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chadgeidel

@chadgeidel@mastodon.cloud

Software developer (Not an engineer, but I try to behave as one) @ Net Health, gravel cyclist, mediocre sim racer

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foone, to random
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You know that thing in scifi where you see the ship at FTL and there's stars streaking past, despite the fact that the speeds required to make that happen would require you moving at speeds capable of crossing the galaxy in minutes?

I found a worse version of that: I saw a letsplay on the "realistic minecraft" modpack, and the stars had visible parallax from the player walking across their island

chadgeidel,
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@foone At the risk of becoming a 'reply guy' - hasn't the stars streaking past phenomenon been retconned as a pretty display for the folks looking out the windows and not what actual warp looks like?

ItsTrainingCatsAndDogs, to random

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    chadgeidel,
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    @ItsTrainingCatsAndDogs This should be illegal but it's not because the US is the country of "choice"

    Where the "choice" is usually Hobson's : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobson%27s_choice

    lauren, to random
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    I just love it when people say "just fix the way people behave" or "just fix the way cities are designed" or "just force everyone to drive electric cars." But these same people rarely have a plan for raising the enormous funds necessarily to do any of this, or a plan for what to do when voters vote out the politicians raising their taxes for such projects. But hey, it's social media.

    chadgeidel,
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    @lauren @PeterLudemann

    If only we could find some way of weaponizing our current Clear and Present Danger climate emergency to allocate that kind of money… 😭🤦🏻

    jeffowski, to random
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    chadgeidel,
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    @jeffowski

    For folks who actually do this and have iPhones - take a look at the Magnifier. It's built in and you can add it to the control center.

    https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT209517

    GovTrack, to random
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    SWAT Act from Rep. Michael Lawler (R-NY17) would increase maximum penalty for calling in a false bomb or active shooter threat to a school: 20 years prison. https://govtrackinsider.com/swat-act-would-increase-maximum-penalty-for-calling-in-a-false-bomb-or-active-shooter-threat-to-a-07fd2417f70e

    chadgeidel,
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    @GovTrack Or, here's an idea.

    Make cops accountable for shooting people without checking their sources.

    jsq, to random
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    chadgeidel,
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    @jsq (and others) It's called the Redragon K605 Alien and you can pick it up for $150

    Here's a review :D https://youtu.be/6c44BkxUj5g

    b0rk, to random
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    today I'm thinking about the tradeoffs of using git rebase a bit. I think the goal of rebase is to have a nice linear commit history, which is something I like.

    but what are the costs of using rebase? what problems has it caused for you in practice? I'm really only interested in specific bad experiences you've had here -- not opinions or general statements like “rewriting history is bad”

    chadgeidel, (edited )
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    @nf3xn I'm sorry I disagree. I use rebase on my branches. Why would that impact any other developer?

    If one is rebasing on a shared branch, that seems like a team decision.

    The tool is there, why disable it?

    chadgeidel,
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    @b0rk I am so very sorry. I will be more observant who I am including in the future.

    cstross, to random
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    REMINDER: ChatGPT, Stable Diffusion, and other large trained neural models are NOT "artificial intelligence", they're just stochastic parrots, remixing and regurgitating what they've been fed. There's no theory-of-mind involved, so no understanding: there's no "there" there. (A real live parrot exhibits more intelligence than this.)

    Don't call it AI; call it parrot-tech. That way you'll have a better perspective on what it can (and can't) do.

    chadgeidel,
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    @cstross the part about this that really grinds my gears is technologists "parroting" that these LLMS are "getting even smarter" and treating them like there is some internal understanding of the words they spit out.

    Do better tech people!

    georgetakei, to random

    The adult children of Donald Trump begin to appear on the stand this week in the New York civil fraud trial. Eric will once more prove how absolutely brilliant he is, and Don Jr. will show the world that he is just a chill, cool guy. Ivanka is set for next week, but she keeps hoping an asteroid hits first.

    chadgeidel,
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    @georgetakei Wow, one time that I agree with Ivanka!

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    chadgeidel,
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    @cpoliticditto I'm told that a number of men feel they could land an airliner so I think we will all be safe.

    😂😭

    rodhilton, to random
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    You know what I can guarantee Thor 5 won't be about?

    It won't be about Thor and Valkyrie leaving Earth with the Asgardians in search of a new home planet because the president of the U.S. declared all aliens enemies of Earth that would be killed.

    And it won't be about that, even though that is indeed how Secret Invasion ended and that's the story that would follow.

    Because that show's viewership was low, this will be completely ignored and never referenced again.

    https://twitter.com/ThorUpdate/status/1717526499341787309

    chadgeidel,
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    @rodhilton maybe they will retcon the whole thing and bring back Commander Hill.

    fox, to random
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    chadgeidel,
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    @fox "remote employees don't work as hard" Says someone who literally doesn't work at all.

    HeavenlyPossum, to random

    US Liberals are very frustrated: the economy is objectively great under Joe Biden, but peoples’ subjective experience of the economy is bad. Why is there such a gap?

    The lines went up! Why are the rubes still not happy?

