otikik

18 ms·

361.
by otikik 1y ago
This is Rick and Morty S1E4 and we are all becoming Jerry. [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._Night_Shaym-Aliens !
362.
by otikik 1y ago
Indeed, this has been described in the past as "The Oatmeal Problem" [1] [1] https://www.challies.com/articles/no-mans-sky-and-10000-bowl...
363.
by otikik 1y ago
Money is. Politicians are for sale.
364.
by otikik 1y ago
> the opposite of enshitification. Why do you expect American companies to follow it then? >:)
365.
by otikik 1y ago
A program does not tell the machine what to do. It tells the next programmer what we wanted the machine to do.
366.
by otikik 1y ago
I have always thought that those qualities should be shown, not said. Both in software and in life.
367.
by otikik 1y ago
> Zero tolerance Well that is simply not possible. Even mothers drop their babies to the floor sometimes (very infrequently, I hope). Even for humans the tolerance isn't zero.
368.
by otikik 1y ago
Love what people do out of spite sometimes. Well done.
369.
by otikik 1y ago
Both of them
370.
by otikik 1y ago
Planed obsolescence is not a conspiracy. Apple specifically has been proven to sneakily add "silently slow down the hardware" to their updates. But there's examples of planned obsolescence abound.
371.
by otikik 1y ago
Well it tells you who's narrative it is, if nothing else.
372.
by otikik 1y ago
Yes but the narrative tries to make it about the tools. "AI is going to take all the jobs". Instead of: "Rich guys will try to delete a bunch of jobs using AI in order to get even more rich".
373.
by otikik 1y ago
You move to the screwdriver
374.
by otikik 1y ago
Seize the means of computation.
375.
by otikik 1y ago
It was just an example of the kinds of ingredients, not a complete list. Granma is not going to add Potassium bromate, for example.
376.
by otikik 1y ago
Depends on where you are. There's food additives that are used in the US that are forbidden in Europe [1] > The E.U. says that if they can’t dismiss the possibility of harm, they can’t find an additive safe,” Galligan says. In the U
377.
by otikik 1y ago
Well that is because there's two very different things, both called "cookies". When a grandma bakes some cookies for their grandchildren she uses only some basic ingredients - eggs, flour, butter, sugar. For the product that
378.
by otikik 1y ago
Honestly, why not name the competitor?
379.
by otikik 1y ago
It's still giants. Giant accumulated effort from many individuals.
380.
by otikik 1y ago
Clearly it should be *bold*, _underline_ and /italics/
381.
by otikik 1y ago
I used to have Windows just for gaming. I tried Bazzite on the new PC that I bought. It works so well. I don't need a toy SO for my games any more.
382.
by otikik 1y ago
Oh no! How will I get my Kim Kardassian ads on the menu bar now?
383.
by otikik 1y ago
It's not only "giving advice". "Consulting" includes a range of things, down to implementing software. The customers are big companies with huge budgets, and a lot of red tape. The guarantees they want the most are
384.
by otikik 1y ago
Before we continue, please clarify whether you detected my sarcasm. Without that information your comment could be interpreted in two completely opposite ways
385.
by otikik 1y ago
> destroying yours and everyone elses standard of living, simply because it's unaffordable? As opposed to what has happened in the US, where everything is happy and everything is affordable. Innovation!
386.
by otikik 1y ago
I published the open source library I have been privately working on for several months this weekend. It was my way to avoid spending the day closing down my vegetable patch for the winter. So that is my advice to you: if you want to do the
387.
by otikik 1y ago
Didn't some cities "solve" the problem by buying homeless people bus tickets so that they go to SF? That is a system that "works".
388.
by otikik 1y ago
"Re-structure your debt!" "Buy now pay later!"
389.
by otikik 1y ago
Hypothetically, we could look at reality instead of looking at hypotheticals.
390.
by otikik 1y ago
Windows 7 was the last good one anyway.

More ›