AndyLikesCandy

@AndyLikesCandy@reddthat.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welcome to the wonderful world of code obfuscation⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Here’s a fun thought experiment: What gregorian year and date will the spacian date value of zero correlate to? Trick question.

  The atomic clock on the moon and every other celestial body colonized will simply start at zero, and thanks to relativity it will not actually be the same rate of time passing as on earth.

  Enjoy your nightmares.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welcome to the wonderful world of code obfuscation⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This dude(ette) globalizes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rivian blames “fat finger” for infotainment-bricking software update⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Interns do but should not get the level of write access that makes a durable change impacting all customers. Deadlock a server or even wipe SQL tables, this is an outage. Break a customer’s configuration, send the wrong client’s paperwork, again small scale problem you can deal with. Interns don’t change company policy.

  I think it’s a more foundational architecture question: why do you push builds to all customers at once without gating it by SOMETHING that positively confirms the exact OTA update package has been validated? The absolute simplest thing I can think of is pushing to 1 random car and waiting for the post-install self tests to pass before pushing to everyone else. Maybe there’s actually no release automation?? But then you make it safe a different way. It’s just defensive coding practice, I’m not even a CS degree but learned on the job something always breaks so you generally account for the expectation that everything will fail by making a fail-safe just so the failure is not spectacular. Nothing fancy, just enough mitigation to keep the fuck up from eating into your weekend if it happens on a Friday.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China launches world’s fastest internet with 1.2 terabit per second link, can transmit 150 4K movies a second⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  149 camera feeds of the person watching the 1 video should be enough no?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Popular porn sites now display unproven health warnings thanks to Texas law⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree porn addiction has been around for a long time, but we’re reaching a point in time where people who are expected to be adults and functional in their mid 20’s grew up in a world of ubiquitous Internet access and had smart phones.

  So while porn addiction existed since photography, this is the first time we get to see the effect of population-wide unrestricted access to these things from a very young age.

  It’s actually probably better now with parent-child account management and the like, which didn’t exist at all 15-20 years ago. Also 15-20 years ago CSAM, death imagery, real rape and mutilation videos were all on the front pages of openly accessible .com’s anyone could visit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Popular porn sites now display unproven health warnings thanks to Texas law⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I wasn’t kidding. www.thoughtco.com/the-giant-jewel-beetle-1968152

  Imagine an alien species bombarded the planet with organic real-dolls grown in vats, we basically did that to this species of beetle

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Popular porn sites now display unproven health warnings thanks to Texas law⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  There are things every mating creatures brain is hard wired to look for, as signals of a healthy and breedable mate

  Like the caricatures of breedable perfection in porn, the brown beer bottle happens to be the anime girl of a species of beetle whose males will regularly get carried away trying to reproduce with manufactured human garbage creating an actual risk to the species

  www.thoughtco.com/the-giant-jewel-beetle-1968152

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Popular porn sites now display unproven health warnings thanks to Texas law⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  “unproven” because it’s Texan. Fuck The Verge, Internet porn addiction is as real as those beetles that have sex with beer bottles because they’re brown and perfectly glossy like an ideal mate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft may replace the Start button with the Copilot AI in Windows 12⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  And I’ve been slowly replacing windows with Linux since Windows 10.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨today I was reminded how bad YouTube ads are⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think they need to be pushy, just the quality of product decisions has been going down as time goes on. Monopoly a bigger issue for sure, If not for the massive decline in value to both users and advertisers, we wouldn’t mind the monopoly so much.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨today I was reminded how bad YouTube ads are⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Google must be scraping the bottom of the barrel of crazy that’s also stupid enough to pay for ads, I think it’s common knowledge now that Google games analytics to artificially inflate the appearance of ad impact.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨today I was reminded how bad YouTube ads are⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the way forward

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify re-invented the radio⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah yes that’s where their development resources for all the last 5 years went: fucking up the paid experience with minor tweaks and fucking up the free experience with major tweaks.

  I pay for this shit for my whole family and don’t know a service with anywhere near the same library, I’d jump ship in a heartbeat to a service with both a complete music library and a first-class podcast listening experience for web/PC users.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm not kidding when I say for the FIRST time I actually can grasp the size⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I know we only ever see a handful of rooms, that’s fine, but with over 100 crew they always all have personal quarters that are probably the square footage of 3/4’ish containers.

  150m in diameter is one way to think about it. But then it’s also 8 containers long, or 25 containers circumference at the largest point down to no more than a few in circumference at the bridge.

  You know, that seems tiny, it’s like there’s no volume left for the hardware that needs to be between every room and all over the hull

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“Yeah, they’re gone”: Musk confirms cuts to X’s election integrity team — “‘Election Integrity’ Team.. was undermining election integrity,” Musk writes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Not QUITE how Twitter works, Democrats can pay for ads too. Question is whether any Chinese or Russian intelligence teams decide targeting messages at lefties is going to contribute towards their goals as a whole.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“Yeah, they’re gone”: Musk confirms cuts to X’s election integrity team — “‘Election Integrity’ Team.. was undermining election integrity,” Musk writes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t completely doubt that it wasn’t working.

  Question is how bad will the PsyOps and interference get?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unity May Never Win Back the Developers It Lost in Its Fee Debacle⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The takeaway is to never hire people from EA into decision making roles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People who back into parking spots: Why?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Passenger door to passenger door doubles the available space for your door to open. Especially important with kids you need to get in and out where you can’t just slip through.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Russia starts blocking VPN at the protocol (WireGuard, OpenVPN) level⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Exemptions that only apply rules to the common people. Maybe device registration with an exception using ipv6 address

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With The 745-mile Solid-state Battery, Toyota Just Became A Force To Reckon With⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If they can mass produce solid state ev batteries, that IS an absolute game changer, because their EVs will have a lifespan many times longer than that of any wet-cell EV.