squaresinger
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- Comment on Reality vs Fantasy 2 days ago:
Tell that to British midlanders: “Can I have a glass of wo’a?”
- Comment on ⚡️👇👇👇⚡️ 2 days ago:
On the one hand you are right, on the other hand, especially paleontology is basing their facts on very, very shaky evidence and a massive amount of extrapolation.
So I assume that it’s wrong until undeniably proven otherwise by the scientific method.
So you assume everything is wrong? Because in fact, that’s not how the scientific method works at all.
Outside of the very few fields that are pure and untouched by reality, like e.g. maths, there are no proofs, and certainly no undeniable proofs in science. Everything is “just” a theory and is used until proven wrong or otherwise refined. Usually a theory with a decent amount of evidence, but nothing is proven beyond deniability in science. That’s religion you are thinking about.
- Comment on Realized 99% of all my chargers are USB-C. This can only mean one thing. New USB bout to drop! 3 days ago:
There’s the regular wireless charging where you need to put the phone on exactly the right position. That one is totally useless, since it’s even less flexible than cable charging. The only upside is that you don’t need to physically insert the cable. That’s pretty much worthless.
There’s another setup that allows you to charge over a larger area, e.g. a whole desk. That is expensive and/or much work, since it needs to be integrated into the whole area (e.g. desk) and it’s incredibly wasteful in terms of energy consumption that doesn’t actually end up charging the phone.
The only real upside I can see of wireless charging is that you can use it if your USB C port is worn out and doesn’t work any more.
- Comment on I self hosted a World of Warcraft server. 3 days ago:
The advantage of self-hosted WoW is that you can cheat to your heart’s content.
So no more grinding if you don’t want to.
- Comment on Germans must be pretty happy. 4 days ago:
Except those Germans who still think being a Nazi is great. Of which there’s a whole Eastern Germany worth of.
- Comment on The End Of The Hackintosh Is Upon Us 4 days ago:
There are some companies as bad as Apple (John Deere comes to mind), but it’s certainly not the norm.
User-replacable standard m.2 SSDs are bog standard and non-standard formats are really rare. Apart from Apple I can not think of many companies that do that. IIRC Red Magic cameras, and Synology NAS but that’s the only ones I can think of.
- Comment on Musk's AI firm deletes posts after chatbot praises Hitler 5 days ago:
Some of them were
- Comment on How to turn off Gemini on Android — and why you should 5 days ago:
GrapheneOS without any invasive apps is really bare-bones and limited, that’s what I wanted to say using hyperbole, but I guess figures of speech are too advanced for some people.
- Comment on Please let it be that the FBI agent surveilling me was on break and he did not just see me get into a fight with the coat rack. 5 days ago:
You were just born 200 years too late ;)
- Comment on How to turn off Gemini on Android — and why you should 5 days ago:
Yeah. If you never install software that is.
A C64 doesn’t run invasive software either.
- Comment on AI slows down some experienced software developers, study finds 5 days ago:
Did you not read what I wrote?
Inflation went up due to the knock-on effects of the sanctions. Specifically prices for oil and gas skyrocketed.
And since everything runs on oil and gas, all prices skyrocketed.
Covid stimulus packages had nothing to do with that, especially in 2023, 2024 and 2025, when there were no COVID stimulus packages, yet the inflation was much higher than at any time during COVID.
Surely it is not too much to ask that people remember what year stuff happened in, especially if we are talking about things that happened just 2 years ago.
- Comment on Please let it be that the FBI agent surveilling me was on break and he did not just see me get into a fight with the coat rack. 5 days ago:
What you are looking for is the panopticon: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon
You aren’t being watched all the time, but sometimes, and you can’t tell whether you are being watched right now.
- Comment on AI slows down some experienced software developers, study finds 5 days ago:
You’re not wrong, and I feel like it was a developing problem even before AI - everybody wanted someone with experience, even if the technology was brand new.
True. It was a long-standing problem that entry-level jobs were mostly found in dodgy startups.
Tbh, I think the biggest issue right now isn’t even AI, but the economy. In the 2010s we had pretty much no intrest rate at all while having a pretty decent economy, at least for IT. The 2008 financial crisis hardly mattered for IT, and Covid was a massive boost for IT. There was nothing else to really spend money on.
IT always has more projects than manpower, so with enough money to spend, they just hired everyone.
But the sanctions against Russia in response to their invasion of Ukraine really hit the economy and rising intrest rates to combat inflation meant that suddenly nobody wanted to invest anymore.
With no investments, startups dried up and large corporations also want to downsize. It’s no coincidence that return-to-work mandates only started after the invasion and not in the two years prior of that where lockdowns were already revoked. Work from home worked totally fine for two years after covid lockdowns, and companies even praised how well it worked.
Same with AI. While it can improve productivity in some edge cases, I think it’s mostly a scapegoat to make mass-fireings sound like a great thing to investors.
