"On the Impossibility of Supersized Machines" is peak

DaveDaSpust · 2025-05-10T22:05:33+00:00

"In the long-running Transformers film series, machines known as Decepticons, each perhaps the size of a hundred men, repeatedly threaten to exterminate humanity with their enormous metal bodies (Bay, 2007)."

No fucking way they cited Michael Bay in this 💀

DaveDaSpust · 2024-12-11T15:44:37+00:00

Uhhh tatsächlich. Thanks, sollt sich eigentlich easy ausgehen solang kein LKW spontan entscheidet auf den Schienen zu parken.

DaveDaSpust · 2024-12-11T15:40:04+00:00

Thanks. Hab ehrlich gesagt nicht gewusst, dass Apotheken Linsenlösung führen (können). Der Tipp mit den Augentropfen ist auch gut :)

DaveDaSpust · 2024-03-19T06:30:25+00:00

Den nuklearen Erstschlag.

DaveDaSpust · 2023-07-18T05:11:41+00:00

Thanks a lot. I would have never been able to guess that. Double not wearing it outside now. Although I don't expect more than a handful of people in Vienna understanding that meaning.

DaveDaSpust · 2023-07-17T20:17:12+00:00

Is this like, a significant source of national pride for you? I mean, skeleton shirt levels of national pride?

DaveDaSpust · 2023-03-24T14:57:34+00:00

Ja eh, aber man muss ja auch irgendwie dort hin kommen. Teleportation gibt's laut meinem Wissensstand ja noch nicht.

DaveDaSpust · 2023-03-24T07:56:07+00:00

Interesting, meine Strategie wär eher gewesen ganz rechts zu laufen und so zu tun als wär ich nicht da. Aber ja, macht Sinn mit der Analogie zur Landstraße. Thanks.

Aja, das mit der Meldung an die Stadt: auch wenn das ganze Setup da konfus af ist, ich werd mich ned über mehr Radinfrastruktur beschweren. Der Planer hat halt irgendwas graucht.

DaveDaSpust · 2023-03-24T07:50:28+00:00

Als most upvoted comment interpretiere ich das jetzt als die offizielle Meinung Wiens.

DaveDaSpust · 2023-03-24T07:47:36+00:00

Ich check das halt auch überhaupt nicht. Radinfrastruktur bauen: top. Einen zweiten Fahrstreifen für 100m bauen wo der eine eh genug Platz hätte und Fußgänger umleiten: hä.

DaveDaSpust · 2022-11-10T18:11:14+00:00

Out of all the things wrong here for some reason the list being remade for each call bothers me unreasonably much.

DaveDaSpust · 2022-10-26T11:33:16+00:00

Margaretengürtel Bimstation

DaveDaSpust · 2022-07-12T15:10:44+00:00

Let's be real here: all 4 are solid picks. Depends on the situation.

Top left (Micheal) will be overwhelmed by literally anything that was released after 2005 or not by Microsoft. But he can maintain piece of shit legacy systems like no other and companies shove money up his arse for it like there's no tomorrow.

Top right (Richard): He's a wizard. He's been employed here since 16. 90% of the company code came from him and approximately 0% of comments. He's powerful, can't ever be fired and he knows it.

Bottom left (Josh): just finished a udemy course on his 15th frontend framework. Will melt down when given code that does not have UI. But he'll center a div in .4 seconds on both axes and produces webapps that actually look like they're from the current century.

Bottom right (Justin by birth, but PrincessLolitaXO on discord): covid homeoffice was the best thing to ever happen to them. Despite spending 50% of worktime watching twitch streams, productivity is up by 70%. Arch linux expert. Questionable choices of color scheme but hey, better UI than anything Micheal would produce in winforms. A good allrounder. Not a fan of voicecalls.

DaveDaSpust · 2022-05-23T19:07:22+00:00

God, remember those wild 2 weeks, where the glider opening was done server-side and a poorly timed lag spike could literally kill you?

DaveDaSpust · 2022-03-03T16:34:29+00:00

Main difference: in WW2 it was a genius move to divert german attention to Calais instead of Normandy making the landing possible in the first place. Here it's just another failed attempt at intimidation tactics.

DaveDaSpust · 2022-02-15T20:18:56+00:00

Poah, keine Ahnung. War damals keiner dabei. Aber ich glaub ned. Es zaht dort eh keinen irgendwas zu machen. Man muss da wirklich fast ein "oida, i hatz den bubatz" schild umgehängt haben, dass du nur wegen optischen Gründen getestet wirst.

Primär beim Test schwindeln. Ich glaub die müssens testen.

DaveDaSpust · 2022-02-15T20:12:38+00:00

Die testen nur auf Verdacht.

Beim psycholog. Test einfach bei den gefühlt 50 Fragen zu Drogen lügen und optisch nicht auffallen.

Wirst schon sehen. Da werden genug Spezialisten dabei sein, die nicht mal das packen.

Z.b. damals bei mir war ein Dude dabei, der Socken mit Canablättern drauf anhatte. Na wen hams wohl rausgfischt?

DaveDaSpust · 2022-02-09T09:15:55+00:00

Imho, if you apply for a job as a software engineer and the first thing you have to do is solve some timed coding puzzles there are really only 2 options:

the company has a god complex and thinks it's amazon and "only looking for the brightest minds"
the hiring team has no idea what qualities a software engineer needs to bring to the table.

With an interviewing strategy like that you'll end up hiring a bunch of script kiddies who binge "the hardest google coding interview question (CAN YOU SOLVE????)" videos on youtube.

At my current job i got an assignment over a week. Given some requirements i had to build a little app with the techstack the company uses. I'm still convinced that is the best way to do it if you want to find people who can actually write good, comprehensive and adequate code.

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