Felice

It's gonna be so much fun typing in and MFA-ing all of my login deets again after finally kicking Chrome to the curb because of this manifest V2 bullying they're doing to make more money with YT ads! I just love times like this!

Did I mention I'm trying to stop complaining and be more positive? 😅

Some doorbells are quite loud and I find people, including myself, are worried about bing-bonging the entire house when they think there's probably someone near enough the front door to hear a simple knock.

That said, if they don't escalate to a bing-bong without a response, that's not good.

That's because most of them were made to be egg timers.

An actual hourglass is quite large and has probably seldom survived the test of time and clumsy movers.

i.e. "trust, but verify, even with yourself."

I know. I was agreeing with what you said and elaborating for the other guy.

Yes, exactly, but with yourself. 😉

The problem with this, though, is that it lets programmers stop thinking about what the hardware is actually doing, which tends to lead to macro-level sub-optimal code that, e.g., doesn't consider stuff like cache behavior. If you think low-level all the time, you don't forget this stuff.

Maybe unlikely that 𝘺𝘰𝘶 will be able to, but I generally can. Modern compilers are great, but they only get you maybe 90% of the way there. The nice part is that they 𝘢𝘭𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 get you 90% of the way there, which most things are les of a headache these days. But you can still do better if you wanna.

Research first, assume never.

Lots of stuff in the 90s and even early 00s was all in asm because the hardware then was not very powerful and compilers were generally incompetent if they even existed for your hardware. Every SNES game was asm. All the important bits of an N64 game that didn't suck were asm, same for PSX and DC.

I think it was probably a case of doing what was possible, and doing it well, without making herself a target and losing her platform.

I consider slow incremental changes to public mindset to be the best kind, because it tends not to result in pendulum swings like we saw in the last US election. 🙁

That's true, and I think that's because the novels about defending against thread were aimed at a broad audience, by which I think we can assume I'm saying mostly male readers. She wrote the early novels in the 70s, when women supposedly only read romance novels and men ogled women openly on TV.

Oh, and yes, I was about middle-school age, maybe 11 or 12, at the time. I still picked up on what she was trying to say.

Maybe I should say that I think what was really going on was McCaffrey was putting the gender imbalances on display to make a point about them being shitty, not to set them as a norm.

(Similarly so with Killashandra in the Crystal Singer books.)

Interesting. I started the Pern books randomly by picking up Dragonsong at the local library. Perhaps this first impression made me see the Pern stories differently. Menolly was very clearly meant to be a hero to young girls striving to break the gender barrier, so I always saw McCaffrey that way.

I visit YT on desktop, where if I want to explore recommendations, they're to the right of the video and I can scroll down a long way before they stop being populated. It's a mix of stuff I normally watch and stuff I might like.

Also I run uBlock Origin so ads aren't a thing in my world.

Technically you can buy fewer than zero by talking other people out of buying Apple devices. You're just un-buying by proxy.

Yeah I turned off watch history many years ago, and when they blanked the front page I actually tweeted "hey thanks" at them for doing it (Elon didn't own Twitter yet).

Watch history off is the best, because all they can go by is what you've actually thumbed-up/commented-on, i.e. actual engagement.

Ah yes, the old "There are no gay people in Iran!" trick.

> (arriving next week)

I wouldn't be me if I didn't poke fun at your time estimates:

November, then? 😜

Pretty sure it's equally true that you don't likely just have "the flu" if you get that sick in summer in the southern hemisphere.

(I'm just being pedantic since you said "summer" instead of "june-sept" or "right now". 😜)

If you mean the audience, then stupid people with neither taste nor sense about how to spend their money.

If you mean who benefits, then clearly it's the shareholders.

You kinda have to keep in mind that being on the fediverse is a massive social filter to begin with. It's hardly a good cross section of the real public's opinion.

I've thought about it, but my main option would be moving back to Canada, and Canada is its own kind of hot garbage right now. I'd rather just be in a friendly US state and hope the state leaves the union so I don't have to. :P

I think I remember hearing "It's a real pisser out there" on the Canadian prairies.

God.

This is probably straddling the line between the electrical engineers + low-level devs who care about perf and UI/UX people who come from a webdev background and only care about the visual results.

This sounds like something worthy of writing up a bug report so that nobody has to go through this process again. (One hopes, anyway.)

I basically want it to fill in for all of the attention I can't pay while I'm doing the real work.