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[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 hours ago

https://x.com/MohanadElbalal/status/1831388228651565398

Can't say I've ever seen a human dyke before.

Wait... not like that.

[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 11 points 20 hours ago

Gotta be flamebait.

[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Where is this?

[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 days ago (6 children)

So where is the line drawn? What about the teens who want to lookup how to do an exercise correctly without getting injured?

From the article:

The platform will still allow 13- to 17-year-olds to view the videos, but its algorithms will not push young users down related content “rabbit holes” afterwards.

[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The calendar will return in 2024.

Doesn't look like it still exists.

[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 18 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Do they publish this every time there's a school shooting? Swear I've seen this before.

[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 33 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Almost jarring to hear about someone changing their mind.

[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago

A few kids started using it when we were about 10-11, so I just joined in.

Sounds so illicit.

[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 10 points 2 days ago

Libertarians about to get off on having gold mines in their garages.

[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The end was a montage, man. Ridiculous!

[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

I thought Caprica was great. The ending was trash though.

[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 days ago

Lots of good insight there. While I disagree with much of it, I get it.

I’m all for keeping one’s cognitive skills. However it is a fact that this decline happens, and that there is a phase of life where one has wisdom without necessarily having the same raw intelligence they had before. The wisdom is encoded in crystallized intelligence.

Yeah, realizing you have that wisdom is eye opening and it's actually pretty powerful. I can hunt down bugs by smell now with surprising accuracy. But I'm not convinced it's mutually exclusive to fluidity. I guess I'm just hoping my brain doesn't petrify and am battling against it.

That was possible because those machines don’t change too much as time marches on. Because they use a stable platform, his organization was able to do better work by relying on his deep expertise. He could train those younger guys because it was the same platform he’d always used. Same dirt, same physics, mostly the same machines, same techniques, same pitfalls, etc.

It's a poor analogy for software though. Software is an ongoing conversation. Not a device you build and forget about. User demands change, hardware changes, bugs are found, and performance is improved.

I'm honestly curious what the oldest line of code in the Linux kernel is now. I would be pretty shocked to see that anything survived 30 years. And I don't think that's because of enshittification.

This example doesn’t work as well with C/++ since that’s older than most people here (though the language has also gone through iterations) and likely won’t be going away any time soon. But still, in most cases you probably don’t want to use that language for general work.

Why not? Because you won’t be able to hire younger devs? That is a function of this culture of pushing for change in everything.

No, because C/++ isn't the right tool for every job. If I want to write up something quick and dirty to download a sequence of files, I'm not going to write that in C. It's worth learning other things.

I have to admit though that the conservative approach is more suited to things like a kernel, aerospace applications, or other things with lives riding on it. But also software that doesn't change becomes useless and irrelevant very quickly. For instance, running Windows XP is a bad call in just about any case.

But again I'm also not trying to say all software should be trend following. Just that devs should embrace learning and experiencing new things.

 

A nationwide blackout. A broken economy. A widely contested presidential election. A populace terrified of its autocratic leader and his increasingly violent security forces.

What’s a president to do?

Declare the early arrival of Christmas, of course.

Facing widespread domestic and international criticism over his claim that he won a July presidential vote, President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela is trying to turn the nation’s attention toward the one thing almost every Venezuelan loves: Christmas.

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Looks like the content creator Karmakut has launched a game studio and is building this new tactical shooter. Curious how this plays out.

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the independent presidential candidate, confessed on Sunday that he had left a dead bear cub in Central Park in Manhattan in 2014 because he thought it would be “amusing.”

Mr. Kennedy posted a video detailing the bizarre story on social media apparently ahead of an article in The New Yorker.

 

Boar’s Head Provisions Co. recalled liverwurst because it may be tainted with the listeria bacteria, the U.S. Agriculture Department said. The agency said a sample of Boar’s Head liverwurst from a Maryland store tested positive for listeria.

The company is also recalling deli-sliced meats made the same day on the same line as the contaminated liverwurst at a Virginia plant, the USDA said. The sample was from an unopened package, collected by health officials as part of an investigation into the listeria outbreak.

 

Desert Strike was probably one of the most influential games of my childhood. This game seems to be looking to scratch that itch.

 

Video post-mortem by the US CSB of a chemical (acetic acid) accident at a LyondellBassell plant.

 

Looks like it's so far just surface-level integration with Mastodon friends/DMs. But it's still nice seeing the fediverse embraced and integrated at all by what was once a walled garden.

 
  • Twitch on Friday will end the contracts for all members of its Safety Advisory Council, a resource made up of industry experts, streamers and moderators, who consulted on trust and safety issues.
  • The council has advised Twitch on “drafting new policies and policy updates,” “developing products and features to improve safety and moderation” and “protecting the interests of marginalized groups,” per a company webpage.
  • On May 6, council members were called into a meeting after receiving an email that all existing contracts would conclude on May 31, 2024, and that they would not receive payment for the second half of 2024.
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