stoly
@stoly@lemmy.world
- Comment on 16 hours ago:
I’m so glad to see this comment. I have been worried that everyone would be all in on this. I am relieved to see that people can see the company for what it is.
- Comment on Why dont we say "WWW" in front of website URLs anymore? 1 day ago:
The goal was simplicity, not accuracy. To give the “gist” of it to someone who does not know much about technology.
- Comment on Why dont we say "WWW" in front of website URLs anymore? 1 day ago:
It was also meant to be a simple answer rather than a deeply technical one.
- Comment on Why dont we say "WWW" in front of website URLs anymore? 1 day ago:
Originally, companies had a much simpler infrastructure and the prefix before a server let you know what sort of server was. So you can imagine something like this:
-mail.microsoft.com -ftp.microsoft.com -irc.microsoft.com -print.microsoft.com
These sorts of services would have been in existence long before the world wide web became commonly used. When it started out, it was logical to put “www” in front of the server name.
Now, DNS is largely used for this purpose. You put “microsoft.com” in your browser and it resolves, and is sent to MSFT. The servers on that end detect what sort of connection it is from the port number used and other methods, then forward your request to the appropriate server automatically. Any variation of it will go to the same place: -https://microsoft.com/ -https://www.microsoft.com/ -http://microsoft.com/ -microsoft.com -etc.
- Comment on EVERY CHANNEL IS OWNED BY ONE MAN NOW 4 days ago:
Yeah watching commercials seems primitive.
- Comment on 5 days ago:
So it’s not that you’re eating the breakfast as much as taking some back to your room and then eating it after sleeping longer
- Comment on 5 days ago:
This was an excellent response
- Comment on 5 days ago:
I don’t know that most people can go back to sleep. You have a talent.
- Comment on New grads say employers set the bar too high for entry-level roles: 'No job is willing to give you that first experience' 2 weeks ago:
Yes, it has been true since the late 80s/early 90s. It is getting worse, though, as there really are no entry level roles anymore.
- Comment on New grads say employers set the bar too high for entry-level roles: 'No job is willing to give you that first experience' 2 weeks ago:
This sort of disconnection from reality is just what you expect from the MBA class.
- Comment on Bound to Isaac 2 weeks ago:
Finn. Long and thin is rare but lovely.
- Comment on Compsci grads facing recession-like job prospects thanks to AI - Slinging coffee and waiting tables ain't just for liberal arts grads any more, say Census Bureau economists 3 weeks ago:
Computer scientists are among the most libertarian there are and will never work together in that way. They genuinely believe that, in the face of decades of layoffs, that they can do better alone.
- Comment on Be honest. You did the same thing 3 weeks ago:
Universities have to carefully list comparative literature as C LIT.
- Comment on ‘I feel invisible’: over-50s reveal harsh realities of trying to get a job 3 weeks ago:
Or–and stay with me here–get some graduate certificate and make that the only thing that appears on your education.
- Comment on ‘I feel invisible’: over-50s reveal harsh realities of trying to get a job 3 weeks ago:
I don’t doubt that there are people who see old person and move on to the next candidate. I also believe that many people do not redefine themselves in their careers and have not grown since they were in their late 20s. You have to grow and adapt or get left behind.
- Comment on Should the next President of the US pardon Trump for all his crap like Ford did Nixon? 3 weeks ago:
The pardon isn’t the problem, it’s who gets elected. The power of the pardon has existed for a thousand years or so in English Common Law.
- Comment on Should the next President of the US pardon Trump for all his crap like Ford did Nixon? 3 weeks ago:
Ford was a loyalist who put party over country. We needed a reckoning and that never happened. If it had happened, you’d have found a much different Reagan and Trump presidency.
- Comment on I remember 4 weeks ago:
Web 2.0.
- Comment on I remember 4 weeks ago:
God I forgot about the whole bacon thing.
- Comment on No Man's Sky 10th anniversary Cosmos update is here, and that means orbital bases, space station ownership - and yes, you can finally fly to the sun 4 weeks ago:
I tried to play this game several times and could never really figure out what I was supposed to do and why I was supposed to do it.
I am glad to see some good developers supporting their community. We need more of these.
- Comment on Why is USD susceptible to counterfeit in comparison to CHF? 5 weeks ago:
The US suffers from NIHS: Not Invented Here Syndrome
- Comment on Was Reagan's second term like Douche In Chief second term? Where it was finally revealed Regan had full alzheimers for the majority of his second? Were there signs the public saw something wrong? 5 weeks ago:
There also wasn’t social media and news companies still had this sort of “you respect the office” mentality. I don’t know that they would have come out with some expose if there were a link, for instance.
- Comment on Was Reagan's second term like Douche In Chief second term? Where it was finally revealed Regan had full alzheimers for the majority of his second? Were there signs the public saw something wrong? 5 weeks ago:
As many flaws as Reagan had, he actually was a very intelligent person who cared deeply about politics and had the experience to back it up. It makes sense that he was surrounded by like-minded people. He was still a horrible person who made the world a worse place, but he was reasoned and not a hack.
- Comment on The user SteamAndEpic does not follow bot guidelines 1 month ago:
Oh that’s why I saw so much spam yesterday.
- Comment on Parents Texting You About Danger in The City where You Live | CharactersWelcome 1 month ago:
But are apparently in more danger if propaganda.
- Comment on The Unspoken Reality of Having a Good Job at 31 in China | Damon Teng 1 month ago:
Communism was attempted to be forced under Mao. Since then heavily controlled capitalism.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
It’s in the wild and archived already. It’s too late to hide.
- Comment on Amazon Alexa showing just how much they have embraced enshittification 1 month ago:
I am surprised at how often I will do something like “Play ‘The Apple Orchard in Saghmosavanq’ by Tigran Hamasyan” and I get back “Now playing Christina Applegate”. It’s like AI latches on to they biggest keyword it can detect and focuses on that even if it violates part of the search parameters.
- Comment on "Digital Signatures" just ask you to type your name into a box now. Am I right in thinking this almost-completely defeats the purpose of a signature? 2 months ago:
In parts of the world, paperwork is managed with stamps and a mark. Your doctor in latin america will stamp a blank prescription pad with a stamp that has their name and license number. They will then make a recognizable mark over the stamp. Same with your lawyer and all government offices. The point isn’t that someone can use handwriting analysis - which is just fluff - and rather that they possess the stamp and those who would read the paperwork recognize their particular mark.
- Comment on Doesn't add up 2 months ago:
Typical big city rich assholes fucking over people in smaller communities. Doesn’t matter where they are from, people can be assholes anywhere.