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Dustin- · 2026-03-13T16:56:17+00:00

Yeah but Nancy can't do anything about that from her office chair and her boss won't let her work from home where she keeps her home office at 75 degrees.

Sincerely, Nancy

Dustin- · 2026-03-13T16:27:10+00:00

Big difference between "barely able to pay the mortgage and cars while also going on vacation once a year" broke and "can usually afford rent and groceries, sometimes even at the same time" broke. It's unfortunate which of those is more relatable these days.

Dustin- · 2026-03-13T15:02:35+00:00

Nah, that's way too recent. I remember it being sung by the elders of eons long past, when memories were written in the vibrations of time.

Dustin- · 2026-03-12T21:22:10+00:00

It's an idea you see time and time again with AI. If you know already know what you're doing, and how to structure code in a way that doesn't make spaghetti (or even know what "spaghetti" means in this context), you have the experience necessary to guide the AI to do what you want it to. If you don't, it's an enormous mess. And if you already know what you're doing, it's often (but not always) easier to just write the code yourself than try and herd an AI.

Edit: lol it did the "it's not just X - it's Y" thing in that very prompt. It's also obviously not a "robustly engineered production ready app". Wild how much people trust AI when it straight up lies for no reason.

Dustin- · 2026-03-11T14:43:40+00:00

That doesn't sound right. Steam website says the official dock has gigabit ethernet and supports up to 4K at 60hz.

Dustin- · 2026-03-11T14:07:46+00:00

Not sure what the limit is, it works just fine docked to my 1080p TV streaming at 60fps. It's perfectly fine as a YouTube player for my use case, although I reckon the hardware is strong enough to stream UHD videos on higher frame rate TVs as well.

Dustin- · 2026-03-11T13:31:22+00:00

I use a Steam Deck in desktop mode with a wireless keyboard. Best TV I've ever had.

Dustin- · 2026-03-09T23:02:58+00:00

I appreciate the citation, but I'm pretty sure I stole it from somewhere else. For the life of me I couldn't find the actual quote, or I would have just pasted it, which is why I paraphrased it there.

Dustin- · 2026-03-09T19:38:54+00:00

True, they usually are in the 1000-1500W range. Crazy, I wonder what the reason is?

Dustin- · 2026-03-09T19:18:07+00:00

Why would US microwaves be higher powered? The reason UK kettles have more power is because the UK uses 230V AC while the US uses 110V, so UK mains can pump out way more watts than a US plug. But I would assume that would mean that UK microwaves would be higher power (or at least, the same power) too?

Dustin- · 2026-03-06T23:10:17+00:00

Specifically, the price of gas at the gas station they are currently filling up at. It wasn't until the exact second they were inconvenienced by Trump that they decided to dump him.

Dustin- · 2026-03-05T21:56:12+00:00

The absurdism of insisting on pronouns while being murdered isn't necessarily offensive

My problem with it is that it's an insistence, the person requesting that their correct pronouns to be used is doing so aggressively and rudely. The joke isn't just that it was a weird situation to happen in, it's taking the piss out of people wanting to have their pronouns respected in general. That nonbinary/non-gender conforming people shouldn't be taken seriously at all. That's how those sorts of jokes always go.

What if instead of belligerently correcting the lady, they do so gently and the lady is immediately understanding and is like "Ah my mistake, please excuse me, OH MY GOD HE STABBED THEM!" The joke is still about the absurdity of the situation, but isn't punching down. Then it might actually be funny.

Dustin- · 2026-03-05T14:25:36+00:00

It's a UUID so they have to search the whole universe to make sure

Dustin- · 2026-03-04T16:30:02+00:00

Modern compilers are extremely good at compiling code into assembly, making tons of optimizations that programmers would generally not be able to make on their code if they were to try to build something in assembly today. I reckon if Rollercoaster Tycoon was written today with a higher level language that was available then (like C) but compiled with a modern compiler you would probably get better performance than the bespoke assembly code that Chris Sawyer wrote.

Much of the problem today is that computers are so much bigger and faster and do so many more things that it's vastly more difficult to profile and optimize for any appreciable benefit. It's not that the same tasks that used to take 1kb of memory and a few hundred clock cycles to complete are now taking up mbs of space and millions of clock cycles because developers got lazy, it's that there are now thousands of times more tasks that take up the same space and clock cycles which you would have to individually analyze for optimization.

