towerful

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[–] towerful@programming.dev 4 points 5 months ago

Oh man, spoilable items? Spoilable agriculture research packs?
That's pretty intense

[–] towerful@programming.dev 5 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Hard to justify you're job when all you do is manage a team that does non-visible minor tweaks and improvements that affects like 3% of the user base.
Maintenance isn't constant growth, gotta redesign.

If netflix are embracing new technology (maybe something that allows 1080p playback on any browser, instead of just chrome) and the changes required are significant enough, then a redesign incorporating the big lessons learned from the current design make sense.

[–] towerful@programming.dev 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm guessing they don't understand scientific notation, and "numbers are close" without understanding the numbers are much more significant

[–] towerful@programming.dev 6 points 5 months ago

Windows IoT can be configured into a soft-realtime (realtimey-wimey). Disabling audio is one of the steps, so I doubt it's rtos mode for teams.

IoTs target market is companies reselling an appliance that runs on windows. So a Teams Room appliance is a perfect use-case for IoT

[–] towerful@programming.dev 7 points 5 months ago

Pump&Dump?
Musk bought into some shitcoin that crashed before he made profit, so even if he gives half away, the slight boost on price will let him dump the rest for less losses... Maybe?

[–] towerful@programming.dev 16 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Browser history was implemented before companies massively abused privacy.
It was an honest feature for users.
We also learned a lot about security regarding password/credential extraction from browsers.

Windows Recall might be an honest feature. It might be super secure and really useful.
But Microsoft doesn't have the trust to pull this off

[–] towerful@programming.dev 1 points 5 months ago

I'm saying it's false to apply Occam's razor to this scenario and draw a conclusion that this is caused by non-human life.

I'm not assuming earth is unique. There have been many earth-like planets that have been discovered.
I'm not even assuming humans are unique, given all of space-time.

It is extremely unlikely that there exists intelligent life other than humans at this time (or within the window-function of time required for us to receive a transmission from however many million lightyears).
Like, it is vanishingly small. The insane series of events that has lead to an intelligent species being dominant on a planet is ridiculous, to be honest.
In other words, humans are essentially unique at this point in "observable" time.

It is extremely likely it is a natural phenomena that we don't understand, or even equipment malfunction, misinterpretation, miscalculation etc.
We have discovered unknown signals, then learnt what they are. Humans don't know everything.
We have discovered unknown signals, then realised it was a nearby microwave, or a dodgy connection, or whatever. Humans make mistakes.

The simplest explanation in order to not have to deal with a new research project is probably "aliens". But the simplest explanation is "natural phenomena we don't understand yet"

[–] towerful@programming.dev 1 points 5 months ago (3 children)

The complexity involved to have sentient life evolved to the point that it can create radio waves is an astronomically small possibility. Having that coincide with our ability to detect such a thing is even smaller.
The history of "we don't know what this signal is or means" has always been "a new type/phase of star".

The only assumption here is that life is rare, and advanced life is rarer still. Which is supported by all of our science so far

[–] towerful@programming.dev 30 points 5 months ago (5 children)

The simplest explanation is a new kind of star, or a new kind of star cycle.
We have seen interesting radio signals before, they have all been explained by some sort of star behaviour.

The simplest explanation is NOT the evolution of an entire other species that survives all the way through to advanced tech to send radio signals.

[–] towerful@programming.dev 23 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I don't really care about "the economy".
I care about the increase in costs, increases in productivity and the non-increases in wages.
The economy is how well companies are extracting profit. Idk what the word is for what I care about.

[–] towerful@programming.dev 4 points 5 months ago

Spotify spending millions to have the Joe Rogan podcast on their platform.

If you just want music, Spotify is wasting a lot of your subscription fee on unwanted features like podcasts, AI nonsense etc.

[–] towerful@programming.dev 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Maybe tidal?
Tidal is basically Spotify, but cheaper, pays more to the artists and is, imo, better.
Googling for "tidal wearos" has some interesting bits, but I don't have a smart watch so I have no idea what I'm looking at

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