cygnus
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- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
I’m glad I’m not the only one - the article is sensationalistic garbage, just some rando’s blog.
- Comment on QWERTY Phones Are Really Trying to Make a Comeback This Year 6 days ago:
Hell yes - as long as it still fits in my pocket. That was a prolem with some of the later Blackberry models.
- Comment on New Klingon Bird of Prey Tatoo! 2 weeks ago:
Sorry to have to tell you this, but the tattoo artist made a terrible mistake - that’s a Romulan warbird.
- Comment on Why Are Cars Getting Rid Of Android Auto? 3 weeks ago:
I’m surprised you didn’t hear about that, because it was a huge controversy. it was limited to a few countries though (or maybe only the UK?)
- Comment on Explained: Why you can't move Windows 11 taskbar like Windows 10, according to Microsoft 4 weeks ago:
The equation they are thinking of, though, is “will the cost of those who actually quit using Windows outweigh the cost of building and maintaining this feature.” Funnily enough the inability to move the taskbar is what finally pushed me to Linux full-time, but the overwhelming majority will complain and stick to Windows.
- Comment on AI Slop Is Ruining Reddit for Everyone 1 month ago:
Default subs were already heavily astroturfed garbage. Smaller subs still generally fly under the radar, for now at least.
- Comment on Rules of acquisition, rule 214. Never begin a business negotiation on an empty stomach. 1 month ago:
It seems to be a term directed at white people, so no, probably not… I don’t speak Hindi, I just remember seeing the etymology of Ferengi a while back.
FERINGHEE - India, usually disparaging : a Eurasian especially of Portuguese-Indian descent www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Feringhee
- Comment on Rules of acquisition, rule 214. Never begin a business negotiation on an empty stomach. 1 month ago:
Pretty odd name for a restaurant – it’s a derogatory term to describe foreigners, like a Greek restaurant named “Barbaros”.
- Comment on Elon Musk Had Grok Rewrite Wikipedia. It Calls Hitler “The Führer.” 1 month ago:
I like that phrasing.
- Comment on Elon Musk Had Grok Rewrite Wikipedia. It Calls Hitler “The Führer.” 1 month ago:
That’s true, but to reuse my comparison to Romans, we call Augustus “emperor” too despite the term “imperator” being co-opted from an earlier, different meaning. I can see both points of view here, I just don’t feel strongly enough to see it as a red flag. God knows there are lots of other, actual red flags.
- Comment on Elon Musk Had Grok Rewrite Wikipedia. It Calls Hitler “The Führer.” 1 month ago:
I know, but convention is to use a person’s final and highest title. Nobody refers to Julius Caesar as “quaestor”.
- Comment on Elon Musk Had Grok Rewrite Wikipedia. It Calls Hitler “The Führer.” 1 month ago:
I don’t think the Merkel cmparison is accurate - no one called her Leader, we called her the Chancellor (Kanzler), because that’s the job title. “Chancellor” is a pretty specific word in English with a narrower meaning and clearer connotation than “leader”, which can be used in a huge variety of contexts. The problem is that English doesn’t have a 1:1 translation of Fuehrer as we do with Kanzler.
- Comment on Elon Musk Had Grok Rewrite Wikipedia. It Calls Hitler “The Führer.” 1 month ago:
We also use “Dalai Lama”, for example. Changing it to “leader” would lose a lot in translation. There’s a very long list of more problematic things with Musk and this ego project than this particular wording choice.
- Comment on How One Uncaught Rust Exception Took Out Cloudflare 1 month ago:
Could be, but Rust has been around long enough that we’d see this already, no?
- Comment on How One Uncaught Rust Exception Took Out Cloudflare 1 month ago:
I feel like I’ve seen an insane number of error messages in various apps and websites around the unwrap method.
I suspect this is related to LLM usage somehow. We’ll probably see a lot more of this type of problem (sudden flareups of a particular bad code implementation)
- Comment on Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change massively, gets enormous backlash - Neowin 2 months ago:
It’s OK, you’re on Lemmy, we all use Linux here so you’re among friends (or bitter enemies if your distro of choice is Ubuntu)
- Comment on The Value of NVIDIA Now Exceeds an Unprecedented 16% of U.S. GDP 2 months ago:
You may be right, but I hope you aren’t.
- Comment on The Value of NVIDIA Now Exceeds an Unprecedented 16% of U.S. GDP 2 months ago:
The dotcom crash was no joke. Most people here weren’t around for it (as adults at least) so they brush it off. I’m not saying this next crash won’t be bad, I’m saying it won’t have the knock-on liquidity effects of 2008.
- Comment on The Value of NVIDIA Now Exceeds an Unprecedented 16% of U.S. GDP 2 months ago:
I believe the reliance on index type funds has increased at a drastic rate.
Very good point, although this will disproportionately harm individuals, and the people in charge don’t really care about that so it won’t be as disruptive as somebody important (like a bank or a hedge fund) getting into financial trouble.
- Comment on The Value of NVIDIA Now Exceeds an Unprecedented 16% of U.S. GDP 2 months ago:
Yeah, this article should compare nVidia’s revenue to the US GDP (both measure of annual production). But we know why they aren’t, as it wouldn’t produce an alarming stat.
Not really, because Nvidia’s revenue is far less exorbitant than its market cap. I’m not sure why c/technology is suddenly a dumping ground for every random Medium blog, which is as trustworthy a news source as somebody’s Facebook feed.
- Comment on "Analog bags" are in. Doomscrolling is out. 2 months ago:
Zoomers are in their 30s now? [insert Matt Damon ageing GIF]
- Comment on Stephen Colbert Reveals ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Role As Paramount+ Sets Premiere Date — NYCC 3 months ago:
Yes, I totally won’t be watching it either, because Paramount+ is definitely the only possible place to find it.
- Comment on The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe 3 months ago:
I wonder if this ties into our general disposability culture (throwing things away instead of repairing, etc)
- Comment on 3 months ago:
Should cable subscribers be counted 200 times, once for each channel?
- Comment on 3 months ago:
True - I guess it depends on whether we’re defining “subscribers” as people or total paid accounts.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
I don’t think those numbers are additive like that - you’d be double-counting people.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
If my googling is right, in total there are ~207 million subscribers.
This says 128M, which seems far more plausible. variety.com/…/disney-stop-reporting-subscriber-nu…
- Comment on Entry-Level NAS recommendations? 3 months ago:
Depends how attractive it needs to be. “Entry level” could be an old PC you kave kicking around.
- Comment on Cracker Barrel Outrage Was Almost Certainly Driven by Bots, Researchers Say 3 months ago:
Maybe this article was written by a bot to distract us from the bots talking about other bots. Maybe* I’m *a bot. Hmm…
- Comment on Marketing Doesn't Work on Nerds 3 months ago:
So perhaps the real story is simply “lots of tech marketers don’t understand their audience”. Which I think is true. When companies put their spec sheets and feature lists front and center, I’m definitely more likely to pay attention than if I have to dig through screen after screen of meaningless fluff to get any relevant details. So that’s something marketers could (but generally don’t) do to influence me.
It depends on the brand and who their target market is. I’d argue that Framework, for example, market in this way.