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9point6 ,

What boomer wrote this

9point6 ,

There are people who have a lot riding on the line going up (often the same people in high positions in the organisation)

All these whistleblowers make the line go down

Of the people psychopathic enough to accumulate enough wealth to have a significant stake in Boeing, there’s going to be a percentage who are full-psychopath.

It’s what unabated greed looks like

9point6 , (edited )

Holy shit, I wasn’t expecting to find out like this

Edit: looks like he’s still alive (source elsewhere in the comments)

9point6 , (edited )

… He has

Edit: fuck…

Edit 2: okay this is disputable, wait for more news

Edit 3: looks like he’s still alive (source elsewhere in the comments)

9point6 , (edited )

I’m sorry mate

Edit: okay this is disputable (see above thread), wait for more news

Edit 2: looks like he’s still alive (source elsewhere in the comments)

9point6 ,

Okay thanks, I hope he’s doing okay, I’ll update my comments

9point6 ,

*GDPArse

9point6 ,

Gyms are the worst for it, a friend of mine was recently told they had to come in person to cancel—they were planning to move to a different part of the country, so then had to make a pointless trip to the gym instead of spending that time packing.

9point6 ,

I’m a software engineer

You’re not getting anywhere above entry level in this industry without social skills

9point6 ,

I’ll add to the other person who replied:

Most work in this industry is done in teams, if you can’t effectively communicate and get on with your team members, you’re gonna have a bad time.

It’s even baked into the hiring process everywhere I’ve worked, most of the time an organisation would prefer to take a lower skill candidate if they seem like they’d get on well with everyone Vs a highly skilled candidate that would rub people up the wrong way.

It’s a lot easier to fill gaps in engineering ability compared to coaching someone how to behave around people

9point6 ,

Run a pihole or similar

Your web browser is just one piece of software on your network capable of displaying ads and collecting data

9point6 ,

So the main software is here pi-hole.net (and they have good documentation, so I’m not going to repeat the nitty-gritty here)

You obviously need something to run it on, which could be some existing computer that’s always on, but (as the name might suggest) a lot of people use some form of Raspberry Pi (or similar) single-board computer.

Pihole will run on basically anything, so you can get an ancient pi and it will still run fine

9point6 ,

You can always configure the DNS manually on a device you own to ignore the DHCP settings sent from the router and just go directly to the pihole, obviously not as good as it happening automatically, but a good workaround if that’s not possible

9point6 ,

I don’t know if this is a new meme format or not, but I’ve enjoyed seeing it on my feed today

9point6 ,

I value my mental health too much to regularly dive into the YouTube comment section

9point6 ,

Have you ever seen those videos of arbitrary code execution on a Gameboy with TAS tools? Where it spams every button for like 10 mins?

I’m now imagining a hypnotist flicking his pendulum around like it’s a yoyo

9point6 ,

This always messed with me as a kid because for no reason I can come up with, xylophone made sense as the metal one and glockenspiel made sense as the wood one

It took more effort than it should to unlearn this

9point6 ,

Right, so I’m not a low-level PC hardware expert or anything, but:

We only got resizable BAR like a couple of years ago, and it was very much a premium enthusiast feature at the time. Are modern engines and the games built for them optimised to expect resizable BAR as a baseline yet? If not that will still be a limiting factor right?

I thought the reason resizable BAR was introduced was because we hit the limits of what the previous approach allowed regardless of the speed of the link

i.e. of course it doesn’t make a difference with games today, they’re built targeting hardware configurations that will limit the utility of extra storage bandwidth

Reiterating that I might have this entirely wrong, so I’m more than happy to be corrected here

9point6 ,

The cognitive test again? 😂

www.washingtonpost.com/…/trump-cognitive-test/

9point6 ,

Googling the tiles doesn’t bring anything up on Wikipedia so I’m gonna guess this is fake, I’m afraid

9point6 ,

ME is a bold choice regardless—those installs always seem to destroy themselves before long in my experience (admittedly from quite a while ago now)

As for games (in no particular order):

  • Command & Conquer (basically all of them up to including RA2)
  • Diablo 2
  • Warcraft 3
  • Dungeon Keeper
  • Theme Hospital
  • Rollercoaster Tycoon (and RCT2)
  • Unreal Tournament 99
  • Fury 3/Terminal Velocity
  • Z
  • Age of Empires 1 & 2
  • Pharaoh & Caesar 3
  • MechWarrior 3
  • Serious Sam
  • Sim City 3000
  • Quake 2 & 3
  • Half Life
  • Deus Ex

I’m definitely forgetting some

9point6 ,

Yes to all of those, though I never actually played empire earth, so that goes on my modern day list

9point6 ,

I would also suggest the modern emulated alternatives if you struggle to get hold of the original hardware

MT32-pi: github.com/dwhinham/mt32-pi (covers the MT-32 & CM-32, can also do some general midi with sound fonts, so in theory you could emulate a soundcanvas too)

Then there’s the sound cards too

PicoGUS: github.com/polpo/picogus/ (emulates a Gravis Ultrasound, SB2, AdLib, Tandy & also the MPU401 if you do end up with real midi hardware)

Also gonna just drop the goldlib too: pcmidi.eu/goldlib.html but that one might be a bit separate from what OP is currently doing

9point6 ,

Ah that’s good to know, might be one for 86box then

9point6 ,

Which airline? I’m never flying with them

9point6 ,

Thanks

9point6 ,

void

9point6 ,

Well, I can see your post on l.w, so it’s not a total disconnect!

