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MercuryGenisus 8 points 6 days ago

Sleep. So much sleep.

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MercuryGenisus 230 points 2 years ago

I would reject this pull request. Why is the indenting all over the place? Why is your keyword capitalisation all over the place? WHY YELLOW?!

Edit: the more I look at this the more it pisses me off. Wtf is going on with your kerning? Just random number and placement of spaces. Also, why is the table name in caps? Who does that? Select * is lazy. Do you really need every field about a girl? Really? Worst of all, not a limited request. I sware this is just the kind of thing that would return 30 million rows and brick the database for twenty seconds.

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MercuryGenisus 105 points 3 years ago

It's code, but without automated tests, comments, style rules, and often stored in binary files making change management a nightmare.

It's trying to paint but you can only use your fingers and also one of the other devs ate all the red.

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MercuryGenisus 95 points 6 months ago

What a great statue, where is this?

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MercuryGenisus 56 points 2 years ago

I am saddened to see that this thread had no mention of how many horses it takes to run a router. What do y'all think? Would one be enough? It would need to work in shifts to keep up time at 100%. Maybe 3 to be safe?

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MercuryGenisus 47 points a year ago

The things about quantum computers is they are really, really powerful at a some kinds of things, some of the time. Maybe even most of the time.

Binary computers are okay at one thing, but it does that one thing exactly every time. If it ever makes a mistake then entire thing might crash.

The problem is a quantum computer is so different from normal computers you have to start over from the beginning of the tech stack. Even if you get it working reliability (which is hard to do), how does it help you? You can do some crazy math, but it can't run an operating system. It doesn't have a bios. There are no drivers that speak some percentage of up spin vs down spin. There isn't a standard assembly language. There isn't a standard anything. It's like how computers were in the 40s.

I think quantum computers are very interesting and might help in very specific applications, and I mean like custom made math heavy applications that only run on that one machine you built it for kind of specific.

Can that change the world? Maybe. But it will take time. No one wants to talk about it because it's a hard problem that is still years away from doing much to impact peoples lives. Better to talk about ai slop, that gets clicks because you can see it and touch it right now.

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MercuryGenisus 45 points 2 years ago

Sir Chad carries a twelve pounder hand cannon, and when he ignites the powder the ball sails true into the main deck of the pirate, but the recoil capsizes his vessel.

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MercuryGenisus 36 points 8 months ago

Damn honestly that looks pretty good right now.

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MercuryGenisus 35 points a year ago

$500 dollars?! With just chunk of the market we could make dozens of dollars. Dozens!

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MercuryGenisus 33 points 2 years ago

Can we take a moment to talk about what this was written on the back of? It looks like a building plan that looks like an ultra open concept space with doors instead of walls. All the exterior walls are just marked as doors. And I think there is a bathroom that looks to just be in the main space. No walls there either. This is some serious office nightmare fuel. You work outside now, we open all the doors. Poop in the corner while we judge you for not working while you do it.

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MercuryGenisus 28 points 3 years ago
The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed.

The Economist, December 4, 2003, William Gibson

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MercuryGenisus 27 points 5 months ago

Okay but seriously. Is this like golf scoring or...?

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MercuryGenisus 27 points 3 years ago

An amazing story, and just downright perplexing. It is a shame you never found out what on earth was going on in the CTOs head. I would love to understand the thought process (or lack thereof) that went into that.

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MercuryGenisus 26 points 2 years ago

I kind of like to think that anyone inside thought that they drove off the crew attacking their position. Like "Ha, they are leaving, we did it. Great job everyone.
... Wait what's that beeping sound? Do you guys here ticking?"

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MercuryGenisus 26 points 6 months ago

I feel the same apathetic "whatever" response. I love rockets. I love space. I struggle to care about this.

The program is almost 2 decades late and using recycled technology. It is literally using spare parts from the shuttle. I don't believe it will ever actually get to the boots on the ground phase. I am actually surprised they made it to this mission. After all the boondoggle from Boeing I really thought it would die a quiet death somewhere out of sight.

Not only do they have technical hurdles, we have seen normally safe agencies become political battle grounds. We see science becoming less and less important at every level of society. We are living through Idiocracy and they still act like we are the same country that went to the moon the last time.

If we see people on the moon in our lifetime I don't believe they will arrive on a NASA mission.

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MercuryGenisus 26 points 2 years ago

I finally made the switch recently. Windows kept getting worse, and worse, and worse. Every day I felt like I had to fight it more to just do anything. I've been mainly a Windows user my entire life and I just couldn't stand to use it any more.

I couldn't be happier. Every game I play on steam just works. I'm installing mods and updating config files deep in the magical proton depths and it just works. A clean install of the operating system is actually a clean place to start. I'm telling everyone I know.

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MercuryGenisus 23 points a year ago

Is there some kind of deeper meaning or message here? or is this just a weird thing to do in front of a police line?

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MercuryGenisus 23 points 2 years ago

Mirror + bandaid + paperclip + packing tape = boom? It's like a bad 80s tv show.

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MercuryGenisus 22 points 5 months ago

All this would be fine if, and only if you actually owned your car and all the data in it. If you could assume no cell phone somewhere hidden away in the computer. If the data was encrypted with a key you had, not the dealer, not the police, just you.

But we all know that isn't the case. You might have a title to your car, and own almost nothing inside it. Everything is connected these days, which means someone is looking at that data and seeing dollar signs.

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MercuryGenisus 22 points 10 months ago

As an American all I can say is, I wish I could find a meaningful way to join the boycott. Hit them in the wallet once for me.

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