I grew up in the sticks where, if you didn’t pay your bills, people would gossip about you being a deadbeat and spend all day speculating about what kinds of problems you have. So it’s kind of funny to me that those folk just rationalize all of his shit and at the same time drag their kin through the mud. Some random nobody pulling his shit, those kinds of used car salesmen have a special place in hell when you’re from a town of 300 people

I forgot I even did this but I’m coming up on 10 years in just a couple weeks.

I’m not in software but from what I read the importer sends a request and that request is used by the exporter and importer to encrypt and decrypt, so I think there’s a way to tweak the whole process a little and instead have both the exporter and importer ask Netflix or whoever to provide a key as opposed to using the request. Could be wrong tho

He has a lot of supporters that’d do it for free, but he’s also the kind of client who would insist on so much stupid bullshit that the app has a 300MB patch every other day. “Let’s make the news feed a 4K video of a bullet point slide because the campaign team can just whip a new one up every day alongside different music, and it has to be 4K otherwise it might look gross”. Basically the Homer Simpson bubblecar of apps

Other Trump supporters were heard shouting, “too soon!”

I just thought it’s funny that AI can’t determine I’m talking about memes. It’s like, look, Gemino bro, all I use you for is making Garfield and Shrek comments

It’d be kind of sad to see how delusional he is if I didn’t know he’s a gigantic asshole

I actually googled that to try to pull a screenshot and the AI summary told me to go to a doctor

Giving me Don Hertzfeldt’s Rejected vibes, if you haven’t seen this it’s hilarious and is probably slightly older than Youtube. There’s irreverent, and then there’s this

They behave exactly like black mold. They start coalescing in some adjacent space and suddenly BOOM. Online storefront, starts hosting its own servers, that becomes part of the business. Starts building out warehouses, that becomes part of the business. IoT things that run on their servers, then cameras, gobbles up Blink. They even had a pilot project for restaurant delivery, we’ll probably see that again once they can tie it into their parcel delivery fleet

We evolved to have that response in a world in which hospitals didn’t exist and in which we faced predation by other animals, and ‘curl into a ball feeling like shit for a couple days’ was the most viable way for the body to handle even the most mundane of infections (all the other ideas didn’t make the cut and here we are). But now, 21st century, we’re like ‘oh it’s just the cold’ and actively attempt to mitigate it.

A slew of other things are still stuck in 20,000BC as well, like our bodies not being able to deal with copious amounts of sugar, or thinking we might have difficulties securing our next meal. Cut too many calories trying to lose some fat and your body legit thinks you’re dying and starts breaking down all sorts of soft tissue that isn’t fat. Or vasoconstriction when we’re out shoveling snow with a warm house 15ft away, all sorts of shit

The shitty thing is that if margins are high enough only a very small minority of owners need to subscribe in order for them to break even and then we get stuck with it for eternity like SiriusXM being implanted into practically everything.

And of course there’s no way to just ‘opt out’ of the hardware via trim levels. Shitty industry in general

fully autonomous

How about ‘what the fuck is wrong with you?’

Tech bros reinvent the button smh

Weird thing for you to say to someone basically parroting the IPCC’s concerns.

https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg2/chapter/chapter-14/

Why would a corporate entity move PP&E to a different country in light of the promise of increasingly favorable tax rates and the threat of tariffs? There’s a reason why US and Ireland are havens. Those things are bolted down

What if a country that holds half the world’s data centers decides to walk out of every global climate accord and start powering those bad boys with fracking due to isolationist trade policies? Won’t amount to zero and in less than a month we find out how that ship is changing its heading

You don’t say.

Do you think the USA is incapable of a meaningful increase in global emissions? My original comment is implying the opposite

That’d be contingent on lots of things, such as random clowns not sabotaging the EPA and selling rights to Federal lands

That image is of the bus so it probably requires a ‘fleet’ type purchase alongside a maintenance contract

It’s pretty disingenious of them to frame this in such a way as to tout the virtues of plastic. We can make rectangular glass bottles and that not only takes less energy to transport but is also more environmentally friendly than PET, but they didn’t explore that option or even suggest it to the reader for consideration