Developers, developers, developers!

On the plus side, the Outlook team’s Agile burndown charts for the last 8 sprints look perfect!

Or… you and a friend on another floor put your keys under each other’s mats. Then you both always have a way in and the chance of a burglar figuring it out is almost zero.

“But,” he continued, “If you put an obsolete anthrax-infected key under your mat, that’s one burglar we don’t have to worry about.”

I would think wow that’s terrible parking, and would wonder if they’ll get a ticket from somebody who makes a living putting tickets on improperly parked cars.

Yeah it sucks that the Internet won’t let you create your own better posts about more modern games.

Translation: “We were just shitting you, so don’t buy our game.”

Hopefully they’ll just use steel slats!

Conservative America is driven so hard by the fear of somebody poorer than you getting something you’re not.

Social media would become a ghost town.

To call the unimpeded development of AI data centers anything other than the rape of the natural world is confusing to me.

Yes, and if the comment I replied to, which started this side conversation, had contained such explicit context I wouldn’t have had a problem with it. But in fact it was a top-level comment that simply said, “That’s called being a rapist everybody,” leaving the meaning of “that” up to the reader. I took it to mean a state governor getting caught callously disregarding the will of her public. You might be preoccupied with AI and datacenters, but I think politicians not doing their jobs is a much larger issue - because if we really had representative government the public would be able to stop datacenters when they wanted to, not to mention handling other important issues.

It’s just the American Chopper socialism argument meme with all the word bubbles saying <deleted>.

So much verbiage and analysis for objecting to calling political lies “rape”. I’m not gonna argue this - I guess just consult a dictionary.

Yes, and you understand what a patronizing tone is, correct?

I’ve known women who were raped, and bringing it into the conversation to sound cool is lazy social media slop.

People who’ve never done any acting probably can’t appreciate the silliness of this. It’s not a bold, noble stance against AI, it’s a normal conversation between a director and an actor about whether some post-production work will be necessary, and the actor says, “No, I’ll just do it.” People here apparently have no idea how completely normal and inconsequential this is. Maybe Emily Blunt is already an anti-AI icon for other comments, IDK, but any actor could have had this convo without having any opinion on AI.

No, it’s called being a dishonest politician. Have a little respect for rape victims by not using the trauma they went through as a loose conversational metaphor.

I get that this is bad, but extrapolating from an individual comment to “both parties are the same” is pretty sketchy.

Someday digital archaeologists will search for Windows 9, the legendary Lost OS, said to give its users unlimited power.

For some of us the last sane Windows was XP, so we’re well over it. XP was the end of the era when geeks ran Microsoft.

Yes, to me it seems like that would create interesting social changes that I don’t think are easy to predict. Sales and marketing might become more straightforward and fact-based, with less building up of expectations that aren’t real, and less waving of monkey puppets. Conversational behavior could also change - “I don’t want to talk about that” might become a common euphemism for “the truth is uncomfortable and I know you can tell if I’m lying so let’s not go there.”