Deestan
@Deestan@lemmy.world
- Comment on Using Clouds for too long might have made you incompetent 15 hours ago:
I understand.
Obviously, “knowing which cloud services to enable” is a lesser skill than knowing how those services work. That is not a parallel or equal skill in any way.
But do you assume people are just going drrrrr brain off when they don’t learn that one skillset you are accustomed to spotting?
- Comment on this 82 year old woman dressing like she was 40 or younger makes me think about how ridiculous I'll look like when and if I reach that age. Am I misguided? 15 hours ago:
You are making strong assumptions on her motivations, and then judging those motivations as stupid. Her sins are in your imagination only.
Alternative reading: A cool lady who does what makes her happy and give zero fucks if she confuses people.
Or alternatively: A lady and I do not need to have opinions on her, really.
- Comment on this 82 year old woman dressing like she was 40 or younger makes me think about how ridiculous I'll look like when and if I reach that age. Am I misguided? 15 hours ago:
Good. Creep pics of strangers is fucking disgusting.
- Comment on Using Clouds for too long might have made you incompetent 15 hours ago:
Yeah I can see that.
However, you are now arguing a different point than I am getting from your original post. Maybe my fault in interpretation ofc, but the main difference is:
You say “incompetent” and “less skilled” as general statements on senior engineers. Those statements are false.
You also say “missing the skills you are looking for” which is obviously true.
And the implication that before cloud, people developed these skills more naturally - because they had to. This makes sense and I believe it.
- Comment on Using Clouds for too long might have made you incompetent 17 hours ago:
That being said, I am genuinely frustrated by how little people know or care about the plumbing these days. :D
I am so fucking tired of seeing someone spin up 3 cloud databases for what could be a 40k in-memory hashtable.
- Comment on Using Clouds for too long might have made you incompetent 17 hours ago:
That is technically correct in a way, but I’ll argue very wrong in a meaningful way.
Cloud services are meant to let you focus less on the plumbing, so naturally many skills in that will not be developed, and skills adjacent to it will be less developed.
Buttttt you must assume effort remains constant!
So you get to focus more on other things now. E.g. functional programming, product thinking, rapid prototyping, API stuff, breadth of languages, etc. I bet the seniors you are missing X and Y in have bigger Zs and also some Qs that you may not be used to consider, or have the experience to spot and evaluate.
- Comment on Can you see magic eye pictures? 18 hours ago:
Someone made a modified version of Quake back in the day, that rendered to stereoscopic 3D in a white noise pattern.
It was such a mindfuck to play!
You get 3D depth but no colors or shades or contrast. It’s just shapes moving. So doors that were flush with the wall were impossible to see, but enemies in dark rooms were fully visible because there is no light or dark.
I like to imagine I got to experience what a bat sees with echolocation.
- Comment on Can you see magic eye pictures? 18 hours ago:
Yes. I can change my vision’s focal point and focus distance at will, so it’s usually easy even though my eyesight is getting fucky with age.
- Comment on The signatures are still coming and it's already making an impact 6 days ago:
Muh business model :'(
- Comment on Microsoft axe another 9000 in continued AI push 1 week ago:
I think this doesn’t really make sense for MS as a cost saving measure. It is a signal in order to sell copilot and other snaike oil to other companies hoping to cut costs.
- Comment on I am looking to broaden my youtube channels that I follow. What female channel are you following? 1 week ago:
Up and Atom: youtube.com/@upandatom
Sage the Bad Naturalist: youtube.com/@badnaturalist
Philosophy Tube: youtube.com/@philosophytube
Angela Collier: youtube.com/@acollierastro
Elly’s Everyday Soap Making: youtube.com/@ellyseverydaysoapmaking
The Poopie Show: youtube.com/@thepoopieshow
Münecat: youtube.com/channel/…/münecat
Dr. Becky: youtube.com/@drbecky
RailCowGirl: youtube.com/@railcowgirl
Ami Yamato: youtube.com/@amiyamato
Simone Giertz: youtube.com/@simonegiertz
Hannah Fry: youtube.com/@fryrsquared
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Oh this game is FUCKED
- Comment on How would I repurpose a work laptop? 1 week ago:
The main risk on company laptops is confidential data on the machine itself or any access the machine has to internal resources, so most locks are designed to be hard agaist that. The device itself tends to have more “bypassable” protection.
By which I mean: If the machine is locked down, it’s usually possible to clear and reset the lock somehow as long as you’re fine losing the data on it.
- Comment on In Canada, Nintendo is increasing the price of the original Nintendo Switch. 1 week ago:
Thanks! I am starting to think a steamdeck is going to be my solution. SteamOS on my tiny nongaming Linux laptop works perfectly for 2D or light 3D games, so I expext it to be fine.
- Comment on In Canada, Nintendo is increasing the price of the original Nintendo Switch. 1 week ago:
How’s the deck for mouse-heavy strategy games like Stellaris, Civ, etc?
