Decorated veteran, astronaut, and senator… telling armed forces to follow the Constitution… is “seditious”…

Probably make a legit retro emulation setup

Jensen, of course, has no interest in advancing American labor. He just wants Trump to say the government will commit to spending several billion dollars on data center buildouts.

Then the AI stonks will get back to filling their garages with Herbalife that’s about to expire warehouses with GPUs that will be outdated before there’s anywhere to plug them in.

No fun allowed

In 2019, the total cost of every robbery in the country was $482 million.

The cost of wage theft was more than 100 times that number.

The FBI Uniform Crime Reporting program recorded 267,988 robberies in 2019. Those robberies cost businesses and the public $482 million in total losses. But wage theft costs workers $50 billion every year. And most of the time, employers get away with stealing money from their employees.

What is wage theft? Wage theft means underpaying workers. It can take several forms, including paying less than the minimum wage, withholding overtime pay, or not compensating workers for all of their work hours.

Imagine you work at a minimum wage job. But your company asks you to show up 30 minutes before the store opens every morning to prep – without paying you for that time. Over the course of a year, you’ve logged more than 100 unpaid hours of work. That’s wage theft.

whistleblower

Conceptual analysis of proximity isn’t exactly what I expected to see when I joined Lemmy

But it’s… 😎 close

Gamehub Lite is pretty wild. It does take some fiddling, but it’s amazing how well (and relatively easily) you can get x86 Windows games to run on a $200 ARM Android device.

I’m 12/13 so far on getting games to work at an acceptable level.

Inexplicably, Vampire Survivors causes the entire device to crash. I guess they pull some pretty silly memory tricks to keep that game responsive with potentially hundreds of thousands of projectiles, so maybe it’s not so surprising.

That’s fucking bleak.

Security guard is one. Had a friend in college that basically got paid 8hrs/night to do 2hrs of actual work and 6hrs of building his portfolio. It can definitely work well for some folks.

C-suite will pay any amount for hardware to do whatever it feels like doing, as long as they don’t have to pay anything for humans who occassionally disagree with them.

So what, this is the second time in two days that I’ve seen a post from this blog and I’m like “yeah, I mostly agree with your argument, but I think you’re claiming to defeat much bigger opponents than your argument actually strikes”.

What am I supposed to make of that? It seems like they’re just engagement-farming at this point. The over-reach is obnoxious.

Fex

Mostly agree.

But I think their advice falls prey to the “only a Sith deals in absolutes” problem, when they start contrasting “concrete advice” vs “generic advice”. They are offering “generic advice” with this post, aren’t they?

They hedge against that hypocrisy by offering some special carve-outs where generic advice is still “allowable”, but Idk. I think this post could’ve stuck to the 60% of the topic that was a slam-dunk instead of trying to take on the entire topic of design principles.

After all, I think you could argue that when experienced designers appear to contradict design principles, it’s because they understand the underlying logic of the principles and are recontextualizing them for this specific problem. That argument prioritizes concreteness but also doesn’t paint design principles as unimportant.

As Picasso or someone once said: first you must learn the rules, and then you must break them.

Nix, but I’d only recommend it if you share my same brand of mental illness

Make computers do stuff for what purpose?

I joke to my family that I just name things for a living. When you take away all the incidental stuff like files and pointers and ports, that’s really all it is. “This sequence of events with these properties is called <this>, and when you ask our system what to do about it, it does this other sequence of events with these properties which we call <this other name>.”

It’s kinda like those ancient stone tablets that are the first example of writing, and they’re just like “Ramses owes Jeremiah 5 chickens” or whatever. It’s just how we manage abstract concepts moving around our civilization. Yeah there’s math involved, but every endpoint is a human being in one way or another.

Yeah…

Human mistakes tend to 1) look like mistakes, and 2) are surrounded by lots of hints that the author had trouble with that section of code.

AI mistakes tend to 1) look like regular code, and 2) look just as confident and effort-ful as the rest of the code.

Tech bosses have well and truly lost it.

Consider that:

• Code is primarily to communicate from human-to-human, and only incidentally for computers to execute
• A codebase that is 30+ years old has an absolute shitload of learnings incorporated into it, much of it very subtle
• Languages are, in fact, different. So some things cannot be directly translated with exactly the same semantics, so devs will need to fully understand the intent and resolve ambiguities
• A million lines per month is a lot of text for someone to successfully interpret and translate without losing any subtleties

Why?

The language itself is… fine. It has some bad decisions baked into it, but what language doesn’t? And it has a pretty mature security model, which is a big help for embedded devices.

And given that so many embedded devices these days are talking to cloud services — that are probably running JS, but are at least communicating via JSON — being able to share some cross-platform code or tooling can help things go quicker and/or safer.

Edit: This is probably not a route for teams that are chronically tight on memory and choose to solve that by spending hundreds of dev-hours on optimizing code rather than adding BOM cost. But for teams that could stand to increase BOM cost as long as the savings on dev-hours make up for it… it could be an option.

An Audacious Plan to Halt the Internet’s Enshittification and Throw It Into Reverse

Edit: Also, important to note up front… This is a policy problem. Anyone who recommends individual decision-making (voting with your wallet) — or worse, actively blames users for their own abuse — is (probably unintentionally) doing the work of tech bosses for free. Their entire goal is to create platforms that are unavoidable and inescapable. The fact that they’ve done so well at this speaks more to the quality of the regulatory environment than to the scruples of the consumers who suffer their regime. You can’t shop your way out of an oligarchy.