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gregly

@gregly@retro.pizza

Ruby dev. Previously embedded-dev. Former “gifted” child. Frustrated creator. 45. Married, heteroflexible, cis, he/him.

You have nothing to prove. Be unapologetically yourself, for one day you shall die.

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eniko, to random
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me, revisiting code i havent touched in potentially years: wow why is this call pattern so convoluted

me, reading the comments: oh okay thanks past me

gregly,
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@eniko This is exactly why I advocate for code cleanup and smart comments in our code… too often the answer to a question is “nobody knows, the person who implemented this left four years ago”

(Or “oh, ignore that code, it’s been dead for ages” after I’ve spent a day trying to get it working 🤦🏻‍♂️)

mcc, to random
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This is a pretty basic, "and what's the deal with airline food??" kinda observation, but

It's just been brought to my attention that a Chrome tab takes up a minimum of 24 to 28 MB of RAM*, even if it's looking at about:blank or an empty HTML page. There are good engineering reasons it might work this way but I am also thinking about how my first computer-shaped computer** had 4 MB of RAM and that was like, an OS plus sophisticated full apps. Later we upgraded to 8 MB RAM and that was a big deal

gregly,
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@swetland @whitequark @mcc Hercules?

gregly, to random
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There are times I wish we could just start over with computers and the internet. Just reset to about 1987 or so, and try again from there. Back then computers sucked, but they sucked in a hopeful, “things are getting better all the time” sort of way — whereas now they suck in a “financialize, monetize, advertise, AI lies, software spies” sort of way.

We have more power than ever, and yet we have less power than ever. And the first warning was when “My Computer” became “This PC” in Windows.

gregly,
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We thought it was trite at the time, Win95 using “My Computer”, “My Documents”, “My Pictures”, etc. It was too cutesy, us nerds said.

But look at it now. “This PC”, “Documents”, “Photos”. No possessive pronouns anywhere. Almost as if Microsoft wants us to forget anything has ever been “ours”. When did that happen? Vista? Win7? I forget.

It’s a stupid little thing… and yet it’s troubling.

gregly, to random
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Me at 25: “I’m gonna run Cat-5 cabling through the attics of my entire house, no problem”

Me at 45: “I’ve installed one ceiling fan and I’m gonna pass out now”

gregly, to stackoverflow
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LLMs looting the internet will lead to a significant increase in insularity, barriers to entry, suspicion, and siloing by its users.

Expect to see an increase in invite-only forums and communities which vet everyone who applies for access to make sure they aren’t a scraper in a human suit. An increase in experts refusing to help newbies, for fear of their help being copied, mulched, and resold by massive corporations. A decrease in the “social” part of the net.

ephemeromorph, to random
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Does anyone have a NAS enclosure/drives to recommend or warn against? I assume they're all much of a muchness but I thought I'd ask in case someone said 'Never get a Pigfuck brand, it shagged my cat and salted my crops'.

gregly,
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@guffo @nikki @ephemeromorph As someone who lost a huge portion of his digital life to a drive crash, I strongly recommend doing so. You may not get a warning that the drive is gonna fail; I sure didn’t.

cstross, to random
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"Growing concerns" that Ozempic will disrupt big tobacco, candy companies, and alcohol brands, according to Morgan Stanley

Are GLP-1 drugs the first real threat to the hyper-processed food and alcohol industries?

https://curingaddiction.substack.com/p/growing-concerns-that-ozempic-will

gregly,
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@genecowan @cstross No, actually, because these sorts of drugs literally make you stop wanting those things! Ozempic and the like don’t get rid of the consequences; they alter the way the reward pathways in the brain operate, changing behavior. It’s fascinating, amazing, and terrifying all at once.

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OH MY GOD THE NEXT CONSOLE GENERATION IS GONNA HAVE A BUNCH OF LLM BULLSHIT IN THEM AREN’T THEY

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