Supervisor194

@Supervisor194@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk email to X staff: ‘we’re barely breaking even’⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  He knows full well all-staff emails are going to be leaked. So he wanted this message to get out. If he hadn’t, he would have dealt only with the managers in meetings and let directives flow down to the scrubs that way.

  I can’t fathom why he’d feel the need for this message to get out, as there don’t appear to be any consequences for him for anything at all, so… I’ll leave that to others.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just sucking some milk out of the strawsage⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  unsubscribe

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grr Windows⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Windows 10 users, I’ve been using kill-update.exe for years now to only update Windows when I damn well want to.

  Disclaimer: before the inevitable dogpile, yes, this is bad practice. Yes there are many reasons why you might not want to do this. Yes, allowing your software to update itself whenever it wants is safer. No, I don’t care. If you don’t care either, this software might be for you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wednesday it is, my dudes.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hot take, English got it wrong. I’ve never heard a frog make a sound like “ribbit”.

  It’s a real thing. Super common in the Southern US when I was a kid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big Mac⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah thanks, I was about to call Peter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google looks to be fully shutting down unsupported extensions and ad blockers in Chrome, such as uBlock Origin – which might push some folks to switch to Firefox⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As if installing and using something else means you can’t have Chrome lying around for that one stupid website.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google looks to be fully shutting down unsupported extensions and ad blockers in Chrome, such as uBlock Origin – which might push some folks to switch to Firefox⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, and we will drop Mozilla when it drops uBlock as well. We will all get behind whatever open-source browser stops ads, and it will very quickly become the most widely used browser. Why? Because everybody despises fucking ads and you can’t curb-stomp them into liking ads, that’s why.

  Google can spend all the money it likes trying to piss on users and tell them it’s raining but at the end of the day, a new king will be crowned and if it isn’t Chrome and it isn’t Firefox, then it will be something else.

  And no, FOSS doesn’t need money behind it. FOSS needs a dedicated community behind it. Assertions to the contrary are FUD constantly being seeded by Google, Microsoft and their ilk to destroy competition. This is an existential necessity for Google, you can bet they are doing everything in their power to maintain the status quo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Insurance Apocalypse Is Upon Us⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That sounds like communism, Florida won’t have any of that. The glorious free market will surely fix all things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  🎵You allll everybody!🎵

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amino acids⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  this whole thing took me a while to process, ngl

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some basic info about USB⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve literally never seen any of these except the top symbol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should we consider Jesus a zombie?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  He’s a dream divine and we make love together 🎶

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Chrome warns uBlock Origin may soon be disabled⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  please god no

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientists Propose New Way to Find Aliens: Detect Their Failing Warp Drives⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We need to just work on making our own. Then the Vulcans will find us.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nabiha Syed will join the Mozilla Foundation as [their] next Executive Director⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not reading all that. I just need one answer from any suit at Mozilla: are you going to sell us out or not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One of the problems of working on the weekends.⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah my whole family done give up on me
  And it makes me feel oh so bad
  The only one who will hang out with me
  Is my dear old granddad

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Record waiting times for cancer treatment in the UK while King Charles begins treatment within days of diagnosis⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not even about him, they bury this in a story about class struggle so they can repeat the narrative that the NHS is “in crisis,” as if it just magically happens and not because politicians are purposefully crippling it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has google stopped working for finding anything?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Everybody is blaming SEO, which is true - but Google is also hamstrung by walled gardens.

  Before Facebook, most content posted to the web was open. It could be viewed by anyone without logging in. Reddit even uses this paradigm.

  But then Facebook started putting everything behind their account login and suddenly, Google can no longer spider a significant amount of the conversation going on on the Internet - and it can’t link you to it either, because the link would be dead if you weren’t a logged-in Facebook user. And of course it’s not just Facebook.

  This is why appending site:reddit.com has come into fashion in the past couple years. Reddit, being open, viewable without a login, is a fantastic source for finding people who are talking about exactly what you’re searching for.

