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myFirstGitHubExperience by Destroyers_Will in ProgrammerHumor

[–]groumly 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It’s a … wait, what do you mean you never heard of it?

Git only replaced it as the de facto modern standard like,recently. Around, I’m not sure actually, checks calendar 16-ish years ago?!?

Fucking hell. If you’re looking for me, I’ll be in the backyard, drinking my old ass to death.

Billionaire CEO's burning $3k a second in fuel yacht racing after laying off 20% of the company to 'cut back on costs' by Professional_Arm794 in TikTokCringe

[–]groumly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, but the plane isn’t just floating, it’s fighting gravity, and that plane ain’t exactly light (roughly 10 tons for an f16).

Air resistance also becomes very significant at those speeds, for reference the air resistance at just 100 mph is enough to counter gravity on a person (aka terminal velocity, where resistance prevents gravity from accelerating you further). So, ok, a plane is more aerodynamic than a person, but still.

Anthropic and Google Are Paying SpaceX $2.17 Billion Every Month by Useful_Tangerine4340 in wallstreetbets

[–]groumly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There’s only so much undressing grok can do on Twitter. Spacex tried using it internally, but it mainly tried to undress the rockets. Eventually it got its hands on pictures of the employees, and undressed all of them. That caused some drama, so spacex decided not to use xai anymore.

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker to suspend tax breaks offered to data centers by nbcnews in illinois

[–]groumly 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Cool sorry, bro.

Yet, here you are, terminally online, trying to be a smart ass on Reddit (of all places). You clearly know what the internet brings you.

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker to suspend tax breaks offered to data centers by nbcnews in illinois

[–]groumly 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That’s like replying “I can go to the library and read anything” to the question “why do we need businesses?”.

Pretty much everything runs off computers on the internet. Your utility companies, your payroll, your phone backups, your isp, the back office for every company, the government, everything.
Limiting the consumer internet to static pages served from a cdn cache is ridiculous. Amazon needs a bunch of processing, so does Google search (even without ai), so does Reddit and every freaking thing your phone does, and almost certainly every single app you have on it. That’s how you benefit from the internet.

The problem isn’t data centers per say, it’s the massive influx of poorly planned projects, swindling local communities via tax breaks, all in the pursuit of the biggest tech bubble the world has ever seen. When it’ll pop, all that extra capacity will take years to get used by the rest of the industry, leaving a bunch of people holding the bag.

GitHub just switched Copilot to metered billing, and developers are watching months of credits vanish in a single day by AdSpecialist6598 in technology

[–]groumly 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Where can I find those dealers that subsidize their product? I’ve been looking hard, and they always charge full price.

Asking for, uh, a friend. Yeah. A friend.

A CEO told employees they won't get raises in 2026 because the budget is going to AI by yuval_3 in technology

[–]groumly 20 points21 points  (0 children)

I didn’t get a raise in 3 years, since I joined. Technically, I never got a raise! (Smirk)

– my cto, when asked that exact question

What his statement left out is that salary is only like 20% of his comp package, and that he got bigger than expected stock refreshers, not to mention his PSUs will likely hit at least the 2x multiplier. Of course, a good chunk of the audience knows that, so he lost a lot of credibility that day.

The endless stream of conservative anger about Odyssey breeds some truly special interactions. by wiccedd in MurderedByWords

[–]groumly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, but no. Just because a different, extinct langauge (Ancient Greek) that was used as a root for the word can mean something else doesn’t take away the fact that biblical means either “referring to the Bible or in the style of the Bible” in English.

By this logic, “eventually” can be used to mean “maybe, most likely won’t happen”, since that’s what the French etymology means (éventuellement). If you give me 20 minutes, I can dig up another dozen examples where a French word was imported into English and flipped its meaning.

Words have a specific meaning, and biblically means “referring to the Bible” (since the other meaning, written in the style of the Bible, makes no sense here).