That said, even if you and I will be fine, it’s still bad for the industry. And even if we weren’t the ones pulling up the ladder behind us, I’d still like to find a way to start throwing ropes back down for the newbies…
You are totally right with that, and any chance I get I will continue to push for hiring juniors.
But I am also over corporate tears. For decades they have been crying over a lack of skilled workers in the IT and pushing for more and more people to join IT, so that they can dump wages, and as soon as the economy is bad, they instantly u-turn and dump employees.
If corporations want to be short-sighted and make people suffer for it, they won’t get compassion from me when it fails.
- Comment on Plant Slurs 5 days ago:
And that’s the actual definition of a weed: If you don’t want it there, it’s a weed. If you do, it’s not.
- Comment on AI slows down some experienced software developers, study finds 5 days ago:
None that you can make with ChatGPT in an afternoon, no.
- Comment on How to turn off Gemini on Android — and why you should 5 days ago:
- Install adb on your PC
- Enable developer options on your phone
- Enable USB Debugging inside the developer options
- Connect the phone to the PC using USB
- Open a console window of your choice
- Execute
adb devicesand allow USB debugging for this PC on your phone - Execute
adb shell pm disable-user --user 0 com.google.android.apps.gemini - Done
You can do that with any app you like, they can all be disabled that way. Beware though: if you disable critical system components (like e.g. your last launcher, keyboard or systemui) you might not have a great time using your phone afterwards.
- Comment on AI slows down some experienced software developers, study finds 5 days ago:
That’s happening right now. I have a few friends who are looking for entry-level jobs and they find none.
It really sucks.
That said, the future lack of developers is a corporate problem, not a problem for developers. For us it just means that we’ll earn a lot more in a few years.
- Comment on AI slows down some experienced software developers, study finds 5 days ago:
Greenfielding webapps is the easiest, most basic kind of project around. that’s something you task a junior with and expect that they do it with no errors. And after that you instantly drop support, because webapps are shovelware.
- Comment on My world is so much better because of immigrants 5 days ago:
Many immigrants think they can get on the good side of the xenophobes by becoming the “good” immigrants while putting the “bad” immigrants down.
The problem with that tactic is that xenophobes and especially xenophobic laws don’t distinguish between “good” or “bad”.
If immigrants badmouth other immigrants, the only thing that xenophobes take from that is “even the immigrants think immigrants are bad”.
You see a lot of that happening in the USA, where frequently family members of MAGA voters are taken by ICE, because they aren’t going after the “bad” immigrants, but after immigrants, period. Even if their family voted for the people who are now taking them.
And that’s the real take-away. When it comes to lawmaking, you can either be for immigrants or against them. There’s no nuance. Because lawmakers don’t put any in.
- Comment on YSK: Do you have documents to prove you are a US citizen? If not, here's how 6 days ago:
Being white certainly helps, but they are also detaining white people now:
- Comment on Plant Slurs 6 days ago:
Don’t smoke dandelions.
- Comment on Plant Slurs 6 days ago:
My definition: aggressive spread and resilience to removal.
That fits to a lot of useful plants too. Strawberries, Brambles, Mint, just to name a few.
- Comment on My world is so much better because of immigrants 6 days ago:
“Unser Jud’ ist eh gut.”
That’s a sentence that was often used in Nazi Germany/Nazi Austria. It means “Our Jew is good anyway, [but the others are evil]”. It basically means that you keep believing the propaganda, even if the people you know don’t fit to the propaganda at all.
Nowadays this sentence is used to satirize the statement you posted.
- Comment on Moving away from physical currency has been very detrimental to the homeless industry 1 week ago:
Sure, the car is red, so it must sell for $100k.
It’s on the same level as the rest of your post. Pure lies, nothing else.
- Comment on Moving away from physical currency has been very detrimental to the homeless industry 1 week ago:
You know what’s better than guesstimates and gut feelings?
Actual statistics: journals.sagepub.com/doi/…/10575677211036498
In adjusted 2020 USD, the economic yield from panhandling is most often $2–$16 per hour, $20–$60 per day, and $200–$500 per month
Slightly less than your projected $45 for 8 hours a day.
- Comment on Moving away from physical currency has been very detrimental to the homeless industry 1 week ago:
Yes, he’s heard that from a reliable source on facebook and/or his drunk buddy.
His buddy is also able to make up any statistic he could need right on the spot.
- Comment on Moving away from physical currency has been very detrimental to the homeless industry 1 week ago:
Sure, starving is a much better way to go.
- Comment on Managing Temperatures For Ultrafast Benchy Printing 1 week ago:
That is pure madness!
- Comment on The worst part of getting old is that you get less and less "first experiences" and are always comparing current with previous ones 1 week ago:
Isn’t that the same statement twice?
- Comment on The worst part of getting old is that you get less and less "first experiences" and are always comparing current with previous ones 1 week ago:
Problem is that you now have no new experiences at all anymore, only the old ones remain.