dustyData

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dustyData,

still can’t beat 100% support

You don’t get 100% support on Windows. “it works on my machine, format and reinstall Windows” is 99% of the support you will get on Windows. I can play dozens of retro games on Linux today that no longer work on Windows and never will ever again. And that’s not even counting the myriad of game breaking bug reports that are reduced to “yeah, we don’t care” that never get fixed.

dustyData,

Dude, maybe you do work on patents and know your shit. But boy are you clueless about the video game industry.

dustyData,

Dude not only thought he was in Asia, he took so long that he thought that he had overshot and made it to India, not China or Japan, India! When in truth he wasn’t even halfway there.

dustyData,

If you don’t test your restores, you don’t actually have a backup. You have to test the config first to make sure it works for how your system is setup. An all defaults system should work out of the box, but if you start to alter and customize your system in ways that the backup is not configured to handle, you are in deep risk.

dustyData,

never seen anywhere that said backup needs to be tested

I don’t know what to tell you, you must be really new, because recovery tests are the first thing that is said when discussing backups. It’s the backbone of systems operations. If you don’t test your backups for recoverability, you really don’t have backups at all. is a widespread saying in the tech industry.

dustyData,

Can you lose Trademarks if you haven’t used or enforced them for a long while? the way copyright can enter public domain unless renewed and enforced?

dustyData,

Get on board with the times old fart. Kids today are into the cringe, ironically. They perform and seek cringe intentionally, which in itself is pretty cringe. So they lean into it.

dustyData,

Dude, they’re your wife and children, and she says to, please, stop calling them your roommates.

dustyData,

I don’t know about you but I enjoy my niksen time.

dustyData,

This is exactly the reason why VR is never going to be cool.

dustyData,

And still it’s not cool. Your comment actually made it even more uncool.

dustyData,

This is precisely it. Avatar had originally the exact same problem that the Way of the Water has now. They’re tech demos. Interesting, pretty, they move people to see what’s what on the theater. But, offer close to nothing emotionally or culturally resonant. It’s like a generic roller-coaster, you show up, enjoy the ride, then go get some fries having nothing deeper to say about the experience because the experience doesn’t offer anything deep. It doesn’t mean the movies are bad or that they weren’t enjoyable, that’s why they made so much money. But there’s no conversation to have around them except to remark on how much they cost to make, or how did the CGI looked like or whether other studios will use the tech invented for this movie on other movies. Plot, characters and symbolism are shallow pools. Specially to an audience that is sick and tired of mega blockbuster sequels.

dustyData,

Is that not all true even for some tribes today?

No.

dustyData,

You have fallen for the myth of the noble savage. A racists mischaracterization of non-western human groups born from the very heart of slavery and colonialism that is used as a justification for dehumanizing others as wild or natural state humans, distinct and separate from civilized domesticated humans. It invites a tacit sanctioning of treating “primitives” or “savage” people as different and non-human, “not like us”. It’s the basis of several centuries of abuse, oppression, appropriation and destruction.

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dustyData,

Mark my words, in 50 years, it will be Jordan, Egypt or Lebanon. Maybe even all three. Once the Palestinian genocide is completed they will start to push boundaries in the name of safety and national security. With US support there’s nothing stopping them as long as Zionists stay in power and move slow enough, they only have to kill more people than the population replacement rate. And in a century or two they won’t even have to pretend and just straight up annex their neighbors. A million things can happen within here and there, but it’s crazy to think that this strategy was devised in the XIX century and it seems to be working.

dustyData,

Yes, I have, and yes I’m aware. What’s your point?

dustyData,

You don’t designate a user advocate or at least have a representative of Trust & Safety to advice on development?

dustyData,

Oh, my comment was a joke too, darling. We know that no one on project management cares enough to actually have proper user advocates on the dev team.

dustyData,

UX and UI aren’t magic bullets. They constantly come up with and approve the most anti-user crap. They are just as disconnected from the actual user base as a database engineer.

dustyData,

In public, excuse yourself to the bathroom.

