@D-4got10-01 I forgot tech used to have ethics. must be a leftover

they used to care about their reputation of longevity. now instead we blame users when they don't like yet another app redesign in 6 months, telling their users that they're wrong in their opinions and psychologically they'll get over it, our studies say so!

@D-4got10-01 oh

i didn't know your company didn't sell custom controllers or something

it's just weird you would try to remove control-schemes that might wear down a user's hardware... like that's kind of not your problem, tehe

(or your parent corp might be in partnership with the controller providers and incentivized across the board, to bring in an analog from other sectors)

but if they wear down more hardware we can sell more hardware... unrealistic!

@Lensflare narcissistic of you to think there's one definite definition and everyone is using the same one instead of it being situationally, experiencially, and culturally shifting all the time

@Lensflare do u have a definition of narcissism in mind or is this trolling

@whimsical what's the service men won't do in slav countries

@whimsical i have bf, only dude I found who wasn't a dick (which is funny cuz he's pro toxic masculinity). Also didn't leave me when i was sick. props. people drop you like a hot potato when you're no longer providing them with services it seems

me and him are both poor tho. womp womp. so can't move in together. and he keeps going into debt despite working various jobs. America's a shithole. no person I ever met that lives there isn't pervasively too poor to eat without skipping meals

6-7 years til you have to work... I have a year left. wish I spent the last 5 years actually doing what I like, but instead it was suffering and dying due to health issues. life's cruel. don't even know how to fight for myself anymore, not that such a thing is ever taught to anyone though

slavs really like women's day for some reason

I'm a woman, can't really complain. seems genuine and innocent unlike the wokeism stuff in the west which garners opportunism and passive aggression

big corpos buy small companies to pre emptively kill competition. the startup dream outcome in current era

@Lensflare miswak, wheat germ, olive leaf, dandelion, vitamin bs, selenium, magnesium, cordyceps, lion's mane, bacopa monneira, moringa, ginger, lemon, hibiscus, chamomile, onion, fish oil, vitamin c and random bioflavanoids, methyl b12

drank some licorice root tea yesterday and that freaked me out, forgot it lowers inflammation so much independent of other inflammation-lowering substances

they changed my goddamned yogurt in my grocery order from plain to vanilla saying they had no plain. except the store is still selling plain... and I didn't think to check the ingredients to reject the change... the plain yogurt has no sugar and I can't eat sugar, but the vanilla has added sugar and I've been having a horrible time eating it, and I'm poor and stubborn. I hate my life. fuck the vaccine and its consequences. thanks for asking how my health's doing though

@Lensflare ye basic math in head helps you spend a little energy for big outcomes. I don't think paper math is useful, that one def is better in a calculator or word/excel/a program

in regards to the AI:

the russians figured out if you change the words available to a society then you change how they think and the sorts of concepts they can navigate, abilities and behaviours they can think to do

similarly, like if you can't do math in your head you're limited in your ability to quantify, if you don't have words in your head you'll be limited in your ability to qualify

you're the mashup of your 5 closest friends, and now nearly every person has an AI friend that informs their vocabulary and grammar. we'll careen towards AI-set linguistics. AI is the most famous public figure everyone listens to the cadence of

like zoomers with their slang but worse

@Lensflare thing is what I noticed when I became an adult is the people at my job can't seem to do basic math in regards to their compensation or insurance... or the supposed bonuses the company was giving (for example for doing illegally unpaid overtime you got a bonus end of the year, but the bonus was 1/20th of the overtime they would've been paid lol?)

so while you can have a calculator the impulse to automatically do basic math in your head would've still been more adaptive. even with friends they would buy things that if you crunched the numbers made no sense (and then they would confront me about why aren't I struggling, not realizing nor even caring it's the math)... even with computer science graduates they wanted to go move to expensive cities where the rent and cost of living ensured that salary in that city made you poorer even on absolute terms, but it wasn't anything anyone took into account because they never developed the habit of quickly doing math in their head

HERE'S WHERE IT GETS SERIOUS

@Lensflare I get a kick out of negative ones but positive and neutral ones I ignore / don't make me feel anything. I'm trying to setup the ability to be motivated by them

@Lensflare but your comments are negative, silly!

@Lensflare I'm trying to be!

i didn't know bicycles had keys

@whimsical https://devrant.com/rants/19404083/...

when you post and it does slim error it seems it posts it but only on your profile and not on the recent feeds page. then you can't post it again because technically you already posted (though in devrant if you delete your <2 hour ago post you can post again because the timer limit is based on your last post)

you'll wither wherever the weather goes whether you know it or not

a way to get someone (a director) for example is to send them an email warning them about breaches. then you can sue them for ignoring the emails, because "they knew" and didn't do their duty

which is why they like to hide their contact information lol

@D-4got10-01 is about how China was selling fentanyl precursors. and how they dealt with the post opiod wars problem

the Chinese guy who was selling fentanyl precursors fled china to India now

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technically when you incorporate you need to assign directors or something and they hold the liability of the company iirc. at least in Canada. I was looking into starting a corp and turns out you're not exactly shielded from liability...:

Directors owe:
A fiduciary duty (act honestly, in good faith, in the corporation’s best interests)
A duty of care (act with the diligence of a reasonably prudent person)

They can be personally liable for:
Unpaid wages and vacation pay
Unremitted taxes (GST/HST, payroll deductions)
Environmental violations
Oppression claims from shareholders
Breach of fiduciary duty

Microsoft recall should fill out my stupid timesheets at work

to run old software without the person who made the software to have to update to newer operating system and library APIs

lazy compatibility layer that will explode into virus avenues one day I'm sure 😁

anthropic's AI is the best one anyway

good on them for not surveillance or military

let's see how long that lasts lol

well it's an advice even outside software. for those productivity people (mostly students). it's given to business people, too

while in software I used it... used it in game development (and didn't get very far when I did, attributed the issues to something else at the time), I didn't realize it was the task dividing that was actually the problem... in this case I just had a bunch of people go through my apartment and make a mess of it, and I had written down everywhere that needs fixing and cleaning after them. but it's just easier to be in a room or on the way to a room and fix/clean stuff just as I see it (which is also how I coded)... but then because it was a lot of work I would stop at arbitrary spots (put a lot of pressure on myself to NOT code this way and it made me dread it) and then I spent forever correcting my stupid todo-lists... and it's much easier I guess to see how annoying and unhelpful all this is with physical things than abstract things

could also start a political revolution for funsies. write a Magnus opus for the ages

would love to have this problem tho -.-

jelly. cri

been hanging with a friend and he expresses similar things. it's like he's bored of life. he conquered things and now there's nothing really bugging him

he wants kids cuz of it

for some reason they wanna add user activity to AI training

... I'm at this stage currently where I don't believe in refactoring as a general

like so what if the code is messy. you can still read and understand it so leave it

and if the whole codebase sucked (like architecture, performance, old libraries, etc) instead of refactoring it I would just make a new app

so refactoring doesn't really make sense in my mind

it's not like business cares about what you have to deal with. so getting used to working on crappy looking code seems fine. later some other devs will come in and decide all your style guides were ugly and start refactoring again for no reason. and on it goes endlessly. the computer can read it fine though. so you're just giving yourself work that no one will appreciate anyway. and liability because 100% things will always break