality brands, like Tesla. notebookcheck.net/Tesla-car-reliability-lower-tha…

Just kidding, let’s go with Apple’s two year average. computerworld.com/…/more-than-a-quarter-of-iphone…

NBJack,

Yeah, and this only gets worse with bigger monitors. Want to use that 43" TV as Monitor #3? Wigglin’ isn’t going to help.

Real users give up and start using keyboard shortcuts to move crap around until they find it again.

Or just get a wireless gaming mouse with adjustable DPI, crank it up to 11 billion, and try to catch it doing near lightspeed as it goes through all four monitors at once. The only drawback is that, according to physics, it will likely have experienced time dilation, which means your mouse cursor has aged significantly in the short time it was in flight.

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