IrateAnteater
@IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on #environmentalist 2 days ago:
Yes, because nobody ever took their drink to go after finishing their meal.
- Comment on Great Depression: Part Deux 2 days ago:
It could still be very much middle class. Parents make it out of nostalgia from when they were kids, instead of making it out of necessity.
- Comment on #environmentalist 2 days ago:
The odd time I end up eating fast food and getting a paper straw, it’s the fact that it goes mushy before I finish my drink. I think that’s the texture issue people are talking about.
- Comment on I'm too stupid for this 5 days ago:
The problem I had is that taking one assortment of numbers that had no meaning, doing a bunch of operations on them (never actually finishing the operations though, because the last steps were “obvious”) leading to a different arrangement of numbers that also meant nothing, was not a good method of teaching. The pass/fail rate of that course relative to all the others reflected that. Every other teacher/professor I had before or since would include context when introducing an entirely new concept.
- Comment on I'm too stupid for this 5 days ago:
I had a linear algebra professor who did that all the time. Never did figure out what an eigenvector is not why I would want 14 ways of finding one. Brilliant man, terrible teacher.
- Comment on one bright second 1 week ago:
The chances of me living long enough to actually be effected by it are so slim that I’m completely unconcerned about it.
- Comment on one bright second 1 week ago:
The last stars will burn out in 120 trillion years
We think. We still haven’t solved things like the dark matter/energy problem. The answer to that alone could drastically change what we estimate will happen in the distant future.
- Comment on Windows 10 support has ended, but here's how to get an extra year for free 1 week ago:
There is for now. Microsoft is working on closing the various loopholes.
- Comment on Some are too young to understand 2 weeks ago:
True, but most consumers aren’t doing bulk storage. Most people just have cell phone and laptop
- Comment on Some are too young to understand 2 weeks ago:
Gotta keep them on their toes.
- Comment on Some are too young to understand 2 weeks ago:
Hard drives are going to be one of those in between things that Gen x/millennials will understand, but were already obsolete by the time Gen z rolled around.
- Comment on JP Morgan boss Jamie Dimon sounds warning on US stock market fall 2 weeks ago:
Guessing intent is too difficult to do in a two sentence comment. I always try to just go with what what is explicitly written.
In this case I was just responding to the original commenter saying saying he’d take JP Morgan advice with a grain of salt due to the Saudi-EA deal. The morality of JP Morgan being involved in that deal doesn’t really factor into evaluating whether or not Jamie Dimon may be right in his public remarks about the future of stock prices.
An evaluation of the morality of that deal would be relevant if I were deciding whether or not to do business with JP Morgan, or to buy anything from EA.
- Comment on The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe 2 weeks ago:
I think a substantial part of the problem is the employee turnover rates in the industry. It seems to be just accepted that everyone is going to jump to another company every couple years (usually due to companies not giving adequate raises). This leads to a situation where, consciously or subconsciously, noone really gives a shit about the product. Everyone does their job (and only their job, not a hint of anything extra), but they’re not going to take on major long term projects, because they’re already one foot out the door, looking for the next job. Shitty middle management of course drastically exacerbates the issue.
I think that’s why there’s a lot of open source software that’s better than the corporate stuff. Half the time it’s just one person working on it, but they actually give a shit.
- Comment on JP Morgan boss Jamie Dimon sounds warning on US stock market fall 2 weeks ago:
I’m talking about who’s financial advice is valid. I’ve said absolutely fuck-all about about what you should allow to dictate your final action.
Could be that I think the morals should override the profit motive. Could be that I think profit overrides everything. Could be somewhere in-between. You don’t know, because I never said.
- Comment on [NAS] Onboard vs HBA vs SATA expansion cards 2 weeks ago:
Like other people have said, it’s going to depend on what you want to do with the NAS. If it’s going to be a pure NAS (ie network storage only), then using onboard will be fine. If you plan on doing other things (home assistant, media server, etc), I recommend going the virtual machine + HBA route.
- Comment on JP Morgan boss Jamie Dimon sounds warning on US stock market fall 2 weeks ago:
Why? From a moral standpoint, dealing with the Saudis is very suspect, but from a financial standpoint, lending money to Saudi Arabia makes perfect sense. Even if EA immediately becomes worthless, Saudi Arabia owes the bank that money still. And Saudi Arabia has more than enough cashflow now and for the foreseeable future to service that loan.
- Comment on Which one and why? 2 weeks ago:
What’s stopping you from using it for soup?
- Comment on Harsh 2 weeks ago:
Why limit yourself to Apollo velocities? We’re trying to shoot the moon, not land in it.
- Comment on Everybody is fine with celebrities like Whoopi Goldberg making up fake names for themselves, but when someone chooses a name for themselves to suit their gender identity it's suddenly a problem 3 weeks ago:
Hey, you leave us out of it. You touched him last; he’s yours now.
- Comment on Amid EA's unpopular $55 billion buyout, Baldur's Gate 3 director takes time "to remind people that making games faster and cheaper while charging more has never worked before" 3 weeks ago:
One of the biggest parts of the problem is that corporate management types can’t quantify experience and skill. This leads to them thinking of projects purely in terms of man-hours, and they cannot comprehend that not all man-hours are equal. It’s an issue that plagues a lot of industries.
- Comment on Those who don't use dashboards, how are you managing your services? 3 weeks ago:
I used a hodge-podge of chinesium parts and leftover drives to create a DAS system that hooks up to an HBA via DAC. I’m actually kinda surprised how stable it’s all been.
- Comment on Is anyone NOT steaming their Music? 3 weeks ago:
I used to use Spotify, but then I learned that YouTube premium cost the same amount, and came with access to YouTube music, so I switched. Got tired of playing YouTube ad blocking whack-a-mole.
If Google starts enshittifying Premium too much, I’ll go back to sailing the high seas for stuff I’m not going to/can’t get on vinyl.
- Comment on True staple of the format 3 weeks ago:
Except, when you Google something, the best answers are (or at least used to be) most often Reddit comments provided by people who aren’t douchebags.
- Comment on Uh oh lol 5 weeks ago:
If something is red shifting, it’s accelerating away from you. If something is blue shifting, it’s accelerating towards you. An entire galaxy accelerating towards you is somewhat concerning.
- Comment on If you had to buy a new TV, what brand would you get? 5 weeks ago:
Does anyone make a 65"+ monitor though?
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg, the Lawyer, Is Suing Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO 1 month ago:
Yeah, I assumed it was some corporate shenanigans where Zuckerberg sues himself and somehow ends up with more money because of it.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
There absolutely is such a thing as a benevolent dictator. The problem is that it’s impossible to tell ahead of time who they are.
- Comment on Right in the feels 1 month ago:
I think “Last Kiss” by Pearl Jam is next on this hyper-depressing playlist.
- Comment on AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over 2 months ago:
Either way, they don’t have the reserves to supply their own demand.
- Comment on AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over 2 months ago:
Yeah, it’s crazy what you can do when you don’t have to pay people, and you can instantly stomp out all dissent.