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locuester ,

It depends on how you look at these things. Traditional, fat-client POP3 email was not syncing, it was just downloading from the server. In such a case, I would not expect it to be syncing.

In this particular case, I wouldn’t expect a sync at all. These are messages received on, and managed on, distinct devices.

That said, I did get a MacBook last month and have learned that these things synchronize. Which is cool but I didn’t expect that. Still wouldn’t expect it on deletes.

locuester ,

Yes boomer, they speak in monotone.

locuester ,

It doesn’t. It was sarcastic based on your boomer-like dependence on /s.

locuester ,

He was a founding partner.

locuester ,

Yep

locuester ,

I requested opt out and they requested my ID. lol! So they’re demanding more info to opt out of info collection.

locuester ,

Email validation.

locuester ,

That’s what I did. It says they’ll be following up to get ID.

locuester ,

Oh my god. That would be… no different than now for me 😒

locuester ,

Absolutely. Nothing scarier than rebooting the computer or router that’s been running for 10 years.

I also enjoy exercising software blue/green rotation weekly. Even if no code changes, have it roll to the alternate infra on an automated schedule. Is a great habit to get into and helps any engineer sleep better. It also results in providing very accurate downtime recovery numbers - not estimates.

fathermcgruder , to asklemmy
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What is it about the text messages and emails sent by older people that make me feel like I'm having a stroke?

Maybe they're used to various shortcuts in their writing that they picked up before autocorrect became common, but these habits are too idiosyncratic for autocorrect to handle properly. However, that doesn't explain the emails I've had to decipher that were typed on desktop keyboards. Has anyone else younger than 45 or so felt similarly frustrated with geriatrics' messages?

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locuester ,

^ yes, this exactly. It was the equivalent of living on the dark net in the eves. Total Wild West.

Not all > 45 tho. I’d say 40-55 or so who were also “nerds” or “geeks” as kids.

The ugly truth behind ChatGPT: AI is guzzling resources at planet-eating rates (www.theguardian.com)

Despite its name, the infrastructure used by the “cloud” accounts for more global greenhouse emissions than commercial flights. In 2018, for instance, the 5bn YouTube hits for the viral song Despacito used the same amount of energy it would take to heat 40,000 US homes annually....

locuester ,

That’s mainly just bitcoin at this point. Other top network use proof of stake. Dont throw the baby out with the bath water.

Also, I’d reckon a secure transactional network is a serious end product. But I understand most here don’t share the same freedom of money philosophical views as the cypherpunks.

locuester ,

Cmon, outside of ol’ Bitcoin, my freedom of money networks are a drop in the bucket.

locuester ,

Huh? Why would you think this?! I’d love to explore this line of thought with you.

locuester ,

FAR more secure. Not just employee fraud but bank failure, theft, wire fraud, govt seizure, etc. so many ways for fiat in a bank to go poof.

locuester ,

It’s referring to variable names. For example, you have a variable named fileDialog. I would prefer to have that named dialogFile.

locuester ,

Agreed. This type of fun is good for the team. Trying to stamp it out, when it impacts very little, is just a buzzkill to the team.

ChatGPT Answers Programming Questions Incorrectly 52% of the Time: Study (gizmodo.com)

The research from Purdue University, first spotted by news outlet Futurism, was presented earlier this month at the Computer-Human Interaction Conference in Hawaii and looked at 517 programming questions on Stack Overflow that were then fed to ChatGPT....

locuester ,

If you’re skilled enough to know it’s wrong, then you should do it yourself, if you’re not, then you shouldn’t be using it.

Oh I strongly disagree. I’ve been building software for 30 years. I use copilot in vscode and it writes so much of the tedious code and comments for me. Really saves me a lot of time, allowing me to spend more time on the complicated bits.

locuester ,

I’m very familiar with what LLMs do.

You’re misunderstanding what copilot does. It just completes a line or section of code. It doesn’t answer questions - it just continues a pattern. Sometimes quite intelligently.

Shoot me a message on discord and I’ll do a screenshare for you.

It has improved my quality and speed significantly. More so than any other feature since intellisense was introduced (which many back then also frowned upon).

locuester ,

Is not currency, as a concept, useful? How about transfer of value over vast distances instantly? Is that not useful?

locuester ,

I hear what you’re saying. But USDC is absolutely a token on many different ledgers that represents a currency.

I’ve been deep in decentralized finance for years as an investor and fulltime software dev. I get the whole “hur hur Bitcoin is dum” but you’re really missing the forest focusing on a tree.

locuester ,

Didn’t you repeat what I said? It’s a token on decentralized ledgers that represents a currency. Like a number in the database at your bank. No different than that.

You deposit your currency at a bank, it’s a number in a database. You earn interest on your investment.

Are you saying that is a different concept than usdc deposited into a lending market on a decentralized ledger and earning interest?

Also, usdc is accepted places. In fact Stripe is adding it as a payment method very soon. Would that make it a currency, or does it have to reach some level of acceptance? What about PayPal balance? Currency?

locuester ,

Except that my bank stores dollars, not memecoins.

USDC is not a memecoin. Are you aware of what USDC is? A token issued by a US company, Circle, with strict transparency and regulatory compliance. It’s no different than a number in your banks database, except it’s in your custody, like cash.

Yes, because “USDC” isn’t a currency.

Is your bank’s database a currency?

Look, I get the popularity of shitting on crypto but I’m happy to teach you about the industry if you’re interested. Memecoins, ponzis, shills, shitcoins, etc is the loud obnoxious side of our industry and has no bearing on the real economics and financial system being developed.

locuester ,

USDC is a memecoin? It’s $1, on a decentralized ledger. Backed by $1 in the legacy banking system. I can move 1 USDC to $1 in the legacy system nearly instantly by redemption at Circle. No different than a legacy to legacy bank wire.