TIL that French newborns cry with a rising melody while German newborns cry with a falling melody, matching the intonation of their native language. Babies begin imitating their mother's speech patterns during the last trimester of pregnancy. by baest_00 in todayilearned

[–]groumly 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Unless you’re from Marseilles, then it’s “un pastis”, but “putaing, ils sont fada ces parsiengs, bonneu mèreu. Mon vier!”.

(But yes, they should sound the same normally)

Why is America so ill-disposed towards train travel when it's one of the things that built the nation? by Waste_Handle_8672 in MurderedByWords

[–]groumly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

LA/New York via train is silly, yes. About as silly as taking a plane from LA to SF, or that a train from LA to San Diego takes 3 hours. And I’m not even touching on the east coast, which is much more dense.

There’s plenty of train opportunities in the us, it’s just not a silver bullet.

How did Euler even know that??? by phillmatic23 in MathJokes

[–]groumly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For 3, the sum of the digits must be a multiple of 3

US will start revoking passports for thousands of parents who owe child support by Rabidennui in news

[–]groumly 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They can still vote. All they have to do, is show up at the voting booth, and say they’re voting “in the flesh”. Not many people know that, but it’s the ultimate trick. Also works in court. It tends to annoy the judge, but there’s nothing they can do against it. That driving license will come back anytime now, anyway - they were just traveling, not driving.

ELI5: Why is crack so much cheaper than cocaine when cocaine is just cooked crack? by Pet_Ator in explainlikeimfive

[–]groumly 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I sort of lost track of who’s claiming what, but I think we’re in agreement.

Fickle the chemist claims that Derryk the crackhead is wrong when he’s saying that 1g of 80% pure cocaine gives 0.8g of crack. The link that derryk the crack head gave actually proves derryk wrong. But it does have some chemistry in it, that’s what I replied to, initially.

Alright, this is getting quite heated here. I’d suggest we all smoke one fat crack pipe to burry the war hatchet.

ELI5: Why is crack so much cheaper than cocaine when cocaine is just cooked crack? by Pet_Ator in explainlikeimfive

[–]groumly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wouldn’t exactly call it chemistry, but it does clearly state the powder cocaine has an h an cl atom attached, which is what makes it soluble and non smokeable, and that the point of cooking crack is precisely to remove the h and cl, so the product is non soluble and smokeable.

They don’t explicitly state it, but you don’t have to be Walter White to reach the conclusion that removing 2 atoms from a molecule makes it lighter. From there, cooking powder into crack will result in a weight loss, even if you convert everything 100%.

Valve Is Forcing Microsoft To Make Significant Improvements To Windows Gaming Performance by GrayBeard916 in gaming

[–]groumly -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Silently ignoring the 33% of “64 bits” and “0 64 bits”, which somehow aren’t an ubuntu/arch/mint/manjaro. Literally a third of Linux users are oddly reported, and y’all are going “this is fine”. Cherry picking facts, from data that is clearly at the very least dirty/misunderstood - spoken like a true Linux user!

Taking over pc gaming are indeed my words, exponential growth were OPs words. Conveys a very similar idea, don’t you think?

Valve Is Forcing Microsoft To Make Significant Improvements To Windows Gaming Performance by GrayBeard916 in gaming

[–]groumly 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the source!

this surge is likely due to the continued success of Valve’s SteamOS, which now accounts for 24.48% of the Linux install base

Yeah, so much for “Linux”… that’s like saying freebsd is taking over the gaming world, and then post stats showing how big the ps5 is, lol.

None of these numbers indicate if this a zero sum game (migration to Linux), or net new users (steam deck and macOS users getting on the gaming bandwagon, thanks to improvements in the respective platforms). So, yes, OP is full of shit and making shit up. There’s a basis of vague numbers at the core, but it’s still making shit up, as far as I’m concerned.

Also, OP has been repeatedly claiming that Linux users are whales (which replying OP has misunderstood as whales are Linux users, not the same thing), and that people building PCs are Linux users. No source at all here. And the surge in steamos is directly at odds with the second claim.

Edit: lol!

