phoenixz
@phoenixz@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Terrified friends burn to death trapped in Tesla as doors won't open after crash 1 day ago:
Those investigations will all end with “nothing to see here” in about 3 months from now.
- Comment on Terrified friends burn to death trapped in Tesla as doors won't open after crash 1 day ago:
Those investigations will all end with “nothing to see here” in about 3 months from now
- Comment on Trump has vowed to kill US offshore wind projects. Will he succeed? 6 days ago:
I’m just so amazed that science can say one thing, based off decades of research, knowledge and investigation a d measurements… And asshats like trump can just yell absolute disproven nonsense and people just run with that because scientists are evil, and what does science knows? With every discovery they completely change their minds!
I’m so so tired
- Comment on Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy 1 week ago:
I was about to say…
An infinite amount of monkeys could (depending on how you make the rules) write Shakespeare within a second.
if each monkey just has to type one letter on a page and you just take a group of monkeys in a long line and you read each letter on the line you would read Shakespeare. It would be done in a second.
- Comment on Can’t upgrade your PC to Windows 11? Buy a new one, is Microsoft’s laughable solution 1 week ago:
It IS easy to use for most people
There really isn’t much complications in the way of installing and using linux, I think it’s even fair to say that at this point it’s easier than windows.
The reason annoying people like me exist is because people like me see people like you paying money for shit and then complain about the smell. You don’t need to smell shit, you know.
- Comment on 10001 1 week ago:
Because a 5 bit unsigned integer is so much better? :p
- Comment on More than a quarter of new code at Google is generated by AI. 2 weeks ago:
Auto complete is about… 60% helpful and increases my productivity with about 5-10% as I need to double check everything it does and half the time it’s something ridiculously stoopid
- Comment on More than a quarter of new code at Google is generated by AI. 2 weeks ago:
That would explain the decline in quality of everything from Google. Even Gmail is becoming buggy as hell, even though I haven’t seen any new features added. I have used Gmail since it’s founding and only in the last year or so did it become extremely buggy.
- Comment on What do you like/dislike about lemmy? 2 weeks ago:
Ah yes, gotta love our little tankies
- Comment on What is the argument for making poor/working class folks shoulder the burden of taxes? 2 weeks ago:
Not sure if I agree. If you’d do that you’ll lose CEO’s, not the highly skilled workers that actually do the work…one might wonder howuch would be lost there.
Also, where would they go? Any developed country will have it much, MUCH “worse” for them than the US and the alternative is moving to heavenly places like Russia or China. Good luck with that.
- Comment on Why don't we just gather up all the ocean's trash and all the nonrecyclables, put them in a rocket, and launch it into the sun? 2 weeks ago:
Just to add to this: rockets use a lot of fuel. And with “a lot” I mean that a rocket typically is 90% fuel, 7% rocket, 3% cargo (my numbers may be off a bit, but not by much). The further you want to go the more fuel you need, the heavier you get,the more fuel you need, and so on.
So to move out 100 tonnes of cargo, were going to waste, say 3000 tonnes of fuel, and that is just to get it into orbit. Getting enough speed to get it to the sun would probably literally require exponential amounts of extra fuel, which would require extra fuel rockets to come up, rockets just carrying “a little bit of” fuel for another rocket.
Then on going to the sun: the earth moves at about 30km/s around the sun. To cancel that out, you’d need a rocket capable of reaching 30km/s, which we currently -afaik- cannot. We can’t get rocket engines that can eject the burning gasses out at those soeeds, hence we can’t reach that speed, hence we can’t cancel out 30km/s. We’d need entirely new technology to be able to do that
- Comment on Apple’s first Mac mini redesign in 14 years looks like a big aluminum Apple TV 2 weeks ago:
So while it sleeps, it still wastes electricity on literally nothing. Gotcha
- Comment on What I learned from 3 years of running Windows 11 on “unsupported” PCs 2 weeks ago:
Using windos is like being in an abusive relationship where you don’t even get to have sex or laugh.
Just install Linux already. Yes, Linux has its problems too, but they are less and easier to fix than this turd
- Comment on TSMC suspended shipments to China firm after chip found on Huawei processor, sources say 2 weeks ago:
The Chinese government lying through its teeth? You don’t say
- Comment on have you ever been given a warning or suspension for using profane language at work? 2 weeks ago:
If I’d be in trouble fr saying fuck or swearing in general, I’d be in trouble. I’m a software developer and I have to deal with shit like Microsoft products (any of them) and my own code as well. Good hing i speak enough languages to curse with variety and make it harder for people to know what I say
- Comment on Trying to reverse climate change won’t save us, scientists warn 2 weeks ago:
Yeah no, it’s just about the latest money grab before we all die
- Comment on Microsoft fires employees who organized vigil for Palestinians killed in Gaza 3 weeks ago:
As always, fuck Microsoft. Literally been saying this over 30 years already.
Don’t use windows, switch to Linux. It’s free, actually reasonably secure, actually works, won’t spy on you, won’t force shit on you just to make you pay more.
Don’t use Microsoft azure. It’s overpriced and runs in Linux anyway.
