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dejected_warp_core ,

brushing your teeth in the shower

I tried this. Turns out that sonicare toothbrushes are only water resistant and will fail eventually when used in the shower every day. 0/10 Don’t recommend.

Otherwise, if you spend a lot of time daydreaming in the shower to begin with, this can save a few minutes.

dejected_warp_core ,

Considering fur is a kink for a bunch of people, I’d say this is entirely likely. Even more so: your animal control Dom is also a furry.

dejected_warp_core ,

Subs becoming dominant… is this why Nintendo called it the “switch”?

dejected_warp_core ,

I was gonna say: who is out there rocking extra bones?

Overdraft fees could drop to as low as $3 under new Biden proposal (apnews.com)

The cost to overdraw a bank account could drop to as little as $3 under a proposal announced by the White House, the latest effort by the Biden administration to combat fees it says pose an unnecessary burden on American consumers, particularly those living paycheck to paycheck....

dejected_warp_core ,

I had that happen too with BoA, a long time ago. My initial reaction was “how in the fuck is this legal?!”

Then I nearly blacked out as a torrent of un-forgotten media, of all the jokes, comedic hate, and disparaging sentiment towards banks, flooded back to my minds eye.

Sadly, my only answer to this problem was “make more money”, which really isn’t an answer at all. Later, I switched to a credit union, which I would have done earlier had I known that was an option.

dejected_warp_core ,

Same goes for spending limits and region tracking/locking on checking accounts and associated debit cards.

When moving from BoA to a credit union, I was astonished at how this service was enabled by default. I once purchased a large TV and got a call from the bank’s security department confirming the transaction, as I was putting it in my car. I would expect no such service from a major bank.

dejected_warp_core ,

I honestly think it has to do with patterns and profiling. The credit transaction processing “data warehouse” middleman has a all the metadata needed to pull this off - so behaviors like fraud can be correlated across many banks and accounts.

  • Minecraft - had to purchase that internationally, if I recall correctly. From the US, that was not common back in 2010.
  • Fast food place - maybe the place already had fraud incidents there. Sometimes, restaurant employees steal card numbers.

In my case, it was the biggest buy I had made on that card to date. Or maybe that store already had fraud problems on record.

dejected_warp_core ,

Exactly. What’s worse is that it’s almost justifiable if you consider how a bank makes money: float. If a huge swath of your account holders are maintaining as close to a $0 balance as possible, they’re costing you money to manage all the related overhead. I say “almost” because if they, oh I don’t know, made savings accounts attractive for small timers (say 4% interest on balances below $200), it might not require a collections department to gather forcibly extracted fictitious income.

dejected_warp_core ,

China might figure this one out first. In fact, China is so far ahead of everyone, they even built entire abandoned cities before there was any issue with birth rates.

Ubisoft Exec Says Gamers Need to Get 'Comfortable' Not Owning Their Games for Subscriptions to Take Off (www.ign.com)

Ubisoft Exec Says Gamers Need to Get ‘Comfortable’ Not Owning Their Games for Subscriptions to Take Off::An executive at Assassin’s Creed maker Ubisoft has said gamers will need to get “comfortable” not owning their games before video game subscriptions truly take off.

dejected_warp_core ,

It’s hard to not be cynical about this pattern. To me, it’s starting to look like a lot of companies are setting up long-term plans to weather a recession, and patiently wait for baselines to shift in order to normalize stuff like this.

Another way to frame it is, given enough time, a business will ultimately engage in rent seeking behavior if they see no alternative to adding value. Which kind of makes sense, as Ubisoft now builds absolutely monster sized games (e.g. Assassin’s Creed 22 - Find all the Things Edition), with all the DLC, online content, and cosmetic bolt-ons imaginable; they’ve saturated that market. There’s literally nowhere else for them to go, unless they take on much bigger risks like building a whole new franchise or two.

dejected_warp_core ,

Right next door to HHGregg. They’re Havaving a Summummer Sale

dejected_warp_core ,

Yeah, sellers (flippers really) are asking 70-80k over the value of the house, and they want no-inspection, as is, and you need to bring cash to the closing to cover appraisal gap, which is usually in the 60-100k range.

I haven’t been in the market for nearly a decade. This seems pants-on-head crazy to me.

dejected_warp_core ,

I once worked in a software shop where all release packages had the Unix epoch timestamp in the filename. Yes, these sorted brilliantly making it trivial to find the last one. But good luck finding a build from a specific date/time.

dejected_warp_core ,

Prosperity gospel is like the most grotesque, final boss form, of The Just World Fallacy. The fact that it doesn’t even have a quiet part, and just comes out swinging with full-throated equivocation of money and power to god’s love, is disgusting and truly terrifying. It’s like peering through a time vortex straight into the worst parts of dark age Europe. Thanks, I hate it.

