IrateAnteater
@IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on AI controls is coming to Firefox 5 days 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 week ago:
I’m guessing some variation on “capitalism bad”.
- Comment on Satya Nadella insists people are using Microsoft’s Copilot AI a lot 1 week 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 week 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 week 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 week 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 3 weeks 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! 3 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 1 month 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 1 month 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!! 2 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 2 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. 2 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. 2 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! 2 months ago:
“Assuming a spherical child and no air resistance, how far will the child travel?”
- Comment on Existential cowposting 2 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 2 months ago:
Yes, I understood some of those words.
- Comment on One man's trash is another man's garbage 2 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. 2 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. 2 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? 2 months ago:
Every once in a while I try to use it at work. It has yet to actually provide me with anything useful.
- Comment on Maybe they should double down and blame trans pedophiles. 2 months ago:
That’s a new one. Don’t think I’ve ever heard of a narrative where Democrats blamed anything on trans people.
- Comment on Windows 11 to add an AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders, warns of security risk 2 months ago:
I’m lucky that the type of competitive shooters that all seem to be using kernel level anti-cheat, have never appealed to me. I ditched windows on my home stuff last year and there’s definitely no going back. Now if only industrial software writers would make Linux variants. Not going to hold my breath on that one though.
- Comment on Scandal 2 months ago:
Doesn’t have to actually be on the island to acquire the pictures.
- Comment on We shouldn't have to go to college in order to afford a house by 30. 2 months ago:
They didn’t say “find a job”, they said “learn a profession” it’s a different thing. It’s learning a skilled trade. You have to learn a trade first, then you can find the high paying job. Your early 20s will be relatively low paying, but by the time you are 30, you should have multiple years of being a journeyman under your belt and should be making good money.
- Comment on It's OK to just like lemon water. 2 months ago:
Slightly better for the teeth maybe? And maybe a slight benefit if heartburn is an issue.
- Comment on It's OK to just like lemon water. 2 months ago:
Yeah, but with lemon flavour. I think the idea is if you started with plain water, then added lemon, you’d now have lemon flavoured acidic water. If you start with alkaline water, you’d end up with lemon flavoured neutral water.
- Comment on 3-bean soup 3 months ago:
What about tomato soup?
- Comment on #environmentalist 3 months ago:
Yes, because nobody ever took their drink to go after finishing their meal.