IrateAnteater
@IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Arcturus looking for playtesters! 3 hours ago:
Because this is Lemmy, I feel like I have to ask, Linux support? Or is it Windows-only for now?
- Comment on "And my dick fucks your wife more than you do. What's your point?" 2 days ago:
The kind of waste I’m talking about doesn’t give two fucks about proportionality. CO2 in the atmosphere makes no distinction between being emitted by a single person or three million.
Also, fuck living in a world where only things arbitrarily deemed “useful” are considered worthy. Does art have no place in your world? It’s not “useful”. Should people be banned from having hobbies? Those aren’t “useful”.
- Comment on "And my dick fucks your wife more than you do. What's your point?" 2 days ago:
I wouldn’t say so in this case. A watch is probably about as close to “good” conspicuous consumption as it’s possible to get. Think about it: it’s generally a “buy once, keep it forever” item, takes essentially 0 resources to keep functioning (generally the expensive ones don’t require batteries), uses very little material to manufacture, and all the price is coming from specialist labour.
It’s a waste of money, but it’s a harmless waste, especially when compared to things like private jets and yachts.
- Comment on "And my dick fucks your wife more than you do. What's your point?" 3 days ago:
That’s pretty much the theme for most of the responses here.
- Comment on Kinda fucked up tbh 1 week ago:
We already have a definition for this, the Karman line.
- Comment on WHERE ARE MY PRECISION SCREWDRIVERS 1 week ago:
In new build stuff, I’ve actually been seeing a lot more torx.
- Comment on WHERE ARE MY PRECISION SCREWDRIVERS 1 week ago:
Blame Henry Ford. The superior screw head style was available to him, but he refused to use it.
- Comment on If you build it, they might come 2 weeks ago:
If you are a founder of a website or software company that is already open to the public: fuck you. We know you are going to be pulling shady shit later to monetize your users.
If you are a founder of a company making a new widget that you just invented, which isn’t for sale yet: you’re cool. Just don’t enshittify the thing later.
- Comment on VPN firm says it didn’t know customers had lifetime subscriptions, cancels them 3 weeks ago:
I don’t currently use a VPN provider, but when I do, it now won’t be VPNSecure.
- Comment on Anon describes past 3 weeks ago:
Also worth noting: in most areas, that price is exceptionally cheap for what he got, even for the time.
- Comment on Airlines Are Selling Your Data to ICE 4 weeks ago:
You’re free to do whatever you like, but I really can’t imagine cutting myself off of seeing most of the world, simply because of a bunch of theoreticals. I fly fairly often for work and I’ve not even experienced half of those (I’m not even sure what problem you might have with airport limos). Most of those issues are easily avoided anyway, since they are a product of your own planning.
- Comment on Give an inch take an inch 4 weeks ago:
I just want static html webpages back. The sheer volume of scripts that run just to display text these days drives me nuts.
- Comment on Resistance is futile 5 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t say that’s controversial, but it’s really just a matter of choosing which platform you think will enshittify slowest.
- Comment on What if 5 weeks ago:
I absolutely love that his name is the first thing anyone thinks about when someone so much as mentions a couch.
- Comment on Trump tells Canadians to Elect the guy who'll make them the 51st State of US [Canadian elections today] 1 month ago:
They would. Just not in the way they’d prefer.
- Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed? 1 month ago:
Re-invent. Your still far too late to be first.
- Comment on What programs do you wish a good FOSS alternative existed, but doesn't or most of the FOSS alternatives simply aren't good? 1 month ago:
Sound quality will be exactly the same among any of the services that offer lossless files (ie all of the ones that aren’t Spotify). That’s literally the point of lossless.
- Comment on can't beat the classics 1 month ago:
Depends on what knowledge we are talking about. Personally, I’d be feeding it tons of manuals so that I could ask questions like “Which version of software x introduced feature y?” There’s no extra context I need, I just need a version number to give to a customer. And in my industry, that type of info just doesn’t show up on Google. So having an LLM that can answer the question in seconds saves me an hour of sifting through manuals.
- Comment on can't beat the classics 1 month ago:
That’s exactly what I was thinking. And this is actually the first time I’ve heard of some use of LLMs that I may actually be interested in.
- Comment on What's the worst instance of plot armour on characters you've seen in TV? 1 month ago:
This is why I’m generally not a fan of prequels. Everyone has inherent plot armor, since we know for a fact that they survive.
As for Tolkien’s universe, I can forgive a certain amount of plot armor, since he structured things to work that way throughout the stories. It’s not just the show runners.
- Comment on logs are for quitters 1 month ago:
How much more energy would you get if you fused uranium?
- Comment on Max pulling THIS shit every time I finish watching Last Week Tonight 1 month ago:
I wouldn’t even credit them with that much thought. It’s far more likely that it’s simply “you watched late-night political comedy talk show, so here’s another late night political “comedy” talk show.”
- Comment on Max pulling THIS shit every time I finish watching Last Week Tonight 1 month ago:
I’m confused. Is it Bill Maher or just the concept of “You may also like” in general that you take exception to?
- Comment on Little poser 2 months ago:
The whole “answer this trivia question” gatekeeping is dumb.
But the unreasonable metalhead in me also wants all band shirts to have been bought at a show, so maybe I’m a bit guilty too.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
That falls squarely under the “don’t ask questions you don’t want the answer to” category.
- Comment on AMD wins at open source, GNOME completes Wayland support Linux & Open Source News 2 months ago:
Not sure what you’re getting at here. A microcode exploit and open source software have nothing to do with each other.
- Comment on Controversial question 2 months ago:
Because eating the rich will accomplish nothing if you don’t also change the underlying system that created them in the first place. And good luck getting everyone in the non-rich class to agree on what that change should look like.
- Comment on fuck this asshole 2 months ago:
Probably making wearing any mask while protesting illegal, regardless of the legality of the protest itself.
- Comment on That explains a lot 3 months ago:
Wouldn’t that be a non-issue? The radiation is going to be spreading out in a cone, not a focused laser beam. It should dissipate down to a level that a spaceships normal radiation shielding would already need to be able to handle pretty quickly.
- Comment on That explains a lot 3 months ago:
So why not just stop beside the planet you are aiming for?