    It must be, some of them conclude, that people have been tricked by conservative media:

    https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2023/10/why-is-there-such-a-big-gap-between-the-objective-state-of-the-economy-and-public-perception

    chadgeidel,
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    @HeavenlyPossum Anecdote obviously.

    I'm making significantly more than the median US wage (multiples even) and I work in a high-demand industry, so I am an outlier. While I have no problems with housing, transportation, or food - I'm shocked at the number of folks who do have challenges with these things.

    It's absolutely absurd to me that we cannot provide well-paying jobs for every single person who wants one. I have friends who are drowning in debt with little hope to get out.

    grmpyprogrammer, to random
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    I know this is not a new theory, but too many programmers are not on projects long enough to see how their bullshit opinions on code quality, testing, and architecture causes problems going forward.

    chadgeidel,
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    @grmpyprogrammer Personal rant:

    This is due to "management" thinking that software development is like an assembly line and each individual is replaceable. If anyone can be replaced, then we don't need to promote anyone, so talent leaves. It's well known that - as a developer - you can boost your income much quicker if you move around every 2 years.

    I hope that one day this industry will realize that computing and software isn't going to be mechanized, because it cannot be mechanized. 1/2

    RickiTarr, to random
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    I want to talk about The Matrix, I'm gonna ask one question, but feel free to add your own discussion points, if you'd like to!

    Would you want to stay in the Matrix, like Cypher (you want the steak) or would you be out fighting bots or at least hanging out in Zion, or some third option?

    chadgeidel,
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    @RickiTarr I'll take "boring corporate job in the late 1990's" because I am a small human being.

    But I'm aware that I am a small human being.

    chadgeidel,
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    @RickiTarr I like boring when it comes to work! I'll leave the excitement for my personal life. :)

    fasterthanlime, to random
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    Ok I guess my next article is called "Just paying figma $15/month because nothing else fucking works", jeeze

    chadgeidel,
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    @fasterthanlime From the wonderful A Softer World comic:

    https://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=517

    Skepticat, to random
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    Someday, I'm going to need one of these. 😸

    chadgeidel,
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    @Skepticat Let's forget the cat for one second.

    What eldritch horror is on the sweet old ladies' sweater?

    mekkaokereke, to random
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    🤔I have friends that absolutely hate Venture Capital. Hate the very concept. They believe that VC ruins everything, and that the setup is evil, and prioritizes hyper growth above everything. Some of these friends will drive over to my house just to sit me down and yell at me in unhinged rants about how evil VC is, scaring my kids.

    If I think of the most unhinged, hyperbolic, doom and gloom rants about VC that I've ever heard? None of them paint VCs in worse light than Marc's manifesto.

    chadgeidel,
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    @mekkaokereke It seems that who is providing the capital is the distinguishing factor.

    But I'm repeating the obvious. :)

    lcamtuf, (edited ) to random

    You know, I really dislike ad blockers from the security perspective. They need exceptionally broad permissions that make the extension a juicy target for attacks. Pop one of the maintainers' Google or Github accounts and own hundreds of millions of people overnight - their email, bank accounts, social media identities, and all that.

    The consequences of simple coding errors are similarly disastrous - and I bet that there are some good UXSS bugs lurking in all that JavaScript.

    For these reasons, I resisted ad blockers for 20+ years, and I endured countless cookie prompts, subscription interstitials, "sponsored results", and unskippable ads. But around 2020, the anti-user patterns on the web have gotten unbearable. And I say this as a person who grew up in the era of auto-playing Flash-based pop-under ads.

    I'm not a security absolutist. It's all about trade-offs: the convenience of using a modern web browser, for example, generally outweighs the risks of living with its massive attack surface. But in the case of ad blockers, you gotta take a hit just to continue to browse in peace. It blows.

    chadgeidel,
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    @lcamtuf I have not reviewed the code, but I generally trust the EFF and have used their plugin as my adblocker.

    In my case Privacy Badger combined with modern browser tech is an acceptable trade-off.

    eniko, to random
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    The subscription economy does suck. This is why I've continued to refuse to rent the software and apps I use

    chadgeidel,
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    @eniko I'm a software developer and I'm fully in favor of this idea.

    As long as you don't expect security updates, updates for new OSes, updates for features, etc.

    Do you realize that all these things take time and money? Are you willing to pay an up-front cost for these things? For how long?

    Vanishingly few folks are.

    grmpyprogrammer, to random
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    First weekly standup with the Office Interns

    chadgeidel,
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    @grmpyprogrammer NGL - this is an excellent metric. Standups should last as long as a kitten's attention span. :D

    evacide, to random
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    I thought I had an ok setup for recording video, BUT NO. It turns out that I have a webcam that no longer works with the version of OSX on my Mac and a microphone that doesn't work with my iPhone and this turned out to merely be the beginning of my problems. I am the worst at video.

    chadgeidel,
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    @evacide Can't you use your iPhone as a webcam for macOS now? I seem to remember that's a thing you can do now.

    https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213244

    lauren, to random
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    Please note that the Emergency Alert System test that will be taking place in just a few minutes nationwide is NOT for the purpose of triggering government or alien implants in our bodies. You may rest assured that those can only be triggered through much more sophisticated means.

    chadgeidel,
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    @lauren Aww. And here I was thinking I could get the afternoon off work.

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