  And it’s another reason why Meta is cancer: all the conversations going on about whatever problem you are experiencing that made you do a search in the first place, if they exist in private groups on something like Facebook - they are useless to you and useless to anyone but the members of that private group. We are losing our giant public knowledge base because capitalism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Milkshakes anyone?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I could teach her But she was killed by tar

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bethesda confirms they are working on releasing new features you asked for, from city maps, to mod support, to all new ways of traveling next year for Starfield⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes and this is what Starfield doesn’t do. Starfield doesn’t actually have whole planets generated by a shared seed. Planets in Starfield are just unlimited sources of randomly generated playboxes. Since the planets don’t actually exist, they can’t properly be said to be explorable.

  For anyone interested in this topic, there is a super great video that explains the difference between procedural generation and random generation and how a tiny amount of data can be used to generate extremely complex things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bethesda confirms they are working on releasing new features you asked for, from city maps, to mod support, to all new ways of traveling next year for Starfield⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  But I don’t think they can grab that explorer fanbase again, they are just against procedural generation in general, they probably wanted Outer Worlds but bigger.

  I don’t think that’s true. Elite Dangerous is one of my favorite games and it’s procedurally generated. I think the issue is that that’s not exactly what Starfield is.

  When you “land” in Starfield (outside a handcrafted city or similar), you land in a procedurally generated box made just for you. It isn’t repeatable by anybody but you. Other people who “land” in the same spot will not see what you saw, they get their own procedurally generated box. The contents of the box are similar (the terrain is the right color, the flora and fauna are the same). If you were to see something particularly cool in your box (although I never did when I was playing the game) - ie: “unusually tall mountain range” or “unusually deep valley” - you can’t tell someone “hey go to coordinates x,y and check this out!” You CAN do this in Elite Dangerous. All worlds, all settlements - everything is the same for everyone, and if you explore through it all and you find something interesting, you can share it with people.

  In Starfield, your box always contains an uninteresting/unremarkable patch of terrain and magically, literally everywhere you land, there are structures and ships within walking distance - none of which anyone can get to but you.

  There is literally no WAY to explore. Everywhere you land, it’s just another box and it will always contain the same variation on the same things. That isn’t exploration. Exploration implies things that exist whether you are there or not and which can be found by someone if they look long enough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yes, I'm a rancher⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  There is a line. And there is a reason we do not cross it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are any self-cleaning cat litter boxes any good, or worth the money?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I hate an open catbox. I also don’t want to directly pick it up, bag or not. So I had to unclip the top and use a scoop, and I had three cats so I did it every day and I just effing hated it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are any self-cleaning cat litter boxes any good, or worth the money?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Did you have the large one? I have a 17lb long-haired Maine Coon and he has no issues with it, but I do have the large one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are any self-cleaning cat litter boxes any good, or worth the money?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This is going to sound like hyperbole, but this thing changed my life and I always love it when I get a chance to share it with somebody. It requires no electricity, it has no moving parts and in the 11 years I’ve been using one, it’s never broken. I give you: Omega Paw.

  It requires clumping cat litter, so if you use that you’re golden. When it’s time to clean, you roll it - and as you roll, the loose litter flows through a grate, but the clumps and waste stay on top of the grate. As you continue to roll it, the waste falls to the ceiling. When you roll it back, the waste all falls into the drawer, which you pull out and dump. Cleaning the litter box takes literally 10 seconds. It’s awesome.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inspired by real events⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Is there some significance to the photo of the truck or is it just random?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Never forgetti⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  ring ring ring ring ring ring ring

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is it apparently cool and fine for insurance companies to spend countless billions, trillions of our money constantly buying ad time?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s worse than that even. Most of those ads are for “Medicare Advantage,” a criminal scam that Congressional members of a particular political persuasion cooked up to allow corporations to be a middleman between you and your medicare benefits. When clueless people call and sign up because they think they’re going to get free money, they end up getting fucked out of as much of their medicare benefits as the company can extract, up to 20% according to the rules, but who pays attention to if they play by the rules? You probably guessed it. Oh and just as a cherry on top, once you sign up, you can’t change your mind and go back, you’re off Medicare for good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An extremely high-energy particle is detected coming from an apparently empty region of space⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  equivalent to the energy of a golf ball travelling at 95mph

  So I am curious about this comparison. If this particle had hit you square on the top of your head, rather than the array they built to detect it… would you even know it? Would it kill you? Make you uncomfortable? What?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who makes those terrible sheet cake things that every Chinese buffet has?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like I’m taking crazy pills. Chinese buffet sheet cake? On what planet?