I remember having a cd player with a skip buffer in it. Still didn’t really work for running like you’re saying but at least I could bounce around on the bus to and from school without it constantly skipping.

I hope he’s right

I’m old enough to remember people lying that compact discs were practically indestructible.

I think the early rounds of those trying to get people to switch to the format were motivated by the fact that tapes were easily recordable by everyone.

Also like solar wind and water power also involve science? As do coal plants? So like, really WTF are we even talking about with science “functioning”?

Edit: Seems like this is just the potato version of the “science is what’s true whether or not you believe it” quote applied to policy…which actually doesn’t work.

It doesn’t matter whether or not nuclear plants are possible if humans don’t build them. The science backing them existing is meaningless.

It’s almost like…one is the leader of the richest country in the world and the other is running a government office that’s dismantling the government.

Seriously, if you guys were alive in the 1930s or 1940s you’d be there like “I just can’t pick up the paper anymore without talk of this Hitler guy!”.

If you limit yourself exclusively to communities where the “no politics” rule is actually enforced, you’ll exhaust new content within about two minutes each day.

It’s almost like US politics are a historic fucking shit show and that affects many other things.

You can be a content creator. It’s not that difficult to post a meme. Content creators aren’t another species.

Honestly lemmy specifically is good enough to scratch my Reddit itch. We may not be able to post our way out of fascism, but we can certainly post our way out of the centralized, enshittified platforms like Reddit where we came from.

I think it’s more difficult in applications where you want or have to bring a lot of friends to make the apps useful, but in the case of lemmy specifically if there’s a baseline level of activity that’s enough to fulfill 90% of what i used Reddit for (i.e. snarky memes and random back and forths with relative strangers).

It didn’t have to be this way; in a different kind of society it could have been a boon to everyone.

Please continue to espouse this viewpoint even under serious argument from those opposing it. Technology isn’t inevitably shit. There are other types of software we can write, and other types of technology we can develop that isn’t the result of some sweaty CTO hovering over our shoulders demanding that we make the world shittier for the sake of the shareholders.

We have to imagine the worlds we could’ve created through better choices. We have to imagine that we can change the course of things.

The overwhelming majority of software ever written is fucking terrible and causes more problems than it solves.

Since software is easily copiable and mutable, that small sliver of good software gets replicated all over the place and serves as a foundation for other software, both good – and at the risk of repeating myself – and mostly bad.

People would be better off considering new tech as the tool it is rather than seeing every piece of software as inherently better than the thing it replaces.

Come to think of it, Twitter is almost a necessary tool for speculative investing and the undeserved growth of the current stock market (which at this point is mostly based upon idle index fund investments, and retail investors following hype cycles). It’s essentially a stock market manipulation tool for politicians and CEOs that allows them to skip the press releases and hype up their stocks instantly and directly.

Maybe optimize your fucking code you bunch of stupid losers.

That wouldn’t allow him to also simultaneously pay low wages.

Extreme programming is basically pair programming. It sucks and doesn’t work. Cucumber is also known as “behavioral driven (design/development)” or BDD. It manifests as test documents written in “plain English” that are executed via code. It inevitably becomes unit tests but worse because it’s based mainly around regex matches to bits of text within the steps.

Eventually the only way rich people can get richer is by stealing from other rich people because the economy is so heavily weighted toward the rich that there’s just no money to extract from the poor. I think that’s related to what we’re seeing here … And probably everywhere else as well.

He wrote some hyped up programming books and he was involved in the creation of extreme programming (a bust), cucumber (an almost completely useless waste of time), and agile (an ok idea but in reality it’s a huge bust, it’s biggest effect is that management tells everyone “we need to be agile” all the time).

Tldr: you’re not missing out

Til both that he’s trash and that Uncle Bob is trash. It makes sense honestly, Uncle Bob was always hyped to no end with his mediocre contributions to software. Also the agile manifesto sucks ass.

Is that what the “you can’t download your shit anymore” is really reaching at?

That manual correction: installing Linux.

How this is called that when “lemmygetnaked” would’ve been infinitely better I’ll never know…