I loved Torque Test Channel’s take on the whole metric thing… https://youtu.be/2QUum9NymZY

Sometimes they are just broken. Bad scales, sensors, etc. Kroger’s converyor style checkouts are especially bad.

Same here only it was 20 years ago. UML professor was convinced it would replace programming.

I’m still hoping for good customer support AI. If I’m going to be connected to someone who barely speaks English and is required to follow a prewritten script, or worse plays prerecorded messages to fake being fluent, I might as well talk to an AI, especially if it means shorter hold times.

AI is a bad replacement for good customer service, but it could be an improvement over bad customer service.

I was waiting for: dear sandwich theif, this is IT. We have the printer logs. HR brought us donuts. Your move.

My indirect experience with python is that it is slow as hell. Anytime I install an app that includes python it lags 15-30 minutes on that step. Anytime I’m asked to install something with conda it takes 30 minutes to an hour.

I’m sure that is just due to environmental and implementation issues, but the Java fans say the same thing…

Considering anime, she is either way to young or way to old to be president

If not for the BASIC examples in the old 3-2-1 contact kids magazines that I discovered worked on my elementary schools Apple II computers and then later QBASIC, I have no idea what I would be doing in life.

That was my gateway to a greater interest in computers and an eventual job in IT. And. I will always respect BASIC for it.

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That’s when they turn the farm into a themed hotel that is only open during select holidays.

Imagine being chased by a t1000 when it suddenly stops and displays a message “you are out of t1000 credits. The t1000 will resume chasing you in four hours or you can opt to be chased by a t3.5 instead”

To soon

What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 1:9 (written at least 2200 years ago)

That same verse mentions adultery, yet somehow these same people think Trump is a holy man of god…

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I don’t disagree, but I’ve heard this before. Assembly devs complaining about compiled languages. C/c++ devs complaining about every newer language. Traditional devs complaining about web developers. Backend web developers complaining about blogs/cms tools. Nearly everyone complaining about electron.

And honestly I think those folks had a point. The old stuff written when the tools were simple and memory scarce were almost works of art. The quality of software development (especially with regard to optimization) has been going downhill for decades. What ever the llms do will just be part of this trend.

Even the iPod was entering an already established market (consider the Sony Walkman).

Although that is interesting… I found some stats and 385 million walkmans were sold over 30 years. About 10. Million per year. Another report claims 51 million VR headsets in the last 5 years or about 10 million per year… (I started this comment planing to be negative, but now I wonder if Apple is not hitting the market at just the right time…)

Why does that pizza taste like glass and plastic?

Saw that, immediately reinstalled Firefox, saw the tab bar was still a mess and reuninstalled Firefox. Is there a non-chromium browser with a decent UI. Firefox is a disaster after 3 tabs.