This is the first time in a year that I regret being essentially WFH full time.
GuyWhoKilledBear
@GuyWhoKilledBear
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
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RE: In other news today...
Everything from boson is terrible.
Also,
Using data collected by the Collider Detector at Fermilab, or CDF, scientists have now determined the particle's mass with a precision of 0.01%—twice as precise as the previous best measurement. It corresponds to measuring the weight of an 800-pound gorilla to 1.5 ounces.
God bless the American system of measuring things.
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RE: Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!
@topspin True story. In the US, it's a crime to make forged identity documents that claim to be issued by a government, but not by entities that aren't governments, like private schools or clubs or whatever.
Immediately after the fall of the Soviet Union, a couple of Americans figured out that since there was no longer any such government as "the Soviet Union," it wasn't illegal to make or sell forged USSR passports.
So they set up a business intending to sell them as gag gifts and whatnot.
Then the US Government came knocking. Uncle Sam needed a way to get American diplomats out of Iraq on the eve of Desert Storm, and they didn't trust the Iraqis to respect diplomatic immunity.
So the US government bought fake USSR passports to get the diplomats out. Which Iraqi customs fell for.
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RE: Google AI
@Arantor said in In other news today...:
Hmm, something feels off about this.
Google said it suspended Lemoine for breaching confidentiality policies by publishing the conversations with LaMDA online,
Probably fair.
and said in a statement that he was employed as a software engineer, not an ethicist.
This part, though, shows a fundamental misunderstanding of what ethics are. If Google thinks they get to hire a bunch of people and appoint them to be Official Ethicists, and everyone else has to fall in line with what they say, that's even more dystopian than whatever they're doing with AI.
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RE: A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted
This woman obviously has an editor with no sense of humor because, spoiler warning, she does not use the term "ButtCoin" in the entire article.
Filed under: A fool and his not-really-money are soon farted
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RE: Agile Crisis
@izzion said in In other news today...:
This is a bad article. There are problems with Agile, but the author glosses over them in favor of problems that exist in software development in general.
My favorite part is this.
Wischweh himself encountered a turning point while describing a standup meeting to an aunt, a lawyer. She was incredulous. The notion that a competent professional would need to justify his work every day, in tiny units, was absurd to her.
His aunt is a lawyer that's never heard of "billable hours"?
Anyway, Agile isn't your HR department. If you have problems with sexual harassment or people being contentious objectors to building your product, that would have existed regardless of what software engineering methodology you use. And if you have other engineering departments, you probably have the same issues there.
The tension that agile actually invites is that it forces PMs and management to make specific decisions about resource allocation and desired outputs. Some of the Agile ceremonies (specifically backlog refinement and sprint planning) force the PMs and the developers to collaborate so that they both understand each other. It makes it harder for each side of the table to BS each other. If your management style depends on demanding the impossible from your employees, you're going to run into tension. But if your engineering style consists of BSing your boss and screwing around (c.f. Wally from Dilbert), you're also going to have difficulty.
I bet a lot of teams have at least a little of both.
A better article would discuss this mechanic, and maybe point out some ways to solve it.
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RE: WTF Bites
@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
Where else do you think databases come from!?
Well you see, when a bunch of rows and columns are in love with each other...
My wife is watching a movie on the Hallmark Channel where the woman moves to a small town to start a furniture refinishing business after she breaks up with her photographer fiance, who doesn't treat her right.
Then she gets entered into a furniture making contest with a guy, presumably by her friend or someone who's meddling. They initially don't like each other, but they bond and fall in love while they CREATE TABLE.
This being the Hallmark Channel, all the INSERTs happen after the credits roll.
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RE: Administration/Moderation Changes & New Admin Team Nominations
@TwelveBaud said in Administration/Moderation Changes & New Admin Team Nominations:
@Rednaxela said in Administration/Moderation Changes & New Admin Team Nominations:
Ben did a good job all in all, and even if certain decisions were more unilateral than they ought to have been, they seemed like well justified decisions to me.
The main issue with Ben's activities wasn't the basis for doing them.
I disagree. Ben apparently has a drastically different view of what bigotry consists of than most of the forum does and tried to shove it down our throats.
I would never be able to post here again under Ben's definition of bigotry.
Other people have posted in this topic about examples of people Ben agrees with saying bigoted things. Fox was around for years despite being an awful bigot.
Frankly, that's fine. I don't want anyone banned except spammers and doxxers.
Ben did what he did because he was convinced that he was right and that the people disagreed with were so wrong that they needed to be banned. I hope that's not the way this forum is going to be moving forward.
Latest posts made by GuyWhoKilledBear
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RE: The official unpopular opinions thread
@DogsB said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
@ixvedeusi said in The official unpopular opinions thread:
I like daylight saving time.
I like when America is on it but we’re not. I get to watch Ice hockey before going to sleep which gives me more ammo to take potshots at @GuyWhoKilledBear .
Go Bruins!
Well, the Bruins don't give you too much ammo, because my Rangers have the best record in the league.
Also, ask me in the what I think of You Guys getting the President's Trophy last year and getting bounced in the first round.
