HugeNerd
@HugeNerd@lemmy.ca
I am a huge asocial nerd that lives in a hovel surrounded by vintage computers.
- Comment on Good news. :) 2 hours ago:
I feel bad for Cheryl Hines but not really. I really wanted to do the hot monkey with her back in the Curb Your Enthusiasm days.
- Comment on Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs 3 hours ago:
I don’t understand most of the things I used to enjoy as a kid. I went from radio to cassette to CD to MiniDisc to MP3s. Now I’m supposed to endlessly change things around to keep up with media players and codecs and whatevers. No thanks.
I used to enjoy programming and tinkering with computers and microcontrollers.
Now I have to be an expert in 15 unrelated fields and softwares because even a simple job of turning a button press into a single output pulse is a weeks-long nightmare of IDEs and OSes and embedded Linuxes and 32 bit microcontrollers and environments, none of which are clear and straightforward, and all have subtle inter-dependencies.
So turn on a LED with a switch now requires a multi-core 16GB main PC (so limited! You need more!) so I can open a multi-GB IDE (that can support every language ever invented) that requires an SSD just to be able to navigate the 35 windows it opens in less than an hour, so I can use AI to copy-paste hundreds of lines of boiler plate code I don’t understand, so I can type a few lines of code?
And that’s not counting all the new companies and architectures.
- Comment on Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs 4 hours ago:
Nonsense. Medicine is a mish-mash of reductive thinking and conservatism. You may be thinking of outlier cases, but the day to day bread and butter of medicine is 19th century with dipping mustards. Your attitude is why we end up with antibiotic resistant bacteria. Do you also drive a tank to the grocery store in case of a fender bender?
- Comment on Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs 4 hours ago:
But I need the surface brightness of the Sun in my living room! It adds so much depth to the characters and stories!
- Comment on Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs 4 hours ago:
Interesting post.
- Comment on Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs 4 hours ago:
But the doctor needs to see every quark and gluon in your molecules! How did they perform heart transplants in the 1960s! Please don’t get in the way of technophiles inventing all kinds of fantasy scenarios to justify their hoarder-like behavior.
- Comment on Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs 4 hours ago:
Then why offer all the medical examples? Stint and stent are two different words.
- Comment on Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs 5 hours ago:
Yikes, if you’re trying to put a “stint” into someone’s heart, imaging is the least of your worries.
Solution: use a stent.
- Comment on Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs 14 hours ago:
So many things have reached not only diminishing returns, but no returns whatsoever. I don’t have a single problem that more technology will solve.
I just don’t care about any of this technical shit anymore. I only have two eyes, and there’s only 24 hours in a day. I already have enough entertainment in perfectly acceptable quality, with my nearly 15 year old setup.
I’ve tapped out from the tech scene.
- Comment on Leaked emails link NHS data privatiser Palantir to Jeffrey Epstein 1 day ago:
Oh I agree, I wasn’t making an exclusive statement. It’s just pretty wild that this was 2 years ago and feels like a fever dream now.
- Comment on Fall of Western civilization 1 day ago:
- Comment on Ice obtains access to Israeli-made spyware that can hack phones and encrypted apps 1 day ago:
Fucking crickets is tough, wrap some tape around them first so they don’t burst.
- Comment on Ice obtains access to Israeli-made spyware that can hack phones and encrypted apps 1 day ago:
Thank god! Israel is our greatest ally.
- Comment on No brainer 1 day ago:
Fair point.
- Comment on No brainer 1 day ago:
Again, used continuously, this is the fountain of youth. You’ll still die of old age though.
How would that work? “Age” isn’t some inherent property of atoms.
- Comment on Leaked emails link NHS data privatiser Palantir to Jeffrey Epstein 2 days ago:
It has immense rewatchability as well.
- Comment on Leaked emails link NHS data privatiser Palantir to Jeffrey Epstein 2 days ago:
Nothing wrong with having your own blood boy.
- Comment on Leaked emails link NHS data privatiser Palantir to Jeffrey Epstein 2 days ago:
We voted for Boris in 2019, you got Trump again in 2024.
It’s the hair!
- Comment on Leaked emails link NHS data privatiser Palantir to Jeffrey Epstein 2 days ago:
Wikipedia classifies him as a “thinker”. Does your wiki entry classify you as a thinker? Check and mate, lib.
- Comment on You are stardust. 2 days ago:
Wanna feel as old as a star?
- Comment on Leaked emails link NHS data privatiser Palantir to Jeffrey Epstein 2 days ago:
cbc.ca/…/us-canada-objects-huron-missile-1.674763…
F-16, two missiles, one missed. I think these were the vanguard weather balloons that China sent to test our defenses.
Although to be fair, it looks like more of a giant trash bag.
- Comment on Leaked emails link NHS data privatiser Palantir to Jeffrey Epstein 2 days ago:
I find this very hard to believe, he’s such a good boy and helps grannies cross the street.
I think it’s time we send some F-16s to fire missiles at Chinese weather balloons, our real enemies.
- Comment on Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws 5 days ago:
What’s wrong with your own personal 2M band radio network? Or just bring back CB culture. It’s in the name: Citizen’s Band…
- Comment on Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward 1 week ago:
I wish…
- Comment on Let Google know what you think about their proposed restrictions on sideloading Android apps. - Android developer verification requirements [Feedback Form] 1 week ago:
You will own nothing, and be angry. But you can’t do diddly squat about it. Now open wide and BOHICA.
- Comment on Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward 1 week ago:
I still use Wordpad to write all my gay dinosaur erotica, am I safe?
- Comment on mmmm yes undoubtedly 1 week ago:
- Comment on Spotifies come and Spotifies go, but that folder of badly-sorted MP3s will still be there in the 2050s. 1 week ago:
I want to marry you.
- Comment on Evolution: 🖕 1 week ago:
Finally something to balance the enormous mass I have in front.
- Comment on Why aren't you creating more workers?? 1 week ago:
Auto-insemination?
