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merc, to lemmyshitpost in Jolly Old Saint Schrödinger

Yes, but no.

A quantum Santa could deliver presents to every house simultaneously if nothing observed his passage. On the other hand, at some point the wave function will collapse, like say when people check what presents are under the tree. When the wave function collapses, the probabilities all go away and there’s a single answer, so he could deliver presents to one and only one house.

merc, to lemmyshitpost in Jolly Old Saint Schrödinger

So only Noone needs to wear a blindfold?

merc, to linuxmemes in Yeah, very sorry that this app is Windows only, would love to switch to Mac

MacOS is still Unix under the hood, and has been since they adapted NeXTSTEP.

Maybe it’s just because I’m fundamentally more of a console user than a windowing-system user, but to me a Unix-based OS is always going to be a winner compared to Windows.

But, if you want to laugh at OSes, laugh at classic MacOS, where everything would grind to a halt if you clicked and held the mouse button.

merc, to lemmyshitpost in trash

Anything talking about the evolution of the “Trash Can Icon” should be starting with the Apple version that Microsoft copied.

merc, to piracy in Pluralistic: “If buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t stealing”

Simplify that to “Piracy isn’t stealing”. Copyright infringement (so-called piracy) is very different from stealing.

Sure, if “buying” isn’t permanent despite assurance it was at the time, then copyright infringement is even more justified. But, copyright infringement isn’t and has never been stealing.

merc, to memes in I sure hope I can keep up!

This wasn’t a call center, it was a sysadmin / software development sweatshop workspace.

merc, to programmer_humor in what's the difference?

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merc, to programmer_humor in what's the difference?

Sure… and you could pass around porn on thumb drives. But, having a central website where you can browse public repos and clone the interesting ones is a pretty key part of Open Source / Free Software development.

merc, to memes in I sure hope I can keep up!

Nope, just a massively overcrowded office building. The ventilation system could barely keep up. But, management made it clear to us that the reason for the open office layout was to encourage collaboration and foster creativity!

merc, to programmer_humor in what's the difference?

A key difference:

If you rely too much on PornHub, you’re never going to get fucked.

If you rely too much on GitHub, you’re eventually going to get fucked.

merc, to memes in I sure hope I can keep up!

That looks quiet and positively spacious compared to the last open office environment I did time in.

Imagine that same space but 4 people between the column and the window instead of just 2. Then make the space 3x as long. Then reduce the space between the backs of the chairs by 50%.

Even though everyone in the space was doing individual programming / sysadmin work, the space was extremely loud just from a few spontaneous conversations between people working on the same thing together. Everyone wore headphones nearly all the time, only taking them off if they needed to talk / shout to the people near them about something. Often, if you needed to talk with someone sitting 4 desks away, the easiest way to do it was over IM.

merc, to programmer_humor in what's the difference?

Git is a DVCS. GitHub is a place where DVCS repositories are hosted. There are many other places where DVCS repositories can be hosted, but GitHub is the most famous one… Porn is a type of content. PornHub is a place where porn is hosted. There are many other places where porn can be hosted, but PornHub is the most famous one. It’s a pretty good analogy.

merc, to lemmyshitpost in Success is built through GAMBA

If you’re rich you can afford to gamble, lose and try again.

If you’re poor, you can gamble, win, and then have to spend your winnings helping out your family and community. Like, paying for the operation your uncle needs but couldn’t afford, or helping mom’s friend from church avoid losing her home.

This is a reason that a lot of poor-person owned businesses don’t grow. They may start strong, but then the business owner has trouble continuing to invest.

merc, to lemmyshitpost in Propagandists love this simple trick

This makes me wonder what would happen if you took the content off some celebrity-focused website like say TMZ but changed the formatting to make it look like New York Times articles.

Like, the “gravitas” of the NY Times politics section with content like “Guess Whose Shirtless Selfie!”

merc, to piracy in If purchasing isn’t owning, then piracy isn’t stealing

Wage theft isn’t theft, it’s fraud.

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