ChickenLadyLovesLife

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmings, please give us your info dump.⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, don’t use the wifi routers provided by Cocmast. Cocmast uses them to provide their xfinity-branded wifi, so as their customer you are literally sacrificing bandwidth and paying their electric bill. I assume all cable companies do this but Cocmast is the only one I know about for sure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmings, please give us your info dump.⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Sir, this is a Burger King.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmings, please give us your info dump.⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  When I was in graduate school, I used to call the 700 Club’s prayer hotline and talk about my dissertation. To their credit, those people were remarkably patient and would only occasionally attempt to steer the conversation back in the direction of Jesus and his need to have some of my money. “Oh, I don’t have any money. Anyway, it turns out that there’s a perfect correlation between the giving of dowries and engagement in plow-based agriculture.” Completely true but for some reason they didn’t really care.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Having grown up on sci-fi I always knew there would be people who reject robots and AI on a visceral level, I just thought it wouldn't be me.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It would also be nice if it weren’t going to be used for the killer robots. When it very obviously is going to be used for the killer robots.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Having grown up on sci-fi I always knew there would be people who reject robots and AI on a visceral level, I just thought it wouldn't be me.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The Dune books had the “Butlerian jihad” where humanity banned all thinking machines. As a kid I was like “who would ever ban cool shit like that?” Now I’m all “where the fuck is this Butler dude?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scary stuff and it wasn't that long ago⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  My mother was born in the mid-1930s and from time to time she likes to talk about “the good ol’ days” of her childhood when people respected each other blah blah blah. I remind her of the horrific racism and she’s like “but I didn’t even know any black people!” lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A remote code execution vulnerability has been found in Microslop Notepad⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The search order would end up finding your shortcut first.

  Sure, but in my case “Notepad” was a shortcut to actual Notepad.exe. It still should have worked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A remote code execution vulnerability has been found in Microslop Notepad⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Back in the year 2000 I was writing intranet apps for a big corporation, using Visual Basic and classic ASP (lol) and IE6 (lolol) for the UI. A very handy if not indispensable tool for this sort of work is the ability to View Source on the generated pages, which popped up the HTML in Notepad. One day for me this simply stopped worked entirely – hitting View Source did nothing and I couldn’t fix the problem on my computer no matter what I did (other people’s computers still worked fine). I even switched to a different computer, set up all my tools and programs as normal, and got the same problem with View Source not working at all. I went like this for six months, and it was a real challenge to debug problems.

  Eventually I discovered the problem from a forum post: I had a shortcut to Notepad on my desktop. For no reason I can possibly imagine, this prevented View Source from doing anything at all. It didn’t even have to be a shortcut to Notepad proper; any shortcut that happened to be named “Notepad” would cause the break even if it was a shortcut to some other program. Renaming my shortcut to “NotepadX” fixed the problem. I would LOVE to have some old MS engineer explain to me what the living fuck was going on here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We really need to bring back the 70s conversation pits⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I also saw Falling Water as a teen. I was in awe … of the fact that an artist could actually have the name “Lipchitz”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Homeland Security Spying on Reddit Users⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Free speech!

  [with purchase of regular-priced speech]

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Homeland Security Spying on Reddit Users⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I got banned for racism … for making fun of a non-existent race. And the whole point of my comment was to mock racism itself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Send HOAs To the Stone Age⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Mine has that rule but I assumed it applied to the HOA board.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It Turns Out That When Waymos Are Stumped, They Get Intervention From Workers in the Philippines⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  any failures in autonomy immediately engage a tele-operator

  One of the problems is that these “failures in autonomy” could include a failure to engage a tele-operator when one is needed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What does it mean?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I had a boss years ago who owned a temp agency. When he bought the business it was giving him $40,000 per month in profits but this had dropped to $25,000 per month – probably because he spent his day playing solitaire on his computer and listening to Rush LImbaugh instead of, you know, actually doing anything to benefit the business. I had the pleasure once of watching him berate his two receptionists (who made $7.25 an hour and nothing whatsoever to do with the success of the business) for this drop in his income. He was friends with a bunch of west coast venture capitalists who were each worth hundreds of millions of dollars and his “poverty” absolutely burned him to his core.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The developers of PEAK, explaining how they decided on pricing for their game. ⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I originally sold my app on Beyond.com (which was originally software.net). They took 10% which didn’t seem too bad. One day they contacted me about giving my app a “freebate” – basically the app was still $29.95 but buyers could fill out a form and send it in and eventually (like months later) get their $29.95 back. Per their data only about half of buyers ever bothered to do this so it was effectively a 50% off deal. Beyond.com was supposed to give me about $10 per copy sold instead of the normal $27 to cover the freebate and they would make $5 per copy instead of their normal $3.