Once in the bathroom. Wash your face. The water in your eyes will drain to you nostrils and dislodge any boogers. It also stimulates mucous production in the rear area of the nasal cavity, which further lubes and facilitates cleaning your nose. Proceed to blow nose over the sink then dry your face. You’ll have clean nasal cavities and a refreshed and cleaner appearance as a bonus.

dustyData,

I don’t know, pick your nose. I was just offering an alternative, there’s nothing wrong with picking your nose. I’m not your boss. You do whatever you chose to do.

How to deal with Ancient aliens in the workplace?

Two of my coworkers frequently mention shows like “Encounters” or “Ancient apocalypse” or whatever. I’m not the best at debating or forming arguments against these though I do feel strongly that bold claims require better evidence than a blurry photo and an eyewitness account. How do you all go about this?...

dustyData,

Have fun man. Start coming up with even crazier theories and one up them to the extreme with ever bolder madness, get creative. “Pfft you think Japan it real? They don’t want you to know that we bombed them out of existence and we gave the country to the Venusians! It was all part of Reagan’s contract in exchange for more nuclear power, but he was a lizard…”

dustyData,

I have Instagram because in my country it’s the only way to contact some businesses. And they are mingling threads posts in between the IG posts.

dustyData,

The worse part is that it looks like a screenshot of Threads, but when you look closely it’s actually an IFrame of the whole Threads post with a link to go there and a tiny text advertisement to activate your Threads account.

dustyData,

Vertically in a plexiglass tube with an extruder at the bottom.

dustyData, (edited )

I was about to say, I would like to see behind the scenes of this costume. Not because I don’t believe OP, but because I love seeing how cool things are made and not just the perfectly manicured end products.

But then I went on their profile, and he delivers. This dude has some rather cool pics about this costume elsewhere.

dustyData, (edited )

It’s not good to stereotype people. But, I would bet money that they have any three of these: bought NFCs NFTs unironically, supports OpenAI unconditionally, propose blockchain on everything, bought a pizza with bitcoin years ago that would be millions of dollars today and are still salty about it, have a Starlink receiver, drive a beaten down Tesla they can’t afford to repair because they spent their money paying for FSD early access, and would definitely be first in line to fly Starship to Mars if they were allowed to, they posts to imageai regularly.

EDIT: autocorrect.

dustyData,

It’s not even free, the service itself is a payed subscription. But it’s there and it could be working and funneling data without the user knowing it if they wanted to.

dustyData,

It’s malk.

Gamers who have gamed for a long time

do you find it difficult to get into games? I’ve got Epic Games and Steam Games libraries chock-full of classic top-tier games along with many other newer games like Stray or 2077, and a bunch of indie titles. I just can’t be bothered to download and install them, much less try to get into the characters and storylines. Used...

dustyData,

Years ago I made the decision to never play a game on launch, never buy a game full price, never play a game just because it was on the online buzz.

I decide what to play usually days in advance, carve out a chunk of my recreation time to explicitly play, as if it were going to a movie or a party with friends. It’s like a date with the game. I block a couple of hours to it. If the game is good, it will get a second date, if it bored me, we would break up.

I don’t buy on sales pressure either. If I decide I want to play a game, I would wait to buy it on the historical cheapest price. Only then would the game get schedule time to get played. That keeps the FOMO away.

It has made gaming super enjoyable and no longer the dopamine chase that publishers want to make to milk the most money out of me. As a result I usually enjoy my time way more, play older games more frequently, not out of nostalgia but because I never played then. I also spend less money, which lowers stress and anxiety. As a result I haven’t played a AAA game in a long while.

Time is scheduled for a game on what I’m interested in right now. But since the decision is always for a time far away in the future (up to a week in advance) I can make a more directed and intentional decision. Some weeks it’s thematic, some weeks it’s just genre based. Some weeks are retro. Some weeks are for comfort. All with small and concrete goals for each.

dustyData,

It gives their sadistic minds a guilt free socially approved justification to be cruel and inhuman to another person.

dustyData,

Obviously, I mean, Google did so well with Stadia.

