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  • Assassination is a Leaky Abstraction

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  • I first heard of it from Joel Spolsky's blog and wikipedia also credits that article with popularizing the concept. In it's original formulation, it was based on remote procedure calls being hidden in APIs. Because a remote computer call has all these limits of latency, packet/info loss, and possible connection loss, it is impossible to make a perfect abstraction that allows the programmer to treat the remote call as though it were local. The reality the abstraction tries to hide "leaks" in those fundamental limits.

    All of contemporary global society is such an abstraction; that's one of the principles of post-modernism. When you buy clothes online an entire invisible work force of shippers, manufacturers, resource procurerers, and more lies beind each article of fabric.

    Pressure from climate change, tariffs, global war, and more are straining the foundations of society and the comfortable abstraction is starting to crack.

  • The Barenaked Ladies version of this meme is unavailable

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  • I really enjoyed it, no crashes on Steam Deck but it runs pretty poorly and yeah, occasional visual bugs.

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  • The dip in usage comes just as Microsoft has been forcing full-screen ads onto the machines of customers running Windows 10 to encourage them to upgrade.

    Yeah no shit! When my computer does full-screen, disruptive things that I didn't tell it to do, I figure out how to remove that malware. I've been off Windows at home for about a month now, thanks Linux Mint! Getting some games to work has been challenging, but most things have just worked and quite a few work much better!

    Performance is up overall, and my confidence that my computer isn't running a bunch of secret ad and spy ware is way up. Hardware like my gamepad and microphone would randomly disconnect and have issues on Windows, all working perfectly now.

    Unfortunately I'm still deep in MS land for work, but there's almost a comedic quality to it. Everything's very slow, everyone has constant issues with Teams, or Office online, or Dynamics, or copilot shoving it's tendrils into everything. Watching businesses struggle to keep operating in the face of Microsoft's inadequacy is like being a mechanic watching a motor grind to a halt because the owner/manufacturer replaced all the oil with syrup.

    Like yes, it's my problem to fix, but I'm just glad it's not my car.

  • Why I regret using 23andMe: I gave up my DNA just to find out I’m British | Technology | The Guardian

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  • I had in some ways the opposite 23&Me experience and goals. My parents told me growing up that I had some small native ancestry. This is actually a common myth many Americans have either been told or somehow deluded themselves into believing.

    So I did the DNA testing (which I now regret from all the obvious enshittification and privacy reasons) to prove that my ancestry was boring and predictable. Which it was, no indigenous ancestry, just the expected European countries that my great grandparents came from.

    They also do a lot of nice health screening things and I think that's probably the much more valuable aspect of it. It really is very American that people are so much more concerned with what DNA says about one's race or ethnicity than about their health and wellbeing.

  • ISPs say their “excellent customer service” is why users don’t switch providers

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  • Every 5 minutes, at max volume:

    YOUR CALL IS IMPORTANT TO US. ALL AVAILABLE OPERATORS ARE HELPING OTHER CUSTOMERS. PLEASE STAY ON THE LINE.

    2 minutes later:

    DID YOU KNOW

    <COMPANY>

    IS WORKING TO SAVE CUSTOMERS LIKE YOU MONEY? UPGRADE YOUR PLAN TO ULTIMATE TODAY AND SAVE! YOU CAN ADD BASIC CABLE TO YOUR INTERNET PLAN FOR FREE FOR 3 MONTHS. MAKE ANY SOUND AT ALL TO LEAVE THE SUPPORT QUEUE AND SPEAK WITH A NEW ACCOUNT SPECIALIST RIGHT AWAY.

    returns to playing compressed elevator music through an old can

  • Sisyphus

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  • Blame Camus

  • TIL that recipes are not protected by copyright law in the USA (and likely Canada)

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  • I visited Ecuador several years ago and got to chew on coca leaves, but they also had coca leaf candies! Both were excellent for helping with altitude sickness, and I really enjoyed the flavor. Had a gentle mood lifting effect too, like a nice cup of tea, but in the form of chewed cud, haha.

  • Some random stranger sent me this image in matrix. What do you think?

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  • I also got randomly sent this image from a matrix on the technics.de server. Aside from all the antisemitism and nazi stuff, I admit I was a little charmed by it. Reminded me of timecube and the good old days of how the Internet used to be a place for nerds, outcasts, and complete fucking psychopaths.

    Edit: Link to proof ཚྒྷཚྒྷ

  • The Poison in my Life

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  • I'm not posting a Snopes link or whatever, but it was Mussolini who allegedly got the trains running on time, and he didn't anyway. Improvements to the Italian rail system were begun under the previous government, and actually the trains weren't particularly punctual under his regime anyway.

  • Let them cool down, for frick's sake!

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  • Ah, the open-mouth reverse blow! But will it be enough to save your palette and tongue from the burn?

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    What internet slang term do you love to use and see used?

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  • As a person who occasionally makes confessional asides "to the camera" I find it amusing to rhetorically ask "Chat" about things. "Ugh, I don't wanna cook tonight. How about it Chat, we ordering pizza?"

  • I've misunderstood you, Cobra

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  • Bigger than Bieber, the old beaver brushed the broken lever while brandishing a bloody cleaver

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  • ¿Por que no los dos?

  • Ah yes, regression

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  • Going into physics was the biggest mistake of my life. I should've declared CS. I still wouldn't have any women, but at least I'd be rolling in cash.

    Honestly, there wasn't all that much cash to roll in and there's less all the time now. Plus, if you think busted equipment is bad, wait until I tell you about inheriting legacy code.

  • When you just finished with your Tuvok shitposting and see a wave of new posts about a different character

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  • It's mot, the greatest haircut in Star Fleet,

    this haircut is just a tribute.

  • Is it true you work well under pressure? IS IT?! [Comiclicious]

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  • "Yeah man, I'm fluent, says so on my CV!"

    "But it just says 'Fluent'. Fluent in what?"

    "What do you got?"

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  • I managed until university when I left calculus and entered "Linear Algebra" and man, I really don't like matrices.

  • Someone out there probably likes feather dusters now

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  • She lost that dump truck ass the feather duster form had, change her back!

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    Will Smith Ripped Epically Bad Fart While Filming Men In Black, Director Says

    kotaku.com /will-smith-men-black-mib-fart-tommy-lee-jones-1851664425
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    Randomly remembered Snoop ultimate smoothness lesson #427

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    Donald Trump Photo Without Ear Bandage Raises Eyebrows

    www.newsweek.com /donald-trump-photo-without-ear-bandage-raises-eyebrows-1931403