Yeah, I think this is a big part of it. The Star Trek sub’s total abandonment of Reddit and conversion to a standalone Lemmy instance during the Blackout was a big deal and a big driver of traffic in those days and beyond.
Star Trek is big in the Threadiverse for the same reason that Earth is big in the Federation. They were a massive force in the early days.
Studies have shown that people change at a certain amount of money, like they cross a line in the sand. When you can buy anything everything just becomes yours by default in your mind. And anyone who can’t do that are basically sheep dogs - useful but not worth your time. These studies were done in the twenty-tens and the number then was between 20 and 30 million for most people. Imagine your view on the world if you have 100 times that amount.
That airport is too busy. I feel bad for the controllers.
Yeah. Computer fashion has been a thing since even before the blueberry imac and hello kitty purse macbook made computers status symbols. A current fashion trend is “RGBLEDs make gaming machines go brrrr!”
Good idea. Maybe we can also do active hashtags to follow.
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One of our cats care’s 0% for most foods but will beg for provolone cheese. Only provolone.
And tuna but that’s not weird.
$4 punk shows on Fridays and $6 rock shows on Saturdays. Unless one of the bands was getting radio play then it was $8 or $12.
The wealthy will get government bailouts that they’ll use to displace people in some place that’s currently safe and rich in resources.
I don’t know about you, but my hands aren’t made of grease.
But to answer your question (in terms of D&D 5e subclasses) I think dish soap would be the work of the Clockwork Soul Sorcerers.
You can cram “VIM mode” into whatever IDE you like, but you’ll never do it as well as terminal vim.
Apache. The problem is there is foundational software in the world that is aging and not being actively maintained. Basically they jump into action when someone catches a security issue, but also that way too many of those security issues only get found when they’re being actively exploited. Even if it’s being used by your bank.
I’ve never not cared about my code. And If I didn’t care about users depending on it I’d feel like a monster.
Yes, but if you’re lucky maybe 1 in 100,000 users will be both capable and willing to take up the reins. More often than not, when single (principal) developer projects lose its single developer the project just goes into code rot. ASF maintains tons of projects that are too valuable to lose completely but which have no one doing active development on them. It’s a problem.
I wonder if Amazon is seeing this and having regrets about
This is why I never build any of my app ideas. I don’t want people to notice when I wake up one day and decide I don’t want to work on it anymore. Of course people tend to not like my UX ideas so its probably a fear I don’t need to have.
Individual scripts/modules and even simple microservices: not long… provided the AI isn’t actively poisoning itself right now.
Writing, securing, and maintaining complex applications: We’d need another breakthrough.
Since my role is often solutions architecture I’ve been worried about cloud systems engineering being something that’s immediately vulnerable. But after working with AWS’s Q for a couple hours, I am less worried. But if someone made an AI to create a cloud provider that is well (and accurately) documented, consistent in functionality and UX, and which actually has all the features that get announced in its own blog posts; then AI might be able to run it.
Techwise, in addition to directly following big tech sites like Ars, Techchunch, and others I also am subscribed to the Techmeme feed because that’ll surface things from all major outlets. For news I mainly follow more local stuff, but I do sub to feeds from ProPublica and 404 Media, since they break a lot of stories.