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- Comment on FreeCAD 1.1 is out 1 week ago:
I just recently discovered him and watching someone who knows what they’re doing use the workflows the right way has been a FreeCAD game changer for me.
- Comment on FreeCAD 1.1 is out 1 week ago:
I watched this video and shouted at my screen like most people watch sports or a new tech launch. “Fuck, yeah!” “Goddamn!” “Holy shit that’s brilliant.” “That didn’t make sense but it is really cool anyway!”
Anyway, good job, FC team.
- Comment on If I were to go out steal 34 cars. And charged with 34 felonies. One per each car. Could I not use the presidents case in defense of my own? Why or why not? 2 weeks ago:
User name czechs out.
- Comment on Would you ever call your son a disappointment? 2 weeks ago:
I once explored the hypothetical of what would make me abandon the love for one of my kids. I went with something awful: imagine we found out they were a gruesome serial killer in secret. I decided after pondering it that I would continue to love and support them even through that. No one else would, rightfully so. But I think it is my duty even when the rest of humanity has abandoned them.
Writing this I thought of a variation. Instead of a serial killer, what if they murdered my spouse or one of their siblings. I’ll have to ponder that. I’d like to think I’d have the same unconditional love but I’m really not sure. In that case I might have to admit that I’m disappointed in them.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Your solution favors the wealthy who have the means to escape. The poor will be the ones to suffer and the elite will continue to peddle their elitism elsewhere.
As an alternative to your plan, we could give the week’s notice and, when all the elite have escaped, nuke everything but the holy land. Problem solved. “The meek shall inherit the earth” and all that.
- Comment on After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes 3 weeks ago:
Wonder what the turnover rate in executives is. I bet it is about 8 years.
- Comment on After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes 3 weeks ago:
This 1000x. You think that senior dev got to that level hoping one day all they’d have to do is evaluate randomly generated code? No! They want to create, build, design, integrate, share. Cut out the middle, useless step and get back to the work these professionals have dedicated their careers to.
- Comment on After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes 3 weeks ago:
How in the glorious fuck was this not a thing from the start? In a system this big and this critical all code should be reviewed by cognizant individuals. Anyone who thought an LLM would be perfect and not need code reviews has their heads so far up their asses they can see through their pee hole.
- Comment on spoopy figs 3 weeks ago:
False. Wasps don’t have souls.
Hornets on the other hand… I’ll see you in hell.
- Comment on Causes of death, or track list for latest black metal album? 3 weeks ago:
In 400 years our list of conditions will seem similarly naive and simplistic.
Been to a doctor lately? We can’t cure shit. We’ve got a few meds that can help balance systems or mask pain. We can cut shit open and rearrange it. We can zap some shit with radiation. But actually fix anything? Nah. Maybe in another 400 years.
“Oh, look, they treated obesity as a disease. And heart disease? Hahaha that’s funny. Hearts are so simple.Cant believe cancer is its own category. Everyone knows what causes that and how to treat it.”
I will say the improvement in infant mortality is amazing. At no time in human history have infants had a better chance of survival than now(ish). So maybe I’m just cynical and disillusioned with the current state of my medical care.
- Comment on Motorola confirms GrapheneOS support for a future phone, bringing over features 4 weeks ago:
Take. My. Money.
- Comment on Stereotyping is wrong. 5 weeks ago:
When politics felt like shades of policy disagreements I could see it. Now it is either you support democracy and human rights or you’re supporting pedophiles and genocide. Not much common ground anymore.
- Comment on It makes me shudder 5 weeks ago:
You can find all sorts of gore on the Interwebs. This one… This one terrifies me.
- Comment on AWS suffered ‘at least two outages’ caused by AI tools, and now I’m convinced we’re living inside a ‘Silicon Valley’ episode 5 weeks ago:
You’re my hero-of-the-day™ for putting quotes around AI. Thank you for all you do.
- Comment on Can people irl be as mean as some people online? 1 month ago:
Yeah, I should have specified “people” in this context are coworkers. So, on the same page.
- Comment on Can people irl be as mean as some people online? 1 month ago:
Filters are generally stronger when paychecks are involved. That said, there are definitely people who don’t trust others they’ve only met virtually. On the flip side I’ve found people who I’ve met in person are then more apt to share their more extreme views with me online even in a work setting. It is a fascinating psychological and sociological phenomenon.
- Comment on Wendy's closes US restaurants and focuses on value to turn around falling sales 1 month ago:
Wendy’s, McDonald’s, and BK all started enshitifying until they realized they were hurting themselves. Even if they all revert to good, inexpensive food they are still left with the biggest problem that I’ve noticed: they have shit employees.
They cheapening also affected wages. Which means everything from line cooks to drive thru people to their store managers ended up being ridiculously inept. Maybe this is old man yells at clouds, but for me to step into one of these restaurants again there has to be attention paid to improving service. Drop the kiosk in favor of a friendly face who wants to help me get a meal I will enjoy. How about making the food semi presentable instead of apathy wrapping in wax paper. And of course I had better be able to walk away with lunch for $8 after tax.
- Comment on A Statement From The White House 1 month ago:
Art of the Deal™ mother fuckers!
- Comment on A Statement From The White House 1 month ago:
Always.
- Comment on My feelings on the Super Bowl 1 month ago:
ITT: my people.
I love this community.
- Comment on Not sketchy at all 1 month ago:
Ahh, yeah, maybe. Looked like exposed copper to me but it might be covered.
All good then!
- Comment on Not sketchy at all 1 month ago:
Top right… Wire that comes from the top of the left breaker probably used to go to the right breaker is hanging in mid air. That’s the one most likely to change someone’s life.
- Comment on 'Scowling Void of Pure Nothingness': Critics Destroy $75 Million Melania Trump Documentary | Common Dreams 1 month ago:
These dumb shits don’t get it. It was never supposed to be good. It was a bribe. Even wasting a second watching it to do a review is a waste of human effort.
- Comment on Pope Leo XIV brings not peace but a sword to AI oligarchs and a slop-mad world in new address, says it's 'Turning people into passive consumers of unthought thoughts' 2 months ago:
Pretty sure that’s their whole game. More projection, I guess. sigh
- Comment on Why do I push people away if I'm so lonely? 2 months ago:
Beautiful. Fuck dog and parent… never had a graph make me well up with tears.
- Comment on I spent a year on Linux and forgot to miss Windows 2 months ago:
Don’t you dare suggest FreeCAD.
I have a Hope/Hate relationship with FreeCAD. Sometimes I can get it to do something useful and I get hopeful. Then I try to do something simple and ruin the entire design and have to start from scratch and I curse the developers lineage for all of time. I want it to be great, and it is closer than it has ever been. But it isn’t a replacement for professional design suites.
- Comment on Do we need more users ? 2 months ago:
You’ve convinced me that we need more users given the high number of current posters who like to criticize others with insults reminiscent of a bratty 5th grader. We need to dilute that voice.
- Comment on Do we need more users ? 2 months ago:
That’s a very capitalist take. Remember how good things used to be? That’s how good the Fediverse is now. We don’t want it to grow or die. If it grows, great. If it doesn’t, great. Quality over quantity, imo.
- Comment on This CEO laid off nearly 80% of his staff because they refused to adopt AI fast enough. 2 years later, he says he’d do it again 2 months ago:
OpenAI marketing > MIT analysis, apparently
- Comment on Yale Posting It's Ls 2 months ago:
Had someone unironically suggest that if Trump takes a third term that it would open the way for Obama to run again.
Anyone citing the old order of rules, laws, and fairness is delusional or under informed.