toddestan
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- Comment on ‘Devastating blow’: Atlassian lays off 1,600 workers ahead of AI push 1 week ago:
Jira Cloud isn’t just the on-prem version of Jira where you’re forced to use and pay for Atlassian’s hosting, it’s actually a different and much shittier version of the old on-prem Jira. Same goes for other Atlassian products such as Confluence.
It’s no surprise to me that Atlassian is in trouble, as there’s little reason I can see to use their products anymore, and they are just coasting on inertia at this point. Whereas 10 years ago, while it was still fun to knock their stuff, I had to admit they were actually pretty decent.
- Comment on 10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips 2 weeks ago:
ECC memory and server hardware in general is surprisingly cheap if you’re fine buying used gear that’s a few years old. Once that stuff gets old enough that it’s being cycled out of data centers en masse, it hits the used market and the supply often exceeds the limited demand for that kind of stuff.
With that said, I don’t know if that’s true at the moment.
- Comment on 10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips 2 weeks ago:
Bit rot is real, I’ve seen it first hand in plenty of cases. While I tend to blame the storage device, for infrequently accessed files that have been copied multiple times from different drives, I can’t rule out RAM or some other source of the corruption.
- Comment on 10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips 2 weeks ago:
Programs that use more memory could be slightly more susceptible to this sort of thing because if a bit gets randomly flipped somewhere in a computer’s memory, the bit flip more likely to happen in an application that has a larger ram footprint as opposed to an application with a small ram footprint.
I’m still surprised the percentage is this high.
- Comment on Honk 2 weeks ago:
Hence the reason it’s almost certainly fake. Even a 5 year-old could easily rattle off several animals with three letters in them without much thought.
Now if it was something like what animals has only two letters in it, that’s something most people would actually have to think about.
spoiler
My answer: Ox
- Comment on bold words 2 weeks ago:
You’d be better off saying something like “sell bitcoin $125k” (we’ll just assume “$125k” would count as one word). That you should then buy it when it’s cheap would be implied.
- Comment on Amazon BUSTED for Widespread Scheme to Inflate Prices Across the Economy— Amazon, its vendors, and competing retailers are price fixing, hiking up prices for consumer products 3 weeks ago:
I avoid Amazon as much as possible, though on occasion I’ve more or less had no other reasonable choice. But that’s happened something like 4 times in the last 10 years or so.
The big problem with boycotting Amazon is that while it’s easy enough to avoid buying from their online store as much as possible, AWS (Amazon Web Services) is pretty much unavoidable if you’re using the modern internet.
- Comment on The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents 3 weeks ago:
My high school, among other interesting design decisions, didn’t have any lockers in the academic areas. So you had a locker that was way over by the gyms, or out by the shop classes, or if you were lucky in the cafeteria (because then you could at least stash your lunch in it).
The administration also seemed to be completely mystified as to why everyone carried around huge backpacks.
- Comment on Is it really dangerous to fall sleep in the bath? 5 weeks ago:
Even assuming you start with room temperature water, it’d be several hours before you start feeling the effects of hypothermia. Given the water starts off warm, it’s only a bathtub of water so body heat will keep it above room temperature, and you’re (probably) in a small room that’ll help hold in the heat, I’d say you’d more than likely be okay assuming you don’t sleep more than 8-10 hours. If you pass out in the tub for something like 16-24 hours then I’d be more worried.
In some ways, I’d be more concerned about what would happen in the drain plug wasn’t completely watertight and the water drained away, particularly if you weren’t naked and were wearing clothing that holds in water like cotton.
- Comment on Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face 5 weeks ago:
More like they become reusable. A lot of places that refurbish donated computers for people who need them are perpetually short on drives since so much of the hardware they get have the drives pulled.
- Comment on Can anyone explain why? 1 month ago:
I’ve seen the line drawn a few different places, but generally Gen Z starts at around 1996-1998 or so. In any case, the oldest Gen Z have been drinking age for a while.
- Comment on The Rise Of Fake Casio Scientific Calculators 2 months ago:
Scientific calculators were some of the first pocket computers.
- Comment on Maybe the RAM shortage will make software less bloated? 2 months ago:
To be fair, Windows 11 also runs like shit on a desktop with an i9 and 32GB of RAM.
- Comment on Does playing audio at a high volume bluetooth wirelessly use more phone battery power than lower volume or are equidraining? 2 months ago:
It’s the latter for all of the Bluetooth audio protocols that I’ve worked with.
- Comment on AI-generated code contains more bugs and errors than human output 2 months ago:
I don’t know about ChatGPT, but Github Copilot can act like an autocomplete. Or you can think of it as a fancier Intellisense. You still have to watch its output as it can make mistakes or hallucinate library function calls and things like that, but it can also be quite good at anticipating what I was going to write and saves me some keystrokes. I’ve also found I can prompt it in a way by writing a comment and it’ll follow up with attempt to fill in some code based upon that comment. I’ve certainly found it to be a net time saver.
- Comment on Dell and Lenovo may limit mid-range laptops to 8GB DDR5 RAM in response to rising memory prices 2 months ago:
Actually, the web browser is one of the major offenders when it comes to consuming large amounts of RAM.
