themaninblack
@themaninblack@lemmy.world
- Comment on YSK you can add a noAI version of DuckDuckGo to Firefox 18 hours ago:
I don’t mind when it links to wiki but I actually follow the link to verify. It totally made up a pardon from the king of England to some guy yesterday
- Comment on Is this even a question? 1 week ago:
- Comment on Drivers over 70 to undergo eye tests every three years under plans to improve road safety | LBC 1 week ago:
A physical test, too
- Comment on Dell brings back XPS laptops — ditches the capacitive touch bar, adds 1Hz display option, and upgrades 14 and 16-inch models 1 week ago:
Build quality for Dell is down over the past few years
- Comment on What is with these videos where it's just someone reaction to shit someone else is doing? 2 weeks ago:
I’d say let’s start reaction to reaction videos, but Bo Burnham already covered that ground
- Comment on you're doing ReSeArCh rong!! 2 weeks ago:
The propagation of these ideas will lead to the maiming and death of children
- Comment on Fare thee well 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Dell and Lenovo may limit mid-range laptops to 8GB DDR5 RAM in response to rising memory prices 3 weeks ago:
Weird way to spell Linux Mint
- Comment on MegaThread: Under 16 lockout/verification/ID required 5 weeks ago:
Kids under 16 are likely to explore alternatives and get vendor-locked to them instead of Meta et Al. products.
Not that vendor lock in is good but maybe this will create more awareness that the web is bigger than a handful of websites.
My 90’s heart wishes for a return to the old web, where there was much more decentralisation
- Comment on MegaThread: Under 16 lockout/verification/ID required 5 weeks ago:
This is a stupid law that won’t work of course. Only the most delusional of parents with control issues support this.
However. This also might be unintentionally the most important antitrust legislation in a generation. For that, I am grateful.
- Comment on Do you ever feel like your life is "scripted"? Like everything is written by some entity controlling your life? Like you live in a fictional universe? Is this feeling normal/common? 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Bossware rises as employers keep closer tabs on remote staff 1 month ago:
I used to get mad at these but it unironically sounds like a nice open culture
- Comment on Contents of Queen's Purse 2 months ago:
Yeah that’s some Pope shit to do
- Comment on U.S. Tech Layoffs Hit Two-Decade High in October 2 months ago:
Dual citizen with Australia, sorry. Though it is fairly light paperwork for Americans who are in tech - as in the U.S., the best chances are to get in stateside with a big company that has an Aussie HQ (Atlassian, Xero, Canva, FAANG, etc.) and then transfer
- Comment on Aeroplane 2 months ago:
You know what? You’re absolutely right.
People: please leave flying 737s to trained experts with the know-how, FAA licensure, and medical clearance. They know better than you even if you think you can do it from a meme.
It’s very important that you not touch ANY of the buttons and dials on a 737. People could get hurt or even die if you do.
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- Comment on U.S. Tech Layoffs Hit Two-Decade High in October 2 months ago:
I left and got two Sr SWE positions within 3 months. It’s like the 90’s down here
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- Comment on Oppa oppa 2 months ago:
Well they are in the category of bad MLK statues but yeah I agree oral sex is not very similar to a stern expression
- Comment on Oppa oppa 2 months ago:
Same sentiment, though.
“We don’t even see his feet. He is embedded in the rock like something not yet fully born, suited and stern, rising from its roughly chiseled surface. His face is uncompromising, determined, his eyes fixed in the distance, not far from where Jefferson stands across the water. But kitsch here strains at the limits of resemblance: Is this the Dr. King of the “I Have a Dream” speech? Or the writer of the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech?”
-Edward Rothstein
- Comment on Oppa oppa 2 months ago:
- Comment on The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe 3 months ago:
Being obtuse for a moment, let me just say: build it right!
That means minimalism! No architecture astronauts! No unnecessary abstraction! No premature optimisation!
Lean on opinionated frameworks so as to focus on coding the business rules!
And for the love of all that is holy, have your developers sit next to the people that will be using the software!
All of this will inherently reduce runaway algorithmic complexity, prevent the sort of artisanal work that causes leakiness and speed up your code.
- Comment on The Ensh*ttification of Everything with Cory Doctorow [1:49:08] 3 months ago:
Why am I suddenly seeing this guy’s name every single day? Is it a Lemmy thing?
- Comment on Girls 3 months ago:
TLC: Taylor, L’Hospital, and a constant
- Comment on AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds 3 months ago:
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- Comment on Well then 3 months ago:
These comments are almost there.
You’ll end up working with passive aggressive geeks that are somehow defensive of their shitty code.
They’ll be great at understanding the domain though
- Comment on Irish President suggests UN should exclude Israel and allies 3 months ago:
Michael Higgins has never been wrong. He also has cool dogs.
- Comment on Day 429 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 3 months ago:
Man, games used to be fun and include just simple joys written by a small cadre of competent developers. I think Mario 64 was written by devs that had never written a game before? Maybe that was Goldeneye
- Comment on Vibe coding has turned senior devs into ‘AI babysitters,’ but they say it’s worth it | TechCrunch 3 months ago:
As a senior dev, I agree but am impressed that you’re dealing with a functional architecture to begin with