The data is in: RTO policies don't improve employee performance or company value, but controlling bosses don't care (www.businessinsider.com)

Billionaire CEOs were quick to sing the praises of working from home at the start of the pandemic, calling it the way of the future — but over the last three years, they’ve slowly changed their tune....

dejected_warp_core ,

everything to do with catering to the egos of controlling managers who want their workers back

In my experience, this is more or less the case. At this stage, RTO vs WFH may very well be the dividing line between a company having bad management, and genuinely good jobs. But the determining factor is really people and culture - so choose wisely.

In the few times I’ve done WFH in my career, the through-line has been working in a “high trust” environment, with people that do not have a dim view of humanity, and do not fleece their customers. The opposite of all that was also true for office-based jobs I worked in between those.

dejected_warp_core ,

It’s like watching a speedrun: Capitalism any%.

Next? Some of them have to be thinking “wait, this is a communist country, isn’t it?”

dejected_warp_core ,

Actually, I’m more concerned with this state driving these people to make hasty deals with foreign states, large corporations, etc. If I’m right, we’ll see a lot more money funnel in from PACs all of a sudden.

dejected_warp_core ,

Yup. This is unintentionally c/fuckcars material.

dejected_warp_core ,

This is the part I don’t get. I watched Chick-Fil-A build a new restaurant. Required all kinds of crazy drainage engineering to get into the corner of a larger parking lot. But throw in a covered drive-through on top of that? Absolutely not. They did build a kiosk for the drive-through, but could have just as easily built a second drive-through window and called it a day.

dejected_warp_core , (edited )

$0.02: I can’t prove it, but I think it comes down to the line itself being a mode of advertisement. You wouldn’t want to eat somewhere unpopular, and a hyper efficient drive-through would give that appearance. To blunt the impact of a deliberately slower drive-through, they put people out front* to greet customers so they don’t feel ignored in line. This in itself is something other chains don’t do and, instead, have to crush the drive-through line fast, just to keep everyone’s blood pressure in check. It’s better “customer service”, but as OP illustrates, places your staff out in the elements.

Meanwhile the food is bland and factory-assembly-line consistent, with toppings that range from bland to sweet and bland. Perfect for kids and adults that already have enough excitement in their lives. Are powdermilk biscuits on the menu yet?

(* if this is a corporate-mandated thing, it’s freaking brilliant. A manager can’t realistically pull one of the greeters to handle a kitchen disaster in the moment, since they’re outside. So, service in this regard is hard for management to screw up.)

dejected_warp_core ,

AI-enabled typing is obviously a completely braindead idea.

I agree. However, and I know I’m practically reading tea leaves here, but I read that last line as a suggestion that AI would replace programming outright.

dejected_warp_core ,

Point in case: Ben Eater recently uploaded a video where his “BIOS” consists of two I/O functions and compiles into less than 250 bytes. Double that if you count his port of WOZMON. We can argue later if that constitutes an operating system - I mean, it’s not POSIX compliant but it does operate.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0q6Ujn_zNH8

Edit: watch that space. The venerable MS BASIC is on the way after this.

dejected_warp_core ,

I’m in this picture and I don’t like it. Also, you forgot:

1.5 Get completely wrapped around the axle by writing tooling to support said game engine art assets.

dejected_warp_core ,

TL;DR: the author needs to do a better job of citing sources and building an argument.

The author’s argument from self-appointed authority tone aside, I dug into the only two verifiable pieces of evidence cited. These are almost impenetrable to the outsider, and even with plenty of coding experience behind me, I’m having to go deep to make sense of any of it. After all, sometimes, bugs and design decisions are the result of a best effort in the situation at hand and not necessarily evidence of negligence, incompetence, or bad architecture. There’s also something to be said for organizing labor, focusing effort on what matters, and triaging the backlog.

The original author really needs to pony up a deeper digest of the project, with many more verifiable links to back up the various quality claims. If anyone is going to take this seriously, a proper postmortem is a better way to go. Cite the version reviewed, link to every flaw you can find, suggest ways to improve things, and keep it blameless. Instead, this reads like cherry picking two whole things on the public bug tracker and then making unsubstantiated claims that’s a part of a bigger pattern.

