jmanes
@jmanes@lemmy.world
Senior Software Engineer @ Oracle. Powered by Super Eurobeat! Kansas City, MO.
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- Comment on Free-Market Advocate, Elon Musk, Asks for U.S. Government to Put Tariffs on Chinese EV Imports 5 weeks ago:
I don’t think you’re really addressing my comment, which is just a criticism of how folks write about these “hypocrisies.”
Of course it’s not fair; that’s the entire foundational pillar on which capitalism rests. I’m not saying “hate the game, not the player”. Rather I’m saying the game is bullshit and the player should have his balls kicked with steel toed boot repeatedly.
- Comment on Free-Market Advocate, Elon Musk, Asks for U.S. Government to Put Tariffs on Chinese EV Imports 5 weeks ago:
This is how all capitalist markets progress, which is why I get annoyed when folks try to talk about this as though it is hypocritical. There is nothing hypocritical about a capitalist attempting to stifle innovation and competition for the advancement of personal wealth. This is what capitalism is about.
- Comment on The Verge shows how Google search is useless 1 month ago:
I didn’t get recommended it here, but elsewhere. I ended up paying for a years worth last year and yeah I like it better than pretty much everything else. There is still a rare occasion that I need to use Google, but that is maybe once a week whereas with DuckDuckGo it was multiple times per-day.
- Comment on Mastodon forms new U.S. non-profit 2 months ago:
I was wondering the same thing. Maybe in the USA it is easier due to our relaxed (almost non-existent) business oversight from the government? Not sure.
- Comment on Guess I'll die 2 months ago:
Listen man. If this is the thing that is gonna kill me, I’m looking.
- Comment on Reddit sells training data to unnamed AI company ahead of IPO 4 months ago:
Yeah, they’re not leaving. The only way they would leave is if the service were to be physically shut down. Pretty sure you could make everyone watch 1 minute long ads on app open and they would still stay.
- Comment on Amazon hides cheaper items with faster delivery, lawsuit alleges 4 months ago:
I’ve largely stopped using them. I only buy from them if I cannot find what I need elsewhere which is quite rare.
- Comment on FDA says 561 deaths tied to recalled Philips sleep apnea machines 4 months ago:
I don’t separate countries by arbitrary terms like “third world.” It’s a country and people live within it.
- Comment on FDA says 561 deaths tied to recalled Philips sleep apnea machines 4 months ago:
Come to the midwest of the USA. You’ll find all of that shit out here, too, if you know where to look.
- Comment on Has google stopped working for finding anything? 5 months ago:
I pay for Kagi and it works better than Google. Nobody is astroturfing for them, you’re just paranoid.
- Comment on Has google stopped working for finding anything? 5 months ago:
Yep, I use Kagi as well. Great results!
- Comment on Ouroboros 6 months ago:
The rodent is like “well, not what I had in mind but all right.”
- Comment on Intel doesn’t think that Arm CPUs will make a dent in the laptop market 8 months ago:
Only if you’re not using AARCH64 based containers.
- Comment on YouTube TV, which costs $73 a month, agrees to end “$600 less than cable” ads 8 months ago:
So you DO get my point, yeah? Elephants in the room should be considered first and foremost. Drinking non-paper filtered coffee every day is trivial to your risks of getting cancer compared to so many other things in our environment. I hope it clicks for you. :)
- Comment on About half of Bandcamp employees have been laid off 8 months ago:
Developers are often the ones setting up the environments now via things like Terraform. IT is still needed for on-prem work though.
- Comment on About half of Bandcamp employees have been laid off 8 months ago:
This isn’t accurate. Outsourcing tech jobs has been a thing since the 90s. It rarely works which is why it never stuck around. It’s just as risky today as it was back then.
- Comment on YouTube TV, which costs $73 a month, agrees to end “$600 less than cable” ads 8 months ago:
French press and espresso, IMO, taste far better than pourover with paper. I also prefer metal mesh with pourover, as it allows for more of the oils to seep into the carafe. But it’s just a matter of opinion. :)
Remember the whole trail of paper carbon impacts! Trees get cut to make them. Then they have to be cut/manufactured in a big factory, which uses energy. Then shipped to your stores, using gasoline. Finally you throw them away where they sit in a landfill (the most negligible part).
- Comment on YouTube TV, which costs $73 a month, agrees to end “$600 less than cable” ads 8 months ago:
Taste, environmental friendliness. Just to name a few. Feel free to ignore my comments if you don’t like them.
- Comment on YouTube TV, which costs $73 a month, agrees to end “$600 less than cable” ads 8 months ago:
This is a great example of a “micro optimization.” It feels good but ultimately does jack shit to help you.
There are studies suggesting adding paper filters to coffee increases bad cholesterol, and cardiovascular disease kills more people than cancer every year. Whoops? Brussel sprouts ever so slightly elevate your chances of getting cancer. Anything with an ethyl in it does too.
All of this to say, pick better risks to worry about. Everything is a tradeoff. Better chance you die in a freak car accident rather than developing cancer from drinking coffee that was filtered without paper. It is not worth the fuss.
- Comment on YouTube TV, which costs $73 a month, agrees to end “$600 less than cable” ads 8 months ago:
Sports.
- Comment on Not even the ghost of obsolescence can coerce users onto Windows 11 8 months ago:
This happens over and over again with Windows so I don’t really take any of these articles seriously. People will migrate to either 11 or whatever comes next. All the kicking and screaming in the world won’t be able to stop them. How long are tech folks going to repeat this cycle?
- Comment on Why We’re Pulling Our Recommendation of Wyze Security Cameras 9 months ago:
You can use Ecobee’s cameras with HomeKit secure video. Just block the cameras from being able to talk to the internet via firewall first.