corsicanguppy

@corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there an anti- sleep-paralysis device?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Get examined. Narcolepsy is a terrible thing. My friend couldn’t work late as she’d be prone to hallucination while driving. She’s better now with a good drug regimen and awareness but she reports being very frightened for a while.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hide modal for 2 weeks⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  it feels like the setup menus are just a game of minesweeper

  …and that turns it into a skills game vs a bad gamble.

  And people who don’t wanna hire pros to manage their on-prem think they can maybe, just maybe, win that skill game.

  And that’s how casinos that don’t oaunfee their games of chance through clowd sign-ups also leverage dunning-kruger for profit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not promoting hate speech but what happened to all the slights/slurs/vulgarity from like the 20s and 40s. There were so many. Now it seems well I can only think of three?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Can the dumber ones pass more quickly, please?

  Totes mid, fr fr. Not fetch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's a bad habit you use to have for a long time but finally fixed?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  you use to have

  You can’t use something in order to have it. Once you use it, it’s gone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What options of resistance are programmers creating to not submit to AI culture?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Not if you use it correctly.

  Ah! “Git gud” elitism to paper over the risk.

  The issue still stands: what few seniors you still have at the shop who can tell people WHY something is a bad idea, are now distracted with juniors submitting absolute shit code for review and needing to be taught why that structure is a bad idea.

  “Well everyone else is doing it” was a bad rebuttal when you wanted to go to Chuck’s party and Mom said no. Laundering “this is what everyone else writes” through an Ai concentrator when 2 generations of coders are self-taught and unmentored after the great post-y2k purge of mentors and writers, isn’t a better situation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  90’s

  '90s

  2000’s

  2000s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  … Some I haven’t used in 40 years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A tangled web of deals stokes AI bubble fears in Silicon Valley⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Smart money re-diversifies into more stable markets.

  This will help fulfill the bubble prophesy that much faster.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Game developers desperate for you to join their Discord "server"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This don’t about people choosing one bad voice chatter over another. This is people who can’t bother to use the best tool for the job.

  (And web fora aren’t it)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Updates that don't tell me what is being updated⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  please see the changelog inside the app

  Is the hope that, after updating and checking the changelog and deciding that updating is NOT for you because of some idiotic breaking-change, you just hop in the time machine and prevent yourself from updating ?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pretty sure he's fine⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  debts

  \sigh

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are podcasters/vloggers suddenly holding tiny mics?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I watch clips where people can be heard super-clearly on lowly clip-on mics.

  There is no reason to hold it in your hand. You’re not Bob Barker.

  Compare with the vapid influencerati trash holding their phones like pizza slices and shouting into them and turning the sound uploke they’re on some reality trash show. Telling them that they’re absolutely using it wrongly, that engineers have tuned the mic and speakers for a completely different orientation, is just lost. So I make fun of them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the most offensive word I can use that isn't a slur?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Moist, as in “moist oily ointment.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's your test for people?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As a former waiter, I have a counterpoint:

  • I can’t carry that wobbly precarious mess you’ve made, and it’s easier to disassemble and reassemble it because I know how to do this.

  Thus, you’ve created work for me.

  Thankfully I haven’t been a waiter in - oh look! - 30 years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you are in the US, and a karen threatens to call ICE on you, what's the best course of action?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Then once they are here

  They don’t ask questions, so you don’t need to continue. They just drag people away, it seems. They scoop up a dozen kiwis a month, which means your even your non-kiwi pasty-white self gets none of the privilege you’re counting on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨do you use non violent communication at the workplace?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s charming to call some new communication style ‘non-violent’, as if it’s the first.

  I learned to update in quick language in the army. I learned to argue a point in New Jersey.

  In NJ, when I worked there, the staff of geniuses were incredibly passionate about doing a thing the best and right way. Sometimes the best route to achieving that wasn’t obvious ans a discussion would ensue. These would be obvious verbal heroism by the nerds in residence, but they only never argued the facts and the options; never the people.

  It was effective and only sometimes needed a decision from above, and when everyone was done they didn’t hate each other.

  I just don’t see where “I feel …” isn’t just slowing us down when time is short. But, if your environment has a surplus of time, then I hope you’ll see benefit from this idea.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PUT THE TRAINS IN THE BAG⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But dood. Put a USPS fishbowl-connected car on the end with a sorter working inside and prepping for each stop, and watch FedEx sweat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Arizona law to restrict online porn access; Pornhub will block state⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Voting blue no matter who turned out to not be a good strategy.

  It’s funny how you relabel harm-reduction in voting, and imply the alternative wouldn’t have been far worse. It’s an art.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Parents outraged as Meta uses photos of schoolgirls in ads targeting man⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thats the same vibe as: Don’t drive your kids to school, [because] you might get hit by a drunk driver.

  Nope. The poster is choosing to put the PII online, and cannot guarantee privacy. In IT Security, “How do you know” is the most powerful phrase; and for Facebook/Meta/etc, you just don’t.

  This is a fundamental rule since childhood (“If you’re coming home late from band practice, stay in a group because of the cougar”) and I’m not sure where you missed it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did easy access to Porn while growing up impacted Gen-Z ?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  did … impacted

  \sigh

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Dial up the fuzz until at least one source pops out. Need to know more on the mars rover? Here’s how to teach your dog to knit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there or has there ever been information illegal to possess or have?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I had a green DeCSS shirt. It was awesome. I ditched it while coming over the border.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Software Engineers Paid To Fix Vibe Coded Messes⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  regular software engineers

  Regular competent software engineers

  Same thing. Otherwise there’d be air quotes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has Charlie Kirk ever changed his views on a subject during a debate?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Savage.

  I hate that my macabre subconscious is trying to cook up a sick burn about bullet points.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft mandates a return to office⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  But, as per the Dead Sea Effect, they’re not gonna shed the people they think they are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come butthole scratches doesn't get infected with poop bacteria ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve seen exactly one airport bathroom with private sinks, and zero airplanes where I think I can manage that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come butthole scratches doesn't get infected with poop bacteria ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  But unless the TP turns red to signal you’re done, how do you know? ;-)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨do you apologize, even if it's not your fault just to make the other person feel validated?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Except outsiders don’t know we have 6 meanings for “sorry!” and one of them is “I’m sorry you’re not better”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨do you apologize, even if it's not your fault just to make the other person feel validated?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Bump into a Canadian at an airport and you’ll hear them apologize.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The planet still belongs to the dinosaurs.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The boy can’t spell “you’re”. We don’t need to challenge him on the content. Similarly, if the tenor can’t hold the first note, we don’t need to stay for the performance.