Posts by cube_drone@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #Ajjl9XflZawjJsuwN6 by cube_drone@mastodon.social
2024-07-08T23:51:02Z
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I often see the quote "if you can't measure it, you can't manage it", which is catchy enough to have a lively life of its ownBut the full quote is "It is wrong to suppose that if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it – a costly myth."it's one of the worst frequent misquotes because the misquote literally inverts the meaning, it's like if I said "don't light children on fire" and someone were to quote me as having said "light children on fire", which is technically true, I guess
(DIR) Post #Ajjl9aITod6NSX2szY by cube_drone@mastodon.social
2024-07-08T23:51:38Z
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"light children on fire" - Cube Drone
(DIR) Post #AjjlUj9y3kGZ1m96Ei by cube_drone@mastodon.social
2024-07-09T00:21:27Z
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@drgeraint if that were the case, more people would be saying "when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind" which is way more satisfying
(DIR) Post #AnI2hkS6xeZpoU7sUy by cube_drone@mastodon.social
2024-10-23T06:50:24Z
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@foone hell has circles, not layers, you're thinking of the OSI reference model
(DIR) Post #AqHLeR9FTihMYHslk0 by cube_drone@mastodon.social
2025-01-20T08:51:35Z
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jesus christ, CBC, what recipe was she searching for
(DIR) Post #AqHLeWF6XNLyLtf13w by cube_drone@mastodon.social
2025-01-20T08:53:45Z
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(in the actual story she found the video because she was poking around the browser history of her boyfriends' laptop, but the headline makes it sound like AllRecipes.com was hosting the video under their recipe for Broccoli Casserole or something)
(DIR) Post #AqmfxJzdXLzfTHo39c by cube_drone@mastodon.social
2025-02-04T09:13:09Z
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just having the weirdest interactions in a r/webdev conversation where folks are pushing, reviewing, and merging pull requests in their own personal single-person repositories and I'm like "why would you do that?" and they're like "well how else do you merge a branch" and I finally realize the mistake I've made
(DIR) Post #As1SnTmt8ZIrymOXhI by cube_drone@mastodon.social
2025-03-12T09:12:03Z
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the secret to good Italian food is to loudly announce "MAMMA MIA" every time you add garlic to a pan. if you don’t do this, the garlic will sense your fear and burn immediately. this is science.olive oil. if your recipe says "2 tablespoons," ignore it. pour until your ancestors whisper "basta" in your ear. then pour a little more. then discard the pasta and begin drinking the olive oil straight. loudly announce "MAMMA MIA". you have done it. now you are the chef. kiss your fingers and wink.
(DIR) Post #As2HWjLT8UWUyDLAZs by cube_drone@mastodon.social
2025-03-14T01:37:27Z
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You want to simultaneously juice Canadian tech and cripple American tech? Offer expedited citizenship for LGBTQ+ Americans Trust me it'll work
(DIR) Post #Au3xLybIZJl8KMLTWK by cube_drone@mastodon.social
2025-05-13T19:18:50Z
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I don't have to imagine, I've even tried taken medication for that exact same problem before, what I don't understand is why you'd WANT that
(DIR) Post #Au3xM40ITnj75L50gC by cube_drone@mastodon.social
2025-05-13T19:23:11Z
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god: i have made Mankind angels: you fucked up a perfectly good monkey is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
(DIR) Post #Ay1lqzPOnsLysMPviS by cube_drone@mastodon.social
2025-09-08T20:01:11Z
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@cmconseils
(DIR) Post #Az2yWM9tVvsBMPc3pw by cube_drone@mastodon.social
2025-10-07T02:55:32Z
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Lately #Discourse has been including all kinds of generative AI features that I'd literally have to pay API providers to use, and aside from the actual, legitimate use case of spam detection in non-private communities, I can't imagine who's asked for _any_ of these features.
(DIR) Post #Az2yWNjjeA8WFrOCLA by cube_drone@mastodon.social
2025-10-07T02:56:14Z
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"now your users can generate images right from discourse using your money" yeah, well, before today they could have generated images using _their_ money and posted _that_, how is this better?
(DIR) Post #Az2yWOTosp02Ymx0Ai by cube_drone@mastodon.social
2025-10-07T02:57:46Z
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"you can do sentiment analysis of posts in your community"it's a private community full of software developers over the age of 40, many with kids, the sentiment is always "tired", I don't need an AI to tell me that
(DIR) Post #Az2yWUdbzKOhetZuGe by cube_drone@mastodon.social
2025-10-07T03:02:17Z
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I'm pretty sure the Discourse target market is exclusively late-Gen-X to Early Millennial because nobody else is old enough to even still _want_ a forum, the Children communicate by sending furry VR-sona Tiktoks to private Discord communitiesbuild an AI that automatically posts relevant quotes from The Simpsons (seasons 2-10) and reassures us that Final Fantasy VI and Cowboy Bebop were the apex of media and NOW we're in business
(DIR) Post #Az2yWbHBJ7cAFM8amG by cube_drone@mastodon.social
2025-10-07T03:05:57Z
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"yes, millennial AI, you CAN has cheeseburger"
(DIR) Post #B08G42x6bCzpKbKOHI by cube_drone@mastodon.social
2025-11-11T09:39:48Z
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I've been on the internet for... the entirety of it, actually, and two unchanging constants are posts complaining that "kids these days are worse" and "computer programs are too bloated"
(DIR) Post #B08G44Yicqg4JXvwXo by cube_drone@mastodon.social
2025-11-11T09:49:02Z
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Posts going all the way back to Usenet complain that programmers these days are using too many resources, including too many features, wasting processor cycles and RAM and disk space that could have been used more efficiently by the kinds of trim, svelte programs that existed in the years prior when developers could deliver twice as many features on three transistors held together by a twig and some gum
(DIR) Post #B1eoRbloxKCikcTpIW by cube_drone@mastodon.social
2025-12-27T00:37:16Z
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if you ever have a CAPTCHA that asks you to identify traffic lights, do it QUICKLY or some guy in a Waymo somewhere could die