justsomeguy
@justsomeguy@lemmy.world
- Comment on Please, my son... He's sick... 12 hours ago:
I was there 3000 years ago. I was there the day the strength of fork lifts failed.
- Comment on Please, my son... He's sick... 12 hours ago:
Does anyone know fork to fork?
- Comment on London PR firm rewrites Wikipedia for governments and billionaires 3 days ago:
Let’s not forget, it took years for Wikipedia to even notice Neelix, the Wikipedia admin who made over 80,000 pages/links about titties.
He was just out there spreading the word of boobah but yeah this stuff can go under the radar for a while.
- Comment on London PR firm rewrites Wikipedia for governments and billionaires 3 days ago:
The problem lies in noticing them in the first place. If you make a thousand legit edits to various articles and then make some slight changes on some rich clients page chances are nobody will register this. Then again we’re on the internet so there’s always at least one guy who’d hyperfocus on monitoring something like this. The hero we need.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Ah it’s a <make up weird quotes that don’t reflect the general feedback and then react to that> episode. I too remember people in the street shouting “you never should’ve tried something new BioWare!” after making that memory up.
In truth the biggest criticism they got was when they released it unfinished, promised a bunch of content and then let it die because they smashed the numbers into a calculator and came to the conclusion it’ll not be worth it. No fucking shit. Fixing the mess you sold people for full price won’t make you a lot of profit, it’s something you do to make up for delivering unfinished crap in the first place.
Imagine a plumber who does pipe work in your house and when you call them because they did a shoddy job and it’s leaking they say “Nah, wouldn’t be worth it to fix this. I’ll rather go do a different project for more money.”
Fuck right off.
- Comment on RAM shortage chaos expands to GPUs, high-capacity SSDs, and even hard drives 1 week ago:
“How much to let me poop on your chest?”
“I’m sorry I don’t so this kind of t-[he pulls out 4 32GB DDR5 RAM sticks] …OKEYDOKEY!”
- Comment on Ending a relationship during the dating phase is a positive outcome. 1 week ago:
You’re not wrong but it still feels bad.
- Comment on It's easy 1 week ago:
While this is most likely rage bait this isn’t far from human self perception.
There were multiple studies on this with similar setups. Eg they’d have students play monopoly and give one of them significantly more cash to start with. Not secretly either. One would think this student would understand that this is an insane advantage but the study found that most of the participants believed that they won by playing well.
So even with the most obvious advantage humans will think that it was their own merit that lead to their success.
- Comment on Is this worth anything to a collector? 1 week ago:
Dummy thicc collectors would pay top dollar for this.
- Comment on Micron addresses Crucial exit backlash: 'We are trying to help consumers around the world' — company warns that DRAM drought could last until at least 2028 1 week ago:
10 years is not a long time and once the cat is out of the bag it’s rather difficult to get it back in.
It was the same for other manufacturing. You can’t manufacture most commercial items at a competitive price not just because the difference in labor cost but because there’s simply nobody left that is capable of doing it at scale in the US or Europe.
- Comment on Micron addresses Crucial exit backlash: 'We are trying to help consumers around the world' — company warns that DRAM drought could last until at least 2028 1 week ago:
We’re just trying to help those nerds spend less time on their PC, you see? Yes, we produce memory but at our core we’re a grass touching company.
- Comment on groceries 1 week ago:
Yo, when the new groceries droppin?
- Comment on What a great idea 1 week ago:
Couldn’t think of a way to go out of business faster than having a competent-customers-only policy.
- Comment on Dell says the quiet part out loud: Consumers don't actually care about AI PCs — "AI probably confuses them more than it helps them" 2 weeks ago:
Forget about the personality for a minute. They have a different thing in common. Uselessness. I tried AI for a bunch of general use cases and it almost always fails to satisfy. Either it just can’t do the task in the first place or it makes mistakes that then cost too much time to fix.
There are exceptions and specialized models will have their use but it’s not the Swiss army knife tool AI companies are promising.
- Comment on Insider trading, but make it worse 3 weeks ago:
This is all a sick game
Could be the name of the website. Close your eyes. Walk away from the screen.
