Tens of thousands estimates from organizers are that it’s a hell of a lot larger than that.

Being ASD definitely makes it harder to enjoy April Fools pranks that are harmless and clever.

My ASD friends and family will frequently perceive the omission of information as an offensive lie, when the reality is us not on the spectrum didn’t consider it information worth sharing. Extend this to April Fools Day jokes, which should be intentional, harmless, clever pranks, and they just can’t.

Really good ones stick in my mind forever. Guild Wars once turned all the players into stick figures. I still laugh at that. Prior to enshitification Reddit had some great ones, like Orange Red vs Periwinkle. RuneScape always released upcoming features at the beginning of the month, and April Fools Day was always a fake one that sounded almost believable. I had friends swap clothes and classes for an entire day in college. I had a physics professor teach biology to each of his classes - a different lecture in each period. I had two friends announce they were ending their friendship on Facebook but intended to remain roommates, and continue to hang out with the rest of us.

It’s a social norm. Just like how sarcasm is difficult for some ASD to pick up. But, a lot of us non-ASD do need to choose our audience more carefully. I don’t play pranks on my family and those friends. I also refrain from sarcasm and exaggerating too.

I… Walked right into that one.

It was a post talking about “Never Gonna Give You Up.” It mentions Rick rolling on click.

Clicked the damn link anyway.

I love the internet

Ok great! Time to get me some presents.

Is there RISC-V hardware already? I thought the specification was still under development.

Look, yes, I’m pale, but I prefer the term “Monitor Tan”.

The junior devs are always taken into other projects when I need them the most :/ or was at least.

Plus it’s not like it matters anymore. I haven’t done anything but review code and prioritize backlogs and get yelled at by management that my development team isnt under control and that business doesn’t like it when I bring up things that will impact timeline when I was told the wrong priority of other shit.

I’m starting to feel like this Senior role is really just a new title for dealing with more bullshit and doing less productive work.

Ok thank you!

A lot of assumptions in that post, but I agree in general. I’ve been working software for too long, and I know co-pilot or whatever it’s called that Microsoft has won’t be around in the long run.

It’s a neat tool for now. It also isn’t complaining all the time which I like

I disagree. The rubber duck does not propose alternatives, nor does it point out flaws.

The flaws may be wrong, but then I have to justify it, which forces me to reconsider what I’ve written.

It’s like having a script monkey that never took a CS class to bounce ideas off of.

Which is precisely what I use AI for.

It doesn’t know how to do anything, but it can help me find flaws.

Nah, man, based on the stories my parents told me from the 70s and 80s, computers were a mistake long before the Internet.

It was as soon as the devices got in the hands of people who couldn’t program that things got bad

It’s why I say as a software engineer: computers were a mistake.

I guess, but you could at least have counters, or maybe a railing, or hell, even steps. Or giant acrylic walls? Something to distinguish “general areas” to be aware of?

And now I wonder how many of those kitchens were in an actual residence that was being rented out.

I mean I’d be up for entertainment from maids and twitch streamers…

But I also wouldn’t create this grand room of hazards with the hopes of paying some of those women to entertain me. Seems excessive.

Actually, now that I think about it more, its weird to me that anyone would actually be entertained by whatever it is the designer was hoping to accomplish here. If it were me, I’d be far to paranoid someone would slip and die, or the inevitable flying booze would ignite on the stove. And to add to it, what is that entertaining about watching maids and twitch streamers do whatever this guy was thinking? Did he lose his dick so this is the closest thing he can get to what he used to feel with a woman?

And now that I’m done thinking about that I’m realizing the answer is far more obvious: cocaine. It’s the cocaine.

Ah, yes. I installed Gemini, asked it the time, and it gave me a time. It was off by 4 hours and like 5 minutes, but it did give me a time.

I quit using it right after that.

I wouldn’t call him desperate, I would call him time constrained with money to enjoy. He probably won’t actually use it for that, he’ll probably dive into his video game addiction more.

Plus, he says that virtual ladies can’t betray him like the dumb fuck of his ex wife that pretty much ruined his self confidence and self esteem to the point where he doesn’t actually think he could experience the required vulnerability in other people ever again, and it’s been 5 years since the first time she cheated on him.

But he really does appreciate the concern.

The guy who is asking has some stuff in that department, he’s more interested in the visuals now

I’ve had my valve index for 5 years and never heard about bit rate affecting it - what am I looking for?