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- Comment on Americans Are Using PTO to Sleep, Not for Vacation—Report 2 weeks ago:
lol, is just scheduled two days off in October to do nothing and probably sleep.
- Comment on So...how the fuck do I trust *anything*? 2 weeks ago:
Read the book The Demon Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark. Or better yet, listen to the Carey Elwes (Westley from The Princess Bride) read it on audiobook. It tells all about charlatans and conmen, and how to be skeptical and detect their bullshit. It’s the kind of book you can skip around in too, so it’s an easy read, not too weighty, but with lots of great info and stories.
Carl Sagan was amazing.
- Comment on Mark Zuckererg Demos New Facebook AI And It Couldn’t Have Gone Worse 3 weeks ago:
lol, this reminded me of the MS surface parody. “Instead of using one of today’s more popular compact devices to get directions to where you’re going, why not use a device the size of a small car to do the same job?”
- Comment on How come butthole scratches doesn't get infected with poop bacteria ? 4 weeks ago:
I always forget to bring my bidet with me when I go on a trip!
- Comment on 🎶 picture this we we're both butt naked banging on the bathroom door 🎶 1 month ago:
went to write the idea down
Doesn’t this mean he left the shower?
- Comment on Memes with stock photos? 1 month ago:
I see. So it’s probably an instagram thing. That would also explain the square format.
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- Comment on So Long to Tech's Dream Job: It’s the shut up and grind era, tech workers said, as Apple, Google, Meta and other giants age into large bureaucracies. 1 month ago:
What I’m seeing is that these trends are also hitting smaller companies whose leadership follows the cues. Now even at smaller companies folks are afraid to speak up and there is no more fun. I saw a huge shift in that direction during the layoffs in 2023.
If you’re part of a team that actually enjoys work and has fun while doing it, cherish that every day.
- Comment on I have some very old CDs, mostly retro video games. Is there a way to pull the games and data off the CDs for preservation? 2 months ago:
Before you spend effort on this, check archive.org and see if the software has already been archived.
- Comment on Every support thread on Reddit is literally this now 2 months ago:
Oh yeah, I sympathize with that problem. I have no sympathy for Reddit though. We all should have invested our time in something that had the users’ best interests in mind. Something like the fediverse.
- Comment on Every support thread on Reddit is literally this now 2 months ago:
Is this post better suited for c/mildlyinfiriating or c/fuckingawesome?
- Comment on Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade website no-crawl directives 2 months ago:
I am shocked, shocked to discover an AI company breaking the social contract and behaving badly.
- Comment on The way two of the usb's are one way while the other is another way 2 months ago:
That’s the kind of shit OT god would have done and Lucifer would’ve pointed out the absurdity of.
- Comment on US education 2 months ago:
The title is “Science 4 for”, so it’s the fourth in the series.
- Comment on Don't we all? 2 months ago:
Judging by the buttons on his shirt, probably not.
- Comment on You don’t see articles like this about moms with three two jobs who still manage to take care of their kids. 2 months ago:
Replace “$4.2 trillion tech giant” with “cocaine”
- Comment on well? 2 months ago:
Dude. Relax. It was fiction.
- Comment on well? 2 months ago:
We should all be celebrating our good fortune, protection against a dark forest strike!
- Comment on Businessman Josh Kraft, son of Billionaire Robert Kraft, is running for Boston Mayor. He is accusing the mayor of worsening traffic by building bike lanes 2 months ago:
I wrote a huge explanation and then deleted it. The TL;DR is that all cars are are traffic. Bikes are too, but look around, what kind of traffic do you see?
- Comment on Nonsense 2 months ago:
Satanic Night Jar? Fuckin badass band name.
- Comment on The Telegraph has deleted the seemingly made-up article 4 months ago:
It makes me miss Fark. Does something like that exist on Lemmy?
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Having worked on products that are renamed to something equally ambiguous, I’d say they are trying to make it more difficult to find because they are trying to redirect customer attention to other places, and are deliberately making it difficult to talk about or search for. Unfortunately this is a very successful strategy. It’s also very user hostile, and product engineer hostile. My heart goes out to any engineers that work in this product.
- Comment on TIL 5 months ago:
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 5 months ago:
This is interesting. I haven’t heard somebody use “Apache” as a reference to httpd in a long time due to the rise of nginx and because Apache.org does so much more than just httpd.
But I agree. Apache httpd 0.x was one of the softwares that first showed me how much better Linux is than Windows. IIS at the time was an insecure confusing monstrosity. I wonder if it still is.
- Comment on Straight people, do you know what the Grindr notification sound is? 5 months ago:
All my coworkers. Full volume.
- Comment on Val Kilmer, Actor Renowned for Receding Into His Roles, Dies at 65 6 months ago:
Madmartigan!
- Comment on Movie theaters are trying everything to bring audiences back — from pickleball to cocktail bars 6 months ago:
It’s like a dream come true. When I was 7, I went to see Empire Strikes Back at a local theater in Sandusky Ohio, and as soon as I walked in and saw all the posters and smelled the popcorn and saw the theater lighting, I thought to myself “this would be absolutely perfect if only I could play pickleball.” Ever since then, whenever I feel like playing pickleball, I go to my local movie theater. It’s just astounding that there has not once been a pickleball court. But now the day has come. Finally we are getting something so obvious that it’s a wonder it’s taken so long for it to come into being. Pickleball in movie theaters. Because when I think of movie theaters, there’s nothing I want more than to play pickleball.
- Comment on Other than a faulty charging port, is there any reason to use a wireless phone charger over wired? 6 months ago:
Can you explain why it’s not possible to stabilize the voltage on the receiving side before the power is sent to the battery?
- Comment on What's your favourite classic movie you think everyone should have seen once in their life? 6 months ago:
[Tadamasa Goto’s] claim to infamy was alledgedly ordering a hit on the esteemed Japanese film director Juzo Itami in May 1992. Itami had directed a film called Minbo no onna, which, unlike all previous yakuza films in Japan, portrayed the yakuza as money-grubbing, ill-mannered louts, not noble outlaws. Goto was not pleased with the film and especially disturbed by the implications that yakuza did not live up to their threats. On May 22, five members of his organization attacked Itami in the parking lot in front of his house, slashing his left cheek and his neck, inflicting serious injuries upon him. Itami became a vocal supporter of the new anti–organized crime laws the Japanese government put in place that year and a general pain in the ass to organized crime. He was a living symbol of what the yakuza really did, not what they pretended to do. He allegedly killed himself a few years later by jumping from a tall building.
Tokyo Vice, chapter 21
- Comment on What's your favourite classic movie you think everyone should have seen once in their life? 6 months ago:
I think about this most times I eat ramen, and I eat ramen a lot.