Not banned… at least not that I know of. Just saw the writing on the wall after the API horseshit.

And here I’d assumed he’d cath’d himself.

Part of the reason that “JavaScript sucks” is BECAUSE it doesn’t have alternatives. If you want to build a WebApp that manipulates the DOM, JS has the ONLY API to do it.

For me, “JavaScript sucks” not really because of the language itself, but because there’s such a massive disconnect between what it was designed for (small amount of bells and whistles within a web page), and what the ecosystem uses it for (foundation for entire GUI applications).

If you want to build WebApps, learn JavaScript, then do all your development with TypeScript, and be VERY mindful of the third-party dependencies you pull into your project.

The rage machine requires fuel.

And how many of your network infrastructure experts, whose job it is to prevent this kinda thing, did you fire, Elon?

I’ve been seeing this headline all week, and didn’t think much of it, since I basically never buy from Amazon. But I’d forgotten they own Twitch. And boy, do I use a lot of Twitch. Unfortunately, in the way of money, it’s pretty much all subscriptions that are already paid for. None of those are coming up for renewal next week, that I could cancel. I could definitely just not watch anything next week, but the union that organized this says they’re looking for drops in sales. Not watching would only contribute to that if I would have been served ads. I’m wondering if I should instead try spread the word of the boycott, in the streams I watch.

I dunno, what do y’all think?

Props to whoever this company is. This is one of the best bits of customer service I’ve seen in years.

Collusion among all the big players in an industry, in order to exclude other players from succeeding in that industry is indeed anti-competitive, and potentially illegal. There’s potential merit here in businesses coordinating with each other on who to blacklist withing the industry, which is why lawyers were willing to take on the case.

Ultimately, it’s a question for a judge whether they’re doing this for the purpose of suppressing competition, somehow, or whether they’re doing it for valid business reasons (like, say, avoiding a company with a history of not paying its bills, or avoiding a company with a history of sabotaging business relationships, or avoiding a company that their own customers actively hate, and would lose them business).

Of course, with the courts the way they are these days, I’m not holding my breath for the obviously-sensible ruling.

Better him than Musk.

It’s fraud. They publicly claimed, point-blank, to do a certain thing for years, and were instead doing the opposite, in the interest of making more money. The affiliate link thing is only one of several points that they’re suing over. The far more egregious one is that they don’t actually “scour the internet to find you the best coupons” They will actively hide better coupons that they know about, if marketplaces pay them to, and still tell you in the browser “this is the best coupon.”

Look into getting SmartTube for the TV. Works pretty great for me

A very large portion (maybe not quite a majority) of software developers are not very good at their jobs. Just good enough to get by.

And that is entirely okay! Applies to most jobs, honestly. But there is really NO appropriate way to express that to a coworker.

I’ve seen way too much “just keep trying random things without really knowing what you’re doing, and hope you eventually stumble into something that works” attitude from coworkers.

The two models, […] each offer a minimum of 3TB per disk

Huh? The hell is this supposed to mean? Are they talking about the internal platters?

He alluded to it in the first video, and I think it’s spot on.

They ended up with an “inventory problem”. Which is to say, some business major in the company somewhere, or a consultant or whatever saw that they were spending money to store it all, and said “A company’s assets should never cost money, they should MAKE money” or some such business speak. Ultimately that translated into every layer of the business being instructed to prioritize using that that old inventory, somehow, or pushing it to customers.

“People don’t really want to buy all this older hardware off of us, but we can convince people who don’t know any better to rent it.”

“We don’t have enough 4090s to keep up with demand for these high-end rentals, but we’re sure as hell not buying more when we have all these perfectly-good 4080s lying around.”

Love detailed shit like this.

Pretty much my feelings. I won’t celebrate violence and death, but I’m not gonna pretend that the world isn’t a LOT better off without him. Or that there’s some really funny takes floating around out there.

Please, half the Republicans in Congress are gay or bi. They don’t give a shit.

Gaetz is getting ousted because they’ve realized he left REAL evidence behind, and they’re not going to be able to suppress it if he takes the position, and someone leaks it. Might still get leaked, anyway

A little off-topic: anyone else read this as “BCA Chefs”, initially?

As if the new notepad wasn’t already enough of a downgrade.

Did they, though? Do we know how Nevaeh Crain and Candace Fails voted? Would that somehow make it okay?

The fact thay people who have done nothing to support these policies can still be killed by them is PRECISELY the problem.