I love you.

That movie was a trip. I just saw it yesterday. Favorite line, “So somber the fuck up.”

FWIW, you can never know which is cart and which is horse.

I don’t think love is something one should think of as deserving or not. If you love somebody, you can’t stop that train. If somebody loves you, it is almost just as hard to stop. Best not to try if that happens. Just enjoy the ride. If you disappoint somebody, you move on.

Remember you don’t have to have something “to offer” aside from an ear and a hug from time to time.

I agree what all that. Fuck billionaires. Off with their heads. That doesn’t change the performance characteristics of current transformers.

You’re just objectively wrong. I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but you can see their raw objective scores across numerous software engineering metrics.

I’m a programmer that’s been in the business for decades. That doesn’t make me any more correct than you. I have seen it write some impressive things at impressive speeds. If you haven’t that’s fine. You just haven’t seen it work then. But it doesn’t matter what I have seen or what you’ve seen. What matters are data, and the data are clear when it comes to ability.

Not ability per unit water consumed, dollar spent, or per unit power consumed, but ability nevertheless.

Popular take here on Lemmy for sure., but just doesn’t really say much. They are as capable as they are. There are objective measurements. A qualitative statement about smart or good just isn’t that useful. If you aren’t impressed by the technology, fine.

For me, I think the field is interesting. But I won’t let my hatred of billionaires or worker subjugation cloud my judgement about interesting technologies. There is a difference between “This is going to be bad and exploitative” and burying one’s head in the sand and repeating the “they aren’t good” trope.

IRC still awesome, even in 2026. It’ll be awesome in 2056 too.

Much less back pain but much fatter. Lived on the other side of the planet. Otherwise about the same.

Nurses hate this.

Gotta love a Dark Tower reference. Love that series.

I like the app Knots 3d. It animates with variable speed over 200 knots from Ashley’s Book of Knots.

Yeah ok but zen is actually pretty good for a free browser.

Oh I misunderstood you. I thought you were using the Star Trek reference as just a supporting claim that militaries follow this practice. But I see now you meant only in that context.

Same, USAF but decades ago. It was actually the USAF protocol office I called to verify the “mister” address for WO. Not because we had them, but because they still have protocol for how to address them, generally army chopper pilots if I recall.

eta: I should also clarify that I don’t know that to be true. It could easily be one of those ID-10t situations where somebody tricked us into calling protocol and they went along with it. Could be complete bullshit.

Not sure what military you served in, but the one I served in definitely didn’t call women sir until instructed otherwise. However, “mister” may be correct for all warrant officers.

Pretty sure it dates back to the dawn of commerce.

You must realize terrible stuff was happening over that time period too. Yes, there is a ton of regression happening right now, but compared to any other time in history some things are better some are worse. One can probably select any two points in modern history and say the same. There are always great and terrible things happening.

“After” seems like the wrong preposition in the headline. Feels like “killed in” or “died after” would be less confusing. Anyway, sad for the people involved.