Amikke @Amikke@qoto.org
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Software developer, open-source enthusiast, wannabe software architect. I like learning and comparing different technologies. Also general STEM nerd.
Joined May 2021
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Microsoft products where the objects the product works with have the same name as the product itself:
* Windows
* Teams
* Whiteboard
* Bookings
* Word (why not Words?)
* Project (noun, not verb, that one's called PowerPoint)
Microsoft products where they stuck "One" in front to distract you from the fact they're doing the thing again:
* OneDrive
* OneNote
Microsoft products whose names are verbs setting unachievable expectations of what you could achieve:
* Excel
* Engage
* Access
* PowerPoint
Ditto, but also named to remind you of another, less heinous, product in the hope some goodwill will rub off:
* SharePoint
Azure:
* Azure
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Trying to teach my kids programming with Swift Playgrounds, but it keeps deleting the local copy of the playground before we can do another programming session, and taking an interminable time to re-download.
That's a programming lesson right there.
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Two things that happened this week:
- YouTube started banning the use of ad blockers
- Google was found serving ads with malware
@matrix literal zoomer
@icedquinn @roboneko
>patent submitted in 2002 in the age of CRTs as a theoretical possibility
I don't think we have anything to worry about lol
@roboneko @icedquinn nonexistent I assume, no circuits in monitors capable of enough precision are capable of carrying enough current to be able to do it.
Though now I'm also curious.
How are shoe sizes not yet standardized to some sensible units? I'd understand if it was just the US being behind on QoL as always, but even Europe has some weird-ass system.
> The US shoe sizes are based off of barleycorns, which are roughly 1/3 of an inch (around 8.47mm). European shoe sizes rely on Paris points, which equate to 2/3 of a centimeter (or 6.67mm).
Jesus Christ
@coolboymew @Moon @olmitch you could also check `$WAYLAND_DISPLAY` to make sure if you're currently using wayland, since wayland with XWayland support will also declare a `$DISPLAY`.
Also segfault lol, stinks of shared library version mismatch.
@Moon when I was in high school, it was a complex made of 2 different schools, a humanities high school and IT/CS technical school. The former was like 90% girls, the latter had literally one girl.
Funny part? Somehow all of them were hella ugly except for one. The technical girl.
@icedquinn lol according to 1d4chan yeah
> They also attempted to defend governing something as simple as urination with a formula as complex as d100 + Urination Skill Points + (average of Health and Hand-Eye Coordination skill modifiers) +/- ("Time Since Last Urination vs. Ounces Drunk" modifier), without even attempting to justify why urinating is a skill that exists.
@icedquinn didn't FATAL famously use a bunch of d100 rolls to calculate its insane mechanics?
@icedquinn thanks for reminding me how much I love NixOS's store functionality allowing packages to have independent dependencies. Program A requires earlier version of LLVM but program B a later one? Sure, here you go, two LLVMs and everyone sees the one they like.
Pretty sure that effort-wise I got full return on investment in the first few days after installing. Literally never had dependency issues for the past ~2 years of using it.
@coolboymew I've seen a story (I think in Derek Lowe's In the Pipeline blog) where during research on the effects of caffeine on muscle performance an intern made an oopsie by weighing out two orders of magnitude more caffeine than was prescribed. Apparently no alarm bells went off in his head while preparing a decent pile of the stuff. The unfortunate athlete test subjects spent ~a month in hospital and left much, much leaner.
@VD15 also I didn't have to follow any thread, using Brave with its built-in adblocker and Enhancer for YouTube (which I use mostly for automatic quality selection and volume boost) I've not had problems worse than "You appear to be offline" in place of a video, which a refresh fixes. I'm not even sure which one of them goes around YT's anti-adblock so well and I don't care to find out.
Google in shambles.
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death to all websites that display 50000 different in-page pop-ups just to be annoying as fuck
no, i do not consent to your tracking cookies;
no, i do not want to sign up for your newsletter;
no, i will not disable my malware/adblocker;
i don’t give a damn that you changed your “privacy” policy, this is the first time i viewed opened your website anyway;
i don’t care if this site looks better in the app, fix your fucking website then;
oh, i need chrome to view this page? what year are we in, 2000?;
i no longer want to read the full article if it means i have to create account;
and no, i do not want to sign in with my nonexistent google account either
for fucks sake
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Software developer, open-source enthusiast, wannabe software architect. I like learning and comparing different technologies. Also general STEM nerd.
Joined May 2021