I’m not grifting - I’m attempting to make you aware that there are decentralized markets denominated in US dollars. What I’m explaining is not a pyramid scheme - I’m just informing you that there is a very widely used token on decentralized ledgers which represents exactly $1.

locuester ,

Same. Downloading from popular WWIV BBS’s via Zmodem

locuester ,

And since electric leaf blowers often have a much higher pitch, that pitch attenuates at a much greater rate

As the article states, it’s this sound that they got rid of. A 94% drop in the high pitched shrill of the electric leaf blower.

Read. The. Article.

It’s a 2 minute read ffs.

locuester ,

So you’re not here to read articles ever? You’re just here to get corrected in comments?

locuester , (edited )

I said 90%

No you didn’t.

EDIT: yeah they did

locuester ,

Doh - yeah, they absolutely did. Edited.

iPad Pro with M4 chip boasts impressive performance jump compared to just-released M3 MacBook Air (9to5mac.com)

On raw performance might, the M4 really does live up to Apple’s promises, should deliver. Single core is up about 20% compared to all M3 chips and more than 40% compared to M2. The generational computational leap from the previous M2 iPad Pro is at least a 42% jump on single-core and multi-core.

locuester ,

Yeah will be interesting, because an Air is what I use for that. I need the keyboard….

I have a powerful PC laptop, then a MacBook Air for days at conferences, airplane, etc.

iPad seems useless for me at least. I have a phone.

locuester ,

Hah, yeah a decade ago when I had one, sheet music became its primary use case.

locuester ,

Exactly

locuester ,

All I hear is “I don’t understand git remotes and what radicle does”

locuester ,

radicle.xyz

The Radicle protocol leverages cryptographic identities for code and social artifacts, utilizes Git for efficient data transfer between peers, and employs a custom gossip protocol for exchanging repository metadata.

So it has a gossip protocol to spread the repo, and a common format for artifacts (issues, PRs, etc) to act more like GitHub.

I don’t know too much more because I just started looking into it a month or two ago and haven’t done a deep dive. But it’s a layer on top of git to spread repositories peer to peer instead of manually having people add remotes.

locuester ,

Thanks for politely asking for more info. I find myself a bit brash sometimes as I live on crypto twitter as my day job. So sorry if the initial message was harsh; I deal with a lot of shit posters.

locuester ,

Care to elaborate?

locuester ,

Homelessness jumps 16%

How is that misleading?

locuester ,

I have a long history in the financial industry so maybe it’s just experience around terms like that. But saying something jumped X% is pretty normal, even if it’s a percent that jumped (so a percent of a percent).

Jumped to X% is entirely different.

For instance, consider “the percentage of people that owned homes dropped 50%” aka “home ownership dropped 50%”

locuester ,

That makes zero sense.

Cali sales tax is 7.25, Texas is 6.25

Poor people likely don’t own property, but yeah it’s about double in Texas.

Income tax in Cali ramps from 1% up slowly to 9% at just 68k/yr. But even lowest income pays 1%. Texas is 0%.

The argument has no merit. None. California appears to have objectively higher tax on most people, and certainly on all those who don’t own property.

What am I missing?

locuester ,

They aren’t. There is sales tax too, which is higher in Cali. And property taxes seem moot if we’re talking about poor people, no?

locuester , (edited )

This isn’t comparing taxes. It’s comparing what section of the population shares more of the total burden.

This isn’t saying the people in Texas pay more, just that the distribution is different across income groups. Which makes sense because there is no income tax. Overall, the vast majority (and all non-landowners) in Texas is paying less than they would in Cali.

It’s a misleading graph, possibly on purpose to make people think what you did.

Edit: brain fart. further discussion below.

locuester ,

I agree with all this. Not sure it’s relevant.

CA charges almost no tax on its poorest, and the poorest make $0 , so they see no benefit. Same in TX.

locuester ,

Ugh I’m sorry. I started trying to make sense of it and then somehow confused myself into thinking it was a % share of total - as if each side added to 100%. Nevermind, I was wrong.

Anyhow, back to the chart - it simply makes no sense in that case. I would need to take a look at the underlying to tell me how the bottom 20% pay 13% of income to taxes in a state with 0% income and 6.25% sales tax. Only thing left is property tax (according to chart it’s those 3).

Yes I realize small local sales taxes may apply, but is a max of 2%.

How much property does this bottom 20% own?!

locuester ,

Ok? But that income tax is huge…

I hadn’t considered the fact that some people make money under the table and/or illegally. And this pay not income tax in either state, but a ton of sales tax.

I highly doubt a large amount of that in a 2% local sales tax county is what causes this. If so, that’s crazy.

locuester ,

Ok, then we are getting into estimated tax derivatives. Yeah I can’t just make guesses there.

That’s not direct tax.

But I agree there could be something there. It would be minimal I’d assume but I truly don’t know.

locuester ,

Not being willingly obtuse, this is a good faith discussion. It feels very obtuse on the other end tbh, and I’m genuinely trying to have an intelligent discussion.

“Other taxes and bullshit” I agree 100% that I’m not taking into account. Thats where I’m looking for some sources of specific info. Not just unsourced opinions.

locuester ,

Yeah, starts at 1%, hits 9% by 68k income. I’m not misunderstanding that. Not seeing how 1% < 0%.

locuester ,

I did not see the link for some reason, just the quote. Once again, I’m not being willingly obtuse. Thank you for the link and I will read it.

It’s not helpful to the discussion to repeatedly tell people how they feel, unless you just want to dismiss the conversation. And in such a case, no reply at all would be a better option imo.

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