If the metric is stupid and the metric is also tied to comp, there should be absolutely zero surprise when everyone starts gaming the metric.

Gaze upon mine field of fucks; ‘lo, it is barren.

I have absolutely zero interest in or sympathy for “influencers”.

I’m sorry buddy I’ll definitely hit you up next time we get together to definitely not cut down Flock cameras ❤️

Whoever did it was having pizza and playing Mario kart with me at my apartment

Oh, most definitely.

Several months back I was kinda pulling my hair out over the frustrating state that Apache Airflow was in, because (due to my company’s infosec, SQA, and regulatory policies) I found some delightful mutually-exclusive transitive dependencies when I tried to diverge (with version upgrades to get past CVE-marked releases) the constraints from the officially-packaged constraints.txt. Though, that’s packages, not actual lang level.

Were you around for the 2 -> 3 migration? Now THAT was a categorical shitshow.

Ok that’s actually an excellent point that I hadn’t accounted for lol

In Germany it would simply be amusing and mildly obnoxious, because German waitstaff get paid a living wage and tips are not expected at all. Also, Americans tend to be the only ones who tip.

I know why we ended up where we are. I know the history because I was there: with the Lua/LuaJIT schism, people wanted to support both environments, and targeting 5.1 was a good way to support both. And then 5.2, 5.3, etc. came along and people wanted to keep supporting the latest PUC-Rio Lua, but still felt tied to the 5.1 anchor. I’m sure I’m partly to blame for this because I engaged in this and helped others, by maintaining compat-5.3, itself an evolution of compat-5.2, with a history tracing all the way back to compat-5.0, which predates my involvement with Lua… and then we’re talking over 20 years ago.

So I haven’t worked with Lua myself, but is that right? There are forward-incompatibilities in minor versions…? Because that honestly seems pretty fucking stupid. Making basically every version include breaking changes and refusing to follow semantic versioning standards that are designed to essentially account for that is pants-on-head stupid.

I choose to parse “tool” as a disparaging epithet in this context, instead of the classical definition

I’m so glad the stock tanked as a very direct result.

I’m also glad I ditched them after they started letting ICEatzgruppen run ads on their platform.

Well… yes and no.

I’ve come across people who are (and I’m using the word very intentionally here) proudly obese, often morbidly so. In point of fact, my grandmother was; she simply didn’t see it as a problem.

That whole mentality, to me, has pretty strong echoes of the idiotic dogmatic shit the hard right gets into (read: ivermectin, bleach, antivax/autism fearmongering, etc). It’s not admirable that you look like that if you are super fat. You’re not attractive, and you’re definitely not healthy. I am not advocating for shaming - clearly it’s a healthcare matter that should be addressed by the person’s healthcare providers - but reveling in a deeply unhealthy body state is completely unhinged for more than a few reasons.

I’m relatively confident I’ll be downvoted aggressively for saying that, but whatever.

Jesus I can’t decide whether to laugh or cry 🙃

Just fyi, I’m fairly confident this is satire.

The regime will 100% try to use it as a weapon

Yeah wow hey maybe you should have fucking listened to everyone who’s been saying that for goddamn YEARS. 🫩

Right? I remember vista, and good god was it bad. In fact, I was finishing college and looking for a job back around when W7 was coming out, and I remember specifically asking the interview what had happened with the quality on Vista compared to XP. Turns out the outsourced ALL of their SQA from Redmond to contractors in India. Nowadays, they don’t even have that excuse - it’s dogshit by design these days.

Fuck /u/spez lmao

Microsoft legit single-handedly bringing about the Year of Linux with how they’re turning W11 into categorical dogshit lmfao 🤣

That would be classified as malware, as it is installing something on my system without my desire, consent, or approval.