  I said OK and they featured my app on their front page and sales went up like 100X and I was of course pretty happy. The funny part was that their accounting system was all fucked up and I kept getting $27 per copy sold even though the freebate was still in place. I actually tried contacting them multiple times about this to get the situation corrected and I could never get through to anybody who had any clue about what was going on. Eventually they went bankrupt and shut down and years later I got one of those class-action settlement checks in the mail without any explanation of what it was for. Maybe sales of my app were even better than they were telling me, I dunno. I’ve never once met a person in the real world who has ever even heard of the app so that doesn’t seem very likely.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The developers of PEAK, explaining how they decided on pricing for their game. ⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He does like to launch into racist rants, but sometimes you just gotta hold your nose and swallow.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The developers of PEAK, explaining how they decided on pricing for their game. ⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s wild, I released a shareware music creation app for Windows back in 2000 and it was easy to get people to pay $29.95 for it. I now have a vastly superior iOS version and nobody’s willing to pay a dollar for it. It’s a very depressing situation for an independent developer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The developers of PEAK, explaining how they decided on pricing for their game. ⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I had my sewer line backing up into my basement a couple of months ago. My regular plumber was busy so I had to call in a company that I knew was an overpriced scam (“Dream Team” lol) but I had no choice since I had guests in the house for my father’s funeral. They came and of course they couldn’t clear the line and said they had to dig up and replace the whole thing. The guy had a special tablet that he showed me the three options and the prices on and it initially showed them all in dollars per month with “zero-interest financing”. I was like dude just show me the total cost. The three options were $17K, $22K and $36K total but the monthly payments actually decreased with increasing total price (naturally the payment option didn’t show how many total payments you would have to make).

  Fortunately I called my regular plumber and he was so outraged at these motherfuckers that he came out that afternoon and cleared my line for me. Total cost $850.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Long live the king⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel the movie was enhanced by the in-house organist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3202: Groundhog Day Meaning⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, it doesn’t have anything to do with the movie Groundhog Day in which the main character relives Groundhog Day over and over again? I don’t think anybody used “groundhog day” as a synonym for “personal time loop” before the movie.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My muddahs wake. Jeeshush Chrisht!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My aunt died in 2013. At the reception after the funeral, my cousin (her stepson) suggested that we all make a “Harlem Shake” video. He did not say whether or not he wanted my aunt to appear in it. I refrained from explaining to the older members of the family what a Harlem Shake video was.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ciiiiircle of liiiife⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They did know that lead was toxic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Truth Is Out There⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s insane that in this day and age people still believe in Bigfoot. It’s obviously just a Yeti in a gorilla suit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is why you should respect our vets⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My mother-in-law used to be a vet. When she sold her practice (to a national chain that told her explicitly that they were buying it to close it down and reduce their competition yay capitalism) she took home enough euthanasia drugs and syringes to take care of herself and everybody in her family if it ever comes to that. That’s probably the only thing you would actually want in a real apocalypse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla's 'unsupervised' Robotaxis vanish a week after pre-earnings announcement⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My pet theory is that Musk was installed at Tesla by the Saudis (who apparently have a bit of money) to destroy the very idea of electric cars by putting out as bad and overpriced a product as possible. Despite his best efforts, people still want the goddamn things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Correlation equals causation⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not directly relevant, but I’m surprised at how many people I’ve known over the years who think “correlation does not equal causation” means “correlation equals not causation”. In other words, they think correlation is somehow proof of a lack of causation. “Correlation does not necessarily mean causation” would be a better formulation of the original expression.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Slay Girl⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Crows are complex, though. The ones that live around my house can often be found ganging up and chasing away the red-tailed hawks that like to snack on the squirrels. The squirrels repay the favor by chasing off the crows who come to eat the peanuts I leave out for them (and eating the peanuts themselves). One time the crows flew around above me making a godawful racket until I went to the back yard and freed a baby raccoon that had accidentally gone into the box trap I leave out for groundhogs; they immediately flew off as soon as I let the little guy out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grok floods X with sexualized images of women and children: Grok generated an estimated 3 million sexualized images, including 23,000 of children in 11 days⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In my opinion, the rightward correction has gotten even worse since the defunding. For a long time now they’ve run a graphic showing their corporate sponsors before each broadcast (Meta and oil companies often show up there). They love to say it’s “viewers like you” that make them possible, but I think the corporate sponsors are a lot more important. It’s been a very long time since the government funding has even been that big a chunk of their income.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grok floods X with sexualized images of women and children: Grok generated an estimated 3 million sexualized images, including 23,000 of children in 11 days⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t watch PBS News Hour but my parents do and I have to listen to it from time to time. They characterized this issue as one of Grok creating “explicit” AI images and artificially generating pictures of real women (not “girls”) in “bathing suits”. Not exactly an accurate characterization of CSAM.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘ELITE’: The Palantir App ICE Uses to Find Neighborhoods to Raid⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  An organisation that harvests the organs of homeless called “Rivendell”?

  Surely “Mordor” would be a better choice?