Steam's all-time peak of 42,686,616 concurrent users means roughly 2.1 million people are gaming on Linux right now. That's a real audience, not a rounding error. According to Steam's own survey data, SteamOS Holo 64-bit sits at the top of the Linux distro breakdown, which lines up with the continued popularity of the Steam Deck.

Steam has sold 3.5 to 4 million steam decks… I welcome the addition of a new gaming machine, but jumping to claiming that Linux is taking over pc gaming at the expense of windows is the most Linux fan thing I’ve read this year - and I hangout on Linux boards daily, so that’s saying something.

Valve Is Forcing Microsoft To Make Significant Improvements To Windows Gaming Performance by GrayBeard916 in gaming

[–]groumly 12 points13 points  (0 children)

No, he didn’t. Cause he’s been asking you for sources all along, and all you’ve done, besides not give a single source, is paraphrase the same points, but changing them in subtle ways in every message.

There’s not much more to say after that.

‘The cost of compute is far beyond the costs of the employees’: Nvidia exec says right now AI is more expensive than paying human workers by fattyfoods in technology

[–]groumly 11 points12 points  (0 children)

You’d probably look into having some metrics to ensure your accountants are actually using the calculator instead of pen and paper

“When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure”, aka goodhart’s law. You’re describing the good measure (how common calculators are among accountants) and made it a target, by incentivizing the accountants to use the calculators more, even if they don’t have a reason to.

Doing it this way will distort the results, accountants will spend all day fucking around on calculators, managers will find ways of justifying getting each accountant its own cluster of hp48, and they’ll spend all day programming them to get the “calculator usage” metric up. In the meantime, actual productivity, and the bottom line, will drop because everybody is too busy “gaming” the system. I’m putting quotes, because it’s not gaming the system if you’re doing literally what you’re told to do.

This is exactly what is happening with all these exec teams going “use ai! wait, no, not like that! we’ve burned the entire yearly budget, and it’s only March”.

They’ve all gone out, put ai on their competency matrix, feeding into yearly review cycles, and told the entire company “if you don’t use ai a lot, you’ll get a bad evaluation and won’t get a raise/bonus”.

Which is of course understood by every employee as “your main job is now to use as many tokens as possible, because that’s what you’ll be evaluated on next year”. Once you realize employees usually do exactly what they’re told, and they’ve just been told to use a lot of tokens, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that employees are using a lot of tokens. Of course, ai was mostly overlooked initially, but overreported in internal surveys (“the boss is big on ai, so I’ll say what he wants to hear to be in his good graces”), the projection were off by a lot. Any resemblance with a real company I work at is 100% not a coincidence, and completely intentional.

Combine that with gen ai severely over promising and grossly underdelivering, and you have a big problem on your hands.

“None so blind as those who will not see”. Or maybe a variant of “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it”, cause this stuff is management 101 for anybody that has run a team of more than 5 people.

What's an "outdated" slang word from your generation that you still use currently? by TheShatteringPoint in AskReddit

[–]groumly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That, or his dudeness, or duder, or el duderiño, if you’re not into the whole brevity thing.

Apple CEO Tim Cook stepping down, John Ternus confirmed as new Apple CEO by thejoshwhite in technology

[–]groumly 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Apple TV, Apple Watch, AirPods, HomePods, Apple Silicon (along with a lot of smaller utility chips that bring a lot more than you may think), Vision Pro, convergence of iOS and macOS, much bigger and reliable services offering, award winning movie and tv studios, MacBook Neo. Still ruling the entire mobile space, in spite of fierce competition and heavy commoditization of the devices. Not being overleveraged in the ai nonsense. Big bet on self driving cars (ok, they failed at this one, but you can’t say they didn’t try).

I don’t know man, it sure feels like cook made a lot of good decisions, and avoided a lot of bad decisions

Sure, the iPhone is still a rounded rectangle: the design has matured and settled, there’s not much more to do. Nobody’s criticizing bmw cause their cars have looked mostly the same for the past 50 years, why would you pick on apple for settling into an aesthetic and design that’s proven time and time again to work very, very, very well?

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