ChickenLadyLovesLife
@ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
- Comment on Dubiousness 1 hour ago:
Black holes are edible?
- Comment on Breaking: BAD 2 days ago:
Dude’s worst crimes are being addicted to meth and listening to Walt’s advice.
I guess assassinating the other chemist qualifies as “listening to Walt’s advice”, but murder is technically his worst crime.
- Comment on Oracle Layoffs: Tech giant to slash 30,000 jobs as banks pull out from financing AI data centres | Company Business News 4 days ago:
I was laid off in 2019 by a large west coast tech giant as part of a mass layoff. We had the option of trying to find a new internal job but every job posting involved AI (seven years ago!) and nobody that I knew even got a reply from any application. Now I’m a school bus driver and 100X happier even though I make like 1/5 of what I used to make. The plot twist is that AI is probably going to replace school bus drivers sooner or later, flattened children be damned.
- Comment on I gotcha, boss 5 days ago:
Cops and big city racism
- Comment on Also how do I know if it works? 5 days ago:
Jesus Christ you still have a DOS umbrella?
- Comment on I was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion. 5 days ago:
A friend of mine had a Commodore 20 with no tape drive. Not only could we only have one game at a time installed, but also we had to manually type in the code for the game each time.
- Comment on I was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion. 5 days ago:
When my main (only) programming language was TurboBASIC, I was amber all the way.
- Comment on I was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion. 5 days ago:
I vaguely remember somebody sending me a bitcoin many many years ago, but I haven’t been able to find it.
- Comment on I was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion. 5 days ago:
Angel is a centerfold!
- Comment on I was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion. 5 days ago:
I remember getting a Hotshot/286 card which allowed me to upgrade my 8088 to a 286. I don’t even remember what programs I used back then but I’m sure they ran a lot faster after that.
- Comment on I was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion. 5 days ago:
Anybody here remember Plastic, circa 2000? It was a forum kind of like Reddit, although I don’t remember if it had upvotes or not.
- Comment on In this house 5 days ago:
I can’t believe people still believe Bigfoot is real. It’s so obviously just a Yeti in a gorilla suit.
- Comment on they don't know 1 week ago:
I give peanuts to crows but sometimes one squirrel shows up and chases the crows away (and there are usually 5 or 6 crows there). I don’t get it – this particular murder will gang up on red-tailed hawks and chase them away but they’ll just sit there looking sad at the one squirrel as he eats the peanuts.
- Comment on Stereotyping is wrong. 2 weeks ago:
I’m so glad my parents and brother have (nearly) the same politics as me. Having to regularly deal with trumpers (without being able to laugh in their faces as with my co-workers) would be a perpetual torment. My brother did have an inexplicable phase of loving Putin, but that passed quickly.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Every cybertruck I see where I live has some company logo or wrap on it. It’s great advertising – it lets me know never to hire that company for anything.
The most hilarious one is for a company that does waterproofing. Like yes, I’m going to hire a waterproofing company that just spent $100K on a vehicle that can’t go through a car wash.
- Comment on 2006 called, they said we need better memes and left this 2 weeks ago:
I can’t hang in there 'til Friday.
- Comment on K.I.S.S. 2 weeks ago:
almost always knew
I mean, he had no idea the shoot-up of his bedroom was coming. And he only found out about Fredo’s betrayal because Fredo was an absolute fucking moron.
- Comment on Lemmings, please give us your info dump. 2 weeks 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. 2 weeks ago:
Sir, this is a Burger King.
- Comment on Lemmings, please give us your info dump. 2 weeks 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. 3 weeks 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. 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
Free speech!
[with purchase of regular-priced speech]
- Comment on Homeland Security Spying on Reddit Users 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 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.