Don’t use Microsoft 365 online shit. Outlook functions horrendously bad, teams is a sad joke. I unfortunately have to deal with teams every day because government customers thought it was a good idea and EVERY call there is some shit. People can’t get in, people don’t have audio, people ALWAYS have the wrong audio device selected no matter what and need to spend the first 5 minutes to get their audio and video working. It’s shit quality compared to zoom or Google meet or open source alternatieves…
Stop giving this piece of shit your money
- Comment on Wikipedia article blocked worldwide by Delhi high court. 3 weeks ago:
I think nothing can be worse for a news agency than to be called a puppet of an intelligence agency, stooge of the government. If that is true, the credibility goes
So close and yet still missing the point. It’s not that wikipedia says it, it’s that it’s the truth, and we can’t have website showing true facts, something this judge no doubt understands very well (or at least his wallet does)
Frack all of these people, I’m so tired about a few authoritarian narcissists making the world a shit show.
- Comment on Norwegian government to set 15-year age limit for using social media 3 weeks ago:
Most parents don’t know, don’t care. Social media has been proven to be bad for kids, it’s nothing new, this is a good thing
- Comment on Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers 3 weeks ago:
Please stip blocking people, please stip talking about blocking everyone
Yes, i gettit. Different opinions can be annoying but if we don’t all participate in. A similar environment.we all just disappear in our little echo chamber pillars, unable to hear or understand the others, which leads to more extremist opinions on all sides.
We NEED to hear others, if not just for the fact that others may NEED to hear our voices too.
I honestly this echo chamber crap is squarely caused by the Internet, the tool that promised to bring humanity together, and instead ended up dividing us more than ever because anyone hearing an opinion they don’t like immediately bans that voice. Can’t have anyone disagreeing now!
I get it, there are some stupid opinions out there, dangerous ones too, but the more we ban them, the more they will only be able to talk eachother into extremism and the WILL be back, with more people, and more extremist opinions.
FFS, we need to learn to start listening to each other again. An entire generation has grown up with “if you don’t like to hear that opinion, just have it banned”, and it’s not helpful.
Early Internet was a wild west crazy town for sure, loads of assholes lurking around, but it was better than what we have now, where EVERY space is curated and hawkishly guarded against those that might even look in the wrong direction.
I’ve spent quite some time on right wing subs back in the day in Reddit, discussing whatever topic with hard line conservative right wing types and when you do you find out they are human too, usually with a lot of fears, and you actually get to understand why they feel the way they feel, and you can get them to understand that yeah, maybe it’s not the best solution. You find common ground and got somebody a little closer to the light. Yes, I’m a big fan of that black guy (forgot his name) who goes out to talk to KKK members to convert them away from the KKK.
I know this isn’t for everyone, but a lot of us can and should step up and start talking, start listening. I’m not saying st all you should agree with a neo nazi, but you can listen to him or her, understand where they’re coming from, and have them do the same. Once you both see the humanity in each other you can actually make everyone be a little better.
It’s better than the alternative where the inevitable outcome is that we’ll start having civil wars everywhere and just kill those we oppose.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers 3 weeks ago:
This is the difference between political systems where one is really really bad but at least doesn’t regularly assassinate opponents in the most horrific ways, and allow people to speak their minds.
I don’t trust the US any further than I can throw it, but no matter how you look at it, it’s the lesser evil.
Hell, look at sports. If a Russian athlete wins you can pretty much disqualify them for doping without having tested them because they all do it and I feel sorry for them, I feel sorry for that situation. There is a reason (beyond this war) why Russian athletes weren’t allowed to compete at certain events, and it’s the insane amount of doping used by them. I’m sure these athletes don’t want to do this crap, but a state basically forces them to.
I can see the worry about similar issues with developers.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers 3 weeks ago:
What are you even trying to say or suggest here?
- Comment on my boss hates this one simple trick 3 weeks ago:
~home~ Hospital or morgue
FTFY
- Comment on Proud globohomo 3 weeks ago:
Yeah see, I’m not sure if he’s serious or not
- Comment on Has "Self-Driving" devolved? 4 weeks ago:
No. Elon nusk simply is a liar on the level of trump and always claimed Tesla’s could self-drive then from one end of the country to another whereas in reality it wouldn’t be able to get itself out of a parking lot.
Any claim and or idea from musl can basically be considered a lie
- Comment on 10001 4 weeks ago:
Unless it’s a signed integer, then it’s -1 and they’re expecting something…
- Comment on Can’t upgrade your PC to Windows 11? Buy a new one, is Microsoft’s laughable solution 5 weeks ago:
So in other words, switch to Linux, never look back, bever again use anu Microsoft software or product. Done.
- Comment on Hacker plants false memories in ChatGPT to steal user data in perpetuity 1 month ago:
Mails… And the plural of email is emails, so what is the problem?
- Comment on There you go little guy 1 month ago:
Oh I agree with that, I’m just saying that bthese types that do these things aren’t doing it for the principle of it, they do it because they’re assholes that want to speed
- Comment on You'll have to use pto time to drown, but make sure it's approved first 1 month ago:
Heh? I don’t get it. What are you trying to say here? Where do you think government mo ey to invest in flood protections come from? Taxes…?