- Comment on Looks legit. What do you all think? 2 months ago:
The van itself doesn’t make sense. It’s a weird mashup of Ford and Chevy styling and details, with a bit of Dodge thrown in for good measure. It’s actually pretty plausible and very realistic looking but that’s not a Chevy van (nor is it a Ford or a Dodge with a badge transplant). Some thing with all the cars in the background. They are all very plausible but I can’t actually ID any of them.
Either someone has been busy with Photoshop, or the AI stuff is getting scary good.
- Comment on Looks legit. What do you all think? 2 months ago:
Smells like AI slop to me…
- Comment on I'm gonna need a walk-in shower soon enough 2 months ago:
Most American bathrooms you have a combo tub/shower. Since you have to step over the side of the tub to take a shower that’s not what many people consider a “walk-in” shower. In higher-end, generally newer construction sometimes they’ll have a separate shower and tub. Bathrooms with just a shower are somewhat uncommon. If you see a 3/4 bath listed in a house that’s a bathroom with just a shower and no tub.
I’ve considered getting rid of my tub and just having a shower as I never use the tub part, but as I only have one full bathroom supposedly having a house with no tub hurts the resale value. I might do it anyway, but also what I have is working fine and I’m lazy.
- Comment on Word. 2 months ago:
The problem is everyone expects Calc to be Excel, including full compatibility with reading and writing of Excel’s file formats. As Excel is a constantly moving target, following that path means you’ll forever be a second-rate Excel that’ll never quite be fully compatible.
I find Calc to be a fine spreadsheet program myself, though I’m hardly a power user. If you want to use Excel, then just go use Excel.
- Comment on Why make 250GB m.2 disks instead of 1TB 2 months ago:
Earlier this year I needed a SSD for a PC I was going to use as a router. The smallest drive Microcenter had was 256 GB, which was massive overkill. It was also priced at $19, so I was like whatever and bought it.
With the massive increases in price for flash memory, maybe we’ll start seeing smaller drives again.
- Comment on We can play that game too 3 months ago:
That’s exactly how it works, well other than me having the dates off as the Boomers weren’t even born when Social Security was enacted by FDR. When Social Security was enacted, retirees started receiving benefits even if they never paid into the system, which was paid for by the current workers who were paying into the system. It’s been like that ever since. Social Security is also not a pension.
You are correct that for most people would be better off investing their Social Security taxes into a hedge fund but workers don’t really have a choice in the matter.
- Comment on We can play that game too 3 months ago:
That’s not how Social Security works. The money the Boomers paid into the system went to paying benefits for the previous generations. The benefits the Boomers (at least the ones that have retired) are getting now is being paid by the workers in the younger generations. While it’s true the program has run a surplus, if the young taxpayers stopped paying into the system that surplus wouldn’t last very long.
- Comment on We can play that game too 3 months ago:
Not that I disagree, but 90 would be silent generation.
- Comment on Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead 3 months ago:
That’s interesting. I’ve always wanted a bunch of blinkenlights but they also needed to be functional and serve some purpose. Kind of like the old Thinkpad I have that has a whole row of status LEDs under the screen. A bunch of meaningless lights just for the sake of having lights always seemed pointless.
Anyway, with the last PC I built, the RGB stuff was pretty much unavoidable. I still went out of my way to get a case without a window though. I do have the RGB on, but it’s a solid blue-greenish color so there’s a bit of glow coming out the back of the case.
- Comment on Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead 3 months ago:
It’s fine for things like office PCs where you just need it to work, don’t want to spend a lot of money, and performance doesn’t really matter too much.
- Comment on Microsoft AI CEO Puzzled by People Being "Unimpressed" by AI 3 months ago:
My experience is an MBA from a T10 school is just as useless. On top of that, they think they should be paid more because of the school they went to.
The sad thing, some of the material in an MBA program can actually be useful. It’s just the type of people who enroll in these programs aren’t the type to actually learn it and will just coast through doing the bare minimum. Or I suppose today, using AI to cheat. This is even more so for the people who think that the key to success is having a big name school on their resume. If anything, I’d put more weight on an MBA from no-name state U than T10 school. Which still isn’t much, but anyway.
- Comment on YSK that americans can now deduce private jet expenses from their taxes 3 months ago:
Most poor people probably just take the standard deduction anyway. It’s not like they have enough money to accumulate a large amount of deductible expenses anyway. Possible exceptions might be large medical expenses or a mortgage.
- Comment on Windows 11's adoption is much slower compared to Windows 10, claims Dell 3 months ago:
Has Lenovo stepped their game up recently? Work used to be all Lenovo, and a few years back they switched over to Dell because the Lenovos just weren’t reliable. Which is a shame because I still think the Lenovos are better designed with better keyboards, screens, port layout, etc. but it’s all moot if the thing craps out after a couple of years.
- Comment on The moment we've all been waiting for: you now can have targeted ads on your 2k smartfridge 4 months ago:
If I really wanted something like that, I’d just buy a dumb fridge and rig up a camera inside of it.