“Nice beaver!”

“Thank you! I just had it stuffed.”

I am serious, and stop calling me Shirley

Until your toddler presses it and the OS just tosses all the work that you didn’t save yet. It’s good with a safeguard, and Windows will eventually force shut down after a timeout.

This reads like The Onion for IT geeks

The answer to your title is yes, it is unhealthy.

I was using this a lot to read stuff on my Kobo e-reader, and I’m sorely going to miss that feature. There’s no replacement unless Kobo puts out a huge firmware update.

It’s AI but a specific use case of AI: an android at home to take care of the housework. Cleaning my dishes, doing the laundry, vaccuming and putting stuff away where it belongs are obvious use cases. But also:

• Go through your fridge and throw away everything that has expired or gone bad.
• Take care of your cat while you’re away on vacation.
• It’s your personal fire fighter.
• It paints your house or does any kind of house maintenance.
• Let’s say you’re in the middle of playing a board game on your dinner table but need to put it away for the night. Ask the android to memorize everything and put it away. The next time your friends come around to play, it can place everything in exactly the same spot.

Possibilities are endless.

This is the key to so much. Worried about Nestlé monopolizing freshwater? With nuclear fusion we can just take any old seawater and remove the salt. Worried about the war with Russia? With nuclear fusion we can become independent of all gas from Russia and cut off one of their biggest income sources. Lots of special materials are expensive because electricity is expensive - with nuclear fusion electricity is practically free. Over time we can get rid of any coal plants etc. that produce CO2.

I’m 100% convinced their internal testing is flawed and possibly suffers from confirmation bias. The strategy might work for a couple of years but in the long term they are killing their brand. Once people start migrating to other search engines Google will be beyond rescue.

Guess it’s time to start thinking about Android and Chromecast alternatives because when Google becomes desperate they will turn everything they touch into shit.

For some reason I find glitching physics in games to be hilarious. This clip from AC4 had me wheezing.

Why are people who make questionnaires so bad at making questionnaires? It’s baffling. This post is particularly glaring but I always find stupid errors or assumptions like this.

I think such projects don’t exist precisely because Mozilla is still developing it. If Mozilla abandons Firefox then someone else will take up the torch.

I believe the Firefox development organization could be a lot leaner, and not all of the work has to be directly salaried. There are plenty of huge open source projects that are progressing fine without being run by a single for-profit company. E.g. the Apache ecosystem, the Linux foundation projects, FreeBSD, etc.

I am. Why not make it a nonprofit and get the money from donations?

Practicing loving-kindness meditation and trying to find an interest in the lives of others. When you feel a genuine interest in learning about the lives of the people you meet and are not worrying about your own self-image, people are less scary and easier to talk to.

I used to be afraid of people thinking less of me for asking stupid questions, but now I don’t care so much about what they think about me. I come from a mindset of compassion rather than fear. It turns out that people generally prefer dumb but interested over insecurity.

Mathematicians are shitty communicators who like feeling special because they can understand their obscure language.

I’m a programmer and in this field there have been tons of books published, conference talks, and heated internet arguments about how to make your code as readable as possible: formatting, function length, naming of variables and functions, keeping number of cross references low, how to document intent, etc. Mathematicians do none of that - it’s all single-character names (preferably from the Greek alphabet to complicate it further) and they rarely communicate intent before throwing formulas at you. You can easily tell when a mathematician has written code because it’s typically hot garbage in terms of readability.

Sure, I didn’t claim that the bad ecosystem makes the language as such bad (although it is still bad, for other reasons). It’s just an additional disadvantage of developing software on the Java platform.

That said, I do think some of the bad code out there is an effect of trying to work around flaws or missing features in the language. Libraries like Spring add an additional configuration layer that is practically like an additional language on top of the base language. Instead of coding Java, you’re coding Bean configurations and filter chains. Unfortunately all of that comes without useful debugging tools, so you’re left scratching your head why the system isn’t doing what you want. Log4J is another such complex configuration system that - unfortunately - customers are encouraged to change themselves which leads to confusing failure modes and insufficient user interfaces.

Well it’s always about finding a good balance isn’t it. Too many features like in C++ has negative consequences. Preferably you want something that lets you do all that you need to do, but not more. The trick to designing a good language is to let developers achieve as much as possible with as few features as possible, while keeping the code easy to reason about and understand.

This is obviously both subjective and highly dependent on what problem you are trying to solve, but I can’t think of any situation in my career where C# would not have been a better a choice than Java from a strictly technical perspective. It’s not just that the C# language is better, it’s that the Java ecosystem is founded on poor design choices that result in code bloat and implicit behavior that is hard to troubleshoot and secure. See e.g. Spring, which automatically picks up and loads any logging library that happens to be in the user’s path, even if that is an exploitable version of log4J. Java has become corrupted by enterprise architects. This satirical project demonstrates what I mean.

I say this as someone who is currently developing a FOSS Java library in my spare time, out of frustration with the Java code I had to endure at work.

So why not sell only the cloud version? Does that version somehow prevent management from another cloud key? If not, having the functionality dormant costs nothing.

Ubiquiti devices. What’s the difference between “UniFi Gateway Fiber” and “UniFi Cloud Gateway Fiber”? Last I checked they were even the same price.