[-] towerful@programming.dev 107 points 2 weeks ago

If the snowman was build on the road, the driver is at fault for driving carelessly, not paying attention.
Nobody else was hurt. Nobody else's property was damaged. There is no one to be held liable.

This guy drove into a snowman, regardless of where it was.
A static object that only moves in Christmas music.

If it was a snowbank, same deal.
If it was a parked car, same deal.
If it was a fallen telephone/power pole, same deal.
If it was a pile of cinderblocks that fell off the back of a truck, same deal.

The guy either wasn't paying attention, or was being an asshole.
Either way, driving carelessly. Asshole is at fault

[-] towerful@programming.dev 121 points 3 months ago

Or "you went to college? You're overqualified for flipping burgers"

[-] towerful@programming.dev 132 points 8 months ago

Yup.
But in open source it CAN be noticed, by anyone determined enough to dig into its side effects.
Proprietary software? You file a regression bug that startup takes 500ms longer, and it might get looked at.

Also, backdoors that are discovered in open source software improve automated software auditing.

[-] towerful@programming.dev 132 points 8 months ago

If everyone is replacing low level jobs with AI in order to pump next quarters numbers, they are gonna be fucked in 5-10 years when there is a skilled labour shortage - those very skills learned and developed while doing the lower level jobs.

This is a gargantuan gamble on AI being able to progressively replace more an more complicated jobs, and stay in line with this curve as the skill ages out of the population.

Oh, and nobody will be able to pay for the services provided by these companies because nobody will have money because they can't get jobs because all the low skill jobs are done by AI, and nobody can develop skills because there is no entry to industries/careers via low skilled jobs.

Replacing jobs with AI is so fucking stupid.

[-] towerful@programming.dev 107 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

a man who mistook her for transgender verbally threatened her in a women’s restroom

...
I thought it was trans people that were a threat in women's restrooms. Turns out its assholes that are the threat.

[-] towerful@programming.dev 107 points 1 year ago

Modern day book burning?

[-] towerful@programming.dev 97 points 1 year ago

This isn't mainstream media.
This is capitalism.

This is a company making a product, selling it for a given price, then making additional money from embedded ads.
Whether that ad revenue is additional profit, or to offset the actual cost of the item - because the sold it at a loss to beat their competitors - doesn't really matter.
This is the consumer paying for something, and not getting a full and complete product

[-] towerful@programming.dev 127 points 1 year ago

Yeh, I can't believe an emergency service (which I would consider a government agency) is using a URL shortener.
No wonder scammers also use URL shorteners. People get desensitized to what they are doing, masking the actual URL

[-] towerful@programming.dev 109 points 2 years ago

Click the full screen button to enjoy a movie. Watch for a bit. Hit space to pause to do something. Unfullscreen.

[-] towerful@programming.dev 135 points 2 years ago

Its google, so probably the number of projects launched, never advertised, then abandoned

[-] towerful@programming.dev 146 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Whilst the BBC is impartial and independent and whatever etc. Key positions have been packed with Tory Party supporters/donors/friends.
It's no surprise they toe the government line, especially for their fellow Tories

[-] towerful@programming.dev 137 points 2 years ago

Trackpads and touchscreens get the phone way of scrolling.
These feel like you are interacting with a piece of paper, so you move the paper around.

Mousewheels get the traditional way of scrolling.
Mice are more like controlling something.
It just is. Like F1-F12 keys are always F1-F12 keys, not the alt-function (like media/brightness etc).

I hate that Apple has called it "natural" Vs "reverse" in some psychological reconfiguring that you are going against the grain if you don't agree with them (as opposed to them changing the established standard).

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