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- Comment on You are allowed flavor 1 day ago:
But we do not grant you the title of Spice Master.
- Comment on Games you really want to play, but can't or won't? 5 days ago:
I played it. Beautiful game. Terrifying.
I didn’t think I had thalassophobia until Subnautica.
- Comment on Games you really want to play, but can't or won't? 5 days ago:
What did you think of Torchlight? I’m a bit surprised it didn’t make your list.
…well, then again, I haven’t played anything you listed, so I can’t compare.
- Comment on Games you really want to play, but can't or won't? 5 days ago:
Similar. I played a lot of Diablo 2 back in the day, but Blizzard got a lot worse as a game publisher during the years they were focused on WoW. I’m not super interested in starting up on Diablo 3 or 4 or even Starcraft 2.
For a different direction on this – I played Subnautica. It was terrifying. I’m not going to get the expansion or Subnautica 2 when it comes out. shudder
- Comment on YSK that a general strike is one of the most effective ways to push for change. There is a general strike in the works across the US for this Friday. 1 week ago:
Doing a quick search…looks like about half the states are “right to work” ones.
And…well, I don’t live in a ‘right to work’ state, but I couldn’t join a union either way. There aren’t many unions in my line of work.
- Comment on It still blows my mind how ubiquitous communication is now. I just had someone message me instantly from a ship in the Mediterranean, while I'm on a flight in the US. 1 week ago:
VENT! Ha, I remember using that back in the Counterstrike days.
I’m supposed to say ‘fun times’, but I sucked at Counterstrike. Not actually that much fun for me.
- Comment on It still blows my mind how ubiquitous communication is now. I just had someone message me instantly from a ship in the Mediterranean, while I'm on a flight in the US. 1 week ago:
Go to a zoo and insult the monkeys?
- Comment on It still blows my mind how ubiquitous communication is now. I just had someone message me instantly from a ship in the Mediterranean, while I'm on a flight in the US. 1 week ago:
focused on radio
And there, you’d be looking at 1901 for the first trans-Atlantic signal.
But then again, a general passenger couldn’t use the plane’s radio on a whim back in – oh, 2003 (first airplane wifi came about in 2004 apparently). There are some layers to this thought.
- Comment on YSK that a general strike is one of the most effective ways to push for change. There is a general strike in the works across the US for this Friday. 1 week ago:
Right to work laws make it so workers in a union shop don’t need to join the union.
Are you thinking of at-will employment? It’s a common mixup.
- Comment on YSK what legal rights you have in encounters with ICE 1 week ago:
Can’t sue 'em if you’re already in the ground…
- Comment on Majority of CEOs report zero payoff from AI splurge 2 weeks ago:
Are they seeing a payoff or just not admitting defeat (yet)?
- Comment on Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, I get that, like blocking should be an extreme step?
But for me it’s kind of a defensive measure. I feel political-flooded basically all the time online. There’s no respite, so I have to carve out what sanity I can.
- Comment on Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public 3 weeks ago:
Well, I block posters and communities pretty quickly when I see politics. I already feel like I have to add to that list way too much. Worse would be “I can’t even click Next without needing to block another one”.
- Comment on Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public 3 weeks ago:
I have mixed feelings.
On one hand, agreed @ wanting more variety in communities.
OTOH, Lemmy already has too much fucking politics. I don’t want whatever’s infecting reddit to become even MORE prevalent here. shudder
- Comment on Stack Overflow in freefall: 78 percent drop in number of questions 3 weeks ago:
Oh, don’t misunderstand me. I’m not here to defend stack overflow or anything. They’re absolute rubbish as a company. I just thought your “third way” comment was misguided.
But - codidact went nowhere. Reddit and now lemmy have never been helpful for my programming problems. What’s taking SO down is their deal with the AI devil? It’s funny in sort of a sad way.
- Comment on Stack Overflow in freefall: 78 percent drop in number of questions 4 weeks ago:
Like Lemmy? The site we’re all using?
Cute. Except Lemmy hasn’t helped me solve any programming problems. StackOverflow has.
And I think you missed my point, so I’ll restate it: If this theoretical middle-ground moderation were actually viable, it would have eaten StackOverflow’s lunch like a decade ago. People were SALTY about SO’s hostility even before the “summer of love” campaign in 2012.
- Comment on The forbidden fourth leche 4 weeks ago:
I’d be suspicious of a tres leches cake made with coconut cream. Somehow, I don’t think it would taste right.
- Comment on The forbidden fourth leche 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Stack Overflow in freefall: 78 percent drop in number of questions 4 weeks ago:
Well, no. If there were a middle ground, we’d all be using it.
- Comment on We used to have TV repairmen who would come if dad couldn't fix it with the tube from the grocery store kiosk. Weird. 4 weeks ago:
Can you even find a black-and-white CRT for sale anymore?
- Comment on We used to have TV repairmen who would come if dad couldn't fix it with the tube from the grocery store kiosk. Weird. 4 weeks ago:
I had a CRT monitor back in the day that tipped off the edge of the desk while I was hooking it up.
CLUNK! - hiss
Welp.
I learned a valuable lesson about leverage that day.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Next up, ogre street corn
- Comment on xkcd #3184: Funny Numbers 1 month ago:
Dammit Loch Ness monster…
- Comment on I'm definitely giggling 1 month ago:
Ehrmagerd!
- Comment on what do y'all use for CI/CD? 1 month ago:
That’s a great idea if it’s possible, but I want to say it wouldn’t have helped with our environment at the time.
I almost wish I could look back at that repo and share the yaml file here, maybe I was missing something back then. I’m certainly more proficient with yaml now.
I do recall wishing there was a way to simulate the execution locally. I think I remember hearing about a local runner, but it had too many caveats to help.
- Comment on what do y'all use for CI/CD? 1 month ago:
We use Azure Devops at my current gig. It works pretty well for our setup. I’ve used GHA before; it definitely didn’t “spark joy”. I
wastedspent way too many hours in the “update yaml file, commit, push, wait 5 minutes for it to fail again”spiral of despairfeedback loop.Nice thing with ADO is its release dashboard – you get a really nice summary of recent builds and where they went:
$project - dev - test - prod
I didn’t see anything similar for GHA.
- Comment on what do y'all use for CI/CD? 1 month ago:
Are you a programmer?
- Comment on what do y'all use for CI/CD? 1 month ago:
Hudson? Man, that’s a blast from the past.
- Comment on Always wear protection, folks 1 month ago:
Hear, hear! It’s amazing how much a CPAP helps with apnea.
- Comment on Always wear protection, folks 1 month ago:
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