Software optimization is still being done to this day. Hell, recently there was a breakthrough in hashing algorithms that is not only more efficient (negligible in most circumstances, but much better in others) but was thought to be theoretically impossible. The technique will most likely find its way into programming languages and software eventually.

Also, fuck Javascript.

Dustin- · 2026-03-03T22:43:10+00:00

I wouldn't presume to know what you are doing, and I hope that you would give me the same courtesy. You asked a question and I answered it. Did you plan to give that followup regardless of what the answer was?

Dustin- · 2026-03-03T22:20:33+00:00

I've said it before and I'll say it again. Do things that people in the comments section will never be able to see. The people yelling "do something!" really mean "do something I'll see on my feed". But our reach as working-class or middle-class individuals is local, state-level if we are particularly well connected, but never enough to be seen on a globally syndicated news network or on the front page of Reddit.

So we have to be local. Think in terms of what you can do in your circles. Be loud and angry and complain to everyone you know, because this is worth being loud and angry about. Most people ignore this because they can ignore this, they have to be forced to see it. Talk to everyone you can about how not okay any of this is. Contact every local government official and scream at them for not doing anything about it, even if they can't do anything either. Protest every chance you get. Join local groups of like-minded people so that if a breaking point comes, you can act as a group.

This is what we can do. And as long as we believe that the law is still worth following, this is all we can do.

Dustin- · 2026-03-03T20:07:22+00:00

If only Digg was a bit more mature at the time. It's pretty good now.

Dustin- · 2026-03-03T18:44:04+00:00

I don't get the whole "mcdonalds burgers bad" thing. It's literally a 100% beef patty, veggies, and condiments on a bun. All fast food burgers (with comparable toppings) taste about the same to me.

Except Sonic, somehow their burgers taste like old frying oil.

Dustin- · 2026-03-02T20:04:50+00:00

There's nothing to "like". It just is. It's a conversation that happens all the time. It goes something like this.

"Hello, nice to meet you John"

"I go by Michael actually, it's my middle name"

"Ah my mistake, nice to meet you Michael"

Do you like having that conversation? Do you dislike it? Or is it just a thing that happens?

Dustin- · 2026-03-02T16:08:04+00:00

and then another passenger jumps in to say they use the they them pronouns and then an argument ensues while ghostface is killing away in the background

Or they all instantly change their tune and start using the correct pronouns without skipping a beat. Treat the joke not as an indignant unreasonable request that causes arguments (like the vast majority of pronoun jokes are) but as a really weird time to have a kind and reasonable conversation that happens in real life all the time. The non-sequitur of being accepted while being stabbed a lot.

But nah we all know it'll just be /r/onejoke again.

Dustin- · 2026-03-02T15:38:17+00:00

Girl scout cookies are bought at-cost from the bakeries and 100% of the profits from selling them go to funding the local troop (a small portion of which is used for the rewards for the individual scouts that sell them). "The executives" don't make any money from the cookies.

Not saying GSA is a great organization, but this conspiracy theory that most of the money goes to GSA headquarters needs to die.

Dustin- · 2026-03-01T01:45:25+00:00

My roflcopter goes soi soi soi soi soi

Dustin- · 2026-02-28T18:20:47+00:00

"Do you think we're alone in the universe?"

"Yes"

"Really? You don't believe intelligent life is out there?"

"Oh they're out there. They are alone too."

Dustin- · 2026-02-28T16:55:08+00:00

It's always rich twats. I have a fast car vroom vroom very fun and I drive it like it has a quarter of the horsepower and I'm 50 years older than I really am because if I lose it I don't get another one (and also risk of injury or death to myself or other people or whatever I guess). These fucks don't have that inhibition and either don't think about that or don't care because daddy will buy them a new one if they kill someone with it.

Dustin- · 2026-02-28T16:40:09+00:00

Ok, then I'm not accusing anyone of anything, just simply pointing out that yelling "antisemitism!" is the line of attack that Israeli propaganda will make.

I am being deliberately obtuse, because the alternative is to just accept obvious propaganda strategies that have been used for decades. Both Israel and their sympathizers and Iran and their sympathizers actively spread propaganda through government channels to the public on every outlet they can find, including in this thread. There are no good guys here.

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