I wonder if there are any bugs in the new version of lemmy—do you know if mander has updated yet? The l.w admins tend to drag their heels updating because of some previously rough update experiences (I think mostly down to the size of the instance compared to others)

There were some issues with federation last time, perhaps it’s something similar

9point6 ,

Holy shit, a week delay is mad

9point6 ,

IIRC JavaScript + TypeScript is the biggest demographic of engineers in the industry if you go by GitHub stats

I suppose you could call that power in a way

9point6 ,

Does that not put JS (node) back on the table?

I’d say it’s the low level language doing the heavy lifting, python or JS in this scenario are just front-ends.

Hell, I think FORTH has C bindings, that’s not power, that’s mental illness

9point6 ,

Who the hell is having chips for breakfast

I’m calling the breakfast police

Edit: in answer to the question, bacon/sausage butty or scrambled on toast, orange juice and then the rest on coffee is probably not far from a standard morning

9point6 ,

Weekends Vs weekdays

9point6 ,

Well I don’t know about the Reddit stuff not mattering—I occasionally still check on it for a couple of niche communities and the Reddit I used to enjoy has basically died, it’s like the place is filled with angry idiots now. Those people were always there before but usually buried under a load of downvotes where you could mostly ignore them; they now seem to be a majority of those left contributing over there.

They killed the golden goose in scaring off enough of the people contributing most interesting posts and comments (who were doing it entirely for free!) that the lunatics have taken over and shat on everything

9point6 ,

Didn’t you post this a couple of days ago? How come you deleted it?

9point6 ,

Well that’s pretty weird given you can edit titles

9point6 ,

Sorry if it came across like it, but I’m not having a go at you or anything

I just think the mod deleting a post for what could have been a title change is kinda odd behaviour from them, perhaps they didn’t know it was possible? 🤷‍♂️

9point6 ,

North America and Japan are the only places in the world that don’t call it that

9point6 ,

Can you buy naproxen without a prescription over there? I thought you generally needed to pair it with something like omeprazole and the general public can’t be trusted to read instructions

9point6 ,

America could either tax its wealthy or defund the military a small amount and it would be looking at historically significant course changing windfall

Yet it does the opposite.

Of both.

Every

Single

Time

9point6 ,

Like I know native apps are always better, but why doesn’t electron ship an installable runtime so we don’t have to have a shitload of inert chromium installs on one machine?

9point6 ,

You can still have separate processes and everything else with a shared runtime, you just save having all this wasted storage with every application bringing its own bundled runtime.

.net or Java applications work in a similar way, one Java app crashing won’t take out another just because they’re sharing the same runtime

9point6 ,

For most uses of electron I’d agree, but if some engineers are going to use it anyway, I’d prefer the approach I’ve described.

Programming is not that difficult.

Learning how to do something in a new language and framework isn’t that tough, I agree, but no one is going to become an expert in something overnight. I don’t reckon many desktop native engineers are choosing electron unless they actually need it, so if you imagine the case of an expert web engineer building a desktop UI, they’re going to do a much better job with their main skillset than something they have just learned.

9point6 ,

It’s not like they need to become experts

I mean if they would produce a better UI by using their expertise, how would not becoming an expert in the new thing be better? The reality is that the people paying the engineer are going to want the better UX over the benefits of not using electron in most cases.

But also that’s actually possible

Respectfully, no it’s not, not with software engineering unless you’re talking about learning a simple library or something.

If someone can genuinely master something in a day it wasn’t much of a skill to begin with.

I’ve been in this industry for about 20 years now, I would find it very hard to believe an engineer who says they’ve gone from no knowledge to expert in a new framework/language in any short period of time. I would either assume they’re trying to pull a fast one or more charitably just in the “naively confident” phase of learning:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/00157a44-778b-40d0-a0d8-afcabf1384a8.webp

especially with all the AI around.

AI can assist you if you more-or-less know what you’re doing, but a novice replacing proper learning with ChatGPT pairing is going to write some shitty code. I use AI in my role semi-regularly, and in my experience, no model has consistently produced me anything (non-boilerplate) longer than a couple of lines that didn’t need some kind of refactor for it to actually be up to our code quality standards. Sometimes you see them spit out some ancient way of doing things that have been outright replaced by a more modern approach, if you don’t have the experience, you’ll not know any better.

9point6 ,

That’s not even true is it? I’m pretty sure you can buy DLC for various steam games on places like humble bundle and they activate on steam

9point6 ,

I’m sorry, why the fuck aren’t these street legal in more than half of the states? The article says something about safety, but these are street legal all over Europe where we have stronger safety regulations.

Also there’s something I can’t put my finger on about the journalist choosing a hero image of the van losing its cargo.

9point6 ,

Pretty sure that’s not the case, had a little Google and it seems like I’m right, but I’m open to being corrected if I’m wrong or misunderstanding what you mean. Here’s evidence to support my claim:

etrr.springeropen.com/…/s12544-014-0131-7

www.sciencedirect.com/…/S0001457518300034

irpj.euclid.int/…/the-dissimilar-determinants-and…

9point6 ,

I want the numbers!

Where would these noodles fall on the hot ones lineup?

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