corsicanguppy
@corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
- Comment on API error knocks PayPal, Venmo offline around the globe 16 hours ago:
- Not sure the point
- Not sure the relevance
- Not sure the timing.
Its like a kid on the transit bus talking about dinosaurs.
- Comment on Pluto's Orbit 1 day ago:
It’s been a really rough year for Pluto. Let’s all wish it good luck next year (when humans are probably dead).
- Comment on In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return? 2 days ago:
The longer the rubes hold on to this pipe dream that the dems
That’s how far I got before I could hear the aluminium hat.
- Comment on It's pretty cruel, particularly for non-native English speakers, that 'lose' and 'loose' seemingly switched spellings, meanings and pronunciations with each other when no one was looking 2 days ago:
The audience can’t seem to differentiate commas from; well, every other punctuating mark. What are you hoping to achieve, here?
- Comment on How to avoid having cat hair all over my floor every 2 days? 3 days ago:
- Brushing them
- Some diets can cut the hair down
- Clothing that matches the cats
- Lint roller
- ’inside’ vs ‘outside’ clothes, even if “inside” just means that shirt and those pants are halfway through their wear cycle and they’re now promoted to take the hair hit for the team until they’re washed or their relief arrives.
- Comment on How to avoid having cat hair all over my floor every 2 days? 3 days ago:
Clearly. For science.
- Comment on How to avoid having cat hair all over my floor every 2 days? 3 days ago:
You need to get one that knows not to jackson-pollack the hairballs.
- Comment on Apple's controversial iPhone accessory may have been discontinued 3 days ago:
Sir, that’s a mirror.
- Comment on Apple's controversial iPhone accessory may have been discontinued 3 days ago:
nobody really wanted a headphone jack
My phone has a jack. It’s why I bought it. I use a pair of corded earbuds for calls and music.
Why be all Joe Rogan about people who want a headphone jack? What’s it get you to calm people whiny and children?
- Comment on "What Is Your Dream for Mozilla" - Mozilla is doing a survey, questions include "What is most important to you right now about technology and the internet?" 5 days ago:
My dream: mozilla.exe . Too bad it takes SeaMonkey to do mozilla better than Mozilla.
- Comment on There should be a term for people who never really returned from the pandemic's social isolation 6 days ago:
Coronavirus is here to stay now, just like the flu.
By ‘the flu’, do you mean that virus where one entire strain was eradicated by masking and distancing over the winter?
THAT flu? The one with the strain that died out after trivial effort? Do you want to use it as an example of some perennial curse, or are you saying that we can eradicate covid again with similarly trivial effort?
- Comment on I'm moving to another city soon. What are some good apps that could help? Inventory, logistics, etc 6 days ago:
It’s gonna be emacs. You know it, we all fear it, but it’s gonna be emacs and some visicalc-mode shit.
- Comment on Microsoft builds first datacenters with wood to slash carbon emissions 1 week ago:
Wood? You mean Fire’s Favourite Food?
- Comment on GOG launch their Preservation Program to make games live forever with hundreds of classics being 're-released' 1 week ago:
DRMs
Not pluralized. We don’t say “4 managements”
- Comment on Terrified friends burn to death trapped in Tesla as doors won't open after crash 1 week ago:
Teslas (and almost all other EV’s) have electronic only doors
- but Teslas don’t.
- we never pluralize with an apostrophe.
- Comment on somebody has to do it! 1 week ago:
Too busy, those beavers.
- Comment on Somebody has a case of the Mondays... 1 week ago:
Honestly, if ever I go back to Twitter, it’ll be just for the NatlParkSvc account and Susie Dent. Those two accounts are all I see from there that is wonderful.
- Comment on D-Link refuses to patch a security flaw on over 60,000 NAS devices — the company instead recommends replacing legacy NAS with newer models 1 week ago:
Continuing to not support an EoL model that you already don’t support due to EoL (or even dropping support for an EoL model that no one expected you to support in the first place due to EoL)? Non-issue.
