fidodo

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fidodo ,

Most of the people I see that wear masks are old ladies trying to avoid getting sick. How fucking pathetic do they have to be to be so afraid of the world that they want to ban immune compromised people from wearing a mask?

fidodo ,

He wasn't why the show was funny

fidodo ,

Do they think movies play in real time? What do they think when there's a scene change?

fidodo ,

It's just not worth it until your monolith reaches a certain size and complexity. Micro services always require more maintenance, devops, tooling, artifact registries, version syncing, etc. Monoliths eventually reach a point where they are so complicated that it becomes worth it to split it up and are worth the extra overhead of micro services, but that takes a while to get there, and a company will be pretty successful by the time they reach that scale.

The main reason monoliths get a bad rap is because a lot of those projects are just poorly structured and designed. Following the micro service pattern doesn't guarantee a cleaner project across the entire stack and IMO a poorly designed micro service architecture is harder to maintain than a poorly designed monolith because you have wildly out of sync projects that are all implemented slightly differently making bugs harder to find and fix and deployments harder to coordinate.

fidodo ,

They add a lot of overhead and require extra tooling to stay up to date in a maintainable way. At a certain scale that overhead becomes worth it, but it takes a long time to reach that scale. Lots of new companies will debate which architecture to adopt to start a project, but if you're starting a brand new project it's probably too early to benefit from the extra overhead of micro architectures.

Of course there are pros and cons to everything, don't rely on memes for making architecture decisions.

fidodo ,

The problem is that they become a buzz word for at scale companies that need them because they have huge complex architects, but then non at scale companies blindly follow the hype when they were created out of necessity for giant tech stacks that are a totally different use case.

fidodo ,

😂

fidodo ,

The younger generation really is smarter

fidodo ,

That's fine. Just charge them way more when they beg you to fix the mess they made for themselves. This exact thing has happened many times already in the very short history of computing.

fidodo ,

The show was good because of Larry David and the rest of the writers. People just assumed Jerry was funny by association.

fidodo ,

Ubuntu is just a bunch of apps running on Debian! Did you know you can take Ubuntu app .deb files and run them on Debian?

Look. The R1 is stupid, but this isn't the reason why.

fidodo ,

It's just marketing to be like "look at how capable our AI is with just one button". I mean if you want to be charitable it's an interesting design exercise, but wasteful and frivolous when everyone is already carrying devices that are far more capable supersets of this.

fidodo ,

What, you aren't excited about a future where everything is cloud computing spyware that sends all your activity to an AI to be analyzed and picked apart by strangers?

fidodo ,

Isn't Lemmy supposed to be tech savvy? What do people think the vast majority of Linux OSs are? They're derivatives of a base distribution. Often they're even derivatives of a derivative.

Did people think a startup was going to build an entire OS from scratch? What would even be the benefit of that? Deriving Android is the right choice here. This R1 is dumb, but this is not why.

fidodo ,

I didn't know how much work they put into customizing it, but being derived from Android does not mean it isn't custom. Ubuntu is derived from Debian, that doesn't mean that it isn't a custom OS. The fact that you can run the apk on other Android devices isn't a gotcha. You can run Ubuntu .deb files on other Debian distros too. An OS is more of a curated collection of tools, you should not be going out of your way to make applications for a derivative os incompatible with other OSes derived from the same base distro.

fidodo ,

The hardware seems very custom to me. The problem is that the device everyone carries is a massive superset of their custom hardware making it completely wasteful.

fidodo ,

Depends on which part is altered. Lots of Linux distros are just curated collections of software, drivers, and configuration. You can easily achieve your OS goals without touching the code of the base distro at all. If they didn't need to modify the base code then there's nothing to distribute back. That would be like distributing your personal OS power user config settings. If you're not touching source there's nothing to contribute.

fidodo ,

Is that not custom hardware? I really don't see any issue with how they built this thing. The issue is what they built.

fidodo ,

Apk literally stands for Android package. I'm making an analogy. 🤦

fidodo ,

Cost to run the company? They will proudly milk as much money as they can to maximize profits. Having a bigger margin is a point of pride for them. Watch any shareholder meeting. They will publicly brag about it.

fidodo ,

They've been doing stuff like this non-stop since he was elected. It just takes time, especially when you're trying to do things right instead of just breaking shit, plus there's tons of obstruction you need to deal with and many appointed positions last more than a term so you need to Wait for new positions to open up to get a majority on a lot of boards. If you want to make this argument the burden of proof is on you to check that they didn't have hurdles that prevented them from doing it sooner.

fidodo ,

Yeah probably. How long until every site with user generate content starts banning texas?

fidodo ,

I don't think that's the statement. I think it's that they were hoping that they could ignore it but weren't about to.

fidodo ,

So they'll stop injecting ads in the middle of videos at the worst possible times right?

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So they'll stop injecting ads... Right?

