I don’t even need to buy them. They just pile up unread

How? I’ve read this many times, but I never understood it. Do people just hand them out on the street or is it customary to give bibles as a gift?

I’ve been meaning to watch it for years, thanks for reminding me. I watched half of it when I was a kid but didn’t really understand it yet.

Can I ask where you’re from that it’s a requirement in school? Or was it only in your school?

So you pirate it and donate the normal price to the author directly, right?

No, I hate that. Standup comedy is so overrated, what I want to hear is your phone call!

That’s why in Star Trek the holographic NPCs were programmed to not find this odd. Same when the program took place on Earth in the 20th century, they saw alien species like Klingons as humans.

I might be in the minority but I prefer to do it like this: Boolean(m).

It’s the same thing but less cool. On the flip side it’s easier to read when you have a line full of operators.

I expected Jessica to be the one who caused the accident that killed Anon’s parents, and that’s how she became blind.

Good story tho

I find it to be an interesting solution looking for a problem. There could be many applications but I’ve yet to see one that blockchain could solve better than anything else that we already have, outside of crypto currencies.

Web3 is an interesting thought experiment but I don’t see how it would work in real life. It would be extremely slow, data loss would be a daily occurrence and it would be a privacy/security nightmare.

I dislike Mastodon for the same reason I dislike Twitter. It seems to me like it’s more centered around individual people and what they share rather than building multiple communities around multiple things that interests me.

Sure, I can craft my own community, but then I have a feed where I only encounter posts from the same people, and chances are, opinions that I already agree with. It’s not as easy to switch from a tv show to programming, for example. Yes, hashtags exist but they don’t even come close to communities on Lemmy.

The worst part are the types of posts that only reiterate how stupid “the other side” is without seriously trying to understand their arguments. This is not only true about politics but many other topics as well.

I was working on an enterprise web application, there was a legacy system that everyone hated and we replaced it with a more modern one.

We got a ticket from our PO to introduce a 30 sec delay to one of our buttons. It sounded insane, but he explained that L1 support got too many calls and emails where users thought said button was broken.

It wasn’t, they were just used to having to wait up to 5 minutes for it to finish doing its thing, so they didn’t notice when it did it instantly.

We gradually removed that delay, 10 seconds each month, and our users were very happy.