silasmariner
@silasmariner@programming.dev
- Comment on The dominoes are falling: motherboard sales down 50% as PC enthusiasts are put off by stinking memory prices 3 days ago:
Yeah that’s widely considered to be the article about it tbh
- Comment on Behold! The Ultimate Recipe! 4 days ago:
I was just pissing about and downvoted you with the understanding that you were sufficiently decent to survive a downvote without getting upset. I don’t see a reason, however, to performatively downvote that second comment and think whoever did that was unfair, so I’m giving you an upvote.
I have never sat for an autism diagnosis, I have no idea why that would be relevant
- Comment on Behold! The Ultimate Recipe! 4 days ago:
No. You are in the minority and you will be adjusted
- Comment on The war on privacy and encryption goes on. This time in the UK. Under the “Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill”, lawmakers now want client-side scanning on every phone and tablet. 4 days ago:
Funnily enough my eldest is getting a laptop this Christmas. Arch Linux with a heavily locked-down environment (I’ve disabled WiFi on the non-root account, even). She’s just about to turn 7 – how old are yours?
- Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 6 days ago:
Well time will tell won’t it, but we’re both just guessing at the end
- Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 6 days ago:
No that’s way too paranoid. Honestly 20 years not 6 months. And by then ladybird will be viable so nbd
- Comment on Careful, he's a hero 6 days ago:
Maybe they just didn’t believe his version of the story and thought it a post hoc rationalisation?
- Comment on Karl Bushby: Made a bet in 1998 that he could walk from Chile to England. 27 Years later, Still walking. Survived Darién Gap, 57 days in a Russian prison, Traversing the Bering Strait on shifting ice 3 weeks ago:
I very much doubt that the primary motivation to be the first person to walk around the world from South America to the UK is a bet. It’s … Y’know, probably more to do with being the first person to do that.
- Comment on Feeding my family alone is expensive. I can't afford to feed all of y'all. 4 weeks ago:
That’s a lot of fish
- Comment on Take a guess 🤣 4 weeks ago:
Paedo in a lea, tho’
- Comment on Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change massively, gets enormous backlash - Neowin 1 month ago:
They got the punctuation all mixed up. Instead of ‘Windows 10 will be the last ever version! No more major upgrades!’ it was meant to read ‘Windows 10 will be the last ever version? No! More major upgrades!’
Unfortunate mistake
- Comment on U.S. Tech Layoffs Hit Two-Decade High in October 1 month ago:
Maybe worried about looking personally identifiable. It’s understandable.
- Comment on U.S. Tech Layoffs Hit Two-Decade High in October 1 month ago:
Which is weird because if you’re actually trying to get shit done, you get much more value out of someone with experience in your ecosystem than someone you’ve just hired, and it’s astonishing how low you an keep those ppls salaries compared to new hires who’re much less effective. Hire+fire is shit for everyone. Except, I guess, idiots who can only think 2 months in either direction.
- Comment on Also pretty poor, with shitty health care coverage...am I getting warm? 1 month ago:
Nah actually I’m pretty happy mostly. Although I do get horrible muscle spasms when I’m stressed sometimes
- Comment on Elon Musk says Optimus will 'eliminate poverty' in speech after his $1 trillion pay package was approved 1 month ago:
Only if you believed his bollocks, which we all know is not to be believed
- Comment on The Big Short Guy Just Bet $1 Billion That the AI Bubble Pops 1 month ago:
Huh. Never noticed the MLM parallels of the current AI hype so much before. Literally levenschtein distance of one, should’ve spotted it.
- Comment on The Big Short Guy Just Bet $1 Billion That the AI Bubble Pops 1 month ago:
I think the idea is that, whilst shorting, you get squeezed. The question is not ‘if’ but ‘when’ and if it takes too long and you’re $1B deep you can lose your shirt
- Comment on hmm breakfast 1 month ago:
Sicilian ice cream sandwiches are a real thing and they are basically the best thing that’s ever happened to breakfast cuisine
- Comment on hmm breakfast 1 month ago:
Siesta is barely a thing in Italy any more unless you’re like 70+ and rural lol. But a brioche stuffed with ice-cream is the king of breakfasts what are you on about
- Comment on School pickup lines are wild 1 month ago:
Grab that cash with both hands and make a dash
- Comment on Great to see some actual progress over there 1 month ago:
You’ve got to be kidding me! 😡😡
- Comment on some days i cant even 2 months ago:
Depends if you’re going for most or all of the leaves. If you’re just going for most and you’re not incompetent, rake is easy and which.
- Comment on Beware!!! 2 months ago:
It’s a reference to ‘taking the knee’, I think there was a big thing in American football about that.
- Comment on Anyone remember Heroes of Might & Magic 3? A remake is coming 2 months ago:
Eh…Homm2 was better.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
‘sounds like cope’ in an inappropriate context like that makes you sound, I’m afraid, like a tit.
- Comment on IT'S A TRAP 2 months ago:
But what if I know Steve’s first and bet it’s Steve?
- Comment on AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds 2 months ago:
I used to work with a pretty great coder.
Everything he’s done in the last 6 months has been trash
Big code assist energy
- Comment on Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme crushes Apple M4, Intel, and AMD in new benchmarks 2 months ago:
Yeah I guess, but it’s still annoying to have identically named tools that do the same job but aren’t compatible. Or, like,
base64 -don macos can gobble the last char of output. So then you have to homebrew coreutils or something, but it just means that stuff that you feel should work compatibly out-of-the-box doesn’t, and writing *nix scripts without perl is just a pita.I forget what my point here is.
- Comment on Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme crushes Apple M4, Intel, and AMD in new benchmarks 2 months ago:
As long as you don’t try to use sed or grep. Literally the only reason I learned perl was because of the flag incompatibilities between macos Unix and Linux utils.
- Comment on Just tryna survive 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 2 months ago:
Floating or boating