I hated corporate Memphis.

Now I hate AI art.

I still hate corporate Memphis though, it’s still awful.

Capitalism started when some no-nobles started having more power than (some) nobles. Meaning that the power balance shifted from nobles to capitalists. Which happened around (because of) the industrial revolution.

All of these undoubtedly existed before the industrial revolution: war, monoculture farming, clear cutting forests, building on floodplains, development that destroys habitats.

These were impossible before the industrial revolution for technological reasons: space tourism, deep sea mining.

This is impossible without capitalism for semantic reasons: corporations bulldozing ecosystems for endless “growth”. Before capitalism, it wasn’t corporations, and it wasn’t done with a bulldozer. But kingdoms did “bulldoze” ecosystems. And communist countries did bulldoze ecosystems too.

Golf, lawns: these are harder to prove and I don’t care enough to do the research. Golf probably couldn’t be done before industrial revolution, but maybe a primitive version of golf could be played.

So at most, the tweet might be right in the best of cases about golf and lawns. Which would make for a much more boring tweet.

All of those existed way before capitalism. Except the ones that require technology more advanced than what they had available.

Gravitational field. There’s no way you could achieve this with the magnetic field.

Watching LOTR for the first time was kinda hard, but once you learn every middle earth language you can ignore every subtitle. So worth it.

It’s not this morning. I already had this dude tagged as an asshole. He’s just like this.

How many months have been since “in 3 months, every programmer will be out of a job due to the fast progress of AI”? At least a couple years.

Sloppers overestimate by a huge amount both the current performance of LLMs and their improvement speed.

The only thing that gets larger exponentially as time goes on is the cost. As predicted by actual scientific studies that said LLMs would hit a diminishing returns barrier rather quickly.

Yeah. Go tell that to the people/slaves of the countries I mentioned.

As I said, USA is no good, but it’s not the worst.

You don’t seem to understand the meaning of “worst”.

“Bad” is absolute and can be judged with just the USA.

“Worst” is relative and you have to consider the other ones.

The United States is pretty bad, especially for being a supposedly rich country. But no, it’s not the most brutal.

Even though I would not travel to the USA under any condition, if I have to choose between USA, north Korea, Iran, or some other random authoritarian country such as the UAE, Saudi Arabia, sudan or somalia, I’m going to USA. Even though I’m a non-gay male.

It not happening to everyone doesn’t mean that it’s not an issue.

Years back there was an issue with a windows update that eliminated the “Documents” folder on some people. I updated my computer and the folder was still there. It didn’t happen to me, but it did happen.

There are millions of possible computer configurations. Some issues may happen in some computers but won’t happen in others.

Even if 2 people have the same computer, they might have followed a different path to reach the current version of windows. Some might’ve started at win 10 and upgraded from there, others might’ve installed the latest version of win11.

All those things might result in bugs happening in some devices but not on others.

Not only are you a Microsoft developer. Are you also a maths PhD? I thought I was using maths of a level I’m comfortable with. Mainly addition, abstraction, and multiplication if real numbers.

Perhaps I’ve committed a grave mistake. Please show me where my mistake is.

So a guy got imprisoned by the most brutal government in the world. And then he fell into vegetative state. But said government has nothing to do with the vegetative state?

Do people just do that? Do people just go “eh, I’ve had enough, maybe I’ll just turn my brain off for a while”.

You can guarantee it? Are you a Microsoft Windows developer? In that case, I’d like to fill in a bug report.

When I turn my machine on, without me doing anything at all, task manager would display >20GiB used. I don’t have many applications to run at startup. At most iCUE (Corsair keyboard drivers). I don’t think iCUE is using 20GiB if RAM.

Then, I open 2-3 vscode instances. Each instance launches its own rust-analyzer, since I’m looking at 3 rust projects simultaneously.

Each rust-analyzer instance uses ~3GiB of RAM.

That is enough to reach 100% ram usage and the computer becomes noticeably slower, even if CPU usage is at 7%.

Tell me, Microsoft Windows developer. Why does my machine grind to a halt when I use ~10GiB of RAM, if win11 says that the recommended amount is 16GiB and I have 32? 10+16 = 26. I should have a minimum of 6GiB left. The math ain’t mathing.

Yeah no. I’m at 32 and task manager says that 28+GiB are being used on idle. The sum of everything that appears on task manager doesn’t reach 2GiB.

And it’s not “the OS is using it because you aren’t”, because if I do anything demanding, the OS won’t give me back that RAM, it’ll use the swap instead.

There are many C++ features that make the language worse. Exceptions is one of them. It’s not strange to have them banned.

Critical systems often only allow you to use a subset of the language. Dynamic (heap) allocations, recursive functions, exceptions are features that are often banned. In medical devices, safety is critical, so it makes sense. Otherwise you could get a Therac-like scenario due to an unhandled exception.

Why is a pair of scissors separated in halves? Shouldn’t a pair of scissors be separated into 2 unit scissor?

EDIT: so you would have 2 half pair of scissors? A pair of half pair of scissors?

Chromium based ones are at the mercy of Google. Firefox, however, is independent in that sense.

When google decides to drop support for manifest V2 (which is the one unlock origin uses), every chromium browser drops support for it. Unless they make a fork of chromium and add manifest V2 back in. Which means extra effort every time they want to update with upstream, since there probably will be merge conflicts.

Firefox can just not drop support for it, literally 0 effort.

Of course the random dude I replied to on Lemmy owns a set of semaphore flags. What else would I expect?

It’s a simple concept.

You need at least 2 people to form a conversation.

One of them has Whatsapp, Telegram, signal, MSTeams, smoke signals and those flags that ships used to communicate.

The other only has Whatsapp.

They are going to communicate over Whatsapp.

Even if the dude with 1000 communication methods meets another dude with 1000 communication methods, they are going to use WhatsApp, because they are used to using Whatsapp with everyone, so it’s just easier to have everyone on WhatsApp.

Because the instance your account is on ends in .de