Germany has Spaghetti ice cream, but that’s at least real ice cream just made to look like spaghetti.
Germany has Spaghetti ice cream, but that’s at least real ice cream just made to look like spaghetti.
The best argument against Rand is just listening to her for 5min.
Very rarely do you see such a mixture of arrogance, self-righteousness and utter lack of logic in a single person.
What’s really baffling to me is how completely irrelevant most ads are to me.
And I’m not saying “ads don’t work for me”, I get ads for products that I will never buy. I’m a man and YouTube recommends me tampons, lipstick and perfume. I also won’t buy a car anytime soon, yet I get tons of ads for cars.
Even in the mindset of an ad person, that can’t make sense. Sure, there is the off chance that I’ll buy lipstick for my girlfriend, but how likely is that and how much revenue will materialize from bombarding thousands of men with ads? That cannot be economically viable.
The actually infuriating part is, that we’re still paying for it. And the vendors as well. Only Google profits. If a company spends more on ads than necessary, their products will get more expensive, and those who buy their products will have to pay for it. So essentially I’m paying money for being advertised to, so Google can rake in billions.
Had to work with a fixed string format years ago. Absolute hell.
Something like 200 variables, all encoded in fixed length strings concatenated together. The output was the same.
…and some genius before me used + instead of stringbuilders or anything dignified, so it ran about as good as lt. Dan.
And there are some truly magic tools.
XSDs are far from perfect, but waaay more powerful than json schema.
XSLT has its problems, but completely transforming a document to a completely different structure with just a bit of text is awesome. I had to rewrite a relatively simple XSLT in Java and it was something like 10 times more lines.
Train nerds are a weird bunch.
Please never change.
And DBAs. I’m currently working on a project where I said from the very start, I can set up this DB in k8s and I can get it to work decently, but I have neither the knowledge nor the time to get it right. Please give me someone who knows how this works.
No, don’t worry, it’ll be fine, we don’t need that, this kuverneles thing I keep hearing about handles that!!!
Six months of hard contact with the enemy on production later:
Well, we’re currently looking for someone who actually knows how DBs work, because we have one of those issues that would cost a proper DBA 5min and me 5 months.
To be fair, a lot of roles simply disappeared over the years.
Developers today are much more productive than 30 years ago, mostly because someone automated the boring parts away.
A modern developer can spin up a simple crud app including infrastructure in a day or so. That’s much much more productive than 1995. We just cram a lot more of the world into software, so we need 20x the amount of developers we needed back then.
It’s really weird, though, that nobody really created a language/tool to bridge these two world. It’s always just generating one representation from the other, mostly in a bad way.
I’d argue, that for many problems, a graphical view of the system can help reasoning. But there simply is nothing in that regard.
One of our customers does that. It happened multiple times already that one dev fixed an issue in production, and the next regular deployment overwrote everything.
But fortunately, it’s just critical infrastructure and nothing important.
The older generations kept leaking contaminated water (reactor coolant), many harbors simply refused entry because they didn’t know the risks involved, and I’m pretty sure the decommissioning isn’t clear either. The way current laws are set up, it’s quite possible that these things go through a few hands and end up on a beach in some underdeveloped country and get dismantled like any other ship under horrible working conditions - but now with the added benefit of nuclear contamination.
No. Not at all. It’s about gradient descent, an optimization technique.
You could use it to auto reply and delete said mails.
But why?
There’s absolutely no benefit compared to just burning it and using plant based materials as a resource.
There is a pretty good way: burn it.
Most plastics can’t be recycled in any meaningful way, so just burn it and use the energy. There are some legitimate uses for plastics, but most of it is wasted.
And always remember: most of the plastic in the ocean is fishing gear, not household waste.
It’s always “in mice” or on an extremely small scale for ridiculous prices.
Scientists only develop the first stepping stones, most of which lead to nothing, that’s okay. But the university PR > newspaper pipeline leads to everything being a major breakthrough, and that leads to fatigue with the reader.
No love for Einhell?
Could you please start a job at Nestle, Microsoft, BP, Raytheon? Either would be fine, but you need to weaponize your god level incompetence for a good cause.
I work at a company that does ai research.
You are so emotionally charged.
Let me rephrase that: “My salary depends on believing that AI is great, so I will not stop believing”
But sure, I’m emotionally charged. Not the guy who’s (poorly) defending his excuse for work.
I’d prefer not to have any smell, but that is apparently really hard to do.
And why do all products for men have to look like I’m cosplaying a sci-fi tactical commando?