namingthingsiseasy

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[–] namingthingsiseasy 8 points 11 months ago

Misrepresenting the target group is just an added bonus. It's like referring to all indigenous people as "indians" - even if they were from India (which they're not), it's just taking a blanket term and making them all seem like they're the same. At least that's why it's even funnier in this context.

But generally speaking, when people unironically use the term to refer to all whites, well, that just shows that they don't really understand the meaning of the term they are using.

[–] namingthingsiseasy 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Right - public transit needs to be usable in the place you're traveling to if you're going to take a train. This is why a lot of people would rather drive from, say San Francisco to Los Angeles. Suppose you were to take a train instead. Then... great?! what would you do next? You wouldn't have anywhere to go, so you'll need a car anyway. You'd either have to rent one or just skip the train and do the drive instead.

Probably a lot easier and feasible in my opinion to build the local public transit first, and then focus on the regional/national transit system.

[–] namingthingsiseasy 14 points 11 months ago

This may force Google to address their terrible dispute resolution policies though. If they keep removing software without providing any meaningful dispute resolution, then I would hope that there's a possibility for alternate repositories to fill that void.

[–] namingthingsiseasy 125 points 11 months ago (31 children)

However bad they may make it, it can't possibly be worse than it is for non-adblock users.

But hey, if they want to torpedo their own services, have at it. It's not like they have a reputation for it or anything....

[–] namingthingsiseasy 0 points 11 months ago

Agreed. My rule of thumb is: if it takes enough more than a second to figure out why I had the tab open, then I might as well just close it and re-open it if the need to have it available reemerges. It takes a lot of effort (several seconds and a lot of mental energy) to create the mental context that I need to make use of the tab. On the other hand, opening it takes a few seconds and requires little to no thought whatsoever.

So I just close them. In fact, having too many tabs open just makes it take longer to find the open tabs that I'm actually currently using.

[–] namingthingsiseasy 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Just use the same creative^W standard accounting practices that all other companies use. Take Google for example... we all know that they don't pay any taxes, because they don't earn any positive revenue. Right?

So I'd like to use the same approach. I would not be the one making $1000. That would be my, um, cousin, who just happens to live in Bermuda. HE is the one making all that money, not me! So I don't have to pay the $680, right?

(By the way, can I also stop paying taxes and be worth a trillion dollars now? No? Why not?!?!)

[–] namingthingsiseasy 11 points 11 months ago

They’ll lose a bunch of good workers, but they bought VMware for the customer base, not the workers.

Yeah, vmware has a pretty good stranglehold on companies using on-premises hardware.

My last job was like this. We had basically 2 sysadmins (now 1) that managed hundreds of servers for about 30+ research scientists. There was no way in hell that people were going to adopt kubernetes (nobody in the entire team had any expertise in containerization, let alone k8s), IaaS was too expensive for their meager budgets, and it's not like anyone is going to switch virtualization vendors.

So anyway, the writing is clearly on the wall for them. Pretty soon, you can be sure that the prices are going to get cranked waayyyy up. Current vmware customers will likely find themselves in a pretty unfortunate position soon.

Oh well. But this is what happens when you depend too much on commercial vendors.

[–] namingthingsiseasy 4 points 11 months ago

And another thing: we often complain about not having enough density, but having too much density in a small, single area can be a major problem too. So while this might be controversial (not to mention unrealistic), I really wish we could reduce the skyscrapers. They're just unnecessarily tall and concentrate far too much in too small of an area[1].

But if you walk around most major European cities like Amsterdam, The Hague, Munich, Milan, Copenhagen, Stockholm, etc. you don't see gigantic skylines or massive skyscrapers. You see endless roads with dense, multi-level housing (3-5 stories), and plenty of mixed-use space. It makes cities more spread out, but still dense enough to have a useful public transit system. More schools, more parks, more commercial space (and more diverse uses of commercial space too).

Oh well, I can dream...

[1]: While there are some residential buildings over 300m tall, most them are concentrated in supercities like New York, Dubai, Moscow, and various Chinese/other Asian cities and require much larger populations than you have in most other major cities in Canada/North America.

[–] namingthingsiseasy 2 points 11 months ago

Yes, but now they're applying some of that good old corporation-style innovation to it

[–] namingthingsiseasy 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Ive been waiting for this day ever since Apple announced that you wouldn't be able to install any software you want on your own piece of hardware. I'm glad that someone has finally started cracking down on this. Just wish it had happened 15 years earlier.

[–] namingthingsiseasy 10 points 11 months ago

I'm really happy to see point #2 being mentioned. From their inception, Youtube established a social contract of providing their videos free to users without ads. I don't think Google should just be allowed to unilaterally change the contract on behalf of all parties and force it on everyone. If they had a good reason to do so, perhaps I would humor it, but "because of shithead shareholders" does not pass that bar.

[–] namingthingsiseasy 2 points 11 months ago

GPUs are still pretty bad at handling conditional logic and are more optimized towards doing mathematical operations instead.

But you are right in the sense that people are exploring different kinds of hardware for workloads that are getting increasingly specific. We're not in a CPU vs GPU world anymore, but more like a "what kind of CPU do I need?" situation.

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