- Comment on Windows 11’s 2025 problems are getting impossible to ignore 3 weeks ago:
This generation of software companies really seem to have abandoned all previous goals for “Let’s see how shit we can make this!”
“Sir, if we can finish our robot it could help with any household chores and even take over most of the care work for the elderly. Then in future patches we could make it waterboard the user unless they get the waterboardless premium subscription. Then we’ll increase the cost and slowly reintroduce waterboarding even for subscribers.”
- Comment on Why does American media (and to an extent the American public) seem to only focus on one issue at a time? 2 months ago:
It’s the 24h news cycle. Most news sources are battling for your attention/clicks every day and if they keep digging into a story that people already know, they’ll get less clicks. It has to be new or it just gets scrolled past. This isn’t unique to america. It’s everywhere. Even here on lemmy.
Steve Bannon has recognized this and weaponized it for Trump with his ‘flood the zone’ approach. Keep blasting new headlines and nothing will really stick.
- Comment on Companies that buy up homes should be known as home scalpers 2 months ago:
Guillotine baiters
- Comment on Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me" 2 months ago:
His comparison to snake on his Nokia is actually good because in its current state AI is like a little gimmick for many users. Sure there are use cases but it can’t reliably perform any truly critical tasks because it makes terrible mistakes.
Imagine Nokia shoving snake in customers faces as it is being done with AI. Every phone marketed as OPTIMIZED FOR SNAKE. A big snake button on the phone as a shortcut to open it. Snake integrated everywhere. Trying to send a text? Would you like to play a round of snake first?
That’s what AI currently feels like.
- Comment on New battery life record: This CPU makes the best known business laptop more efficient 2 months ago:
I don’t see many users upgrading the memory on a laptop like this either but would criticize soldered RAM based on the aspect of repairability. T14s are often used in business which means hundreds of machines handled by IT departments. Boards will die and technicians will throw them out including the RAM. Now granted most companies don’t bother with hardware repairs anyway but somewhere down the chain someone will have these machines on their workbench and the easier it is to fix them up the better.
- Comment on If you enjoy napping, you're basically time traveling to a future where you're less tired. 2 months ago:
You got the perfect time. My rhythm is to get up, go to work, come home and nap for 20-45min so I can then tackle the rest of the day. It’s like a soft reset.
- Comment on I've heard New Yorkers are devastated 2 months ago:
Wouldn’t know what else people are supposed to play while banging their cousin in their pick-up truck.
- Comment on The Big Short Guy Just Bet $1 Billion That the AI Bubble Pops 2 months ago:
Yeah they do though. His bet before the 2008 crash was similar. It’s where the market is pointing. Publicly available data suggests there’s a big ass bubble. The timing is essentially a bet. Last time it almost wiped him out because he was a bit early. We’ll see how it goes this time.
- Comment on China solves 'century-old problem' with new analog chip that is 1,000 times faster than high-end Nvidia GPUs 2 months ago:
Then apply thermal paste generously
- Comment on We should ask the sheep... 2 months ago:
It was baaa-aaaa-aaaad
- Comment on economic success 2 months ago:
So…how did you become turkeys most successful furry escort, Mr. Kazuk?
It’s a long story. [throws away his cigarette and puts wolf masks on] Let’s get this over with.
- Comment on US government uses Halo images in a call to 'destroy' immigration, Microsoft declines to comment 2 months ago:
Flooding the zone too stronk
- Comment on Man Alarmed to Discover His Smart Vacuum Was Broadcasting a Secret Map of His House 2 months ago:
All crappy IoT devices ever made. They aren’t used in bot nets all the time because hackers like the challenge of hacking them so much. Security simply isn’t a priority.
- Comment on Is. It....German????? 2 months ago:
This an open letter to Argentina? These are dark times we’re living in, Argentina. Make your flag sad.
Look at this entry for the NZ flag referendum entry from 2015. That’s a modern flag design fitting of our current times.
- Comment on The aws outage is so funny, I can see which companies are amazon scums. 3 months ago:
I feel like you got it backwards. Letting them run is doing more damage than turning them off would.
