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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube devs be like⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Not a business plan because business=money, but how about creators host their own videos and share them through BitTorrent. No need to deliver real time video, users just download what they want to watch then watch them as they become available. Funding occurs through Kofi or Patreon etc. They’ll need to publish the magnet links somewhere but that’s a whole load cheaper than publishing RT video.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft stealthily installs Windows 10 update to nag you to upgrade to Windows 11 – and not for the first time⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Well I’d be happy to. It’s only Microsoft’s silly rules that stop my laptop being upgraded to Win11.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Horrors We've Unleashed⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah but those little bastards started it. People call what’s happening in Gaza a genocide but that’s nothing compared with the mozzie kill count.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Make a wsh⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Another splendd Kapwng cartoon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dell Sales team told to return to office 5 days a week⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Quite right too. The most important factor for me when buying a computer is that the sales droid is in an office. All those CPU, RAM and disk numbers are secondary to that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2real5me⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  But you DO have a PhD. Claiming it is somehow not valid is a criticism of the establishment that awarded it to you. You’re just suffering from impostor syndrome, that’s all.

  Also, no employer will consider someone fresh out of education, even someone with a PhD, to have vast quantitites of useful real-world experience, so even declaring a PhD won’t see you land your first job with the expectations that you’ll ace every bit of it from day one.

  It’s good that you realise you know nothing. That is both accurate and useful. But don’t take it too far. What your PhD proves is that you have an ability to learn, understand and communicate, and THAT is what employers are looking for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It hurts.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a friend who thinks LOL means “lots of love” and uses it as a generic signoff.

  Had to reread it several times when he wrote “Mother in law died yesterday LOL”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The UK section of my local supermarket is taking the piss⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m British and I only eat beans and curry, so I can’t see any problem here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In Leaked Audio, Amazon Cloud CEO Says AI Will Soon Make Human Programmers a Thing of the Past⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t worry guys. As long as project managers think “do the thing … like the thing … (waves hands around) … you know … (waves hands around some more) … like the other thing … but, um, …, different” constitutes a detailed spec, we’re safe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If "Master/Slave" terminology in computing sounds bad now, why not change it to "Dom/Sub"?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not more wokism! Next they’ll be demanding we stop talking about executing a child!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bungie CEO faces backlash after announcing 220 employees, or 17% of its workforce, will be laid off | Pete Parsons has spent $2.4 million on classic cars since Sony acquired Destiny developer Bungie⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably significantly fewer. Here in the UK someone’s salary is about half of what it costs a business to employ them. It might be more than that in the USA but there will be other non-salary costs per employee.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube tests server-side ads to make your coveted blocker obsolete⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, and it took less than a minute of googling to find “I’m paying, why do I still see ads?”. There’s also someone in this thread complaining of the same.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does voting for Biden change anything if I live in a deep red area of my state? (Ohio)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry I’m not well enough versed in American politics to know who’s blue or red.

  Whether you should vote or not doesn’t depend on the people around you. It is your right to have your say. The result is the cumulative effect of everyone in your area doing the same. Whether you think you’re surrounded by millions of blues or millions of reds doesn’t make any difference. Your perception may be incorrect, and your analysis, that there is literally zero chance that your vote will matter, is incorrect.

  Nobody knows the results of an election until the votes are in and have been counted. It doesn’t matter that your area has always been red, blue, green, turquoise, pink or whatever. Areas can change allegiance, and it is by individuals getting out and voting.

  If you don’t vote, you strengthen the position of those who vote the other way. It is not considered a protest vote because the system would prefer to consider this as voter apathy. If you want to register a protest vote and “none of the above” isn’t an option, find the official way to spoil your ballot paper and do that, but whatever you do, get out and vote.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't low birth-rate countries make immigration to their country easier?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Because salad is boring and fat-shaming is the last kind of bullying still considered acceptable.

  I was out on my bike the other day and someone yelled “YOU FAT BASTARD”. Fortunately I’m pretty thick skinned and have lined up a few choice remarks for next time.

  Imagine if fat had been replaced with black, or Chinese, or gay, etc. They’d be in jail for committing a hate crime quicker than I could get to the nearest Greggs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The new Chinese owner of the popular Polyfill JS project injects malware into more than 100 thousand sites⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What rules can we add that solve this problem? (I’ve tried DDG but didn’t find any results)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everything old is new again.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe it’s a UK thing but at large public transport terminals we get lines of taxis waiting for “zero wait” business.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help! Help! I'm being assimilated!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Help! Help! Here come the Borg!

  let’s see who gets that reference…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 is now automatically enabling OneDrive folder backup without asking permission⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “fictional AI CP” isn’t a thing. AI is trained on existing data. It does not create new stuff. If you want AI to generate CP then you have to train it on CP.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hee hee⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I hope he was wearing a sonky

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dell said return to the office or else—nearly half of workers chose “or else”⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I had the misfortune to have to share an office with a bunch of sales morons. I can recommend Bose idiot-cancelling headphones. What a bunch of selfish noisy fuckwombles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Get scattered⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Same way I’d explain a sciency-type person who doesn’t know the difference between there, their and they’re.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ball's in your court, Mikey.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Setup for one of those elf on a shelf gags?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Climate activists glue themselves to Munich airport runway⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, but if the plane isn’t going to move then there’s no point it burning fuel.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Climate activists glue themselves to Munich airport runway⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re right about one thing: 1/0 = inf is sloppy and lazy. The better way to write it is: the limit as x approaches zero of 1/x is infinity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unsolved mysteries⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’d be the “like this” option.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Climate activists glue themselves to Munich airport runway⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Burning fuel to no effect is better than burning fuel to get somewhere? A quick search suggests a 747 burns 5 gallons per mile. An idling engine achieving nothing is burning infinity gallons per mile. Which if you check the number line you’ll find is slightly higher.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Patriarchy⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Some trans men have boobs; calling them women is the worst crime imaginable: misgendering.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Patriarchy⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How do they know they’re women?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Biden really, really doesn’t want China to flood the US with cheap EVs⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Also by claiming “developing nation”, which is up to the nation to decide for themselves instead of having someone else decide for them, the planet’s second largest economy gets to claim WTO rules that the recipient (country) pays delivery. That’s why you can buy something from China for $1.50 and yet it costs $150 to send it back if it doesn’t work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨„If companies were to do the right thing, they would lose the most valuable customers on earth, preteen kids”⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a great plan! Do be sure to let us all know how it goes.