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[-] elint@programming.dev 18 points 5 months ago

The real Linus Tech Tips (now with 100% less sexual harrassment).

[-] elint@programming.dev 1 points 5 months ago

Miles O'Brien.

Is that what he's called in the US? Over here he is called Kilometres O'Brien.

[-] elint@programming.dev -1 points 9 months ago

You think that's absurd? Have you never gotten married? Wedding photos are extremely important and while "she almost vomited" may be hyperbole, I can definitely understand being very pissed off if that was the only version of the photo. Our wedding photographer whitened our teeth in our photos and we requested that they undo that so we look like ourselves. The sentiment was nice, but we didn't want that. I would have been pretty unhappy if they hadn't held onto the originals and were unable to revert our teeth back to their normal shades. Photos of our bridal showers and dress hunting were nearly as important as the wedding photos themselves. I can understand being upset with this undesired result.

[-] elint@programming.dev 1 points 10 months ago

Do you really work with memory, storage, and bandwidth? If so, have you EVER run across an instance where memory, storage, or bandwidth were referred to in millibits? Memory, storage, and bandwidth are extremely important in my job, though not my direct focus, and I can say over 50 years as a sysadmin and coder, I have never encountered "mb" and had it actually mean "millibits". Literally not once. Now "Mb" definitely has some ambiguity (in bandwidth, it's used for Megabits, and in memory/storage, it's more often than not a typo of MB), but "mb" actually meaning "millibits"? No, friend. Just no.

[-] elint@programming.dev 34 points 10 months ago

They're pretty fonts and they're released under SIL Open Font License 1.1. I dig it.

[-] elint@programming.dev 5 points 10 months ago

If you're near the cusp, pick whichever makes you feel better. Generations are a sociological construct and are appropriately applied in the aggregate, not to individuals and they're always fuzzy around the edges. Much like Hari Seldon can't predict specific individual events, sociological generations don't always apply exactly the same to individual people.

If you're born anywhere between around 1978 and 1984, you will likely find at least one sociologist who draws the line on either side of you.

I tend to go with Strauss-Howe, who consider GenX to be 1961-1981 and Millennials to be 1982-2005 -- mostly because I like their idea of turnings and cyclical archetypes.

[-] elint@programming.dev 6 points 11 months ago

Naah. Impostor syndrome is a personal psychological phenomenon. I don't think it is really connected to how you acquired your knowledge/skills or how much you know.

[-] elint@programming.dev 14 points 11 months ago

Because I paid for a lifetime sub like a decade ago and my parents and a few friends connect to my instance. I can't be arsed to move myself and everybody else to a new system when this shit just works.

[-] elint@programming.dev 2 points 11 months ago

SMS isold and shitty, but its supported on every phone model. Apple stacked iMessage on top of it for rich media when both endpoints support iMessage. android and others stacked RCS on top of SMS for the same rich media purposes. When incompatible devices communicate (iOS<->non-iOS), they fall back to crappy SMS. You're saying you like the separate-system status quo and if you want to communicate with one group or the other (iOS or non-iOS), switch devices. We're saying why can't we all just have one rich-media format that works for everybody?" I don't care if Apple switches to RCS or opens up full-featured iMessage to everybody. I just want to be able to talk to all my friends without us having to buy the same hardware. Are you just being intentionally obtuse?

[-] elint@programming.dev -1 points 11 months ago

They have a dagger up their pussy?

[-] elint@programming.dev 2 points 11 months ago

Whisky is just a Wine wrapper. It's still Wine under the hood.

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