davidagain
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- Comment on The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe 19 hours ago:
Yeah. Some people love to micro manage and play power games, but it’s so refreshing to work for someone who has the confidence to just concentrate on doing a great job.
- Comment on [deleted] 23 hours ago:
I always thought that morning stiffy is caused by the prostate holding in your pee while you sleep and is solved by having a pee.
Either way, don’t pee or wank at the bus stop.
- Comment on The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe 1 day ago:
He’s a great boss. He really is.
I had goodwill stored up because like me, he uses the tool to several times a day, he really likes it because it makes some tasks far easier (v0.1) and I added loads of extras over the years, and it was me that dreamed it up in the first place.
The new server constraint affected me on the daily but wasn’t going to affect him at all for most of those three months, and even then, not often and there was a workaround, but he trusted me and he wants my end to be as convenient as his is (very fair minded guy indeed).
I would go a long long way for him. I went to his wedding in 2023 and we sometimes have drinks after work. He knows how it is, has been there, done that and got the T shirt and isn’t afraid to tell truth to power:
You know you like to have X? We’re gonna need Y…
Remember the prioritisation of Y you were going to do?..
Yeah, so no, sorry, we don’t quite have X, partly because of this and that mistake we made, but also we weren’t able to get very close to X because we never got Y.
Genuinely, cue recommitment of senior management to Y in the next quarter! It might not happen, but no shouting, no blaming, and rationality all round.
I don’t think they like it at all when he says stuff like that, but they love that the crises pretty much dwindled out when they put him in charge and as he gradually recruited more people who put more effort into making things better than shouting and blaming, and as the shouters and blamers left to find employment elsewhere where shouting and blaming was effective. It simply does not work on my boss even a little bit, and he simply never does it. Customers now praise his department instead of complain about it, so he gets a lot of leeway from management to do things his way.
- Comment on The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe 1 day ago:
Dunno. Always avoided electron because everyone said how slow and crash print it is. I very much doubt it, though. Upgrading from tauri v1 to tauri v2 is already non trivial to the extent that I didn’t bother for a new project because I already had bindings and config for v1. I’d be very surprised if they just copied election got the interface for their shiny new, more principled, faster, leaner, less leaky, more secure, “better” web-as-ui thing.
- Comment on The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe 2 days ago:
My boss let me spend three months with absolutely no changes to functionality or UI, just to build a better, more configurable back end with a brand new config UI, partly due to necessity (a server constraint changed), otherwise I don’t think it would have ever got off the ground as a project). No changes to master for three months, which was absolutely unheard of.
At times it was a bit demoralising to do so much work for so long with nothing to show for it, but I new the new back end would bring useful extras and faster, robust changes.
The backend config ui is still in its infancy, but my boss is sooo pleased with its effect. He is used to a turnaround for simple changes of between 1 and 10 days for the last few years (the lifetime of the project), but now he’s getting used to a reply saying I’ve pushed to live between 1 and 10 minutes.
Brand new features still take time, but now that we really understand what it needs to do after the first few years, it was enormously helpful to structure the whole thing to be much more organised around real world demands and make it considerably more automatic.
Feels food. Feels really good.
- Comment on The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe 2 days ago:
Tauri gives similar functionality but is written in rust, has good security models and is fast.
- Comment on An apple a day, ... Ah well, fuck it. 2 days ago:
So the correlation is strongest for ejaculations whilst young - the more you nut when young, the less cancer you get when older (although the correlation is still there later in life).
So, boys, crank 'em out. Crank 'em out as much as you can.
- Comment on If the USA ever rewrites their constitution it will likely have embedded ads. 4 days ago:
New one needs more swearing.
And for fuck’s sake, don’t let political parties dick about with the judiciary, because as soon as you let some asswipe president choose the supreme court, you basically don’t have a judiciary.
If the president so much as breathes a word in support of violence at the Capitol, put them in fucking jail for the rest of their fucking life. Straight away. We mean it.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
Yeah, that’s good advice. I should sort it out.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
Thank you kind internet friend.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
“Content not viewable in your region” :(
- Comment on beans 🫘 1 week ago:
I fear that this is where Lemmy and Pythagoras part ways irrevocably.
- Comment on the stamp 1 week ago:
Now why would you go and spoil my day like that?