Tech brands are forcing AI into your gadgets—whether you asked for it or not ( arstechnica.com )

Earlier this year, Microsoft added a new key to Windows keyboards for the first time since 1994. Before the news dropped, your mind might’ve raced with the possibilities and potential usefulness of a new addition. However, the button ended up being a Copilot launcher button that doesn’t even work in an innovative way....

fidodo ,

The cloud buzzword was the dumbest thing ever. The cloud is an infrastructure technique for deploying server resources. It has zero end user impact. It made certain features easier to deploy and develop for software companies, but there is nothing fundamentally different in the experience the cloud provides vs a traditional server. Outside of the industry, the term means fucking nothing to users and the way it was used was just synonymous with the Internet in general. If your file is hosted on the cloud or a centralized server makes no difference to the end user and there would be no way to tell how it was hosted in a UI.

fidodo ,

I think it makes perfect sense. Those people are building something from scratch. That's a lot more responsibility and skill needed than to maintain a tiny part of a huge well established system. The people capable of doing an A+ job at building something totally new are very few and far between and the competition to hire them is fierce. The best way to move up in this industry is to build up your skill and jump ship to a new job as soon as your skill has outpaced your salary.

fidodo ,

It's pretty simple isn't it? If you want to be paid a lot of money, learn how to do what other people can't or won't. In the software industry those opportunities are all over the place. You just need to find it and take it.

fidodo ,

You can always cut back on expenses, you can't just increase your salary. I will take high cost of living with a high salary any day and just cut back on non essentials. If you're eating out all the time and a meal is $20 vs $5, that will add up to a lot, but if you're spending 50 cents on an egg instead of 10 cents, you'll still be making way more in a HCOL area. Plus programming has the best paying remote opportunities, so you can have the best of both worlds if you're talented.

fidodo ,

That's the best possible outcome. We're super lucky in this industry because we have the best paying remote work opportunities out there. Before you couldn't get an SF job in a LCOL area, and even with a COL adjustment, you are still making closer to an SF salary than a rural Penn salary.

fidodo ,

It is lower than the US, but it's still higher than average EU salary, plus you get tons more benefits and job security. Also, with remote work, you can get a US job in Europe. You'll get paid less than if you were in the US, but more than other Europeans, while still enjoying the social benefits, and since you can accept less that makes you attractive to US companies. Main downside is having to adjust to US meeting hours.

fidodo ,

If you think programmers make less than other jobs then you're totally out of touch.

fidodo ,

I knew pay in the UK was bad for developers but that's completely cuckoo. It sounds more like the uk is the odd one out though since while EU pay is lower than US I do know that it's still better than most other jobs in the same area even if you aren't in the Capitol. But there's also always remote work if you live somewhere with no jobs.

fidodo ,

I genuinely can't tell if this is incredibly dry humor or if you're being serious.

fidodo ,

Who the fuck uses comic sans for programming? I use comic mono.

fidodo ,

Seriously, I kinda want to use it for my markdown files.

Spotify CEO Daniel Ek surprised by how much laying off 1,500 employees negatively affected the streaming giant’s operations ( fortune.com )

When Spotify announced its largest-ever round of layoffs in December, CEO Daniel Ek hailed a new age of efficiency at the streaming giant. But four months on, it seems he and his executives weren’t prepared for how tough filling in for 1,500 axed workers would be....

fidodo ,

You do have to be hard working to be CEO, there's just a ton of stuff that needs to be handled around a company at all times. But they are not uniquely smarter or have better decision making skills than other people. A good CEO will understand that they don't know everything and surround themselves with experts to help them with decision making instead of thinking they know better.

That's not to say that workers aren't necessarily equally as hard working, especially when your asshole CEO fires a ton of your coworkers and expects you to pick up the slack.

fidodo ,

The FTC’s three Democratic members were in favor of adopting the regulation, while its two Republican members were against it.

Not surprising in the least. Of all the Republican hypocrisy their attitude towards workers using their value to increase their earnings is one of the worst. They claim that they support self reliance and building yourself up, but stuff like this shows that it's clearly a lie. They support businesses maximizing their earnings by charging what the market will bear, but as soon as a worker tries to do the exact same thing they lose their God damn minds.

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Reinstate? Both are still allowed in many Republican states and Republicans have been blocking any attempt to stop it.

fidodo ,

I don't get it

fidodo ,

That's the only part I get.

fidodo ,

Ok, that makes sense, I think it would have been clearer if it were something like "but when I caught him he was this big!"

fidodo ,

I've never actually watched an episode but do know about the general premise somehow, I think through references to it in other media. I was able to figure out most of the joke even though I don't know the character names.

fidodo ,

I think the characters are in those careers commonly because it's what the writers know.

fidodo ,

Diode emitting lights?

fidodo ,

Hehe. Number equal number. I smart.

fidodo ,

Thing is anyone health conscious already knows that you can have good nutrition with a vegan diet. Anyone generalizing veganism as having bad nutrition without looking at the specifics of what someone is eating has no idea what they're talking about and probably don't have good nutrition themselves if they're that uninformed

fidodo ,

I write my commit messages for myself in the future so future me can figure out what the hell past me was thinking

fidodo ,

I think Lemny needs to be pitched to more independent communities as a way to provide a forum to their members while being connected to the rest of the Internet. For example, game developers should make lemmy instances for their game communities so they can host a forum and not be subjected to the whims of Reddit. Non profits and guilds as well.

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