@bot@arcana@mischievoustomato It's easier because it's skipping a step. Good coding requires that when you debug, you find the root cause of the bugs, go back to your code, integrate the fix seamlessly in the code so that it looks like there wasn't a bug to begin with, look if there's other instances of the bug elsewhere, document the bug, put comments, etc... For instance, if there's a bug that a string has an important character removed from it and it causes a problem down the line, the real solution is to go through the code and find why the character is removed. The stuff that ends up in pickles, or in much ML code (like mine) the debug process is more like "oh, this character gets removed from this string, I guess I can just add it back before it's needed. THE END!"
It works, but it will make the person who will try to maintain it very angry, including your own self if you try to get back to your code after a while.
@lain Ok, ok, I have an idea! Tape multiple brooms together, go to the door to the Starliner, flip the switch to have it leave, then quickly close the door!
People who listen to music without headphones on their phone in public places. (It's always rap, and very bad rap at that; even when it's very white people doing it, it's still always rap.)
People who have long, loud, clearly non-urgent personal phone calls in an otherwise quiet bus.
People who play games on their phones with the volume on in public.
People who listen to music very loud in their car with their windows down in a quiet residential neighborhood.
@lain Captain Blood is one of those games that I like booting, "playing" up to the point where I meet the first alien and then go "Wow! That's really cool! I'm never playing that game for real tho!"
@sun@why TBH, even the worst modern transfers are probably totally watchable for casual audiences; I doubt 95% of the population would even notice any of it. I don't notice it on movies I don't deeply care about.
The main problem though is that the people who buy 4K Blu-Rays in 2024 fits entirely within the remaining 5%.
@sun@why He probably genuinely sees it as an improvement. He's always hated film grain.
Most enthusiasts see film grain and other film artefacts as charming and want something that looks like they're watching a premium film format (65mm, IMAX, etc...) at home. James Cameron wants his old movies to look like they were released last year, filmed on digital, and he might not care what he loses to get there.
@why I have that 4K Aliens transfer and I haven't watched it yet. I was under the impression from other reviews online that the complaints were overreactions but now reading this from James Cameron and having it compared and linked to Avatar makes me a lot more suspicious.
@sun@twinspin6 I've run one for me for a long time, moved it over from Owncloud when Nextcloud forked from it, and I've run a few for small clients. It had its challenges, mostly to do with moving target of dependancies and PHP versions.
It's gotten easier with their "AIO" installation method (container orchestrating containers)
@sun@susie@lucy When Uber showed up and gave them competition, taxis were in a place where you couldn't just expect them to take card payments, so you had to make sure you carried enough cash to pay for your ride, and then if they did they'd guilt you about tipping electronically so they didn't have to declare it. You had surprises like "ah, airport is a flat (high) fee" that you don't know in advance before you took the taxi, and that's when they didn't take detours to extract more cash. They were also typically terrible uncaring drivers. Uber you went in the car, went out and paid AFTER leaving so that there's no awkward "payment while sitting in the back seat" period and the drivers are terrified of having a less than perfect score so they are extremely pro social.
The inelastic prices for high demand in taxis also meant that there was no extra incentive for them to go out to drive in peak times or to pick you up specifically. I remember after a Christmas office party waiting for over an hour and a half, ordering taxis and them just not showing up (I think I tried 2 or 3 companies). They'd pick up other people than me who called for them because why bother? There's people wanting taxis all over the city and they pay the same! Finally I got sick of waiting in the cold and I just ordered an Uber for 3x usual pricing; and it arrived quickly.
@lain "Quarry worker" is selling Fred short; he's a bronto crane operator, and crane operarors make decent money nowadays too (maybe they'd also have a bonus if their crane was a dinosaur).
Also, illiterate is kind of a moot insult if the character predates the invention of writing.