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ulkesh

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A husband. A father. A senior software engineer. A video gamer. A board gamer.

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I wasn’t intending to, but alright. Have a fun day.

ulkesh,
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…Incontinentia….Incontinentia buttocks.

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An increase of only 49%. Time to fire a couple thousand more people.

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Perhaps I’m confused. I’ve never seen or heard Torvalds act in the manner you describe. In interviews, and talks, at least, I’ve seen him be quite self-deprecating, quite deferential, and quite humble. He just doesn’t put up with bullshit in the space he knows extremely well, and he’s very direct with little regard to being empathetic, or at least that’s how he’s acted in the past on the Linux mailing lists. Being matter-of-fact can often be misconstrued as acting superior, but I’ve found it’s usually a time-saving personality quirk.

Edit>> Clearly this guy is unable to understand what being matter of fact is and resorts to ad hominem when someone doesn’t share his opinion. Sad, really, but pretty normal for the internet, I suppose. Oh well.

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Right, this happens with me all the time (though I suppose I don’t require the use of swear words, but I do use them quite a bit, just not when speaking professionally). People take my matter-of-fact personality as being arrogant. I’m really not, or I actually try not to be, but I can understand how things can come across when not mincing words. I suspect Torvalds doesn’t like making useless small talk, either, which is a trait of this kind of personality. I can wholly relate to that and how people might perceive him. But I do not feel, as the person I replied to had written, Torvalds “lets you know” that he’s “the smartest person in the room” in any instance I’ve ever seen him speak.

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Nice ad hominem attack. You must be fun to be around.

sigh

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Yes it was. Trying to sugar coat it doesn’t change that fact. We’re done here.

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Because despite the popular bandwagon belief, there’s nothing wrong with using Java. It’s just a tool, like so many others.

This is like saying, “Why that Philips head screwdriver? Why not this other Philips head screwdriver?”

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I mean HDR support in Windows, at least in my anecdotal experience, is garbage, anyway. But I agree, that doesn’t mean the browser shouldn’t support it by now.

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It’s kinda crazy to me how hate-filled Lemmy is just a half-year after I joined (when it felt like a breath of fresh air after deleting my Reddit account), especially for Mozilla. Mozilla has issues, but it’s nothing they can’t fix or come out of. They don’t deserve to die. And all the conspiracy theories I’m reading is just nonsense. I happen to be a Firefox user, but really it’s mainly because Google decided to screw with user choice (i.e. Manifest v3). Firefox is still FOSS, and it’s still giving plenty of user choice.

And all this AI talk is just bandwagoning by every corporation because if AI (as in LLM and whatnot) happens to be a baseline thing for many corporations, Mozilla not implementing it could backfire for them, so while it is bandwagoning, it also makes sense to hedge one’s bets on it.

I, for one, think this current notion of AI is too raw to take any real shape (outside of the current novelty), and these corps that are jumping on it, just like they did with “web 2.0” and “big data” and “the cloud” and “blockchain”, will eventually find that while there is some tangibility to be found, it will take many years to solidify into products that make sense for a consumer.

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Yep, exactly. Firefox does what it sets out to do – be a FOSS alternative to the ever-growing corporate browser market, providing user choice and useful features.

And I agree that AI as both a concept and implementation in its various types and forms will continue to be iterated upon and will continue to show numerous useful applications. I only hesitate that what is being called AI at this moment as being some kind of groundbreaking thing that changes the world, like corporations seem to be making it out as (hence the bandwagon to try to cash in on it).

It may very well change the world in the near future, but it’s not quite there yet. It is novel, and it is cool what ChatGPT and other applications can do, such as the example you gave, and that does have a very tangible quality to it. I feel that any fast-moving technological pace must be met with trust and with objective science every step of the way, and the likes of ChatGPT and other AI models have quite a ways to go – especially concerning trust.

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Good.

