what a noob, they should have just organised a pizza party.

/s

News headlines gonna be like "millenials are bankrupting an American institution, the fast food industry"

I mean, that's basically what restaurants do...

My friends and I were hanging out at my mates' place (he used to work as a line cook), he made us all pasta and it tasted amazing.

Turns out the secret was to add a scary amount of butter, and then add some more.

Salt, butter and MSG is the secret behind half the restaurant industry.

Next you'll be seeing bs gaslighting articles saying "American carmakers are being driven to bankruptcy thanks to millenials' changing preferences"

Isn't that just a game of whack a mole though? Ban VPNs ending in Charleston, people hop to another location. Rinse and repeat

I mostly use All as well. I have the following blocked:

• all the meme communities that pop up. It's just spammy posts

• all beehaw communities. Mostly because they were defederated with the largest lemmy communities, and I didn't want to talk to only a small subset of users. Not sure if they've changed anything since

• hexbear because... Hexbear

Many mobile games are just thinly veiled attempts at monetization. Get people hooked, then start adding time-bound gates you can unlock, add PvP with loot boxes and multiple types of premium currency that's hard to keep track of. Doesn't matter what the game is about - you can do this to racing games, fighting games, gardening games, whatever.

That said there are still mobile games that are fun and genuinely good gameplay - I used to love Minigore too, after it was available on Android. But these are few and far between.

For people who DON'T need to be in office, forced RTO is stupid because it wastes commute time.

For people who DO need to be in office, forced RTO for others is stupid because it creates more peak hour traffic and lunch rushes, making their own commute/lunch suck more.

For urban planning, forced RTO is stupid because again it increases road usage and creates unnecessary clumps of high-density areas, causing inconsistent use of urban infrastructure.

For landlords, forced RTO makes sense because it props up inflated real estate prices.

Guess what's happening now?

why do we insist on giving this guy so much free advertising? move on already lol

lol. India is just like Trump - did something wrong and is now throwing a tantrum when they're being called out on it.

Significantly less unnecessary traffic on the roads

nonono, if all the lowly peasants get a comfortable wage, how would execs be able to afford their second summer homes? Won't someone think of them?

But it's possible for a sizeable proportion of workers. Equally shocking!

if only there was a way to get work done while avoiding the commute...

great work!

c/DunderMifflin@kbin.social

oh man that was one of the best phones hardware-wise. unfortunately that was also the era when samsung = bloatware

i don't doubt that linux has its uses and command-line is powerful. What I'm saying is >80% of users only know how to use a GUI, and that is why linux won't go mainstream without having a GUI for everything user-facing.

I haven't seen any ads, so my feelings about Windows might change at some point. But I've tried linux in the past, and there's a reason why it just doesn't get as much adoption.

First of all, linux seems to be built around the command line. I hate using the command line, and I'm sure I'm not the only one. Everytime there's something to troubleshoot I have to figure out command line inputs and outputs.

Second, the annoying issues with windows are annoying, but I've learnt to figure it out. No, I don't want to set as default, no I don't want to send data, no i don't want to create a MS account. Even if I didn't figure it out, I can still change it later - sending data is annoying af and i don't like it, but it doesn't stop me from doing something. On the other hand, i encounter issues with linux that stop me from actually using the OS all the time. Everytime I do, I have to post in forums asking for help, wait 12-36 hours while using an alternate OS/workaround, and dread the inevitable use of command-line that follows.

I was there in the 80s and 90s. You young people are definitely luckier. You are by far more beautiful, more gentle, you are more welcoming, you don’t discriminate against gays and nerds. Socializing without mobiles was as boring as you can expect.

But you could afford a house on a single income :'(

this is exactly how I feel! I don't get any sense of achievement from running a certain distance or running faster than I did before, and it feels terrible (and I know I can stop that feeling if i just stop running). Almost every other sport gets me that sense of achievement but requires more time, money or effort in some form.

Running. It's the cheapest, easiest form of exercise, but it absolutely bores me to death and i just can't deal with it after 5 minutes.

