silasmariner
@silasmariner@programming.dev
- Comment on Roses are red in North Carolina..... 3 days ago:
Needs more jpeg. I can still read it
- Comment on What's Mastodon precious? 4 days ago:
Huh, didn’t realise it was that old. TiL I guess.
- Comment on What's Mastodon precious? 4 days ago:
15… Years? On the fediverse? How’d ya manage that without time travel?
- Comment on He's a little feisty, but he looked cold 2 weeks ago:
Holy shit that film is so good and also like a really weirdly niche reference
- Comment on Pretty sound reasoning here. 3 weeks ago:
I think it’s probably fair to say that suggesting that a finger in the barrel of a gun would stop a bullet is a least 10x, if not 100x, worse than the Nazis.
- Comment on Blessica Blimpson 3 weeks ago:
*has bleen
- Comment on FAQ: Yes We Suppirt Kinect 4 weeks ago:
You’ve got one day a fortnight to spend arguing about what was worst about Lean Code with some random wanker on the internet
- Comment on Wait until they find out about chickens! 5 weeks ago:
Now you’re cooking with garlic 👌
- Comment on Science Journalism 1 month ago:
No. It’s all a bit hand-wavy and nebulous tbh; I think the only leg it’ll have to stand on will be if and when entanglement effects are seen to have a predictive power over complex states that we simply haven’t seen; and IMO at that point it ceases to be an argument about consciousness anyway
- Comment on Science Journalism 1 month ago:
Not that I’ve seen
- Comment on Very thankful 1 month ago:
I don’t really give a shit what you think, divorce is a big deal
- Comment on Very thankful 1 month ago:
Pretty condescending to tell somebody you don’t know that they need to get divorced too. Tbh libidos can go to shit after kids so yeah. Maybe my funny joke wasn’t so funny. Ah well, I always have had a crap sense of humour
- Comment on Very thankful 1 month ago:
For real though, why is everyone heading straight to divorce, instead of talking about how to tap that wife
- Comment on That explains it. 1 month ago:
economic metastasis Love it
- Comment on Seriously, what the f*** is keeping Donald Trump in this presidential race? 2 months ago:
I never got the impression Michelle even wanted to run, and frankly I’m not impressed by the notion that the best candidate was a wife of a previous victor. Didn’t work out terribly well last time, and not actually particularly great credentials on their own
- Comment on Why is Kamala Harris being held at such a higher standard than Trump this election? 2 months ago:
Bring back political executions! I can see no downsides!
- Comment on Please pick a password starting with ad and ending with min 2 months ago:
Might be checking the old password on the new password screen. Easy programming mistake to make I guess? Apply the same validation to all 3 password fields…
- Comment on Grok do a good 2 months ago:
No, not really. Just meant that, like, it’s not really that it’s different to someone else doing it; more like, that it’s bad whoever does it I guess
- Comment on Grok do a good 2 months ago:
I think it’s just that having a mistress at all is generally frowned upon these days.
- Comment on Paid Leave Olympics 3 months ago:
Bonding time is important but it’s also important to get into the habit of looking after the children as a father. Otherwise odds on you won’t manage to bond very well with either your child or the mother 😅
- Comment on Anon visits his dealer 3 months ago:
Third degree embarrassment right here
- Comment on Look you've just to got read the prologue that was a limited edition IHOP giveaway in 2015 and the story is awesome 3 months ago:
I bought and read the first comic, watched the first series, and called it good.
- Comment on Reject reality 4 months ago:
My man has got no money, he’s got his trombelese.
- Comment on The worst pick-up line I've ever gotten 4 months ago:
I have kids now so I’ve read the first two books again and frankly I’m on the Dursleys’ side. Harry is a shit
- Comment on Golden 4 months ago:
Yeah that’s a very good point. I was kinda thinking of HCI at the end there but I’m a software engineer so I was only talking about dev experience 😅. Definitely the same ballpark though and 100% agree with you
- Comment on Golden 4 months ago:
There are so many different areas of computer science though… Everything from pure mathematics (e.g ‘we found a new algorithm that does X in O(logx)’) to the absurdly specific (‘when I run the load tests with this configuration it’s faster’). The former would get published. The latter wouldn’t. And the stuff in the middle ranges the gamut from ‘here’s my new GC algorithm that performs better in benchmarks on these sample sets’ to ‘looks like programmers have fewer bugs when you constrain them with these invariants’. All the way over on the other side, NFT/Blockchain/AI announcement crap usually doesn’t even have a scientific statement to be expressed, so there’s nothing to confirm or deny. There are issues with some areas, but I’m not sure that replication is really the big one
- Comment on I will not be taking questions. 4 months ago:
Toddlers do the thing too
- Comment on Economics 4 months ago:
J (technically it’s a whole unique programming language with a learning curve that’s arguably more of a learning cliff, but it’s very heavily geared towards maths and also has some nice graphing modules)
- Comment on Sid Meier’s Civilization VII - Official Teaser Trailer 5 months ago:
Apparently I was thinking of ‘Conflicts in Civilization’, which was just a scenario set for the base Civ II game. Tbh I sucked hard at that game back then but in my defence I was too young to really get good strategy and just enjoyed building wonders
- Comment on Sid Meier’s Civilization VII - Official Teaser Trailer 5 months ago:
Civ II expansion was peak. I never felt better than the one time I managed to win as humans in the humanity Vs aliens scenario