tempest
@tempest@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Islandium 1 day ago:
Hawlk tuah… Am I doing this right?
- Comment on GOG job listing for a Senior Software Engineer notes "Linux is the next major frontier" 1 week ago:
Im not generally making source code changes. It’s the dependencies.
Mainly we’re talking about building very old versions of things like libpng. Making things like autoconf and configure and cmake all work is a pain in the ass as their versions slowly change.
The business would be content to let it run on Ubuntu 12 until it’s a major problem so I can’t let the perfect be the enemy of good.
- Comment on GOG job listing for a Senior Software Engineer notes "Linux is the next major frontier" 1 week ago:
Honestly if part of their job is at all trying to get old shit to run on new operating systems AI is very useful for that task.
Part of my job is keeping a 30 year old c++ application compiling and building on newer versions of Linux. LLMs have made this a far easier experience.
- Comment on Not the same 2 weeks ago:
You don’t need to wear the hat.
Just show up three quarters of the way through a busy shift and tell them they would look pretty if they smiled more.
- Comment on a man of many minds 2 weeks ago:
I have not seen Gillette in while ( he’s not really my jam) and then I saw him in Marty supreme. He has lost a lot of weight and is also much older. Turns out time keeps on turning, who knew.
Anyway all that just to say that’s a really old image of him.
- Comment on Not the same 2 weeks ago:
I get it, but at the same time I don’t get it
- Comment on Troll physics 3 weeks ago:
That meme is a quarter century old (older if you count it’s actual source instead of the video that made it popular)
- Comment on Stove seamine 3 weeks ago:
Interesting… But that makes me ask… Where are they getting these sea mines?
- Comment on A swing and a miss 1 month ago:
SOME OF THOSE WHO WORK FORCES, ARE THE SAME THAT BURN CROSSES
- Comment on You nomster! 1 month ago:
They don’t have to be.
My roommate once got a keyboard with all blank key caps.
In order to punish his hubris I remapped m and n in the windows registry when he left his computer unlocked.
Good times.
- Comment on Careful, he's a hero 1 month ago:
That’s a no from me dog
- Comment on The show I was watching went from "Free" to "Paid" *while I was watching it* 1 month ago:
I mean those video players lazy load so it probably just requested the next chunk and got the “you gotta pay response” same as if you returned to a specific spot with a link after a long time.
- Comment on How customer service jobs be 1 month ago:
Usually understaffed and not paid enough to give a shit.
That line cooks life won’t change one iota whether you get pickles or not.
Likely they are just getting mixed up with other orders and someone else isn’t getting their pickles.
- Comment on lemmy.world down... 1 month ago:
It isn’t magic but RAM doesn’t tend to just stop working. You’ll start getting reported error correction events on a bad dim before it might fail which usually means it’s replacement time.
- Comment on lemmy.world down... 1 month ago:
It’s still not that common to have one die. Servers have ECC memory which can get you by longer even as a DIMM starts to die. It’s also rarely run at speeds consumer RAM is run at.
The thing with server memory is when you get to point where you have hundreds of servers and each one has 12 to 24 DIMMs the chance you have a bad one somewhere increases.
- Comment on lemmy.world down... 1 month ago:
So does .CA
It’s one of the advantages of the being a lot of sys admins and Linux users in this community.
You can run Lemmy pretty comfortably on used servers.
- Comment on IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending trillions on AI data centers will pay off at today's infrastructure costs 2 months ago:
The real issue and what those AI dependent companies are banking on is that they can capture a user base and when OpenAI starts to reach the end of the road with LLM improvements and moves to the extract phase it can buy these little companies to ingest their user base.
Everyone else in that space will be instantly fucked since they will now be competing directly with openai while paying their margin but that’s the bet they are making.
- Comment on Chasing the Elephant 2 months ago:
You know it’s a good comic when they have to explain it with the I have autism pin.
- Comment on same shit every day, on god 2 months ago:
What if instead of a pipe to return the steam we use a freaking laser beam!
- Comment on 2 months ago:
The majority of the steam deck SKUs were produced prior to the AI memory crunch.
These steam machines are being produced in a market where memory is 3 or 4 times more expensive.
This box will be more than a steam deck. Probably 1000 bucks or so.
- Comment on After Today's meeting where Trump fell in love with Mamdani, this is MAGA tomorrow morning. 2 months ago:
I do wonder if people have never met a senior in cognitive decline.
If you have you start to see the signs in a lot of the old people in Congress and the white house.
Trump can’t remember what he did last week.
- Comment on Reselling tickets for profit to be outlawed in UK government crackdown 2 months ago:
You think that, until you realize that live nation controls almost every venue in your city/state/country and then you start getting juiced for even smaller acts.
If they want to keep their vertical integration they should have to play by some rules.
- Comment on Reselling tickets for profit to be outlawed in UK government crackdown 2 months ago:
They do, that’s ticket masters entire value add for them.(Well that and the fact that they control a lot of venues).
You get mad at ticket master and not the artist.
- Comment on Bank Workers, Rejoice! 2 months ago:
I’m pretty sure interest only mortgages already exist in some places.
- Comment on Hrmmmmm 2 months ago:
Eh the Soviets had plenty of their own man made famine (Holodomor, among others)
- Comment on Who dis? 2 months ago:
How long has it been since they restyled that message app? A decade? Feels like longer.
- Comment on The height of sophistication: the 1994 McDonald's manager collection 2 months ago:
As much as America is fat as shit the rest of the world is not far behind unfortunately.
- Comment on The height of sophistication: the 1994 McDonald's manager collection 2 months ago:
I don’t know about your area but mine is nearly all those slow ass Touch kiosks. At best there is one person manning the till.
It would amuse me greatly if they dressed up the kiosks like this though.
- Comment on It's OK to just like lemon water. 2 months ago:
For us poors sunscreen is the best value per dollar. Especially men, because women often include it with other cosmetics (even if it’s not that effective and you should be using a straight up sunscreen)
- Comment on What are you ladies doing tonight 3 months ago:
My beef with them are three fold.
- They have been around for a decade and the elderly seem to still have screen terror and freeze up and take forever
- There are often fewer of these machines and children plug the hole trying one sip of every flavor
- I’ve thrown out cellphones with faster interfaces than these things and the damn screens get gross after a while if not cleaned constantly