oopsallmagic

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by oopsallmagic 2y ago
Your second paragraph disproves your first. Websites' needs didn't drastically increase (I'm ignoring nonsense like WebGPU; render graphics outside the web browser like a God-fearing Christian!), but their complexity did. Why
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by oopsallmagic 2y ago
It'll only be cheap once the patent expires. Until then, take those pills daily, y'all!
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by oopsallmagic 2y ago
We had a taste when COVID shots were free, and it was magical. So nice not having to make 16 phone calls and then getting billed $800 "by mistake", followed by 20 more phone calls to fix it, only to find out that the pharmacist&#x
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by oopsallmagic 2y ago
You don't need to take HIV medication, but you don't need to prevent the rest of us from enjoying the benefits of modernity, too.
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by oopsallmagic 2y ago
Condoms aren't perfect, and PrEP is cheap and has basically zero side effects. Plus, rapists don't use condoms, no matter how nicely you ask. Edit: lmao touched a nerve? I will never understand why folks here get so prudish when w
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by oopsallmagic 2y ago
Why not read the PHP docs and any tutorials they might have? The docs are pretty comprehensive.
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by oopsallmagic 2y ago
You always had to configure your web server properly. "Don't let programs execute arbitrary code" was a solved problem even then.
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by oopsallmagic 2y ago
Yeah, like developing a résumé.
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by oopsallmagic 2y ago
Somewhere that isn't the person updating the article, that is. The trick is to make a random website that does the same, and then it's totally fine!
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by oopsallmagic 2y ago
Concur. I cannot believe we've gotten to the point where the tech elite poopoo one of the last remaining jobs that actually keeps people alive because it doesn't make the stock price go brrrrr. Maybe... maybe some things are worth
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by oopsallmagic 2y ago
Funny how nobody ever says the same about software, which underpins the entire modern economy and has the power to irreversibly change the lives of billions.
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by oopsallmagic 2y ago
It's intended for hobbyists and tinkerers. If you want a computer that screams, you get a desktop. Nobody's trying to play the newest GTA on this chip.
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by oopsallmagic 2y ago
If there were grant money for incorrectly claiming "this other thing that isn't a computer behaves just like a computer", well, we wouldn't need VCs anymore.
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by oopsallmagic 2y ago
I asked my parrot the time complexity of quicksort, and he said " squawk N-squared!" He is clearly reasoning and I would like $500 million, please.
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by oopsallmagic 2y ago
How is it not blindingly obvious yet? It's money. Everything sucks because you aren't an executive or a shareholder. Everything sucks because everything isn't for you, it's to extract money from you. And places lik
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by oopsallmagic 2y ago
When did the software community get so bad at handling legitimate critique?
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by oopsallmagic 2y ago
Can we get conversions for kg of CO2 emitted, too?
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by oopsallmagic 2y ago
And to think it culminates in tech companies emitting more CO2 than Belgium to make celebrity deepfakes and tell us to put glue on pizza. Wow.
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by oopsallmagic 2y ago
Nothing! That's my entire point! Because I'm not afraid of the internet, and I trust in my ability to secure the software I host. You're the one struggling with the fact that no software is a platonic ideal, while the rest of
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by oopsallmagic 2y ago
I'm confused. Is this website about furtive self-promotion to land a job or get VC money? Or is it an innocent platform for sharing projects?
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by oopsallmagic 2y ago
Can't you just put it on your calendar? Or use a sticky note? Bonus: a sticky note doesn't need a battery. Alternatively, your coworkers are adults, and can simply wait an hour for you to eat lunch. They won't go into hysteri
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by oopsallmagic 2y ago
Don't forget the e-waste aspect... You can recycle paper easily, but several rare earth metals and e-ink all mashed together are much more difficult, and require a lot more energy to produce. Honestly, this is exactly the kind of overc
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by oopsallmagic 2y ago
Nobody calls them regulations, come now.
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by oopsallmagic 2y ago
Thought it was pretty obvious we were talking about the tenant, not the landlord. This is such weird nitpicking. When people in the US talk about apartments, they're almost always rented. The only place I've ever heard someone say
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by oopsallmagic 2y ago
Exactly. I don't believe that the argument that some software somewhere at some point could have some vague security flaw in it is usually good enough to justify not running the kinds of software most of us here work on. It's soli
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by oopsallmagic 2y ago
> Who said it's defeatist? Uh, me, I did. I thought I was pretty clear. Please refer to my previous comment. > It's realism. Okay. How are you going to change your behavior? I'm not sure what point you're trying to
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by oopsallmagic 2y ago
What? You think the meeting was unnecessary? Well, you're the only one who disagrees with the outcome. Sounds like you're not being a team player. Let's have a meeting with HR tomorrow.
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by oopsallmagic 2y ago
"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity."
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by oopsallmagic 2y ago
The overarching point is "don't take care of your tools". So downloading 500 MB of dependencies and then letting them rot is a great example.
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by oopsallmagic 2y ago
A sense of humor?

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