Dropping support should mean opening the source. I think there’s a movement about that.
- Comment on Monthly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing? 2 weeks ago:
Wz2100. I go between that and zero-k.
- Comment on National Climate, Polling Points to a Trump Victory 3 weeks ago:
and was known
I know, right? Totally unrecognizable and with no history we can go check.
- Comment on Why do we all have mayonnaise in our fridges instead of béarnaise sauce? 3 weeks ago:
It’s that like “Y’ever been ta tha SEA, Billy?”
- Comment on Conversations like this are why I want more people, especially "normies", in the Fediverse 3 weeks ago:
Incremental improvement is bad?
- Comment on The Elite College Students Who Can’t Read Books 3 weeks ago:
False equivalences are fun.
- Comment on have you ever been given a warning or suspension for using profane language at work? 3 weeks ago:
ITT: American HR vs the world.
- Comment on if you quit a job you didn't like or was toxic, didn't the financial hit scare you? 3 weeks ago:
This is true.
Look, the moment you know you need a new job, you’re done at the current shop. So get looking.
- Comment on if you quit a job you didn't like or was toxic, didn't the financial hit scare you? 3 weeks ago:
I see that in the bad spots, though – people are looking but not landing a new post, so they cope by doing the minimums, peacing out on the dot and getting their sleep. They no longer care about the success of the company, and while that’s admirable, it’s a social issue to abandon the tribe and it can eat on people.
I’m son happy when they land a new post, happier still if I do before I just … stop going. And that’s what I do: I lose interest in going if I can’t find a new post within the year I usually allow (I’m picky).
- Comment on if you quit a job you didn't like or was toxic, didn't the financial hit scare you? 3 weeks ago:
I had a miserably toxic job, and, yeah, I know that pit of despair and what it does to our decisions. I opened the search to the world, but came up with a domestic job about 3000mi away.
I grabbed the go-bag and all but bugged the fuck out, quitting on a Thursday, boarding a plane on a Friday and starting my new job on the Monday. She sold the house, got the movers (fuck moving) and shepherded all our worldlies to the new place. She’s not military but she faked it really well.
- Comment on if you quit a job you didn't like or was toxic, didn't the financial hit scare you? 3 weeks ago:
This is why I have two jobs. The second one fills with work until every 5 years it seems I abandon the day job and bulk up on the second job to make ends meet and burn its queue down.
It’s not intentional but it works out that way.
No. I haven’t doubled my salary, but I’m on the wrong side of 40 where I’m happy to be employed in this toxically ageist field.
My wife has done super well and sometimes beats my day job pay cheque, so we finally have that buffer too. And she doesn’t quit her jobs as she’s a super team player and instead gets promoted to fix problems. (Kinda got a crush on her for being so awesome)
- Comment on Peter Todd in hiding after being “unmasked” as bitcoin creator 3 weeks ago:
Downvotes because I’ve seen someone gifted?
I kinda wonder where he’s going now that VMware is being squeezed dry. He’ll pop out and get snapped up by someone else, but there aren’t many doing actual kernel dev for money anymore.
- Comment on YSK that United has significantly escalated their war against basic economy passengers 3 weeks ago:
Let’s be fair.
They signed up to be the lowest of the overly-entitled rentacops out there. that’s on them.
They didn’t sign up to get irradiated by some shady shit that the FCC is all “no. Fuck off” about when asked about safety concerns.
So let’s render unto Caesar on this one. The FCC (FAA? I may have that wrong) are huge dinks for knowingly subjecting their people to rads way in excess of what’s cool – worse if you look at the TSA people and realize they aren’t pasty-whites and then it’s mean to minorities.
And Logan intl are dinks, just like whatever union the TSA people are in, for not supporting and protecting the staff. That lawsuit is gonna be like Erin Brockovich II .
And this just reminds you that if they could get other jobs then they will. The people who can’t dead-sea-effect out of here are gonna be absolutely employable elsewhere. And that fills me with a warm and fuzzy feeling about TSA agents and their international emulants.