BilboBargains
@BilboBargains@lemmy.world
- Comment on 'LeBron James of spreadsheets' wins world Microsoft Excel title 6 days ago:
Excel was developed as a quasi accounting tool for keeping track of basic numerical data. Presumably it gained popularity with small businesses and within corporations. The way it’s used currently goes way beyond the original scope. I’ve personally met many people using it for PhD research and engineering, which is a testament to the versatility of the design but also, wtf.
- Comment on at what point in life it's too late to go back to school? 1 week ago:
It’s difficult to overstate the importance of education. I went back to school at 32 with very little formal education. It was tough but having graduated after ten years I never regretted it. I’m doing a job that I love and have more employment options. Whether or not you go back depends on many factors, especially if it is a serious investment in time and money. I didn’t like my work and that was what motivated me but I had savings and no debt or responsibilities.
- Comment on for a better future for ur children 1 week ago:
If you listen carefully you can hear them squeak one out occasionally.
- Comment on for a better future for ur children 2 weeks ago:
You’re not going to beat the mosquito or rotavirus when it comes to environmentally friendly killers. Lethality, prodigious. Carbon footprint, minimal (small amount of flatulence, don’t worry about it). This comment was sponsored by Gnawed VPN.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
How they bite without the teeth?
- Comment on 3rd-person shooters optimized for controllers? 5 weeks ago:
People play FPS games on a PC using a controller?
- Comment on Radon 5 weeks ago:
OPs has distilled his job title from ‘political agitation meme technician’ to ‘shitposter’.
- Comment on Where the fuck am I? 1 month ago:
Do ostriches have attention deficit disorder?
- Comment on Why would a company force you to use a rental car instead of your own for a drive to the office/Christmas party? 1 month ago:
Most domestic insurance policies do not cover the use of a vehicle on company business and your employer would become implicated in the event of an accident. This necessarily implies that driving to work is not company business which doesn’t make sense to me. Do they think I was out for a drive each morning and just so happened to be in the vicinity of my workplace so I thought why not drop in for a shift? Them’s the rules.
If you do get into an accident and they ask you ‘what gear were you in at the moment of impact?’ Tell them Gucci sweats and Reebok Classics.
- Comment on There was no need to ever improve upon THIS 1 month ago:
It’s about 5-10% more in the UK. The maintenance on a reliable transmission is fairly minimal but any mechanical problems are almost guaranteed to be a nightmare buried under a mountain of metal. I’ve been spared that trauma so far but I remember test driving a used VW Passat which clunked with every shift. Thanks for the test drive, bro.
- Comment on There was no need to ever improve upon THIS 2 months ago:
This works well and it’s not a hill I’ll defend but automatic control of temperature is better when it’s done well. In the UK we have a culture of driving cars with manual transmission and I’ve never understood it when automatic transmissions exist and are pretty good. People wanna feel like they are in control of stuff.
- Comment on Why would I buy this? 2 months ago:
Short answer: you wouldn’t buy this game, given your valid criticisms.
This type of extortionate pricing policy speaks to the general user base being nobs, die hard try hards and probably a toxic gaming environment. Having a barrier to entry in any activity prevents total idiots from entering. Consoles have made it easier for people who don’t understand how to operate a PC to play games but that necessarily means those games will be replete with obnoxious people. The advent of smartphones has done that for the internet.
- Comment on 4chan fined $26K for refusing to assess risks under UK Online Safety Act 2 months ago:
It’s ofcom but my phone desperately wants it to be Offcom for some reason
- Comment on 4chan fined $26K for refusing to assess risks under UK Online Safety Act 2 months ago:
Offcom has been drinking, came home in a blackout and committed domestic abuse of 4chan. Does Offcom even internet? Alternative plot twist, Offcom is trolling 4chan.
I wanna say that Offcom is doing a good job and trying to protect British people in good faith but I feel like they are being used as a cudgel by the British ruling class to advance an anachronistic agenda. Don’t forget, they fired their expert drugs advisor for telling them that MDMA is comparable to horse riding in terms of safety. They want certain things to be true, regardless of the scientific accuracy.
- Comment on I've recently turned into a blocker. 2 months ago:
Haven’t felt the need to block anyone but it’s nice to have the functionality
- Comment on AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds 2 months ago:
This is a sane way to use LLM. Also, pick your poison, some bots are better than others for a specific task. It’s kinda fascinating to see how other people solve coding problems and that is essentially on tap with a bot, it will churn out as many examples as you want. It’s a really useful tool for learning syntax and libraries of unfamiliar languages.
On one extreme side of LLM there is this insane hype and at the other extreme a great pessimism but in the middle is a nice labour saving educational tool.
- Comment on #freepenisman 2 months ago:
How big is Penis Man?
