theneverfox
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- Comment on What a night 1 week ago:
We just call then pharmacy benefit managers in the US, and they have a special exemption to take kickbacks legally
- Comment on Anon has a proposal for you 1 week ago:
I would love to, but I can’t find a damn thing with search these days. Apparently a robot named t-rex that is way more important to know about
I did watch this recently though, it seems well researched and paints a picture with what we know
- Comment on Anon has a proposal for you 1 week ago:
The mobility issues seem to be greatly overstated
It might not be able to run, but it’s still fast, and seemingly built like a handcart. Newer research suggests it could turn and lunge very quickly
- Comment on Microsoft's Canada timezone troubles leave admins fixing calendars, pretending they're in Bogota 1 week ago:
I mean… If I had the option, I’d declare myself an incomprehensible time zone and use it to skip meetings
- Comment on Anon isn't smiling 1 week ago:
But you can quit whenever you want to! Totally balanced and equal, no power dynamics to think about
What, you want people to be forced to serve out their contract against their will? That’s slavery. I’m docking your pay for being pro slavery.
- Comment on Jeshus H Christ. Why do they put delicious biscuits in these surprise cans? 1 week ago:
You might need someone experienced to show you then… When I was a kid my mom handed me a properly peeled one and pointed out exactly the right spot
There’s always YouTube university. Not as good as direct learning, but at least you’ll be able to see exactly how it should look
- Comment on Jeshus H Christ. Why do they put delicious biscuits in these surprise cans? 1 week ago:
Sounds like you’re doing too much peeling and not enough tapping
There’s a sweet spot like a ketchup bottle. It’s like 1/3 of the way down, you only have to peel it a little bit and tap the right spot onto the corner of the counter
- Comment on I salivate thinking about Players unfiltered ...oh, and nice ass, I'm told .... 2 weeks ago:
Hell to the no. Start with a standing invitation to the cookout and we’ll talk
- Comment on Jeshus H Christ. Why do they put delicious biscuits in these surprise cans? 2 weeks ago:
Imagine bread dough, but it’s more like a slightly pressurized paste in a cardboard tube
I’m pretty sure most Europeans would burn you at the stake for crimes against bread
- Comment on Jeshus H Christ. Why do they put delicious biscuits in these surprise cans? 2 weeks ago:
Wait… Does no one else give them a tppy tap? They’re not scary if you’re the one actively making them pop
- Comment on Jeshus H Christ. Why do they put delicious biscuits in these surprise cans? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, it’s carbs on carbs, no nutrients or fiber to be found. They’re really dangerous, I don’t allow myself to cook them because I’d probably eat the whole tube in one sitting
- Comment on Jeshus H Christ. Why do they put delicious biscuits in these surprise cans? 2 weeks ago:
Why? You just peel it a lil and give it a tiny tap it and it goes “pufffff”. Much satisfy.
I will happy open all of yours for you. I’m also immune to onions, so I will cut them if I get some of what you’re making
- Comment on 'None of these people have ever made a game,' BioWare co-founder Greg Zeschuk says of game industry executives: 'They just don't know how it works' 2 weeks ago:
I’m close to a doctor, and they were telling me how their clinic demanded a schedule that leaves only 15 minutes per patient, and how it’s causing huge burnout. They asked how it got that way, so I explained the great simplification, how missed diagnoses are not a metric that can be measured, let alone put onto a spreadsheet
The only real answer I can come to is that we can’t let organizations survive so long they become entrenched, or become too big for a single person to know on a human level. Also, we need to seriously regulate consulting companies, they are a tool to diffuse responsibility away so no one has to take it
But in the meantime? It’s not easy but it’s simple - we need to fight against the tightening ratchet. We need to be the person who pushes back, who continues this endless struggle until the next generation takes over.
The doctor can go to the CEO and ask for a slight reduction in workload so they can spend a bit longer with a few patients a day at their discretion. It’s not a solution, but it pushes against the straps squeezing us to death.
It’s minor and will go away if it’s not continuously fought for, but each person who does this impacts many thousands of lives for as long as they the line
- Comment on It used to be a library 2 weeks ago:
Again, all useful for easy answers…
Knowledge is actively being lost. Lack of discoverability is making the Internet sanitized and corporate
If you don’t understand why this is an ongoing problem, I don’t know what else to say
- Comment on It used to be a library 2 weeks ago:
Not through search though… That free access to all the knowledge of humanity is a shell of what it was
Llms are a tool. A very useful tool. But it’s also a tool that depends on other tools. It could have automated the process I described and gotten to the answer very fast.
Instead, it needs to read through the code. It’s still relatively fast, but it only works up to a point. After a certain level of complexity, it chokes on the problem
Something has been taken from us. And it’s more than just a tool for coding, it was access to primary sources of information on everything
- Comment on Do people vote just by name recognition on the ballot or do they vote for the issues? 2 weeks ago:
Sure, but honestly how many people actually research their choices? We’re dying because of low information voters turning democracy into a team sport
I’d be happy if you simply had to correctly spell the name of the candidate under the position they’re running for. It’s a really low bar as far as poll tests go, and at least everyone would have to do a minimal amount of research on the election to have their vote count
- Comment on It used to be a library 2 weeks ago:
I’m really not. This was my daily workflow, one day it was working, the next it was not. There were gradual changes before and after as websites locked themselves down to scraping, but there was a specific update to Google’s search, followed by Bing and the sites that repackage it. I switched to using searxng and quant, but neither of them were ever as good
I couldn’t narrow down to the day, but I could probably pin it down to a specific week if I dug through my notes
- Comment on Do people vote just by name recognition on the ballot or do they vote for the issues? 2 weeks ago:
They mostly vote by party affiliation. If we could get that R and D off the ballot suddenly, we’d get some really interesting results
- Comment on Why does the microwave button have a "popcorn" button when every microwave popcorn brand says "DO NOT USE THE POPCORN BUTTON"? 2 weeks ago:
Another thing to watch out for a new microwave is whether or not low power mode means 20% power or 100% power 20% of the time.