Teslas Have a Minor Issue Where the Wheels Fly Off While Driving, Documents Show (1ft.io)

Tens of thousands of Tesla owners have had the suspension or steering of their vehicles — even in practically brand new ones — fail in recent years. Newly obtained documents show how Tesla engineers internally called these incidents “flaws” and “failures.”...

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This just makes me chuckle.

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Given the context, it seems to make sense that they mean it’s a bad idea to withhold smartphones from children in such a situation.

I would argue that they don’t need a smartphone specifically, but some means of external communication (a prepaid normal flip phone, for example).

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I am not in agreement with the notion that we should not give children smartphones. I am of the opinion that there comes a time, usually during early adolescence, that a smartphone becomes a safety feature of parenting — namely, the tools it provides for location tracking, and very quick two-way communication. The moment the child is starting to become more autonomous and is going to events with friends, staying at their friends’ houses for sleepovers, going on multi-day field trips, and so forth, is the moment a smartphone becomes an increasingly necessary safety measure.

The first step in dealing with addiction is understanding it and identifying it. The problem is that parents often don’t speak to their children about the dangers, and what it could mean, with concrete examples. And this can be expanded as a general parenting issue across more than just addiction. Open and honest communication is how kids can learn without always resorting to the fuck-around-and-find-out method.

ulkesh,
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My opinion and anecdotal experience is that, yes, it is like that. It’s the same argument concerning sex education. It’s the same argument for almost all child rearing topics. It starts with open and honest communication as early as possible and not sheltering the children from reality. Preparing the child is all we can do as parents. Hiding them from the realities of their surroundings by denying them aspects of it simply makes them want more and they will go to lengths to get it — even so far as to steal, or lie. While I’m not saying give a 3 year old their own device, I am saying that there comes a time in the maturation of the child where it can be a useful tool for both the parents and the child. You teach a child to use a knife, and the dangers of mishandling it, before you let them have one. I’m also not saying all my examples are apples to apples, but the education of using potentially dangerous things is a concept that pervades all child rearing and it’s unrealistic, and I would say possibly does more harm, to keep them from it during their whole childhood.

But I’m not here to convince you or anyone. I simply voiced my viewpoint.

Thanks for coming to my TED talk :)

Happy New Year!!

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Point taken. I agree that specific product would solve the safety feature aspect while avoiding the addiction possibility. I suppose it then comes down to when a parent feels their child is ready and cognizant of the dangers of addiction.

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After all, here we are, possibly spending time online arguing with strangers instead of engaging in more productive activities.

This feels like a false equivalency. Just because I decided to engage in this post has no bearing on any addiction patterns of mine or the validity of such an activity.

but these devices should come with certain restrictions. For instance, limiting the ability of children to install any app they want or restricting excessive screen time could be effective measures. By implementing these controlled measures, we can provide the necessary safety net while also safeguarding the mental and emotional well-being of younger users.

They do. I used exactly those features on my child’s. If parents choose not to employ them and become educated on the capabilities of the devices, not much else can be done. But this is a broad issue that extends well beyond smartphones.

However, real-world actions should be informed by scientific evidence. Any approach we adopt needs to be backed by data (and not opinions) proving its effectiveness in achieving the desired outcomes.

I agree completely. But ultimately the parents have to know what they are doing and how their knowledge and actions will affect their children. It seems just as disingenuous to blanket smartphones as the problem when it really boils down to parents, education, and understanding the maturity level of their own child.

Thanks for your thoughts.

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Maybe he’ll choke on an olive and his useless life will pass before his eyes just before he gets saved by someone he had once fired.

Perhaps then he would no longer be such a douchebag. I doubt it, though.

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Libertarians (n., plural) - Sooo…. Conservatives.

Perhaps they can take all the asshole Republicans (leaving the reasonable ones…I know, not many left) with them and we can be left with a society that doesn’t suck and is instead filled with leadership that may have opposing viewpoints, but are willing to compromise — like, you know, mature, scientific, educated adults would.

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The inevitable result of an egregiously rich man-baby trying to stick it to the “woke”. I left Twitter the moment that idiot took over. Twitter is a cesspool and a joke now. Time to move on.

