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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Cybertruck Is Not Selling⁩ ⁨⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
What’s enshittified about them? I tried an ID.4 for a few days recently and it was quite nice. I also had a ride in a Model 3 and the oversized screen hit me in the knee. Also I don’t think the VW has overhyped self driving which tries to kill you, like Tesla does. So at first glance I’m leaning towards the VW if I was to buy a car right now. What did I miss?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Cybertruck Is Not Selling⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
AFAIK there’s like one Cybertruck in all of Norway, and it got snuck in through some loophole because it doesn’t meet vehicle standards.

Model Y is selling like hot cakes, though. Most likely because they’re getting cheaper due to nobody else wanting to buy them.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can't believe I made this without ChatGPT⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
Looks more like misdirection for the sake of misdirection to me.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can't believe I made this without ChatGPT⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Yes, but it’s obviously done that way to make the numbers look more different at first glance
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon thinks there is a bicurious double standard⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
There’s degrees to everything, though. There’s plenty of traits I think are perfectly okay for people to have, but that I’m still not looking for in a partner. So I guess I probably also fail your purity test.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon thinks there is a bicurious double standard⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
They didn’t claim that. They said even progressive women will leave you, meaning they have that issue with all the usual suspects, but also progressive women.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sounds like a plan⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
I’m starting to think we’re talking past each other. Your last paragraph seems to imply that legacy systems were more approachable for a newbie to debug. If that’s your point I wholeheartedly agree. It’s not that hard as long as you get over the fear of fucking something up.

I do agree that juniors had an easier time learning on legacy systems, and that’s been true since the dawn of technology. Things get more complicated, and thus harder to get a deep understanding of, the more time passes. It’s a lot easier to understand older and simpler technology.

I’m a little confused why you seem to be arguing both that the issues I mentioned are easy to google, while at the same time saying newbies never get a chance to debug them. Surely, if it’s so easy, the newbie can take a stab at it?

Personally, I like to let the newbies have a stab at non-urgent issues first, and nudging them if they get stuck. They may not be able to solve the problem solo, but they know a lot more about how the system works afterwards anyway.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sounds like a plan⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Just because they passed the class doesn’t mean they retained any of the knowledge.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sounds like a plan⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
I’ve maintained both and still do. While you may not be debugging memory leaks on k8s (although you should), you get all sorts of other fun things to debug. Things like:
- Why did our AWS bills suddenly triple?
- Why is that node accepting jobs but just hanging when they start?
- Why is that statefulset not coming back up? Is the storage still attached somewhere else perhaps?
- Why did all the data in our Kafka suddenly disappear?
- Why is everything still down after that outage? Maybe a circular dependency, thundering herd problem, or both?
- What’s wrong with my Helm chart this time?
The list goes on and on. With increased complexity you don’t get less problems, just different ones.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have you encountered this?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Shafting the waitress is not going to end it either. Most people wouldn’t notice this, so they’d still keep doing it if you didn’t tip.

The play here is to tip the waitress in cash if possible and slam the establishment on every review site.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have you encountered this?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Are you comparing the waitress not proofreading the math on a preprinted receipt (arguably not their job) to soldiers actively committing war crimes?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sounds like a plan⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
You still have to debug things a cattle approach, though. If anything there’s even more and more complex things to debug. Training will just have to shift from throwing the new hire into the deep end of the kiddie pool to something else. Granted, “something else” is probably going to be offloading it on educational institutions, which sucks for recent grads, so they’ll have to work it out somehow. Probably by creating a market for post-grad practical skills classes, is my guess.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sounds like a plan⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
I started my degree in 2002, two years after the dotcom bust. I figured the market would rebound within five years. Right after I graduated (but thankfully after I got a job) the housing bubble burst. There’s always something happening, but software engineering is still needed and we still make bank. Being unlucky with the timing will set back your career, but probably won’t end it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have you encountered this?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Pretty sure the waitress wasn’t the one who fucked with the register. Probably the restaurant trying to ensure they don’t have to pay the difference if the tips come up short and leave the staff below minimum wage.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sounds like a plan⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
The CS jobs market fluctuates like any other market. Right this minute all the dumbass CEOs are trying to replace people with AI, just like they’ve repeatedly tried to have cheaper people in India do the jobs in the past.

Having people in India do it used to be called outsourcing, then off shoring, then a few other names, because every time it fails they have to call it something else to try again. The same will happen with AI.

I’m not the slightest worried about my own job, but it is currently a shitty market for fresh grads. Probably due to all the post-covid layoffs saturating the talent pool with more experienced people, and the aforementioned AI fad.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should I unplug my smart tv from the internet?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
I would certainly check before purchasing, in the age of ad-financed TVs.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should I unplug my smart tv from the internet?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Never threaten legal action to a callcenter. If they take it seriously (or just don’t want to talk to you) they’ll hang up immediately and demand all further communication goes through lawyers.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should I unplug my smart tv from the internet?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
They might nag you about connecting.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Back in my day this MF was .29 cents and was THICK with INGREDIENTS⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
What I primarily miss in American bread is texture. Americans think white vs. whole grain are the only variations of flour, and are missing out on a whole world where the flour isn’t ground to dust. Adding some ratio of medium and coarse ground flour is what gives the texture sorely missing in the floppy sadness Americans call bread.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Back in my day this MF was .29 cents and was THICK with INGREDIENTS⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
As a Norwegian, sandwiches are supposed to be 90% bread. But it’s supposed to be good bread, not this nonsense Americans keep putting up with.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨And nothing of value was lost⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
People have been caught with those levels before. You need to be an expert tier alcoholic to pull it off, though.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Easy mistake to make⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I learned that my coworker was a lesbian three times before it stuck. What made it stick was during a talk she was having about LGBT issues, where she referenced how obviously gay she looks. I guess the short hair with bright dye was a tell-tale sign to other people. I just enjoy chatting with her, and that sort of thing just didn’t come up very often.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gallium⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Might have also gotten away with it if they didn’t completely freak out in front of the kiss cam, so everyone started thinking they were cheating and looked into who they were.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon has nothing to do⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Beats me, he seems like he spreads joy wherever he goes.

Or it’s just the depression talking.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vintage gaming advertising pictures: a gallery⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Now I’m curious what that Quake 3 ad was. Just lots of gore?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vintage gaming advertising pictures: a gallery⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
But do you have the Tribal Edition?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spiritual Safety Tip!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
They’re also happier when you’re not around, Jimmy.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Made Ya Look...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Makes sense. You don’t get high off your own supply. Norway is all about electric vehicles, too.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Virgin Physicists⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
There’s less and less reason to do it (and it’s never 5). On systems without floating point you might want to do round it a bit, but only if the specific thing you’re doing allows it, and even then you’re more likely to do a fixed-point approach by using e.g. 314 and dividing by 100 later, or adjusting that value a bit so you can divide by 128 via bitshift if you’re on a chip where division is expensive. However, in 2025 you almost certainly should have picked a chip with an FPU if you’re doing trigonometry.

And while rounding pi to 3 or 4 is certainly just a meme, there are other approximations which are used, like small-angle approximations, where things like sin(x) can be simplified to just x for a sufficiently small x.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's too hot to think of why or how⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Luxury! How about getting a piece of a kernel shell stuck between a tooth and the gum, and taking three days to get it out?