Semi-Hemi-Demigod

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

I wonder if these are also made from rejected carbon fiber scraps

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

Alien invasion like in SC2K would be neat.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

You get a choice: Death by cheese, death by pasta, or death by marinara

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

Nah, you're whipped to death a cat o' nine tails made of cooked spaghetti

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

We've got one of those already

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

TIL the Soviet Union is still around

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

TIL the Soviet Union in 1930 had comparable technology to today

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

If my boogers start smelling like peanut butter it means I’m getting a sinus infection. Happens without fail 2-3 days after I notice it.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

It helps people, and for conservatives the cruelty is the point.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

How much is Threads down in DAU?

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

I look forward to seeing this as a boomer meme from Facebook

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

woala

Is this a cross between a wallaby and a koala?

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

When did skywriting go from analog to digital?

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

People are more likely to comment when they disagree, since agreement just ends up sounding like “me too!”

But I find people on the fediverse are a lot nicer

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

You feel pretty damn small when that reaper grabs you

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

$ is already used for stock tickets and such. For example $AAPL

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

They didn’t beat me. I overwrote and deleted all my posts and haven’t been there since the end of June.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

When you get it working it's just so cumbersome to use. I do most of my work on servers and doing anything with a Windows server is a pain in the ass. Want to restart something? Open an RDP session, wait for it to load, open the Services, wait for it to load, filter through thousands of services to find the one you want, fucking right-click on it and pick restart.

Compare this to Linux where you get a snappy SSH shell and restart it with one command.

And then there's the goddamn Windows Event Viewer. Can't have log files being, ya know, files right? No, gotta put them in this application on the server, that you have to view in the GUI, and show it alongside all the other logs so you have to filter by service. Most of the time I just export them to text files just because it's easier to process them on a sane OS.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

I still have to log in via fucking RDP to set it up. Why do they even have a desktop environment on a goddamn server?

Also, Windows Event Viewer still blows

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

Then why has every Windows admin I’ve ever had to deal with use the GUI?

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

It’s not most of them, it’s literally all of them. In the decade or so I’ve been doing enterprise software support I have never seen a Windows admin use SSH, nor met one who wasn’t flummoxed at the notion of a CLI, nor worked with any Windows server that didn’t have a GUI.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

I imagine if you’re able to figure out a CLI you can also read a log, do some googling, and figure things out on your own instead of calling me.

But there are depressingly few of you. So few that it took me until now to learn that Windows even has SSH.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

You think everyone with a datacenter with hundreds of windows servers logs in to each of them with RDP?

All of the customers I've dealt with professionally who use Windows generally start with pre-configured VMware or similar images that they then deploy, and then configure with RDP. I have literally, in over 20 years of professional work, never seen a Windows sysadmin ever use SSH.

In fact, when they are forced to use a Linux server most of them will set up VNC to get into it rather than use SSH. WHY?????

Yeah, it's... an acquired taste. You can actually script it. But it is harder than string manipulation, since the events are all objects, not strings.

Gotta love Windows: Files aren't files, dates aren't dates, logs aren't logs.

Cause I'm lazy.

Which is strange to me because using a GUI is so much less efficient than a CLI. Which makes me think Windows' CLI is not nearly as good as even bash.

Also, if you're wondering these are the only complete instructions for setting up SSH login with key pairs without using RDP that I could find on the entire Internet.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

Brody Dalle gives me chills every time

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

It's good for companies that rent office space, but not for companies that own those offices. This is corporate landlords throwing a shitfit, and they have a lot more money and own more news outlets than companies who rent.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

He'll always be that old guy in TNG who died and Riker got put on trial for his murder

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

That meme takes me back

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

He who controls the spice controls the stroopwaffel

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

AI won't replace jobs in that way. What it will do is make people who use it more productive, which will mean fewer people needed to do the work, which means fewer people doing that job. The speed at which it does this is what will determine the impact on how people are affected by it.

Like OP I find AI to be incredibly useful in my job. I was able to learn Ansible in less than a week by asking it how to do things and trying the result. It saves me time by doing grunt work for me that would otherwise be too fiddly or cumbersome to figure out.

We're not going to wake up one day and have AI lawyers/programmers/writers, with all the humans on the dole. What will happen is people who can effectively utilize AI will have an advantage over those who don't, just like people who can use a computer have an advantage over those who don't.

But we also need worker owned cooperatives and a universal standard of living or it's just going to make technofuedalism worse.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

If I told you that you could see a movie for free, but every 20 minutes or so we'd pause the movie and slap you with a fish, would that be okay?

Would it be better if we analyzed your website usage to choose the specific kind of fish that you'd prefer to be slapped with, would that be okay?

That's what ads feel like. I hate them, and I've almost entirely eliminated them from my life.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

Why does everything need a sequel? That movie was great all on its own, one of the few standalone sci fi movies made in recent years. Why do we need another? Is advertising a new movie that expensive that the marketing team needs to ride some else's coattails to get results?

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

The reason SSDs have limited rewrites is because there's a physical membrane that electrons tunnel through to store bits. This membrane will break down over time as writes are made.

For a more visual representation: Imagine you have a bowl covered with plastic wrap that's upside-down, and you push some BBs through the saran wrap from underneath. At first the BBs will stay in the bowl pretty well, but the more holes you poke in the plastic wrap the more likely they are to fall out. Eventually there's so many holes it can't hold anything.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

There is a kink where guys get off on sending women money, often without having any contact with her. It's called FinDom.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

It's because the majority isn't here yet.

The Eternal September waits for every platform

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

This is insensitive to those who suffer from multiple personality disorder and pregnant women

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

Counting twins and triplets would make it even more interesting

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

I optimize my pattern for minimal direction changes, which saves me 3-5% on the time it takes to mow

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

I hate that I know what that means

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

Guys who have a problem with this would probably fail anyway.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

The feature isn't worth $15,000. They charge you that much to send a small, very specific sequence of bits to your car. That's what you're paying for because the feature's already built in.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

I mean, people should be using open source software and Tesla should have its best software on every car for public safety.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

Should programmers work for free?

Most of the Internet as well as the Fediverse is built on open source software by people who aren't working for free.

Will someone provide me with a free test track?

Should I be hit by a self-driving car by someone who didn't pay extra to make it safer?

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

You know what would be even better: An AR app on a phone that you can carry around in your pocket and show other people where the wires are because it's not strapped to your face.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

Ah, so not me then

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

Ding ding ding!

If a company can extract more value out of its workers while paying them less, that means the company is doing good. If this happens across a bunch of companies, that means the economy is doing good. All because they're getting more value from our labor than the crumbs they toss to us.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

The thing is, most "hardworking taxpayers" don't consider themselves to be the recipients of social programs. That's only for poor people who don't work.

And for a lot of programs, the means testing that has to be done to allocate budget does give money to people who actually need it, like the poor. However, this creates a resentment from people who aren't getting the program. This resentment can be eliminated by making the program universal. This is why things like Social Security and MediCare are so popular: Everyone gets them, even if they don't need them, so everyone sees a benefit.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

Promoting hybrid is actually a smart move for them. Lower usage means less maintenance with the same rent.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

The Department of Education is audited regularly. The DoD isn't.