- Comment on OK what is your Roman name? 2 months ago:
Assius
- Comment on Who the fuck needs an x axis anyway 2 months ago:
Who’s gonna make all the technology, music, art, etc, after we’ve finally cured autism? We might have to start re-autisming people.
- Comment on QUACK QUACK QUACK 2 months ago:
Excellent news. Autism finally squared away. We can dedicate our scientists to finding a cure for trumpism.
- Comment on How did easy access to Porn while growing up impacted Gen-Z ? 3 months ago:
The only people this effects is people who don’t know how to operate a torrent client or have a friend that does, e.g the old people that dream up these ineffectual laws. They want to put the genie back in the bottle by making it someone else’s problem and it will fail like the war on drugs has utterly failed.
Meanwhile, back in reality, developing normal sexual relationships is much more complicated than abstaining from porn. It comes from a cohesive society that values education, healthcare, community and compassion for others. How are we still trying to make abstinence only methods work despite their horrible track record? Our politicial class are mendacious morons from a bygone era.
- Comment on Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’ 3 months ago:
Capitalism prevailed during the rise of the internet but correlation is not causation.
Rockets were sent into space and capitalists would surely love to claim that achievement too, unfortunately it was first fascists followed by communists with the capitalists getting the bronze medal. Should we now decide that space flight is fascist-communist? No. Only scientists and engineers know how to do that. Why didn’t Genghis Khan invent the internet? He didn’t have enough capitalists, surely that was the problem.
- Comment on Mods react as Reddit kicks some of them out again: “This will break the site” 3 months ago:
We can claim anything we like and also retract any statement except when a user claims to be 14. That person remains at age 14 for all time. Is this the logic? What about all the ‘damage’ that was done before they discovered the underage user? Somebody should look into that, they might find themselves face to face with a 51 year old who takes a prescription stimulant every day.
- Comment on Four arrested after photo of Trump and Jeffrey Epstein projected onto Windsor Castle 3 months ago:
This is what peak trolling looks like guise. It has all the elements for a perfect recipe. Bloated and petulant narcissist target, check. Corpulent and obsequious hosts, check. Incredibly damaging and embarrassing open secret that nobody wants to publicly discuss but everyone is dying to find out what’s in the dossier, chef’s kiss.
- Comment on Mods react as Reddit kicks some of them out again: “This will break the site” 3 months ago:
Got banned from the stims community after satirically commenting ‘I’m 14 and what is this?’
The moderator demanded that I submit identity documents. I pointed out that the account was twelve years old but they couldn’t back down at this point. I think they were trying to do a good job and were at least active but it was another nail in the coffin. In theory, an unpaid mod could be more objective because there’s no profit motive but the reality is that many are ideologically biased or dumb or controlling and none of them are trained. That any single individual wants to be in charge of the narrative is suspicious. Scale that ambition up to hundreds of thousands or millions of people it’s a red flag. Reddit is completely cooked these days, I haven’t returned since finding Lemmy.
- Comment on Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’ 3 months ago:
You could make the same argument about almost anything that is created under our present economic system, it’s void of content. I paid my gas bill so now I can tell my friends that I’m responsible for North Sea gas extraction. People imbibe Joe Rogan’s billionaire koolaid and forget where all this stuff we take for granted comes from.
Capitalism has lifted billions of people out of poverty and that is a minor miracle. Now it is eating itself like an ouroboros. People are upset and it’s not a good time to defend big capital, ask TPUSA and United Health.
- Comment on Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’ 3 months ago:
You could make the argument that nothing can be achieved without being able to dedicate the time required. That was the miracle of the agricultural revolution, we could do something with our time other than gather food. If you said ‘we got the internet thanks to farmers’ that would be indisputable, everything flowed from that. I don’t see why an internet couldn’t emerge in other economic contexts because internet technology depends on physics and those laws transcend any and all economic systems. We already know this because almost every jurisdiction has the internet.
The influence of capitalism on the internet has been a mixed bag. e-commerce: good. App ecosystem: ranging from good to addiction health crisis. Walled gardens and enshitification: bad. Misinformation and radicalisation of political groups: dire, potentially an existential threat.
- Comment on Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’ 3 months ago:
We got internet thanks to scientists and engineers. No amount of capitalists, politicians, managers or business people can create an internet. They say ‘here’s some money to make stuff’ and that’s the limit of their involvement.
- Comment on We Are Watching a Scientific Superpower Destroy Itself 3 months ago:
You don’t need science if your business is fraud, graft and conspiracy theories. In fact you need to keep your citizens as far away from any sort of critical thinking practice. Throttle the education sector and reduce access to healthcare. Give everyone a phone and a social media account where all of their preconceived notions are continually reinforced. Then sit back and watch all the educated people leave in droves as your society devolves into a robber baron mafia state.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
New number, who did?
