Relays?

I’d still count valves as electronics. No semiconductors there either. Relays too. Basically, once you’ve got an electrical signal controlling another electrical signal.

Just to add to that, a lot of the confusion comes from Microsoft and Apple wanting to lock applications to their platforms.

• Direct X was Microsoft’s competitor to OpenGL. Versions 3 to 11 were largely feature for feature comparable with the OpenGL version of the time.
• Direct X V12 and Vulkan compete in the same way.
• Metal is Apple’s Vulkan

That it has shitty shower thoughts.

Golgafrinchian Ark style.

It’s almost as if a big part of the current hype is just sociopath CEOs being sociopaths, but not being self aware about it.

…and will ship them to the front lines.

“We apologize for the inconvenience”

Fair enough.

My personal experience is that we’re often unaware of the contradictions until something external happens. It might be someone pointing it out or just a passing comment in an overheard conversation. Something needs to jostle the noggin.

That’s why I said what I did. You can’t fix what you’re oblivious too. However once you are aware, you have the power to choose to do something about it. Sounds like you exercised that power. Good for you.

To say I haven’t fallen victim to cognitive dissonance would be a lie. However, I learned how to avoid it and resolve conflicts in my own beliefs over time.

I like the self-awareness of the first half, but I think the second half is likely bullshit. Unless you’ve become a being of total rational thought and zero emotion, I don’t think it is possible.

First thing to realise is that people only repair dissonance alone and in private. As you say, debates and arguments don’t help.

I just try to engage on the positive topics and not engage on the negative ones. I’m honest about why I think what I think, but I don’t try to convince anyone. I say when I don’t know something. I don’t make shit up that I can be proved wrong about, even if that means letting something go unchallenged.

You won’t convince people that something they see as a problem isn’t a problem, but what you might be able to do is get people to look at alternative solutions. People don’t want to be brutal and uncaring, but they that can get there when it’s their last option.

Then occasionally you get a “something you said stuck with me” several days later, or maybe you don’t but something did stick with them. They incorporate the idea Into their thinking and start slowly shifting.

Now you’re being silly.

What’s a good alternative to Jira?

The line is as sharp as ever. Everybody just ignores it.

I’m feeling like we’re the last generation to have had the privilege to live in a world where knowledge was valued, rather than the appearance of knowledge.

The masses don’t seem to care if something is right, but don’t take them for no damn fools!

Although I think the quote should be:

Yousa thinking USA people gonna die?

But I haven’t seen anyone expressing that Superman should not represent kindness.

Isn’t the take more like “You think it’s super-human to be kind?!?”

Russian tourists in North Korea?!

I don’t think I’ve ever felt so bad for the North Koreans.