- Comment on IT'S A TRAP 1 week ago:
Tankies hate this one weird trick.
- Comment on Renewables blow past nuclear when it comes to cheap datacenter juice 2 weeks ago:
Onshore wind is the cheapest electricity in the UK, by far. It’s not even close.
- Comment on Who the fuck needs an x axis anyway 2 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t be surprised if diagnosis increased as public awareness increased.
- Comment on Who the fuck needs an x axis anyway 2 weeks ago:
Er, did you look at all the dates on the x axis? Because that shit makes no sense whatsoever.
- Comment on Who the fuck needs an x axis anyway 2 weeks ago:
Er, did you look at all the dates on the x axis? Because that shit makes no sense whatsoever.
- Comment on sticker 2 weeks ago:
What an entirely worthless comment.
- Comment on Beware, another "wonderful" conservative instance to "free us" has appeared 2 weeks ago:
Sounds Russian to me.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Surely resubscribing if they reverse their decision is the strongest signal to go woke or go broke. That there’s money in allowing criticism of president, that can go away again if they engage with government censorship in America (of all places) again.
- Comment on Samsung brings ads to US fridges 3 weeks ago:
I never understood why they were putting the internet on fridges and microwaves etc.
Now I understand.
- Comment on Campaigners urge EU to mandate 15 years of OS updates 3 weeks ago:
Why only 15?
- Comment on yeah everything is probably made of like, idk, earth water, fire and air or something idrk 3 weeks ago:
To be fair to Archimedes, heavy objects do usually fall faster than light ones*, and to be fair to Newton, stuff coming towards you usually has a higher relative velocity than things going away from you.+
*You need your objects to be weigh a lot relative to their air resistance to notice otherwise.
+You need some pretty ambitious equipment to detect that electromagnetic radiation such as light does not follow this pattern.
- Comment on yeah everything is probably made of like, idk, earth water, fire and air or something idrk 3 weeks ago:
Brilliant, brilliant film.
- Comment on Whether you use AI, think it's a "fun stupid thing for memes", or even ignore it, you should know it's already polluting worse than global air travel. 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Whether you use AI, think it's a "fun stupid thing for memes", or even ignore it, you should know it's already polluting worse than global air travel. 3 weeks ago:
https://lmgtfy2.com/query/?q=IEA
Like I said, the IEA. The International Energy Agency. I wonder if you’ve heard of them.You can throw scepticism as much as you like, dude, but
(1) I did not lie and
(2) your website is unreliable. Give it up.Again. LLMs are crap, they spout falsehoods all the time, they use unreasonably large amounts of data, but the airline industry pollutes a LOT more.
I begin to wonder whether your website was itself written by an LLM.
- Comment on Whether you use AI, think it's a "fun stupid thing for memes", or even ignore it, you should know it's already polluting worse than global air travel. 3 weeks ago:
I checked. The IEA says airlines generate about a gigaton of CO2, and it’s still growing since the dip of covid, which is perhaps where your infographic authors got their screwy figures, which are, like I suggested, the wrong order of magnitude.
- Comment on Whether you use AI, think it's a "fun stupid thing for memes", or even ignore it, you should know it's already polluting worse than global air travel. 3 weeks ago:
Picked at random, It also claims this:
Why does nighttime AI use burn dirtier energy? Fossil fuel dominance: Coal and gas supply up to 90% of overnight electricity. Solar drop-off: Solar disappears after sunset, while wind delivers only ~30% capacity at night. Peak carbon hours: Between 2–4 AM, grid intensity rises to 450–650 gCO₂/kWh, compared to 200–300 gCO₂/kWh in the afternoon.
This is complete bullshit in the UK, where energy is greenest in the small hours of the night when demand is low and the wind turbines are still turning. Least green and most expensive is late afternoon and evening, when energy usage spikes.
Let me reiterate. AI is crap. AI is a massive waste of energy, but your website has its calculations off in terms of order of magnitude when it comes to comparing the airline industry pushing tons of metal fast and hard into and through the sky with AI pushing a bunch of electrons through a bunch of transistors. Seriously, way off.
- Comment on Whether you use AI, think it's a "fun stupid thing for memes", or even ignore it, you should know it's already polluting worse than global air travel. 3 weeks ago:
Just because something has a pretty infographic doesn’t make it true.