xantoxis
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- Comment on Astounding absurdity 2 days ago:
I don’t usually read walls of text (attention span) but this was a good one, worth reading to the end. Well said tbh
- Comment on Voyager 1 3 days ago:
Google is actually the sine qua non of what I’m talking about. I’ll concede that it’s possible Google as a corporate entity will still exist in 2048 (it was founded in 1998). But Google has undergone such a drastic and dystopian management change that it’s almost not even the same company now–
–but that isn’t relevant to what I’m actually talking about, which is the products. The proposition that Slack logs would still be around 50 years from now was what catalyzed my quip. Google kills everything it makes, usually quickly. Will we be able to look at Google Reader logs in 2048? Or–even closer to the target–Google Wave logs? Google Podcasts? Google Stadia? (I could go on.)
At the end of the day it was just a quip, but I fully expect the SaaS companies you currently think of as indestructible titans to be on the dustheap of history in 20 years, let alone 50.
- Comment on Voyager 1 3 days ago:
Yeah. Technically I’m not talking about Microsoft, as their primary product is the OS and they are not purely Internet-based. IBM, of course, is much older than that and also has some Internet products, as does every software company.
In my statement “Internet company” means a company whose only product is SaaS on the Internet; i.e. someone who, if they went away, their product would disappear with them.
- Comment on Voyager 1 3 days ago:
Imagine any internet company lasting 50 years.
- Comment on Voyager 1 3 days ago:
I think the term “metal” is overused, but this is probably the most metal thing a programmer could possibly do besides join a metal band.
- Comment on palaeoartists are dreamers 1 week ago:
Inscrutable? The message here is clear
- Comment on party poopers 1 week ago:
This whiteboard all by itself could be used as data that students need to be allowed more sleep.
- Comment on evangelism 1 week ago:
This revelation is about to change my whole lunch (I’m also gonna have a sandwich)
- Comment on I like this text. In which Lemmy community can I best share it ? Thanks. 1 week ago:
That’s who I was thinking of when I wrote this!
- Comment on Antybooties 1 week ago:
This one’s not even that far out there. Understanding how ants think has direct applications! Ants must take many thousands of steps in a day; being able to count them precisely requires certain cognitive facilities we wouldn’t otherwise know existed. Next step: figure out how those things work with such simple cognition. Then apply that to self-organizing robots and use them to cure cancer or something.
- Comment on I like this text. In which Lemmy community can I best share it ? Thanks. 1 week ago:
The main thesis here is good, but that’s a mischaraterization of what people consider “failed” writers.
Someone who wrote one novel and had it published is not considered a failed writer, no matter if they then stop writing immediately. “Failed writer” is pretty much reserved for people who tried writing and couldn’t get anyone interested enough in it to publish it.
I’m not sure what labels would be applied to someone who exclusively pursued self-publishing, but that’s not really the common way.
- Comment on Anon is a doctor 1 week ago:
Also, a medieval doctor would not have access to 4chan
- Comment on self-defence deez nuts 3 weeks ago:
Moreover, eating the mushroom isn’t even hurting the original organism. It’s pretty vestigial once the spores have found a way to get out.
- Comment on Professional drummer hears Rage Against The Machine - Bulls on Parade for the first time... without the drums and is asked to improvise. 4 weeks ago:
The second I saw from your title which song it was I thought “this person is gonna go extremely hard and like a third of this song doesn’t even have drums”
- Comment on This is a member of the Ku Klux Klan pontificating on education. 1 month ago:
If I was this guy I’d be pretty disappointed with teachers, too
- Comment on Homer 1 month ago:
He’s not? There’s literally an episode about how Homer is so lucky in life that he drives a man insane.
- Comment on Anon gets robbed 1 month ago:
Yeah, I’ve often wondered whether this guy “successfully” “robbed” me. Seems like a lot of semantics though, genuinely I just thought having some food would probably chill him out and make him leave, but you might ask, is this actually different from being robbed?
I guess the difference is when he was gone I felt good about myself.