Is that even a thing? I’m under the impression that magnometers have to be run at full power, and all you can change is how frequently they are on during the cycle (which is never the full time, even at 100%)
- Comment on Why does the microwave button have a "popcorn" button when every microwave popcorn brand says "DO NOT USE THE POPCORN BUTTON"? 2 weeks ago:
I miss having one with knobs. I’ve never seen one with a power knob, but I usually microwave food twice as long at power, so that sounds convenient
- Comment on Why does the microwave button have a "popcorn" button when every microwave popcorn brand says "DO NOT USE THE POPCORN BUTTON"? 2 weeks ago:
You should just get the popcorn kennels and pop them with oil. You can toss in the seasonings whenever, popcorn is very forgiving
It’s a lot cheaper, plus the bag liners are one of the types of plastic that tend to leech a lot of microplastics
- Comment on It used to be a library 3 weeks ago:
Easier than the alternative multiple times over… and these were examples of how powerful it used to be. These were esoteric problems that couldn’t be worked around, either new libraries we were using to do something wired or legacy code we had to interface with
Like I mentioned, normally you could just Google the stack trace and find a discussion on your error immediately. AI is a decent replacement for that at least
- Comment on It used to be a library 3 weeks ago:
That was never easy to find, Google was never good at finding tangential hints.
It absolutely used to be, it was a huge part of my workflow. You put in the framework/library and one or two related terms, and it would bring up pages of information. If you dug through that, maybe make the terms more general once or twice, you literally would find some random forum post that gives you exactly what you needed. Usually someone else who solved the problem, but occasionally it was just a little detail in something unrelated. Or sometimes there just really was nothing, now it’s all the time
Hell, you used to be able to paste the error directly with the project name and get that specific error through the stack and line numbers. Now, it just sees an error message and abstractes it into “any error message”. After the first few results, it’ll be random stack errors now also from completely different projects
And I have tried to use a local LLM to dig through results, the problem is the information no longer comes up. Between sites closing themselves off to prevent scraping and Google intentionally demolishing their search capabilities, that entire branch of development skill is just gone
It was a stark change, just around 2 years ago I noticed it happening, and it’s only gotten worse
At this point you really need an AI to read through the source if you don’t want to do it yourself
I guess you could contact the developers, but it’s generally faster to figure it out yourself, so I never got into the habit
- Comment on WAR! What is it good for? 3 weeks ago:
It’s somewhat rare for now, because Russia can only field so many drone jammers. Still common enough that fields of discarded fiber optic lines are a problem that Ukraine is going to have to solve
For cheap war drones, fiber lines are probably only going to get more common as drone warfare tactics develop
- Comment on It used to be a library 3 weeks ago:
Cool, those would be common information. Easier to find than ever
Hell, if you search it it’ll come up multiple times. Hell, the AI summary will include exactly the lines I’m looking for. Hell, I probably don’t even bother, most of the time I’ll just click through in my IDE and read the relevant bit of the source code myself.
If the answer is in the man pages, the problem is so simple I won’t remember there was a problem
I’m still going to need that single forum post where the author of a framework makes an offhand comment that tangentially hints at the cause of the bug I’m hitting my head against
No amount of man pages are going to tell me I need to downgrade a library, or change a configuration value no one bothered to properly document
- Comment on It used to be a library 3 weeks ago:
I strongly beg to differ
3 years ago, when I searched for something I found it. Even the esoteric little details buried in an old forum weren’t that hard to find
Now? It’s fine if you want the most common information, but it’s impossible to find the little details
And those little details are critical for developers. A single sentence can give you an answer that could easily take hours or days to figure out
Programmers aren’t only switching to AI because it’s easier… The old way of doing things has been crippled
- Comment on What is behind the current Lemmy meme about 4 being a private key? 3 weeks ago:
It’s kinda like locking your door by putting a wedge in the crack. Probably, no one is going to try to open your door anyways, and probably, even if they did no one is going to take 5 seconds to examine the door and figure it out
But if someone does, it’s laughably easy to figure it out
- Comment on WAR! What is it good for? 3 weeks ago:
It’s exaggeration… The people flying the drones are generally very physically fit and flying by fiber optics out in the field so the drones can’t be disrupted. They’re also carrying weapons and other heavy gear, and escorted by friendlies, in case someone tries to get the jump on them
But it’s funnier to play into the fact that drones are genuinely dominating the battlefield
- Comment on WAR! What is it good for? 3 weeks ago:
He’d probably have a fancy insulated case… One that he didn’t read the directions on, which say “for short trips” and “keep of direct sunlight”
The case gleams, prominently clipped to the combat webbing, very much in direct sunlight
- Comment on unfactorizable 3 weeks ago:
LMAO what? That’s wild