CarbonatedPastaSauce
@CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world
- Comment on Is it normal for high sugar contents like in cake icing to make my uvula tickle? 1 week ago:
That’s nvts.
- Comment on Some examples of video games with an UI layout ripped off of another game? 2 weeks ago:
Doom 2 totally ripped off Doom. Barely any changes.
Not sure why Doom devs didn’t sue.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Intelligent people tend to lean left. We’re not really interested in becoming ‘average’. Go to Facebook if that’s what you’re looking for.
- Comment on Useful side hustle 2 weeks ago:
Scammer posting to multiple communities. Report them.
- Comment on When will we have auto turrets mounted on plane engines to stop birdstrikes? 3 weeks ago:
Never understood why they can’t make a missile detect this and just aim for the center point where all the heat / chaff / IR is coming from.
- Comment on When will we have auto turrets mounted on plane engines to stop birdstrikes? 3 weeks ago:
You are incorrect. Many people have been killed by bullets falling back to earth. There is even a law in Arizona named after a little girl killed that way.
Shooting guns in the air should result in prison and lifetime forfeiture of the privilege to own firearms. It’s irresponsible and extremely negligent.
And I’m not anti-gun. I own 3 and enjoy target shooting. What I am, is anti-gun ownership by morons.
- Comment on I'm suppose to believe I now live in a world where a Democrats can become president agoant and put George Soros at the head of DOGE? 3 weeks ago:
Yes Turkey is in NATO and has been since the early fifties. That’s probably what you were remembering. Since most of the EU is also in NATO (if not all, I’m not gonna look it up) it’s a totally understandable brain glitch!
- Comment on Doordash deserves it's fate 3 weeks ago:
That’s the one! I’m really rooting for them.
- Comment on Doordash deserves it's fate 3 weeks ago:
That’s a great tip for finding new restaurants! I get to waste the middleman’s resources, too! Win win.
- Comment on Doordash deserves it's fate 3 weeks ago:
Driverless cars will eliminate Grubhub, DoorDash, etc, because it will be cheaper for most restaurants to have their own delivery vehicles again, and you’ll probably see co-op services for smaller places.
Restaurants delivering their own food is not a foreign concept - it’s how all food delivery was done in the ‘old days’. They will jump on the chance to eliminate these gig commissions.
- Comment on Doordash deserves it's fate 3 weeks ago:
The jobs won’t disappear. They’ll just change. The need is obviously there.
Here in Colorado a bunch of drivers just formed a employee owned co-op, both to give the middle finger to Uber and Lyft, and so the drivers can actually earn a living. We need more of that.
- Comment on Doordash deserves it's fate 3 weeks ago:
Stop using it. It’s that simple.
Gig economy work is horrible for the workers, and incredibly exploitative. The workers frequently make less than minimum wage.
I refuse to order from any restaurant that doesn’t do their own delivery. If enough other people do the same, these places will curl up and die very quickly.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I am so happy for you for all that self improvement! It’s really brave to put yourself out there like this, too. I’m on the other side of the planet but I hope you find some folks close by or at least in a compatible time zone!
- Comment on How realistic is the threat of the government remotely manipulating digital devices you own and planting evidence? 3 weeks ago:
In my experience about half of IT workers are clueless drones, another quarter are just slackers, and the remaining quarter get everything done. Those two quarters trade people on the regular thanks to burnout cycles, but yeah, there are still plenty of IT staff out there making terrible, boneheaded decisions daily.
- Comment on Why is OCR for handwritten content still that bad? 3 weeks ago:
I’ve read that the USPS has amazing OCR for mail sorting. It is, of course, highly tuned for one particular data format.
- Comment on Why is OCR for handwritten content still that bad? 3 weeks ago:
That’s completely incomprehensible.
- Comment on Portal 2 gets a compatibility update for Linux 3 weeks ago:
Nice! A replay of both Portal games is long overdue in this house!
- Comment on Reuters: New research backs up that video games can be an antidote to stress and anxiety [interactive article] 4 weeks ago:
As a lifelong gamer and and an almost lifelong enjoyer of the despair of watching humanity defile our one and only home… duh.
Video games are weapons grade copium for smart people.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Oh the delicious irony.
- Comment on Why can ballpoint pens fail permanently when they still have so much ink left? 1 month ago:
Well, duh. I’ve seen movies, they write with paint brushes, why would they need pens?
- Comment on I've noticed a lot of UK job applications use the American MM/DD/YYYY date format and some also say "resume" instead of CV. Does that annoy you if you're British? 2 months ago:
What programmer in their right mind uses / instead of -?
I use the delimiter when writing out log files when I want hour or minute in the logfile name. SantaChimneyLog_20241225-0312.txt. Otherwise yeah it just gets left off.
- Comment on Charities of Employees from "non-profit" I was going to donate too 2 months ago:
Not to mention those of us that just lived in the wrong country for a while in the 80’s.
- Comment on Did Google just have a little hiccup? 2 months ago:
They were going to do a page like this for Azure but realized that page would be larger than the rest of Wikipedia.
- Comment on I have to be knowledgeable about a particular superstition in order to sign in to access a government form 2 months ago:
I was going to praise this guy for beating Weird Al to the punch by 4 years, but the Zoloft and phone jokes give it away as a fake (or at least not from 1995).
- Comment on I have to be knowledgeable about a particular superstition in order to sign in to access a government form 2 months ago:
Me: “Huh, there’s no Trash option here.”
- Comment on I am a very liberal person and I have very liberal children, except for one. I'm pretty sure my Gen Z son has been taken in by fascist doctrine. What can I get him for Christmas? 3 months ago:
You ought to edit your comment above because it reads like you’re telling people those things are dangerous.
- Comment on Is there an obvious technical reason why the major email services (Outlook, gmail, etc) can't seem to limit recipients' from Replying-All? 3 months ago:
every hour was amateur hour!
lol, I am stealing this!
- Comment on Is there an obvious technical reason why the major email services (Outlook, gmail, etc) can't seem to limit recipients' from Replying-All? 3 months ago:
Enough said. You have my sympathy.
- Comment on Is there an obvious technical reason why the major email services (Outlook, gmail, etc) can't seem to limit recipients' from Replying-All? 3 months ago:
That means your mail admins sucked at their job.
- Comment on Is there an obvious technical reason why the major email services (Outlook, gmail, etc) can't seem to limit recipients' from Replying-All? 3 months ago:
Wonder what the back end software is there. With Exchange reply-all storms are a thing of the past. I don’t have to convince anyone of anything to stop a reply all storm. Takes 2 minutes of setting up a transport rule. But the admin needs to be experienced enough to know that.