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RE: Nope, you eat it
@HardwareGeek said in Nope, you eat it:
@GuyWhoKilledBear's Law:
GuyWhoKilledBear's Law is a fact of natural law. I'm just the guy who noticed.
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RE: Stupid questions thread
@Arantor said in Stupid questions thread:
@GuyWhoKilledBear wait, for once, you decided something wasn’t political? Who are you and what have you done with the real person?
The last time you and I had an argument over this, you were claiming that a joke was apolitical and allowed under the non-Garage rules. The punchline of that joke was that Boris Johnson - then the Prime Minister of the UK - was Satan.
Perhaps you're the one who's wrong about this.
But that's OK. I'm only here in Your Garage because I was @mentioned. I'll head back to The Right Garage now, and you can stay here in The Left Garage and get back to being a shitty poster.
I'm sorry I got in your way.
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RE: Stupid questions thread
@Benjamin-Hall said in Stupid questions thread:
@sockpuppet7 said in Stupid questions thread:
what is the meme about Boston being bad? where if came from? Google didn't help
The , specifically @GuyWhoKilledBear. He came up with his eponymous Law, which is that "Everything from Boston sucks". Why he did so is a topic for the , because intensely political by nature.
It's actually not political.
I am a fan of the New York Jets, and as a result I hate our rivals, the New England Patriots. The Patriots are just now ending a 20 year run of dominating the league, which they achieved primarily through numerous cheating scandals. The most famous among them were Spygate and Deflategate, but I can give you chapter and verse on a bunch more if you're interested.
In the aftermath of Spygate, which consisted of the Patriots spying on the Jets, I started noticing that the other Boston-area teams also cheated a bunch. The Red Sox hired the architect of the Houston Astros sign-stealing scandal. The Celtics hung the nets two inches too high to screw with the Warriors' shooting mechanics. The Bruins just playing dirty. Et cetera. Et cetera. Eventually I noticed the through line that ties it all together:
Everything from Boston is terrible.
The reason @Benjamin-Hall thinks it's political is because most people from Boston are on the other side of the political spectrum from most people in the , so there's a lot of Garage posts that criticize Boston, Bostonians, and colleges near Boston on serious grounds, not just the meme.
But GuyWhoKilledBear's Law originated with sports. It's not political unless the Bostonian thing you're calling terrible is already political.
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RE: I, ChatGPT
@boomzilla's article said in I, ChatGPT:
What is the paperclip apocalypse?
The notion arises from a thought experiment by Nick Bostrom (2014), a philosopher at the University of Oxford.Everything from Bostrom is terrible.
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RE: Scientific Science
@Gern_Blaanston said in Scientific Science:
@GuyWhoKilledBear said in Scientific Science:
@jinpa said in Scientific Science:
33 page paper with 5154 authors.
Everything from Boson is terrible.
Yes. The Boson Red Sox finished in last place the last two seasons.
The Feel Good Stories thread is .
Also don't forget the Pariots' precipitous decline.
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RE: PANTONE® dictates the colour of 2022!
@hungrier said in PANTONE® dictates the colour of 2022!:
@dkf said in PANTONE® dictates the colour of 2022!:
@MrL said in PANTONE® dictates the colour of 2022!:
Disgusting
Makes you wonder if Pantone are based in Boston.
New Jersey, the Boston of states
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RE: Internet of shit
@cvi said in Internet of shit:
@loopback0 said in Internet of shit:
But for the people who are buying a massive fridge with an internet-connected TV on it, Samsung might as well put in a useful feature.
This. I'm not convinced that my fridge needs to send me notifications to my phone if I forget to close the door (as opposed to making some noise I can hear or whatever), but at least, I can sort of see the point of it. The question is whether getting a notification to the phone is useful - if I'm away far enough that I can't hear the fridge making noise, I might not exactly be in a position to close the door anyway.
Around here, it's relatively common for families to have a freezer in either their basement or garage in addition to the one in their kitchen.
In that application, you might not be able to hear the beeping noise from the freezer itself, but you'd be able to hear/see a push notification on your phone.
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RE: Apparently, smart light bulbs aren't so smart
@accalia said in Apparently, smart light bulbs aren't so smart:
me of seven eight years ago would have loved to know that Philips Hue would be shit.....
i havent had much issues, but i have a bulb that's failing and it's like.... i ocould get one new hue bulb and everyhting continues to work as is..... or i get a bunch of new lights to convert to a new, hopefully better for longer system..... but that's money and effort.... but the longer i procrastinate it's more money and more effort.....
decisions.... decisions....
I was scared out of buying into the Phillips ecosystem by two things, one of which was this topic, which is almost that old.
The other is I'd sound like a crazy person when I pronounced is as Who-Eh, like the city in Vietnam, which I would do accidentally all the time.
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RE: YouTube does not allow ad blocking ... sort of
@da-Doctah said in YouTube does not allow ad blocking ... sort of:
Last night I was watching some documentary video on YouTube and just as the guy in the video shifted from one leg to the other in preparation for his own embedded sponsorship spiel, YouTube interrupted the commercial for a commercial.
Counterpoint: If they're going to insert an ad break anyway, it's better for them to do it right before the guy goes to his own ad than to interrupt the flow of the show.