I know someone who was hired (around turn of the century) because they knew how to xml with a certain kind of then-important big systems api
the stories I’ve heard from there are hilarious
but is also incredibly ease to create proprietary semantics with
christ the shit I’ve seen with network vendors…. shibboleth NETCONF/YANG. advance warning; abyss grade 6+
as a professional abyss-starer, I'm going to talk to my union about this
Read on to find out!
do i have to
yeah partly this
and also the other kinds of issues: touchscreens are (even now still) a vastly more complicated engineering item to add than simple toggle switches, and in many places they don't make sense or are a bad solution to pick
but in the hype of then, touchscreens everywhere! turning your lights on? touchscreen. starting your shower water running? touchscreen. opening your window? touchscreen. calling a flight attendant? touchscreen. running your microwave? touchscreen. configuring your fridge temperature? touchscreen.
so, y'know, the usual "this new technology will save us, on everything" bullshit that industries seem so prone to. same reason as why we're seeing so much llm-everywhere bullshit
but what if the lying box smiled at me and made me feel good about myself, surely that means it's trustworthy right?
that one-liner is just ...... mental
imagine the fucking brain it takes to go "okay yeah I'll put this through opencv" instead of literally clipboard-paste | qrencode | clipboard-capture
just whole brain genius levels of bad
I guess the supposed appeal is in the implicit dehumanization and racism.
yeah, that's actually how I've always read it. looking at people in lives stretched to the limit of tolerance by the pure drive for survival, and instead of having a fucking lick of empathy and going "wow yeah, all this is kinda shitty, maybe we should change it" they go "oh yeah very clearly this person is incapable of self-directed behaviour and action"
remember to pick up your coat when you leave
Where does this NPC meme even come from
probably fucking 4chan once again
I suspect it's the frontend on awful that fucked this up, viewing their post in plain/preview shows the correct formatting
placing my bet on the trailing .
Try YAML, the serialization format recommended by four out of five Nordic countries
yeah there are so many fucking crazy footguns in yaml
another I quite like:
❯ ipython -c 'import yaml; d = dict(); d["d"] = d; print(yaml.safe_dump(d))'
&id001
d: *id001
metacognition, n.: thinking as formulated by zuck