My personal take on what was cited:

  1. I’m grossly unqualified to assess this codebase as a Wayland or GUI programmer, but work plenty in the Linux space as a cloud practitioner and shell coder.
  2. The first article smells like inadequate QA for cases like placing Wayland programs in the background, which is not typically done for GUI apps under normal usage (IMO).
  3. The second article is a two-line change that I suppose highlights how ill-suited C is for this kind of software. Developer chatter on the MR suggests that the internal API could use some safeguards and sanity checks.
  4. 162 open issues, 259 closed, oldest still open is five years old. Not great, but not terrible.
  5. None of this is particularly egregious, considering the age of the project and the use it enjoys today.

Links:

dejected_warp_core ,

Hard disagree there. Driving on the interstate south of San Antonio, there are these overpasses that are, inexplicably, on the highway itself. These are artificial hills that are steep enough at highway speeds, that your visibility is made shorter than your stopping distance. You can’t see past the top until you’re there, and they completely obscure the entire highway on the other side because it’s so straight. Obstructions, stopped vehicles, pile ups, anything could be on the other side and you wouldn’t know. Anyone on cruise control or driving a semi has their trip peppered with these possibly lethal moments at regular intervals.

Everywhere else I’ve been in the lower 48, (slower) local roads pass over freeways, because it literally takes less dirt to make that safe.

dejected_warp_core ,

IMO, it should be an option if only to help illustrate how poorly it works.

dejected_warp_core ,

The couch is the only “dog bed” that’s a comfy size. The fact that it’s already occupied is just a minor inconvenience. Plus, dogs like to be close.

dejected_warp_core ,

planes

dejected_warp_core , (edited )

Charisma glasses would open up all kinds of awful things in the wrong hands. And there will be hell to pay if you take them off at the wrong moment.

The shoes open up a whole can of worms. Just consume the last two decades of Flash (DC comics) media and you’ll understand. Breaking physics like this opens up all kinds of utility, but the universe does not abide by people ignoring thermodynamics and spacetime.

The sleep mask sounds like a way to get anywhere from 5-8 more wakeful hours in a day, every day. But do I also get tired like normal if I use it? Because if I have to go to sleep every 20 hours, and spend 2-3 of those hours absolutely exhausted, that’s gonna completely screw up my schedule.

The frying pan is my speed. Get people over to your place and you won’t need the other items. Just make awesome relationships and build a posse around impossibly good home cooked meals. Win everybody over, work your way up in society, and start slinging tasty meals at state dinners. Together, you’ll conquer the world one plate at a time.

Edit: The coin is a monkey’s paw in disguise. Stay away.

Edit2: Underwear… look, if you need this, you have to re-evaluate some stuff. Otherwise, healthy body odor is kind of a factor in courtship. Plus it says “odor free”, so that includes perfume. That said, if you’re the rugged outdoor type and want to trek Patagonia for weeks on end, this is the item to pack.

dejected_warp_core ,

Does the coin just give me a 50% chance to unilaterally decide my government every election cycle?

No, this one is the most like a “monkey’s paw” on this list. Here’s why:

everything the user attempts will work out in their favor

For instance, the worst possible candidate in your district/country is absolutely going to lower your taxes. Doesn’t matter who you want to win.

dejected_warp_core ,

Wanna hit that girl?

:: glasses get knocked off during raucous sex ::

Oh. Oh no…

dejected_warp_core ,

Easily America’s best contribution to civilization, after “right (turns) on red”.

And I’m glad it’s catching on instead of “you’uns”, “yuns”, or “yous”.

dejected_warp_core ,

That’s how I read it too.

Also, this is how a girl politely turns you down. I take heart that lesbians are in the same boat as hetero guys when it comes to this struggle. I read this and think “oh, girls are bad at this too!”

dejected_warp_core ,

Weather vs Weather

Since the Youtube algorithm blessed me with this nostalgia hit, I figure this is the right time to share it. Behold, hours upon hours of old Weather channel footage with music:

dejected_warp_core ,

American here. I stopped watching “TV” about 15 years ago, and have streamed just about everything ever since. I’m also exposed to a lot less advertising now and my life is better for it.

Watching television at family/friends house feels like traveling to a foreign country. It’s exactly like you describe. I don’t recognize any of it anymore.

dejected_warp_core ,

You’re not alone, but the idea of a movment to duodecimal hasn’t had traction in a long time: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duodecimal#Advocacy_and_"do…

Also, ancient Egypt was hip to his idea: hsm.stackexchange.com/a/2881

Fun fact, you can count from 1 to 12 on one hand by touching your thumb to count your finger bones, as there are 12 of them. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger-counting#Asia

dejected_warp_core ,

Remember this the next time someone says “what the market will bear.”

Unchecked capitalism is about aggressively exploiting resources. We, our time, and whatever we posses of value, are all such resources.

dejected_warp_core ,

Denial for $2?! Normally, you have to do some serious mental gymnastics to make that at home; it’s a lot of work. What a bargain.