- Comment on In Canada, Nintendo is increasing the price of the original Nintendo Switch. 1 week ago:
Thanks. Does it work well with controllers, or do people mostly play with the on-screen joysticks?
- Comment on In Canada, Nintendo is increasing the price of the original Nintendo Switch. 1 week ago:
Was considering a new switch, but may hold off now.
Which tablets do you have in mind? I could not find any suitable for anything but phone games via touch screen and unimpressive battery, but I don’t really know this market
- Comment on How does Apple make its infomercial animations to be identical to its software UI? 1 week ago:
Part of the answer is that the UI is “designed first” and coded to follow the design. If changes are seen as necessary when coding the UI, the design is updated first then the code made to follow.
So any UI behavior will already have a lot of accurate design and animation resources for them to work with.
- Comment on Google is launching Offerwall, A new tool for publishers /websites to paywall their content. 2 weeks ago:
Let me guess: There are ways for Google’s scraping, search engine, and AI model training to bypass this.
- Comment on Tesla's European car sales nosedive for fifth month as customers switch to Chinese EVs 2 weeks ago:
With that level of indirection gymnastics, you can accuse anyone of anything.
(This comment written in the language of a brutally colonizing and genocidal empire.)
- Comment on I hear a lot of "ACAB", why don't I hear "APAB"? (P as in Politician) 2 weeks ago:
It is a sentiment that separates politics from the people.
I believe/hope it is not a popular term because enough people believe it’s bad for democracy.
Depoliticaztion of the populace is what allows governments like Russia’s to happen.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Desktop computer: Installing a keylogger, for example, is cheap and require skills like “can purchase a cheap and simple technical part” and “can plug in a USB”, which are skills you can assume a CS student will possess.
Laptop: Same, but have to open the laptop and install a less standard straightforward loggrr on the internal cable. This require more effort and patience.
Phone: I have no idea, and I am a computer scientist who spends time thinking about this. I mean, all phones can be opened with corresponding equipment, and the touch screen is connected to the internal computer with a cable, but they differ in details per model and the space to work with is tiny. The research investment is significant and model dependent. Meaning, the effort cost is quite high and they’d need extremely strong motivation.
- Comment on Are Voice Assistants Becoming Family Members? 3 weeks ago:
A family member with no inherent moral compass or empathy, whose eyes, ears, thoughts and agency belong to teams of trained profit-seekers in a different country.
I disapprove of this humanization of software.
- Comment on Operation Narnia: Iran’s nuclear scientists reportedly killed simultaneously using special weapon 3 weeks ago:
It got more legal a few years ago, I think. Not explicitly “made legal”, but the legal foundations have been eroded. I.e. if you can expect to get away with something it is legal in a very real sense.
It’s always been practically legal for empires like the US, Russia, China to commit any atrocities in weak countries, More and more countries are seeing how much they can get away with.
Netanyahu tested the limits and saw there were none.
- Comment on A woman tried to call her mom in Iran. A robotic voice answered the phone 3 weeks ago:
During the invasion of Berlin in 1945, the overwhelmed German command trying to map out the Russian advance had to resort to just calling businesses or homes of people living in areas they were uncertain about.
If most people in a district did not pick up the phone, or someone did pick up and swore in Russian, they marked it on the map as invaded.
Different worlds of course, but the point is that civilian phones have intelligence value.
It could bake sense as a super creepy tactical choice by Iran to deny intelligence gathering from abroad.
- Comment on How not to lose your job to AI 3 weeks ago:
I feel that this article is based on beliefs that are optimism rather tham empiricism, and trains of thought driven way into highly simplified territory.
Basically like the Lesswrong, self-proclaimed “longtermists” and Zizians crowds.
Illustrative example: Categorizing nannies under “human touch strongly preferred - perhaps as a luxury”. This assumes automation is not only possible to a degree way beyond what we see signs of, but that the service itself isn’t inherently human.
- Comment on How is spontaneous betting (as portrayed by comics and movies) supposed to work? 3 weeks ago:
A bookie is needed. Betting requires odds and bookeeping, plus a prize pool guarantor.
The movies either leave the bookie out of shot for dramatic brevity, or, equally likely, have no idea how betting works but just copy other movies.
- Comment on What's the best way to respond to a family member who says the COVID vaccines are being used to depopulate? 3 weeks ago:
Their bullshit causes a risk that someone else hesitate or pass on vaccination. You did an attempt at convincing. The responsible alternative is to make them feel uncomfortable bringing up the subject.
- Comment on What's the best way to respond to a family member who says the COVID vaccines are being used to depopulate? 3 weeks ago:
A pregnancy is not a person to count. That’s anti-abortion rhetoric.
- Comment on Odds of rolling a 7 with a weighted die 3 weeks ago:
That just sounds confusing. You’re putting me off murder now.