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- Comment on There is no good reason why there is still homelessness and poverty 3 days ago:
A quick look at the Wikipedia article The world’s billionaires will reveal that billionaires have an estimated aggregate net worth of 16 trillion. That’s more than 2,000 dollars for every single human being on this planet. Maybe not as individuals, but as a collective, they literally have the possibility of ending world hunger. And that’s only the richest three thousand or so.
- Comment on Alternative to github pages? 3 days ago:
- Comment on Well, shit. 4 days ago:
…which would make it about 99,9999999% their fault for giving a new employee write access to the DB.
- Comment on The longer you live, the harder it becomes. 1 week ago:
I consider keto to be a fad, and it can be dangerous if you have no competent nutritionist to guide you. Buuuuuuuuut…
I met a guy in one of my past office jobs. The guy looks 45, but is 60. Not only that, but he looks way younger than 10 years ago before starting the diet. He eats 20 grams of carbs a day (!) so that’s simply out of the question for me…
- Comment on Hello girl!! 2 weeks ago:
Is that Ninel Siliconde?
- Comment on T-Rex Burger 2 weeks ago:
…?
- Comment on T-Rex Burger 2 weeks ago:
Reminds me of ‘why do Americans eat like they have free universal health care?’
- Comment on FTC Warns Companies(Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Discord, Meta, Microsoft, Signal, Snap, X and more) Against Censoring or Weakening the Data Security of Americans at the Behest of Foreign Powers 2 weeks ago:
Because Signal is Pete ‘The Village Drunkard’ Hegseth’s favourite tool to text aggression plans to random journalists.
- Comment on 95% of Companies See ‘Zero Return’ on $30 Billion Generative AI Spend, MIT Report Finds 2 weeks ago:
You’re absolutely right about that, motherfucker.
- Comment on 95% of Companies See ‘Zero Return’ on $30 Billion Generative AI Spend, MIT Report Finds 2 weeks ago:
Surprise, surprise, motherfxxxers. Now you’ll have to re-hire most of the people you ditched. AND become humble. What a nightmare!
- Comment on Chrome VPN Extension With 100k Installs Screenshots All Sites Users Visit 3 weeks ago:
This is the reason I’ve always been skeptical of all those Video Download Non Plus Ultra Pro 9000 extensions, also in Firefox. I’m like yea right. Next thing I know I’ll be getting copyright infringement and piracy notices plus cease-and-desist letters.
- Comment on This CEO laid off nearly 80% of his staff because they refused to adopt AI fast enough. 2 years later, he says he’d do it again 3 weeks ago:
…which is why I categorically refuse to use the term Artificial intelligence .
- Comment on The regrets of life 4 weeks ago:
Amen.
- Comment on The regrets of life 4 weeks ago:
In that case, maybe he should cumtribute indeed.
- Comment on The regrets of life 4 weeks ago:
I still can’t forgive myself for not having asked a chick for her number after I had a good dance with her at a party…25 years ago. She was very pretty, exactly my kind of woman, at least physically, which is presumably why I was afraid to ask. It made me realise that I absolutely prefer to deal with the pain of rejection than to deal with the resentment and self-loathing of not having asked a woman out, asked for her number or even just talked to her.
- Comment on GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation 4 weeks ago:
People not realising (or not caring enough about) the irony that more than 80% of open source projects are hosted in a platform which is a) not open source and b) owned by M$ has always been a mistery to me.
- Comment on AOL will end dial-up internet service in September, 34 years after it's debut — AOL Shield Browser and AOL Dialer software will be shuttered on the same day 4 weeks ago:
FFS will people ever use “it’s” and “its” correctly ?
- Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery 4 weeks ago:
Because of this, I’ve always had ‘mixed feelings’ (to put it mildly) towards Mozilla, and sometimes I really struggle not to hate them. They’re (yet) not Google or Microsoft and that’s cool, but besides that, I also cannot think of more than a handful of good decisions against a ton of pretty awful ones, so right now I’ve settled for ‘a necessary evil’, which is pretty sad considering their potential.
- Comment on Microsoft investigates Israeli military’s use of Azure cloud storage 4 weeks ago:
What they are doing is not much different than leaving a bunch of 6th-graders to supervise themselves…
- Comment on Expand North! So much room up there. 4 weeks ago:
Legitimate question: what may be the actual reason for this concentration? Is it weather? Natural resources? Is it political? On a related note: what is the reason that Canada as a whole bas so few people? It is still mindblowing for me that the entire country has less people than each of the world’s top 3 metropolitan areas
- Comment on Meet the AI vegans: They are choosing to abstain from using artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons. Maybe they have a point 5 weeks ago:
‘AI vegan’…
Where I come from, saying something that stupid will get you killed.
- Comment on GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out. 5 weeks ago:
“Managing agents to achieve outcomes may sound unfulfilling to many”
No shit, man.
- Comment on In the olden days, when people got married a lot younger, there were probably lots of grandparents in their thirties 5 weeks ago:
My father and his first wife married at 17, had their first child at 18. She (i.e. that first child) had her first child at 17, who in turn had her first child at 18. My father thus became grandfather at 35, great-grandfather at 53; and I became uncle at about 7, great-uncle at about 25. Kinda cool tbh.
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- Comment on hygiene 5 weeks ago:
Still baffles me how many people are convinced that you can ‘wipe properly/thoroughly/enough’. It’s exactly for that reason that I avoid sitting down in public transportation. Anyone who either possesses the instinct of not wanting to smell like shit and/or has had the ‘privilege’ of cleaning someone else’s butt (say, a small child or an adult in need of special care) knows that the words ‘wiping’ and ‘hygiene’ can only be used in the same phrase if there’s also the words ‘wet’ and/or ‘wash’ and/or ‘soap’ in it. Otherwise…of course your f****g chair stinks.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I still find it hard to believe just how few people even ask themselves the obvious : Provides services ‘for free’, but is one of the world’s biggest companies. Where is the money coming from ?
- Comment on bird based storage 1 month ago:
Reminds me of IP over avian carriers ☺
- Comment on Recommendations for a version control system 1 month ago:
Came into the thread just to say this. Very happy and thankful you mentioned it already. I think fossil is THE underrated vcs.
- Comment on its painful each time (┬┬﹏┬┬) 1 month ago:
Actually, the only way I’ve been able to make sense of what happened is thinking that he might have been interested in me, correctly sensed I’d never be, and didn’t want to be hurt.
- Comment on its painful each time (┬┬﹏┬┬) 1 month ago:
Once I was in the train, minding my own business, reading an unusual, interesting book. The guy seating in front of me noticed it and we started talking. It turned out, we live in the same city. We both were relatively new there.
FF a week. We went out to get some burgers. Talked about basically everything. We had what could only qualify as a wonderful time together. Chatted for hours, even talked about travelling together to a country I know relatively well and he’d like to visit.
Where I live, split checks are custom. I always hated them, so thinking (wrongly, as it’d turn out) we’d see each other again very soon, I paid for the whole bill.
Before going home, I even cited Casablanca’s well known ‘beginning of a long friendship’ line.
Never heard from him after that. When I tried to reach out, only a half-hearted bs ‘oh sorry, I’m so bad at replying texts’ came.
Never saw him again.
Really shattered my confidence in people, and myself.
Angus, if you’re out there. WTF man. Why.