“gotta see shit to know shit” someone once said to me

It pops into my head semi-regularly

Sounds like you’re after hackaday and similar specialist blogs

General tech sites will mostly cater to the tech the general public care about, enthusiasts don’t bring in the ad money comparatively

I never actively sought this life, but I can definitely advocate for it

They hate VPNs

Well, that’s because they get less data about you when you use a VPN. Google being Google are not gonna love that are they?

Japanese toilets are so far beyond what we’re doing anywhere else in the world it’s not even funny

Wtaf have our toilet scientists been doing for the last century in the western world?

Reddit died June 2023

I don’t know why people are still playing with the corpse

Ticketmaster only exists to reduce the income of musicians.

The musicians would exist without Ticketmaster

The venues would exist without Ticketmaster

The crowd would exist without Ticketmaster

They only extract value

Funny rule to have. I wonder if this is one of the subs Reddit admins took over after the moderator exodus

I wonder if the website did the thing where it lists their big customers like a trophy cabinet on the main landing page.

It would probably make a good list of places to sell snake oil

Also love that this is all evidence to back up the premise that building the happy path of an application is generally easy, one of the main skills in software engineering is ensuring the unhappy paths are covered sufficiently. I can say I’ve started a bank and keep people’s money in my wardrobe, I’ll be providing the service of holding their money—I’ll also probably get robbed sharpish because I’m not skilled in the kind of security needed to avoid that.

Was just thinking this

A single LiDAR sensor prevents this kind of issue

A software engineer was not involved in this if waterfall is painted positively.

I think the last time I heard an engineer unironically advocating for a waterfall IRL was about a decade ago and they were the one of the crab-in-a-bucket, I-refuse-to-learn-anything-new types—with that being the very obvious motivation for their push-back.

You get used to it, I don’t even see the code—I just see: group… pattern… read-ahead…

Why? If they’ve not done anything wrong, they’ve got nothing to hide

Evil

How long before he rolls a couple of those big ugly dictator headshot carpets down the side of the building

I think we’re in non-zero probability now

What is extremely political to one person is just someone simply existing to another.

The term “no politics” in internet communities often actually means “only things that align with my politics”. I’ve seen it over and over again for as long as I can remember

And a decade or so ago it was LOLCODE that had me mildly concerned for the wellbeing of my peers.

Is there an extension of Betteridge’s law of headlines for tech blogs?

If the title of a tech blog poses a problem, the solution is “the product I work on/sell”

XcQ

PhysX has just been a CUDA application for a long time, there’s not been a dedicated PPU on any card in a very long time