Yeah, there are still indie titles with infamous creators. It’s just that the limelight is now taken by big corporations with big marketing budget.

Eh, I was kind of punting towards all of fiction there. With something like Scrubs (if we count that towards fiction), it doesn’t bother me, because the situations are realistic and then as many others said, it’s about the stories that unfold in that scenario.

But even copaganda or trash TV will play up each new case, e.g.: “Jeremias has not touched grass in 17 years. Will our team succeed in changing that?” and “The police has been on the hunt for this serial killer for 5 years. After 378 victims, will Shirley Holmes finally catch him?”.

I guess, yeah, it is also a matter of bad writers, though. It is far too easy to come to a point where you need drama and to then just make up big numbers with no credibility.

It was certainly one of the examples on my mind when writing that, yeah. 😅

I think, it was One Piece where I first noticed this, because I actually tried to watch that regularly on TV as a kid, but Dragonball perfected it with the whole “Power level over 9000” meme…

Yeah, not to yuck anyone’s yum, but this has been one of the reasons why I always thought fiction in general, but in particular superhero stories, anime etc., wasn’t that interesting.

Like, wow, you thought of some arbitrary description for how the villain is by far the strongest. Except for that other villain in the next episode, of course, who’s even strongester. Oh, and did I mention that our hero is a total weenie, but somehow also stronger than these guys? Crazy, isn’t it?

I know, you’re supposed to indulge these stories and not question them too much, but pattern-recognizing brain says no. 🫠

Yeah, feels like the correct move here would be to hold off with the next generation, if you can’t get enough of a performance jump without increasing prices. Otherwise you’re just offering a premium edition.

Yeah, I always plead for as much as possible to be automated offline. Ideally, I’d like the CI/CD job to trigger just one command, which is what you’d trigger offline as well.

In practice, that doesn’t always work out. Because the runners aren’t insanely beefy, you need to split up your tasks into multiple jobs, so that they can be put onto multiple runners.
And that means you need to trigger multiple partial commands and need additional logic in the CI/CD to download any previous artifacts and upload the results.
It also means you can restart intermediate jobs.

But yeah, I do often wonder whether that’s really worth the added complexity…

You can get some brands which have a pinch of salt added, but in my experience, most brands don’t…

Hmm, strange, it’s working for me, whether I visit the lemmy.ml page or the lemmy.world page…

Hmm, it embeds the MP4 for me. Are you using the Lemmy webpage or some app?

They posted one in a reply:

What I find tricky, is that you’re always describing a work-in-progress. I also wanted it to be useful as soon as possible, so I started building the actual core logic first and documented that part of it.

But to actually use it, you need several steps before, which need to be documented, but preferably automated or ideally eliminated.
So, you kind of don’t want to invest time documenting that, because you know it’ll change a lot still.

And just as well, any quirks you document, it’s always like, okay, but what if I fixed this quirk instead?

Obviously, one has to strike some kind of balance. Things will never be 100% perfect or final. And I am most definitely lying to myself, when I figure that fixing it won’t take much longer than documenting it. But yeah, it’s just a constant struggle to find that balance…

Yeah, this is one of those issues that I feel separates the seniors from the, uh, less experienced seniors. (Let’s be real, as a junior, you know jackshit about this.)

Knowing when to use an ORM, when to use SQL vs. NoSQL, all of that is stuff you basically only learn through experience. And experience means building multiple larger applications with different database technologies, bringing them into production and seeing them evolve over time.

It takes multiple years to do that for one application, so you need a decade or more experience to be able to have somewhat of an opinion.
And of course, it is all too easy to never explore outside of your pond, to always have similar problems to solve, where an SQL database does the job well enough, so a decade of experience is not a guarantee of anything either…

Hmm, is it an ATM where you just scan your card once? All the ATMs I’ve ever used required your card to be physically in the machine throughout the whole process. As soon as you pulled out, it would go back to the home screen until the next person put in their card…

It amuses me that the joke wouldn’t have really worked without that rather pronounced depiction of an ass.

Yeah, I really wonder what their thought process was. Are you supposed to bid on multiple foods, so that if you get outbid, you can fall back to the next one?

When you ring the doorbell to pick it up, they quickly chuck it into the microwave. 🙃

Personally, I say “there is no god”, because I also say “there is no pink space unicorn hiding behind Pluto”. I don’t know either for sure, but if a kid asks me and I start humming and hawing whether there might be pink space unicorns behind Pluto, then that sends entirely the wrong message.

So, the difference between agnosticism and atheism is pure semantics to me. I do not claim to know that there is no god. But I assume there is no god until proven otherwise.

It’s key-based client authentication. Just open your SSH key’s .pub file in Microsoft Publisher, then export to PDF.

I do agree, yeah, although I can certainly also understand LISP fans being annoyed that someone created a custom DSL for something that is adequately solved by the LISPs. I’m also certainly not enamored with the Nix syntax myself, but do find it easier to parse than a million parentheses.

But yeah, ultimately the complexity of Nix and Guix isn’t in the particular symbols you type out. The complexity comes from them being expression-based (which does make sense for the use-case, but isn’t as familiar as e.g. imperative languages), as well as just having to learn tons of modules for the different things you want to configure…

Wikipedia seems to do a decent enough job defining it:

Authoritarianism is a political system characterized by the rejection of political plurality, the use of strong central power to preserve the political status quo, and reductions in democracy, separation of powers, civil liberties, and the rule of law.

But basically, my point is:

• If your government represents the people, then it is possible for your people to elect authoritarianism, especially if they are unhappy, like the meme describes, and/or when there’s foreign nations trying to destabilize the system.
• If your government does not represent the people, then it is likely to devolve into authoritarianism on its own, because individuals or individual groups will want to assume all power and limit the rights of others.

Basically, my opinion is that politics is a constant work in progress, no matter the political system.