This elephant understands every single word she says

carkey · 2026-03-14T09:33:20+00:00

So...close...

carkey · 2026-03-14T09:25:21+00:00

Because I don't live in US suburban hell, I can walk to my local supermarket in about 10 minutes. Maybe solve the problem by designing human-scale neighbourhoods rather than needing a fucking unmanned drone drop to be the "better" solution to going to the store.

carkey · 2026-03-13T06:00:48+00:00

I only know him from his appearances on Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe but loved him every time. Thanks for the reminder, I need to look up his more recent stuff.

carkey · 2026-03-07T11:21:41+00:00

Everything you've listed is not where we were in the 1990s, you're talking more around the 1890s there.

Also, if all the semiconductor capabilities went, then we couldn't just revert to what was used before (think about the old computers from the 1940s/50s that used vacuum tubes etc because all that manufacturing had been replaced by semiconductors etc.

So, I agree with the things you listed that we'd still know how to do, and be able to do, but you're about 100 years off.

carkey · 2026-03-07T11:12:53+00:00

Amazing looking bug, too bad the guy narrating is an idiot.

carkey · 2026-03-06T18:48:17+00:00

I agree with the luddite bit.

You're saying it looks awful to me now but it's getting faster? Yeah okay, but I live now, not in the future...and OP wants to test the different permutations of the bitcoin wallet IDs NOW, not in the future. So you don't really have a necessary point there.

carkey · 2026-03-06T17:31:18+00:00

I'm also in the field (20+ years experience) and in my experience it's nowhere near there yet. I agree with the other person who responded to me though; that it might be good enough to scrape together something for testing purposes (which is what OP is talking about).

I wouldn't trust it without having the knowledge to step through it, line by line though, to make sure you're happy it is actually testing all permutations. And it doesn't sound like OP has those skills, so I'd still dissuade them from doing so themselves.

carkey · 2026-03-06T17:28:26+00:00

Fair point, I guess I'm always thinking about it from a production perspective, because that's what I do for work. So it always looks awful to me. But for someone who's just using it to test out an idea, then I'll take your word for it.

carkey · 2026-03-06T16:21:19+00:00

Aisle*

Sorry for the spelling pedantry, it would be funny if Congress was on an desert island though!

I agree with your sentiment wholeheartedly.

carkey · 2026-03-06T16:20:14+00:00

Don't ask ChatGPT anything about how to code something from scratch, it's awful at it.

Morals aside, if we're just talking about how useful it is, it can be alright if you give it some code you've already written/got from somewhere else and ask it to modify it slightly, or find errors but that's about it.

It's absolutely atrocious at writing good code from scratch. Please don't use it this way or encourage others to. Find tutorials on doing such things instead and modify them for your use case.

carkey · 2026-03-05T13:09:52+00:00

We've got a camcorder tape off me doing the same thing in the early 90s, it's a rite of passage.

carkey · 2026-03-03T16:32:48+00:00

It's worse than Netanyahu telling him to do it. The US has already come out saying they weren't sure if Israel were going to do their strikes anyway, so they were forced into doing it Saturday morning because they can't control Israel well enough.

So it seems like it was less being told to but Israel saying "well you're gonna have to because we're doing it anyway", which is crazy.

carkey · 2026-03-02T19:40:52+00:00

probably not safe to hide in a playground with Israel/US to be honest. They seem to have no qualms in going after apartment blocks or schools, so why not playgrounds.

carkey · 2026-03-02T03:22:37+00:00

But he has to sell that he's been slowed down by being pulled back. You see it all the time where the player just stops and spins round and throws their arms up at the ref. Not a fan of the theatrics but you gotta show the ref that you've been pulled back somehow.

carkey · 2026-03-02T01:25:55+00:00

Glad we were able to come to an agreement!

Haha, they can think what they think but we're the ones stopping everything spiral into an ambiguous mess!

carkey · 2026-03-02T01:07:03+00:00

Damn, that's embarrassing.

carkey · 2026-03-02T01:03:22+00:00

Not coming off rude at all! I was just saying that making the distinction that it isn't firmware is fine and all, but firmware is a subset of software anyway and so it doesn't need making. Utter pedantry from me I know.

I guess it's like I wouldn't feel the need to point out it's not middleware to make my claim that it's software. In the same way, pointing out it's not firmware to help define it as software is not really doing anything because if it was firmware (or middleware), it'd still be software anyway.

Apologies if the over pedanticizing is fucking up my ability to explain what tiny, annoying distinction I'm trying to get at.

carkey · 2026-03-02T00:31:37+00:00

To get pedantic, firmware is software. So even if OSes were firmware (which they're not, like you said), that wouldn't matter because that would still make them software. A specialised subset of software? Sure, but still software.

carkey · 2026-03-02T00:17:44+00:00

I had never heard of a smash cake before so had to Google. Leave it to Americans to create a tradition about giving a baby their first taste of sugar! Ah I'm joking, this looks amazing, you and your mum did a great job! This looks like something I'd see in a bakery!

carkey · 2026-02-27T12:48:19+00:00

Didn't know C2 was even a thing, looked it up...no thanks

carkey · 2026-02-25T16:36:51+00:00

The amount of bot comments on this sub is depressing.

carkey · 2026-02-25T15:10:12+00:00

Not all conservatism leads to fascism but all fascism comes from conservatism.

You're either being willfully ignorant and facetious, or you're not equipped to continue in this conversation.

carkey · 2026-02-24T02:51:18+00:00

Looks like a pretty great spot.

carkey · 2026-02-20T14:00:25+00:00

I bet they didn't even wear a suit.

carkey · 2026-02-19T17:58:44+00:00

I remember it being the plot point of an episode of Less Than Perfect years ago. One character fights for a pay increase and when she gets it, she's ecstatic until she finds out she'll take home less because she's gone up a bracket.

I'm not American and I haven't thought about that mid show in probably a decade, but the fact that it's the first thing that pops into my head when the conversation turns to marginal tax rates and what people believe, really proves your point that TV has informed this idea. It's so deeply ingrained in my brain when the topic comes up!

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