I don't mind most other forms of exercise, it's just that they all require more time, effort or resources. Going to the gym requires a gym membership, basketball requires friends, etc.

I agree. The lemmyverse still need to grow to have any chance of lasting beyond the next year or so

he just implemented an anti-NSFW upload feature in the app to do his part. Essentially, Sync users currently can’t post any kind of porn

but what about normal, legal, NSFW material?

it's a lie perpetuated by Big Tetris!!

jk, good to know. I assume this should work similarly for any game that doesn't contain violent content and yet activates the brain.

Tuna is one of the healthier fishes. It has higher mercury levels, but unless you're eating it every day you're fine.

Most cobol systems have more code that doesn’t do anything vs code that actually does something.

What values do variables ROBERT1, ROBERT2 and ROBERT3 hold? Whatever ROBERT wanted.

And when that system is storing high-risk and/or sensitive data, do you really want to be the person who deletes code that you think "actually does nothing", only to find out it somehow stopped another portion of code from breaking?

The reason why these things still exist is business laziness. They don’t know and don’t care what cobol is or isn’t doing.

That's the thing - tor a risk-averse industry (most companies running COBOL systems belong here), being the guy who architected the move away from COBOL is a high-risk, high-stress job with little immediate rewards. At best, the move goes seamlessly, and management knows you as "the guy who updated our OS or something and saved us some money but took a few years to do it, while Bob updated our HR system and saved a bunch of money in 1 year". At worst, you accidentally break something, and now you have a fiasco on your hands.

what if you have a mortage and your bank account shows -$300k?

don't you know, apple invented wireless charging!

What a disappointing guy. The least he could have done was take out Putin before he died.

this is a barbaric act with no regard for human life.

It's Russia, were you surprised?

accidentally drinking polonium tea too

It's never been a technical reason, it's the fact that most systems still running on COBOL are live, can't be easily paused, and there's an extremely high risk of enormous consequences for failure. Banks are a great example of this - hundreds of thousands of transactions per hour (or more), you can't easily create a backup because even while you're backing up more business logic and more records are being created, you can't just tell people "hey we're shutting off our system for 2 months, come back and get your money later", and if you fuck up during the migration and rectify it within in hour, you would have caused hundreds/thousands of people to lose some money, and god forbid there was one unlucky SOB who tried to transfer their life savings during that one hour.

And don't forget the testing that needs to be done - you can't even have an undeclared variable that somehow causes an overflow error when a user with a specific attribute deposits a specific amount of money in a specific branch code when Venus and Mars are aligned on a Tuesday.

That doesn’t sound right at all. How could the amount of COBOL code in use quadruple at a time when everyone is trying to phase it out?

Because why they're trying, they need to keep adding business logic to it constantly. Spaghetti code on top of spaghetti code.

Not a cobol professional but i know companies that have tried (and failed) to migrate from cobol to java because of the enormously high stakes involved (usually financial).

LLMs can speed up the process, but ultimately nobody is going to just say "yes, let's accept all suggested changes the LLM makes". The risk appetite of companies won't change because of LLMs.

No. Expensive housing is a genie in a bottle.

Once sufficient people have purchased a house at the high price, it would be in their interest for prices to remain high. Corporate entities that buy up houses will actively lobby to make sure housing prices stay high, and the average Joe who paid that much for a house will be happy it stays that way.

I'd rather have a system that's compatible with both apple and android phones. A car is supposed to last decades; it's the absolute last place I want a walled garden.

this was the photo that inspired the iconic rom-com called Brokeback Mountain

look up owncloud if you're truly serious. you can set up your own personal storage with a rpi and spare hard drive that's 100% free of corporate greed and spying. you can also use the chance to set up a personal email server.

it takes work and money, but that's the price you pay if you're protective of your data.

Ah yes, men and women are physically built differently so trans women have an advantage because they can... grip the chess pieces better with their bigger hands, and crush the pieces/flip the table more easily due to their increased strength. Makes total sense.