IrateAnteater
@IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on yippie 1 week ago:
Probably. Everything is is the result of physics. And I do mean absolutely everything. I’d also argue that any math that isn’t already applicable to physics simply points to something in physics we don’t know about yet. It wouldn’t be the first time we came up with some math before we knew what the application was.
- Comment on yippie 1 week ago:
Everything else is physics, so yes exclusively.
- Comment on yippie 1 week ago:
Math is just the framework we apply to try and describe physics.
- Comment on yippie 1 week ago:
No matter what you do, if you look hard enough, it’s all just physics.
- Comment on YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable 1 week ago:
What format does the shield not support that other boxes do support?
- Comment on YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable 1 week ago:
It astonishes me that the shield is still the best of the streaming boxes after all these years.
- Comment on misleading cover 4 weeks ago:
There’s a market out there for literally any kind of smut you can think of. It might be a small market, but there will be a market.
- Comment on Follow me for more shitty diet tips 4 weeks ago:
It kinda works for me. Sipping on a whiskey works to shift the craving for chips after I’ve already eaten dinner. Of course, that goes out the window if I don’t keep it to the one drink.
- Comment on AI controls is coming to Firefox 1 month ago:
Websites not playing nice with Firefox has nothing to do with Firefox itself, and everything to do with lazy web devs only testing with chromium based browsers and maybe Safari.
- Comment on Mamdani to kill the NYC AI chatbot caught telling businesses to break the law— New York mayor says terminating the ‘unusable’ bot will help close a budget gap 1 month ago:
I’m guessing some variation on “capitalism bad”.
- Comment on Satya Nadella insists people are using Microsoft’s Copilot AI a lot 1 month ago:
I have it on my work laptop, because unfortunately my company bought into the hype. Every once in a while I ask it how to do a thing, just to see if it will help. So far copilot has been wrong 100% of the time.
- Comment on Noooooo 1 month ago:
the phone call is more convenient as it can be placed from anywhere
And that’s half the problem. My job deals with things that physically exist, and if you can’t be bothered to get your ass in here to actually look at it, I can’t be bothered to deal with whatever your problem of the day is (yes I’m getting bitter about engineers sitting at home telling me “BuT iT wOrKs iN CAD”).
Also, in person conversations are far more effective than phone conversations. Human communication is far more than just purely verbal.
- Comment on Noooooo 1 month ago:
Email tends to have less expectation for immediate response and doesn’t have unavoidable “message read” notifications. Most importantly, in my experience at least, people tend to put more details into an email. Texts, teams messages, etc seem to cause people to try and speak in single sentences, and then I have to play 21 questions to drag the info out of them.
- Comment on Noooooo 1 month ago:
Either send me an email and you’ll get an answer when you get an answer, or come see me in person. Phone calls and text messages are annoying as shit.
- Comment on I spent a year on Linux and forgot to miss Windows 2 months ago:
Depends on what end of the corporate world you are working in. I do industrial automation, and there’s no way you are getting out of having a Windows VM at the very least.
- Comment on Mama! 2 months ago:
To visit/fistfight the Andromeda galaxy.
- Comment on 3.5" floppy disks were peak tactile feedback in storage: easy to stick in, drives had a button to immediately eject them, big enough to get labels, thin enough that stacks didn't take too much space 2 months ago:
I kind of wish that something along the lines of the old PCMCIA format had survived. Flat, stackable, big enough for easy labelling, and these days could easily fit many terabytes of flash storage.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
I’m wondering if they got France and Germany mixed up. I don’t remember all the French I was taught growing up, but it didn’t sound right. So I googled it and got “droigts” and “orteils” for “fingers” and “toes”.
- Comment on imagine 2 months ago:
Well now you just triggered a false vacuum decay on the far side of the galaxy. Way to go.
- Comment on Shut up science!! 3 months ago:
What does the validity of the circadian rhythm concept have to do with creationism? Being wrong about one thing doesn’t suddenly mean you believe in ghost stories.
- Comment on Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead 3 months ago:
You can try, but I don’t see how they’ve done anything that makes them liable to a lawsuit. I’m just adding them to my list of companies I won’t do business with when they inevitably come back to consumers after the bubble pops.
- Comment on Shout out to my engineering homies. 3 months ago:
What I meant is that wielding new science and technology against people is in no way unique to capitalism. Every system we’ve ever tried has done that at one point.
- Comment on Shout out to my engineering homies. 3 months ago:
No. That evil has nothing to do with whichever socio-economic system is your particular choice of boogie man.
- Comment on Ya yeet! 3 months ago:
“Assuming a spherical child and no air resistance, how far will the child travel?”
- Comment on Existential cowposting 3 months ago:
At this point, I’d even be willing to forgo the punishment, if they’d just stop fucking doing it.
- Comment on Trure 3 months ago:
Yes, I understood some of those words.
- Comment on One man's trash is another man's garbage 3 months ago:
Is there any other universal icon that is at all related to throwing things away? The recycling icon might just be a win by default.
- Comment on It improves the morale of the future worker. 3 months ago:
How it possibly be “bog standard” when it’s the only developed nation on the planet where it’s true?
- Comment on It improves the morale of the future worker. 3 months ago:
assuming she has one
Aaaand there’s the rub. Poor and pregnant? You can just go fuck yourself.
- Comment on Might not be efficient, but at least it... Uhhh, wait, what good does it provide again? 3 months ago:
Every once in a while I try to use it at work. It has yet to actually provide me with anything useful.