[-] Empathy@beehaw.org 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The advice I'm most scared not to follow as I get older: don't dismiss everything that the younger generations say or do as being just a trend, and learn more about it.

[-] Empathy@beehaw.org 9 points 2 months ago

Anything that involves deception, which unfortunately seems to be most of marketing.

I don't mind when people just try to get their product out there, just let it be known that it exists and does X thing differently or better. I hate when they mean to deceive. Something that is intended to deceive but isn't technically a lie is not really better than a lie, to me.

[-] Empathy@beehaw.org 12 points 6 months ago

Two days ago, I wouldn't have felt particularly strongly about this sentiment, but my last few comments yesterday had some interesting interpretations...

[-] Empathy@beehaw.org 50 points 8 months ago

I use main because, although I never heard of anybody actually getting offended by master, it costs me nothing to use main instead. Also it looks prettier and seems to be the new convention ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[-] Empathy@beehaw.org 9 points 8 months ago

My Canadian bank just charged me $45 CAD twice and only noticed me a day after the second charge. I didn't notice because I no longer use it. I wish the limit was $3...

[-] Empathy@beehaw.org 22 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I used to work at Costco, although only for a summer.

Every time I shared my experience working at Costco to friends and family, they were quick to jump to Costco's defense, as if I was insulting a dead relative. Countless times, if not every single time, I heard "it's probably only the Costco you worked at".

For comparison, I also worked at Walmart, and my experience there was neutral, but I've had some people try to dig for bad experiences. There were some bad experiences, but at the end of the day, when I clocked out, I was done working (unlike Costco).

Don't put too much trust into these corporations.

[-] Empathy@beehaw.org 37 points 9 months ago

I really like WEBP.

It supports transparency, animations, and compression, and seems to look really good even with very strong compression. It's a shame that, despite it coming out 13 years ago, it's still barely supported by so much software.

[-] Empathy@beehaw.org 15 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Co-pilot can write some small very simple functions for me, sometimes saving me the need to look at documentation. It will still often fail at those, in my experience, and will consistently fail at anything more complex.

It will get better, but currently it's only a small help.

[-] Empathy@beehaw.org 17 points 1 year ago

Thanks for all the great work you guys are doing with this instance. This place feels nicer than Reddit.

[-] Empathy@beehaw.org 29 points 1 year ago

Great to know this was a bug. It felt a tad immersion breaking for every origin character to be so interested all of a sudden.

[-] Empathy@beehaw.org 11 points 1 year ago

I love both proprietary software and open source software, and personally I kinda like this warning.

How much of a concern it is for software's code to be proprietary, is probably personal opinion. For this reason, maybe yellow is a bit too much? I think making these errors grayscale might be a good middle ground.

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