Also, I know some people who would absolutely buy potato-scented candles if they were a thing.

dejected_warp_core ,

Everything. You’ll forget entire months of your life, but you also won’t have a single tarnished memory.

dejected_warp_core ,

This is a good point. My interactions with the Fediverse over the last few months has been sublime. Maybe users here are just proportionally more active?

Numbers are nice, but they’re not everything. Yeah, we could onboard 2 billion lurkers, but how would that improve anything?

dejected_warp_core ,

Just don’t tell their investors who are clearly pushing to make it a social media hub.

Edit: it’s the second-to-last place I would ever consider for that purpose. Right after Venmo.

dejected_warp_core ,

I can see the thinking that lead to this. But in my mind, it boils down to one bad decision after other, concealing the firearm because each step forward carries worse consequences. It’s basically the clown-makeup meme:

  1. Carry gun around because that’s what I always do.
  2. Walk into hospital - whoops, I’ll just keep it concealed so I don’t get in trouble. Can’t hand it over to someone either, or leave it in my car; that’s a felony.
  3. Check in for appointment - can’t back out now, it took forever to get this appointment and there’s a penalty for a no-show.
  4. Change clothes for MRI - can’t leave my gun lying around, that’s also a no-no and someone could get hurt. I’ll just tuck it… somewhere.
  5. Walk into MRI exam room - had to say “no” about metal on my person. These medical people are overly careful anyways.
  6. Actively getting an MRI - what’s the worst that could happen?

Do we need airport-style backscatter x-rays prior to MRI procedures now? In hindsight, it seems like cheap insurance.

dejected_warp_core ,

Fun fact: if you itemize your medical expenses, it’s that too.

dejected_warp_core ,

My record is 9 days without sleep.

That’s… not great. Impressive, but not great. I hope you’re in a better place now.

At that point I had seen a doc who just loaded me down with large doses of like 3 different benzos.

Doctor: Um, yeah. I don’t normally do this, but I’m going to give you serious drugs up front and then figure out what’s going on later. Take this after you get home. Also, clear your calendar for the next few days.

Then again, what is “normal” is viewed through the lense of the community being studied.

What you’re pondering is the classic “nature vs nurture” argument, and moral relativism overall. I can’t say how active this philosophical area is these days, but you’re correct in that it’s a part of “essential philosophical questions that man has been asking for centuries with no real answer.” I say, drink deep from this well and master the domain. Maybe then sleep will come easier.

dejected_warp_core ,

The older I get the weirder it gets to me that grown adults have an imaginary friend who tells them to be bigoted.

I honestly see it the other way around: bigots find sanctuary in places where critical thought is absent from the conversation. Its easier to push any agenda you want if the dogma is to take your leadership’s word on faith alone. Being “religious” and invoking the name of god is being used here like a cheat code to get access to hearts and minds.

If I had an imaginary friend I would want it to be like Scorpio in Farscape. Someone who could give me insights I didn’t think of, someone to bounce ideas off of, and maybe turn on painkillers in situations where I need one.

Sorry that’s not really possible. There is an alternative: mild schizophrenia for the company and dissociative disorder for the pain are the best we can do around here.

dejected_warp_core ,

That’s where I draw the line.

Normal spelunking, minimal vertical work, the occasional belly crawl no smaller than a manhole. That’s actually a pretty good time. You get wet, dirty, have a few laughs with your friends, and then shake it off with some beers back at the campsite. No need to go aggressive with ridiculously tight crawls and/or 100’s of feet of vertical work, etc.

Cave diving? Let’s take an activity where it’s very easy to loose track of time, and add SCUBA which requires time management down to the minute for your health and survival. Nevermind getting lost, disoriented, or wedged underwater somewhere. I get that this is very intrepid stuff, and the very distant corners of cave systems are being explored this way. But it’s a big no for me; the risk does not justify the reward, IMO.

dejected_warp_core ,

My guess is that you never had the (dis)pleasure of shopping at Bed Bath & Beyond or Linens & Things.

Both stores featured stuff like this. A relatively small footprint for a “superstore”, that did a lot by drawing your attention upwards to generate a sense of space. Every “department” had stuff like this, showing inventory 10-20 feet off the floor on very high shelves. Meanwhile the floorplan was rather claustrophobic and not somewhere you want to be on a busy shopping day. But if you needed to outfit a kitchen, bathroom, and a bedroom all on one trip, it was the the place to go.

Anyway, it’s no surprise that there was stuff like this going on purely for show. Makes sense, actually. You wouldn’t want staff restocking on ladders half the time.

dejected_warp_core ,

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