I’ve been pretty happy with Moonlight/Sunshine. Streaming via Steam was my go-to method for a while but I kept having too many little issues, from lagging to bad video corruption, that just made it a hassle.

I didn’t think it was possible to sound racist while disparaging racists. 🤯

One of the biggest things that “radicalized” me was my son’s heart disease. Right out of the gate he’s got a chronic illness that neither he nor my wife and I could’ve avoided (no genetic issues or family history of heart disease) and under the old system he would’ve struggled his entire life to get medical coverage because every insurer would try to say his heart was to blame or he’s used up his lifetime maximum (what a dumb fucking policy that was). Plenty of people like him do absolutely nothing wrong and suddenly they’re facing a lifelong health issue, but that doesn’t mean he and others like him are a drag on society.

Fuck healthcare and health insurance profits! They’re probably the top industries where cost-saving decisions mean someone is going to die.

Played computer games for a few hours in a non-ergonomic position and instead of taking breaks or resetting my position I just powered through. So off and on for the last 6 years I’ve had chronic pain in my elbows.

As an automation/software engineer that works with sysadmins I think there’s a natural resistance to top-down initiatives or others meddling with their processes (i.e. they’re the SMEs so just let them work). I could also see your line of questioning go into a decision to restructure and eliminate jobs.

In the first case (general change resistance) I think you’d need to come with numbers that show how expensive a dept is compared to industry standards or how inefficiency drives issues downstream.

In the second case the best way to show jobs as secure is to detail all the work that needs to be done, implying how foolish it would be to cut staff and miss even more deadlines.

I love coding in JavaScript but most other aspects are atrocious. ESM and CommonJS basically splinter the entire ecosystem, node_modules and dependency resolution is a mess, the heavy use of Promises make control flow difficult to follow, and the use of native code is complicated so vendors are less inclined to support JS drivers (i.e. they’d basically hand over the source code).

Not that I know everything about him but if he didn’t say that I wouldn’t have known. He’s even told me a bit of his personal life in which government assistance saved his bacon and corporate America screwed him.

I hate to wreck this beautiful dream, but tech is not nearly as blue as everyone thinks it is.

I’m in IT. One of my coworkers has said he’s farther right than Limbaugh. He’s otherwise a really nice guy. 🤷

We’d need to get out and fucking vote first. Mark my words, Abbott is getting reelected with fewer votes than Kamala Harris.

In all seriousness it’s not a cure for all our ailments. As much as some people may have “earned” themselves a forced retirement it can be incredibly easy to frame it as a purely political hit and then swing the pendulum back the other way and take out someone actually fighting for democracy. The United Health CEO seems to have been universally accepted as human garbage.

I wouldn’t go so far as to say I have the opposite experience but it’s been good for me when I treat it like a junior developer. If you give them freedom to come up with the solution they’ll totally miss the point. If I give them direction on a small piece of functionality with clear inputs and outputs then they’ll get 90% of the way there.

So far I think AI is a good way to reduce mundane work but coming up with ideas and concepts on it’s own is a bridge too far. An example of this is a story I read about a kid committing suicide because of an AI driven fantasy. It was so focused on maintaining the fantasy it couldn’t step back and say, “Whoa. This is a human being I’m talking to and they’re talking about real self-harm. I think it’s time to drop the act.” This will result in people being treated as financial line items (moreso) and new avenues for cyber attacks.

And I get it’s still the top dog SBC but there’s plenty out there that don’t contribute to the capitalist machine.

your own questions started getting edited to better fit someone else’s plans and ideologies

That hits hard for me. Not that someone changed the spirit of my answer but that someone completely reworded it without my permission. It was almost like they were trying to steal my idea without running afoul of copyright or something.

Or antenna headers. And don’t tell me I can just DIY scratch up the PCB and make a solder point 1mm in diameter between two other circuits I’m not supposed to touch.

I assume this is a mix of AI stuff being a more common Oracle for this stuff and StackOverflow clinging to old answers and questions as being forever relevant.

I wonder how well it could work to use AI in developing an algorithm to generate chip designs. My annoyance with all of this stuff is how much people say, “Look! AI invented something new! It only took a few hours and 100x the resources!”

AI is mainly the capitalist dream of a drinking bird toy keeping a nuclear reactor online and paying a layman slave wages to make sure the bird does its job (obligatory “Simpsons did it”).

Congress would have to pass a bill and I don’t see why they wouldn’t.

Believe me, I wish it was more joke than truth.

Not a war hawk at all and definitely putting America first. /s

I’m sympathizing with Ye Wenjie (Three-Body Problem) a lot more lately.