/s

dustyData,

No, how could I try it? it doesn’t exist anymore. Poor tiny little startup Google, bullied by the big bad user mob who paid for the service they sold and actually expected to receive what they had bought.

dustyData,

I’m not from the USA, how could I possibly have tried it? It died before it could’ve even become a product. Even if they would’ve gone to rural areas or the developing world it would’ve failed because there’s not sturdy enough infrastructure to support the service. And as the experience proved, not even South California has enough infrastructure to support the service without massive lag. I remember reading that even people with Google Fiber had issues. So it was a failed service for a strong technical reason, not just the awful marketing and even worse service offering. Paying a subscription and buying games was the most retarded move Google made at the moment, but they make so many stupid moves so frequently that it’s hard to tell if it was the worst.

dustyData,

That’s one of the current weaknesses of the fediverse right now. Devs are working on more comprehensive moderation tools, but it’s all under development.

dustyData,

Watch out guys, he’s read things.

dustyData, (edited )

Specifically, it seems the school was explicitly told to target a single student in order for opening a way for the Governor to challenge the CROWN act in courts. It’s pure political maneuvering. Picking scapegoats and destroying individuals to advance racists agendas.

dustyData,

Good, religion has no place on a public education setting.

dustyData,

Except skydaddy psychos think they do have more rights to impose their rules and beliefs over others, which is an active attack to other’s rights. So no, on publicly funded institutions, skydaddy has no place and shouldn’t be allowed in.

dustyData, (edited )

Get out of here with your stupid “freedumb of eshpreshon!” Separation of church and state is a pillar of democratic, tolerant and peaceful societies. That means, no religion in public schools. No one is stopping anyone from being as religious and practice whatever they want in their home, or even in public on the street. But as soon as they put a feet on a publicly funded institution, they must abide by the law above all. Not the mandates of their imaginary friend. Freedom of expression doesn’t mean free from public responsibility.

dustyData,

Does he use two condoms at the same time to avoid pregnancies? Same principle.

dustyData,

Reduce, reuse, recycle!

dustyData,

you cannot disagree with something that is objectively true.

Have you ever read about quantum mechanics or academic politics. Objective truths are socially manufactured realities.

dustyData,

At least some minerals cristalyze in cubic structures, so it’s not farfetched that an spontaneous reaction results in a cube.

dustyData,

It also facilitates two things. First, hermeneutics. Which is the art of overanalizing text ad nauseam until you can manufacture new meaning that wasn’t put there by the author in the first place, by sheer force of dubious rethoric. And secondly taking individual lines out of context to support fringe and contradictory statements.

dustyData, (edited )

On the point of pentameter and other ancient writing quirks. It’s because writing was expensive and not really that common. Ink, paper, quill. It all had to be painstakingly made by hand. Then all the training on reading and writing was a huge time investment as well. So it was relegated to the high classes. And slaves, they used slaves as scribes and basically as personal computers.

So, most of culturally relevant works were actually poems. Lacking writing tools, long passages of texts are hard to memorize. But, poems in regular rhyme and accompanied by structured melodies are actually very easy to memorize. The Odyssey was one such a song.

A master could teach his disciples the words and melody of extraordinarily long passages of information. Names, history, dates, myths, moral essays, by teaching the song. Performing the different passages several times allowed memorization and then they could perform this either for entertainment or for study and analysis via rethorical discussion. This oral tradition is how we have theater plays, stories and songs from 5 thousand years ago. We are pretty certain today that Homer didn’t wholly originally wrote the Illiad and the Odyssey. He belonged to this oral tradition and put it down into writing. Something that might have been seen as unnecessary at the time, for text was relegated to legal documents and treatises and court proceedings.

EDIT: Here’s a practical demonstration. Write down the lyrics for Mr. Brightside. Chances are that you know them by heart.

dustyData, (edited )

Females don’t have bodily functions, obviously. It’s impure and unwoman like to use the toilet.

/s

dustyData, (edited )

And we illuminated streets and factories with that for half a century.

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