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Happy? No no no. The use of := should die a horrible death. I… I may have some PTSD from my time in college.

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We should add colons to everything!

ulkesh,
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Any neighbor whose beliefs and views lead them to look at Trump and say “yeah give me more of that!” can fuck right off.

ulkesh,
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Thank goodness I haven’t used Evernote since… checks notes in Sublime Text… 2010.

ulkesh,
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So idiots who run the company tried to screw over developers, and it’s employees who pay the price. Capitalism, I guess.

ulkesh,
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Sure, it’s capitalism — where the workers consistently get screwed. Lol.

ulkesh, (edited )
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Google can go fuck themselves for this. The moment their stupid Manifest v3 bullshit came to light, I quickly migrated to Firefox and haven’t looked back.

ulkesh,
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Experience. I’ve been playing video games for 40 years. Many of them of any given genre tend to follow a familiar formula. While I also wing it, like others have said, it usually doesn’t take long to recognize the patterns of the formula.

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Wow, the Embrace, Extend, Extinguish train is now down to 4 days. That’s impressive!

ulkesh,
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'Twas a joke.

ulkesh,
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Seriously. Their neocon attitude toward regulation is leaking. If anything should be regulated, it’s AI advancements. The public good is still a thing, despite what conservatives want to dismiss.

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Walking back yet another stupid action by Tesla. Why is it nearly everything Musk touches becomes so moronic? He wants to get to Mars so bad, he should just strap his ass to a rocket and aim it and go, and never return.

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Wow. I wonder what Frank Tedesco will say. Many of his popular videos on YouTube were of surprising random Omegle people with his relative pitch ability to play anything on the piano.

I know he works on multiple platforms (YouTube, twitch, TikTok), so he’s at least covered with those, but his use of Omegle was fun and interesting.

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I mean the concept of the site is exceedingly simple (hence its popularity), so it wouldn’t take much to create something that mimics its features. But, it would come with everything Leif posted about. And it would take years to gain any traction all the while having to try to combat all the reasons Omegle was shut down.

May not be worth it.

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I cannot wait until Twitter is dead and gone.

ulkesh,
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At least some asshole in this country gets the consequences they deserve.

ulkesh,
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Every single thing you wrote is patently false.

ulkesh,
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I do love a good fictional story! Tell us the one about the talking serpent…oh and the one about the (makes air quotes) virgin.

Okay okay, I troll…I troll…

ulkesh,
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I guess I also have to keep explaining this…

Atheists do not disbelief what God is, but what they claim God to be

…that’s why Christians in online circles are clueless about atheists. We don’t claim a god. Christians do (among many other religionist types). The burden of proof is on them. My disbelief in a god is the same disbelief that my refrigerator will decide to wake up, sprout legs, walk out of my house and go live with another family. I make no claim of existence about either.

And since no religionist in history who does make such a claim of the existence of a god has yet to scientifically, objectively, with peer-review, proven such a deity exists, I have no reason to believe one exists.

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And thus the zombie hath risen.

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You made a statement on how Christians in online circles view atheists. I refute their premise. That’s not misunderstanding. That’s simply stating they are wrong. But it’s cool that you keep fighting for their way of incorrect thinking. I’m sure they appreciate it.

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I regret I have but one upvote to give. Well done!

ulkesh,
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Well he can fuck right off. The moron strikes again with yet another in a long line of “no one asked for this bullshit” features that hopefully completely destroys his $44,000,000,000 toy.

ulkesh,
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Yes, that’s how consequences work.

ulkesh,
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If the offense is found to violate federal law, there should indeed be consequences. Hence the investigation part — to determine the extent.

That’s how enforcing law works.

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I don’t. And haven’t since the moron took over. I can’t wait until everything he touches fails. Even if that means SpaceX.

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Good. Whoever thought he would be a good CEO at Unity should also be fired. Time to clean house and promote people who have a fucking clue.

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