- Comment on Anon gets robbed 1 month ago:
It’s actually very likely the guy didn’t even have a knife. I had a mentally ill guy once approach me and my friend while we were hanging around in the street waiting for the store to open. He was rambling a bit but he mentioned he was gonna get hit shotgun and kill someone (he didn’t specify us, in fact I don’t think he ever made a direct threat against us, but it was clear he was trying to scare us). My friend was sweating bullets but I just asked if he was hungry and gave him my bag of trail mix. He left, confused. I’m quite sure he didn’t have a shotgun.
People are so used to violent confrontation in the United States that just suggesting violence indirectly can be enough to scare them into giving you something. Anon’s “mugger” was probably doing this.
- Comment on Hasbro exec says Baldur's Gate 3 "proved for us that people really wanted great D&D games," supports Larian's plan to "take the time we need" 1 month ago:
The witcher games preceding Witcher 3 did very well, and TBH Cyberpunk turned out pretty ok as well. So I’m not sure your example really fits. For its own part, Larian was picked to make this game because the Divinity games are so popular and successful.
But I’ll agree that it’s really unlikely to do this more than once on purpose, but clearly it can be done by competent studios.
- Comment on Hasbro exec says Baldur's Gate 3 "proved for us that people really wanted great D&D games," supports Larian's plan to "take the time we need" 1 month ago:
No we don’t. BG3 is great for a lot of reasons, but nowhere on the list is “it uses the rules of D&D”. D&D is a terrible game system. Make a game like BG3 that isn’t… that.
- Comment on Yeah UPS, that's proof 1 month ago:
This is where I would deliver your package
IF I HAD ONE - Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Don’t forget price controls, strong anti-collusion legislation and strong antitrust.
- Comment on Social acceptability 1 month ago:
You’ve given me much to think about. Perhaps someday society will forgive the feet people, but not today it seems.
- Comment on Social acceptability 1 month ago:
I don’t agree with this. I think it’s weirder to be into knees than feet. (Personally I’m an ass man, so I’m looking down at you all benevolently.)
- Comment on Anon reveals their deepest trauma 1 month ago:
Oh my god. Anon was just trying to be friends and because of that, a terrible crime occurred that will change his life forever
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
That’s nice, but this quote illustrates they still don’t get it.
The fact that a majority of Norfolk employees felt that they wanted or needed a union constitutes a failure on our part.
I’m willing to accept that their lack of understanding doesn’t constitute any malice; that they do want to do best by their employees. But they, along with most companies in the US and worldwide, do not fundamentally understand unions.
There are so many reasons employees should have a union, and many of them don’t have anything to do with the actions of current management. To give them a voice in the company’s public face; to protect them from future management actions; to protect them from the actions of the management that comes next, when the company is sold or the current board retires; to allow them to ask for things the company hasn’t even currently considered; to take a unified political stance; there’s many more.
I don’t want management rending their clothes and sobbing over the existence of unions. I just want them to get the hell out of the way.
- Comment on CNN blocks Firefox with uBo 3 months ago:
Indeed. If a site simply doesn’t send you cookies, there’s no question of GDPR compliance. Blocking the cookies amounts to the same thing.
I’m currently wondering if CNN may actually be in violation by doing this.
- Comment on If Trump and Biden both died today, what would happen? 3 months ago:
If Biden died, his VP, Kamala Harris would become the president–the first woman president, as it happens. Everything would pretty much go on as it was.
Trump’s death is entirely irrelevant to this scenario, and not useful to consider.
- Comment on Why is propaganda frowned upon? 3 months ago:
Propaganda can also be a label applied to 1) true information presented in a certain way, and 2) the same types of information presented about subjects other than the government.
I’ll leave others to address point 1, but I think point 2 is interesting. Propaganda can be about economic systems, for example, such as capitalism, which exists outside the realm of government. Propaganda can be about industries, for example when the oil industry tries to mislead us about global warming. I think the common theme is that propaganda has to be about broad, powerful systems having, as you pointed out, serious consequences when they tell you something.
- Comment on N-no... you can't do this to me... 3 months ago:
Unfortunately the witnesses ALSO want to make social demands of you when they see you doing nothing to save those people, so there’s no winning here