[-] TootSweet@latte.isnot.coffee 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Where I work in software development, we were about to undertake writing a pretty large application from scratch. Mostly, the company was a Java plus Spring shop with a few exceptions. One team wrote almost exclusively Python, for instance. But as far as I knew, there wasn't any specific policy requiring the use of any particular language.

So as a team, we pushed to write our new project in Python. It was originally my idea, but my team got on board with it pretty quickly. Plus there was precedent for Python projects and Python was definitely appropriate for our use case.

The managers took it up the chain. The chain hemmed and hawed for months, but eventually made a more official policy that we had to use Java (and Spring).

[-] TootSweet@latte.isnot.coffee 76 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Step 1: Print a photo of your dad.

Step 2: Hold it up to the camera.

Step 3: Play Resident Evil 7.

[-] TootSweet@latte.isnot.coffee 33 points 1 year ago

I don't think the lemmy.ml admins have been coy about it.

If you go to the lemmy.ml home page, at the bottom of the right column is a list of admins.

The first admin's profile banner is a picture of Mao. And the second's profile pic is a photo of Fidel Castro. The other two don't have profile pics that are explicitly authoritarian communist and I haven't had the patience to look through a whole lot of their posts or anything.

Just a couple of Reddit threads (via libreddit.hu) on the topic: one and two. Unfortunately what they link do doesn't appear to be in the wayback machine as far as I've been able to tell.

[-] TootSweet@latte.isnot.coffee 24 points 1 year ago

Cigarettes aren't good for you and it sounds like you're not ready to hear this, but you are addicted.

[-] TootSweet@latte.isnot.coffee 20 points 1 year ago

The world needs more things like Skibidi Toilet. It's reminescent of a brand of bizarre internet humor I thought had permanently died out long ago.

[-] TootSweet@latte.isnot.coffee 42 points 1 year ago

We might be able to answer the question better if you named the "other platforms" you're referring to. It doesn't seem like an unusual amount compared to, for instance, how much communist/transgender content Reddit had back when Reddit wasn't as evil as it is now. (Who knows what Reddit's like now. I haven't been back since the two-day boycott over the API pricing.)

All that said, some of the communist content here is tankies. (That is, authoritarian communists who spout CCP or other authoritarian communist regimes' propaganda.) Some of the Lemmy instances (like latte.isnot.coffe and lemmy.ml) are run by tankies.

That said, a lot of the communist content here is grass-roots anarcho-communist advocacy by people like me who ideologically lean that way.

[-] TootSweet@latte.isnot.coffee 32 points 1 year ago

Trusted computing is back in a new form. :\

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by TootSweet@latte.isnot.coffee to c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml

I didn't know that was something a website could do. But on the main page (that is, '/'), I can't seem to refresh. The refresh button in Firefox doesn't work. Ctrl+r, ctrl+shift+r, and f5 all do not work. Selecting the url and hitting enter doesn't work. I haven't tried in any other browsers. Is this supposed to be a feature?

I'm guessing some folks are going to wonder why I'd ever want or need to refresh. Sometimes, one server or community seems to get "stuck". I'll load my main page (I default to "subscribed/new"), scroll for a bit, and then suddenly the one community gets "unstuck" and starts flooding my feed with (all?) posts from that one community. When it does that, it makes the feed basically unusable. I can't expand out images during that time (and even the thumbnails usually go away on posts for some reason.) The posts move down the page fast enough that I can't read titles or click comment links. It's... a problem.

If I could refresh, I'd have an easy workaround. But right now, the best workaround I've found is to copy the url, open a new tab, paste the url into the new tab, and close the original malfunctioning tab. (Ctrl+l, ctrl+c, ctrl+n, ctrl+v, enter, ctrl+pageup, ctrl+w.)

And, yes, if the issue I describe above would be resolved, that would go a long way toward making it less necessary to allow refreshing. But it's the principle of the thing, you know? Is a web app breaking basic browser functionality considered acceptable? Is being unable to refresh the main page intended?

Now, the instance I'm on is still on an older version. (Specifically 0.17.4.) If any of this is addressed in later versions, that would be awesome news.

Edit: In retrospect, it seems I should have done more experimentation before posting this. Now that I'm trying things, refreshing is working. It takes a second or three to start refreshing, though. I guess my theory at this point is that when I'm experiencing the issue mentioned above, that few seconds turns into a much longer amount of time. (Minutes, I think.) And I just never waited long enough to see that refresh eventually does work. I guess that kindof invalidates much of what I said here, but in case others have insight, I'll leave this post up.

[-] TootSweet@latte.isnot.coffee 25 points 1 year ago

I know this is supposed to be humor, but if philosoraptor is trying to say AI is overhyped, I wholeheartedly agree.

[-] TootSweet@latte.isnot.coffee 96 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Actually, the answer turns out to be pretty interesting.

The short version is that what colors are considered "distinct" are heavily influenced by culture and Newton, from whom we get ROYGBIV, came from a culture which valued the dye called "indego."

Edit: It also seems Newton thought the number 7 had cosmic significance and thought there ought to be 7 colors.

More info in this short video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bf7WT6TLy8s

[-] TootSweet@latte.isnot.coffee 22 points 1 year ago

I had some hands-on computer repair training at a private school once. One old machine wouldn't boot, complaining that it couldn't find the keyboard which was plugged into it. I unplugged it while the computer was on. At the time, unplugging a keyboard while the computer was on was... not a good thing. There was a little curl of smoke, a scorch mark on the motherboard, and a sustained tone from the chassis and that computer breathed its last.

Later, in college, I used the "net send" command on random people in open labs just to watch how confused they got.

[-] TootSweet@latte.isnot.coffee 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Pros:

Cons: We're federating with Threads.

Edit: I appreciate the upvotes, but please use your votes to boost @FormlessMartian@lemmy.world's post with a link to an excellent post enumerating in great detail all the reasons why we should defederate Threads.

[-] TootSweet@latte.isnot.coffee 19 points 1 year ago

First the boss throws a hissy fit and starts handing out "verbal writeups" for things that were his fault. Then he imposes 7:30am demos every day to prove we were actually working and not... I guess slacking?

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