NGram @ NGnius @lemmy.ca

Software dev with (clearly) too much time on his hands

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I was hoping it was an April Fools joke but now I'm just disappointed for two reasons.

A bit of a strangely organised article. The relevant information is actually near the end of the article, with the start just providing general slaughterhouse tactics. Here's a summary of the relevant info:

• Chickens and turkeys are being slaughtered in horrible ways (this shouldn't be a surprise to anyone) and they're killed in mostly the same ways for avian flu.
• The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) hired some companies previously convicted of animal cruelty to carry out killings for avian flu, in some cases paying them more for these avian flu killings than the previous fines (in the range of hundreds of thousands of dollars).
• The CFIA has to compensate the company for killing their animals, which can be millions of dollars.

Unfortunately the original order makes it very annoying to read if you don't care about the website's agenda. They'd probably have more success in reaching other audiences if they skipped the general slaughterhouse tactics part since it isn't about avian flu at all.

We are discussing what someone would use when writing about a hypothetical person.

And that changes it how? It's insulting to misgender someone, though I can understand how you'd think that there's no harm in insulting someone hypothetical.

I suggest you do some research on the history of language

Per your suggestion, "they" has been used to refer to a singular person since the 14th century. "He" is currently masculine-only. I apologize if you misunderstood my use of "never" to refer to things around the 18th and 19th century (when it apparently was considered bad to use "they" in the singular) when I presumed that there was an implicit limit to modern usage of English.

Someone with undetermined/unknowable gender would use the pronouns they/them, never he/him.

This sounds like open weights but not actually open source (which requires an open training set), but we can only hope they are true to their promises when they actually release it. Bonus points if they also release how much energy they wasted to train it and how much energy it wastes to run it.

If you don't want to follow other people's suggestions on how to communicate your information better, that's fine. But insulting people who are just offering friendly suggestions (and explanations) is not ok.

Despite what you have seem to believe, I actually agree with your post's general thesis. It doesn't really matter to me whether you believe that though.

It's not about being able to verify, it's about the amount of effort to verify. I.e. people are lazy.

Mass propaganda discovered that its audience was ready at all times to believe the worst, no matter how absurd, and did not particularly object to being deceived

This is quite ironic seeing how you've posted something that qualifies as "the worst" without any verifiable evidence.

Ticketmaster is doing their very best to make paper tickets unusable with refreshing barcodes. Funny thing is that "anti-theft" feature is needed because of their own systemic failures. I do like tickets that are just sent to my email or similar (e.g. as an attachment that I can save to my phone) though, it's better than wasting paper when I know my phone won't fail me.

Regular smart watches are such a luxury good that I'm surprised they've been growing up until last year. Realistically most people don't need a smart phone that's more than like $300 and I can't imagine spending more than that on a smart watch which just duplicates most of the features of a smart phone (and adds a few more sensors if you're lucky).

The rise in kids smart watches is a bit alarming to me, though. If the reason for it is truly that parents want to track their kids more, that's really bad for the kids for two big reasons. First being that kids need to learn how to behave without their parents always watching, and second is that if the parent can see where the kid is then probably so can the company who made the smart watch. Maybe they'll make a smartwatch which sends location data over something like the Signal protocol to mitigate 3rd party tracking, but I doubt there's a big enough demand for that for any of the major companies to do that on their own.

I think the joke is that we already do all of those things (except the stop booing part)

Just don't host it with a USA company.

(Self-promo: https://git.ngni.us/mirrors/Ryujinx is still up, hosted in Canada)

I do almost the same thing as a(n unpaid) hobby that I do as my (paid) job. I'm a software developer who writes open-source software on the side.

I've also seen a few of my other hobbies grow into serious industries with real employees. The (hobby) drone industry and the 3D printing industry are quite large and growing (I assume).

If you thought about the planet you wouldn't be using smart devices at all, especially not completely unnecessary ones.

Twitch Plays Pokemon is still better

Interestingly the article about steganography does not mention the term even once.

Relativity would prevent this. If the train moves at the speed of light, then nothing inside it will move because time will stop. The amount of trains inside trains doesn't really change much except the effect of time dilation (slowdown) on each train. You can't actually accelerate to the speed of light.

While light bulb sockets don't change much from region to region, they definitely aren't all the same. For the bulbs (not the bars), there's two large categories: Edison screws and bi-pin. Edison screws also come in a lot of sizes. When compact fluorescents were rolling out, they got a new bi-pin connector from the USA: GU24. My whole home has GU24 fixtures (not by my own choice), but my lamps are Edison screws.

They may have mixed up the British commonwealth. Canada has a similar population to California

If they go into influential people's houses or into important businesses, I can think of a few reasons to bribe them to do things for you.

If the US government didn't work with the US military that would be crazy