“Even deader internet theory”.

Wait, so some people just have a dangling piece of colon attached to nothing but their anus?

Honestly, it could be kind of cool.

If you’re doing it right, the juxtaposition of “profound” graphical appearance and nonsensical/banal text content can be funny.

Or at least not permanent.

I grew up in the early 2000s and while starting somewhere around 2005 cameras and the first social sites became a thing, nothing of that exists today. Myspace and SchülerVZ (German Facebook clone) were super popular, but don’t exist anymore. Camera phones didn’t have an easy way to export photos and most hard drives from back then just died at some point. There’s hardly anything left. And that’s a good thing.

I have no local thrift store, and the speakers you can find here are often too big. I just wanted small cheap speakers to listen to YouTube videos and essentially an extension cord to plug my (proper) headphones into.

I mean, soundwise they’re fine. Not awesome, but for the price perfectly ok. It’s just that everything else is crap for no reason.

I bought a cheap set of speakers for my workshop PC.

They have two buttons. One is the combined mode/on/off button. Short press turns it on, another short press cycles through different modes, which are not explained anywhere, but have different LED colors. One mode (line in) looks almost exactly like the red standby led, it just has a bit of a blue LED also lit. Pressing it long turns it off.

The second button switches between a regular and a “speech bubble” mode. I’m not sure what that’s supposed to do. However, longpressing that button switches between speakers and headphones.

Then there’s the volume knob. It’s extremely non-linear and has a delay of a second or two, so you have to be really precise. The volume knob is also not really synced to the headphone amp, so each time you put on headphones, you have to turn the volume like crazy, and then remember to turn it down again.

And the maximum fuck you: the speakers are so lightweight, that they slip around when trying to press the buttons, so you always need two hands.

Absolute garbage. Why are they going out of their way to create a worse product? It doesn’t make sense.

Damnit, that’s exactly the joke I wanted to make.

And even worse: bad polling amplifies the interpretation the pollsters want to see.

In this case, there’s no link to or mention of the actual question. Just the in favor/not in favor distribution.

Did they ask “the government should implement laws to ban children” or did it say “rules to prevent children from signing up”?

Did they mention the age limit? Asking any children and teenagers might lead to very different results.

And so on. If you can’t find the exact question, polls like this are useless.

I already thought about that, but never really could justify switching.

I would argue, though, that it’s not customization, but rather packages themselves changing over time and sometimes just break.

And sometimes you have crap like a full boot partition, because apt decided to keep all Linux versions for some reason.

The carelessness. Mac OS is far from perfect, but it just happily chugs along. Linux often creates problems by just existing for too long. It’s gotten much much better, but it’s still not good.

Idiodin itself can’t get “bad” in any way. The carrier material might go bad, but that’s also just starches and a few mineral compounds. At worst, you get powder instead of a pill.

The expiration dates on medication are intentionally extremely conservative.

I mean, look at the username.

And that’s actually part of the problem: your title doesn’t mean anything.

Not that you’re not leading, but what “lead” or “senior” actually means is completely arbitrary.

In one project I’m lead in, I wrote maybe 5 lines of actual code, because I was in meetings, wrote documentation, did release management (well, I wrote pipelines here, but that’s like 200 lines), etc. The actual leg work was done by 4 or five other guys.

But in another project, I’m lead of myself and another bloke, of course I’m writing code in that one.

So it’s completely possible to have a bunch of guys with the “developer” tag on their title, but they’re not doing much developing.

That’s the thing: You can’t know that.

We don’t know what was meant, we don’t know what happened.

So the autistic insistence on nitpicky details adds zero clarity to anything. It’s inherently unknowable.

The “correct” term is the one the target audience understands to mean what is happening.

The “difference”, again, is academic. They are de facto used interchangeably. Did the author know the difference? No idea. Could anyone tell, which group the people in question belong to? Probably not.

So what exactly are you trying to achieve here?

Actually watch the video, you’re way too generous in your analysis.

The metric is essentially lines of code. That’s it.

So everyone who isn’t hacking away ultra verbose code is considered useless. Lead devs and architects often don’t write any code at all. They’re not unproductive.

Statistically speaking, a few of them definitely fucked up at some point and accidentally did the right thing. Or committed suicide.

And you really think people use and understand these terms like that?

You may be correct in the academic sense, but completely wrong in all other senses.

If you want to get all philosophical (which is probably a bit too far, it’s George Lucas after all), you could make the argument that the downfall of the Republic is an example of a complacent, non-responsive governmental elite failing to react or even just recognize obvious problems.

The Jedi are just warrior monks and symptomatic for that. They didn’t bring her with them, because they don’t care about people that much. They are above the population and act more like demigods.

See, if you would have read my comment and actually bothered to understand it, you would have seen, that I haven’t said no one is at fault here.

So I have to assume, you’re arguing in bad faith, you’re putting words in my mouth to defeat a straw man, while not addressing any of my actual points.

So maybe pull that infantile sarcasm out of your ass and try actually thinking about what you’re saying.