kautau
@kautau@lemmy.world
- Comment on ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering 22 hours ago:
Nice, less for video and more for images, but there’s also
- Comment on Genes be crazy 5 days ago:
But do ants taste like soap or cilantro
- Comment on Genes be crazy 5 days ago:
We need a study on if that’s the divide. If you can smell ants you also think cilantro tastes like soap
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I mean as long as you use the shower to get clean too, that’s just pure efficiency
- Comment on Apple to Soon Take Up to 30% Cut From All Patreon Creators in iOS App 2 weeks ago:
Ironic that they named themselves on a plot about breaking out of a cycle of control, classic Palantir or Anduril vibes too of like “haha movies good where stonks”
- Comment on Lemmy: Beans 5 weeks ago:
I’ve got nipples, Greg.
- Comment on Hurry pls it's urgent 5 weeks ago:
Yeah lol they also have a literal self destruct that will destroy the fab process in case of Chinese (or other) invasion corporate or national
- Comment on Ubisoft Closes Canadian Studio After It Unionizes 5 weeks ago:
Not to mention generally enterprise devs aren’t beholden to public launch dates set externally by publishers and therefore end up burning out really fast trying to make a deliverable happen. Not saying that doesn’t happen elsewhere in software, but it’s really common in the games industry
- Comment on Nutritous and delicious 1 month ago:
I think he’d be alright with it
- Comment on Is brain rot real? Researchers warn of emerging risks tied to short-form video 2 months ago:
Obligatory Carl Sagan from 1995:
I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time – when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness…
The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignoranceCarl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
- Comment on Netflix kills casting from phones 2 months ago:
They’re made to “Enhance the
user experienceprofit”“Enhance the user experience” is just what the dev or documentation team writes when management dictates that they drop a feature. The only reasons they would have dropped it:
- Dev work vs actual customer usage (e.g. it wasn’t getting a lot of users but devs had to maintain it with each update)
- People were using it to intercept the stream and capture movies to pirate.
Every decision is about increasing profits first, and UX almost always takes a back seat to that
- Comment on Authentism 2 months ago:
Open a PR. Probably needs theme support. Maybe dynamically generated.
[coffee|tea]-[blend]-[strength]-[milk-%]-[sugar-%] - Comment on Infosys co-founder once again calls for longer than 70-hour weeks - and no, he's not joking 2 months ago:
“You worked really hard this year. 60 hour weeks. Impressive but you can do more. See that rolls Royce in the parking lot? If you work 80 hour weeks next year and everything works out, I’ll be able to buy a second one.”
- Comment on Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out 2 months ago:
- Comment on Bank Workers, Rejoice! 2 months ago:
Can’t pass it on to your kids when the bank forcloses on it
- Comment on TIL there was a TV tuner attachment for the Game Gear! 2 months ago:
The GG could only go about five, if you were lucky, on six AA
Which, while of course requiring exponentially more power, the Switch 2 only goes for about 6 hours on less demanding games, funny how battery life hasn’t really changed much for advanced handhelds.
- Comment on #RatFuckTheTimes 2 months ago:
conservative feminism
Ah yes the old
freedom for American internet choice act
Or whatever that actually means that the ISPs in power have the freedom to maintain control without competition and ensures Americans have no choice in internet provider
E.g. it’s literally the opposite of what it says on the tin
- Comment on Controversial startup's plan to 'sell sunlight' using giant mirrors in space would be 'catastrophic' and 'horrifying,' astronomers warn 3 months ago:
Yeah this is another rugpull meant to allow the rich to get richer on the money of idiots
- Comment on life purpose 3 months ago:
I also sort of blame it on the social media culture of being “constantly connected.” In some workplace cultures, (especially outside the dev space), not being constantly visible and grinning is the same as not consistently posting happy updates on your feed and consuming them.
I remember in my last job we had an “open office” plan after buying and renovating a huge space, and I found a niche little area to set up my desk without people staring at me and when people came to ask me questions they would say shit like “oh so this is where you’re hiding!”
Yes, on company property in the main workroom seated at my company desk using my company computer.
Thankfully my new job is fully remote, so fuck all that weird social noise when at the end of the day I’m just whoring my brain and fingers out so I can pay my rent and buy groceries
- Comment on life purpose 3 months ago:
- Comment on life purpose 3 months ago:
Also now your boss can stare at you from his glass office door and see if you’re laughing too much and then Lumbergh you
- Comment on fuck gary 3 months ago:
- Comment on I feel like all current political debate is basically trying to choose between the three endings in the original Deus Ex. 3 months ago:
- Comment on Censored 3 months ago:
middleeasteye.net/…/israel-violates-ceasefire-ter…
What a difference he made
- Comment on Black Widow 4 months ago:
Crazy that any brain you look at is a sink
- Comment on Mid Career Marine Biology 4 months ago:
Once there’s 47
Re:’s in the subject of the final email a call comes in“Contract complete. Well done 47.”
Another classic Hitman assassination of getting someone to kill themselves due to never ending meaningless emails
- Comment on effective advertising to boost your business 4 months ago:
What in the half life combine civil protection is this sticker
- Comment on pick up that chapstick 4 months ago:
Combine ICE playing dress up again smh
- Comment on proof of wormholes 4 months ago:
lol my guess is like 70% of people in the us don’t know what acetaminophen or paracetamol are, so Tylenol could just come out with Lonelyt Extra Stength and bam, sales
- Comment on proof of wormholes 4 months ago:
Just wait till they hear what big pharma is doing with paracetamol
