natecox
@natecox@programming.dev
- Comment on What's the e-reader you would buy if you were in the market? 1 day ago:
FWIW I have the color and the non-color libra, and if you’re just interested in reading books where color isn’t a huge part of the experience I highly recommend the non-color version. The contrast ratio and legibility are simply far better.
- Comment on Microsoft uses 'Copilot' for practically everything. A watchdog wants the company to change its advertising. 1 day ago:
NAD
You’d think people who think a lot about advertising would have picked a different agency name…
- Comment on Asus and Lenovo’s handhelds get price hike as Valve pauses some Steam Deck sales 1 week ago:
Price hikes for what, Lenovo? I’m still waiting for them to send me my Legion Go S SteamOS edition that I preordered on day one.
- Comment on What's a TV series you've tried repeatedly to get into, but can't? 2 weeks ago:
I love that show but it is kinda designed to be hard to watch. I don’t blame anyone for not being able to commit to it.
- Comment on Yes 3 weeks ago:
lol same. I thought the originals were a myth.
- Comment on Yes 3 weeks ago:
I’ll take my huge stack of Windows 3.1 floppies and see myself out.
- Comment on Star Citizen’s new cash shop offerings provoked fresh pay-to-win and predatory monetization accusations | Massively Overpowered 4 weeks ago:
SC has so much potential. There is real magic in some of the game they have produced; the aesthetic is fantastic and the fundamentals are solid… all of which makes what they’re doing to run the game into the ground so fucking disappointing.
- Comment on Forget foldable phones – LG's 'stretchable' in-car display can grow physical buttons when you need them, and I can't stop watching it 5 weeks ago:
It still seems like you have to be doing a lot of looking at the controls to use them, which is the whole complaint about a lack of physical buttons.
- Comment on Supreme Court Temporarily Blocks Order to Return Man Wrongly Deported to El Salvador 2 months ago:
And thus, fuck them.
- Comment on Supreme Court Temporarily Blocks Order to Return Man Wrongly Deported to El Salvador 2 months ago:
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. on Monday temporarily blocked a trial judge’s order directing the United States to return a Salvadoran migrant it had inadvertently deported.
Fuck you, Roberts.
- Comment on Please answer. 3 months ago:
No. Just, why? Gumby’s whole thing is that he’s made of clay.
- Comment on Please answer. 3 months ago:
Maybe the blockheads finally got him.
- Comment on Please answer. 3 months ago:
Fuck, I remember Gumby. What happened to that guy?
- Comment on nuked from orbit 3 months ago:
Wow what a lousy take from this exchange.
- Comment on Apparently Bluesky lets you require a sign in to view a post 3 months ago:
Unless you’re on a vpn, in which case the whole site is restricted unless you sign in.
- Comment on What's your "this is totally fine and I'm going to have a great time" FPS? 3 months ago:
I know this only because I spent way too long trying to figure out why older games look like ass on the LG haha.
- Comment on What's your "this is totally fine and I'm going to have a great time" FPS? 3 months ago:
Depends on your tv a bit. 30fps is fine on my steam deck, but on my LG OLED the response rate is too damn fast and 30fps looks choppy and terrible.
- Comment on How does this pic show that Elon Musk doesnt know SQL? 3 months ago:
Yeah this strikes me as safeguarding against a possible bad decision.
- Comment on How does this pic show that Elon Musk doesnt know SQL? 3 months ago:
No, who said there was a relationship?
A compound key is a composite key where one or both sides can be foreign keys to other tables themselves; it’s a safe assumption this is probably true in a large data set like social security. A composite key is a candidate key (a uniquely identified key) made up of more than one column.
This basically means that there is a finite number of available SSNs because they’re only 10 digits long and someone intends to recycle SSNs after the current user of one dies. Linking it to birthday is “unique enough” as to never recur.
- Comment on How does this pic show that Elon Musk doesnt know SQL? 3 months ago:
Because a simple query would have shown that SSN was a compound key with another column (birth date, I think), and not the identifier he thinks it is.
- Comment on Hogwarts Legacy Reportedly Getting New Content & A Sequel 4 months ago:
I’ve tried to get through HL twice and I really struggle with it. About the time they introduce discount-Pokémon into the game I start to struggle.
A major improvement to the game would be contextual actions. Stop making me swap my equipped spells for every context specific thing.
- Comment on The amount of ads cycling on Fextralife 4 months ago:
Literally half my phone screen is an ad over the main content. Fandom is indeed garbage.
- Comment on Should I ask my boss for tomorrow off? 4 months ago:
I am a manager for a remote team. Sometimes I screw up and forget to double remind the team about holidays. Sometimes I remember but they forget anyways.
Either way, I’m not going to screw someone out of a day of PTO; I’ll usually suggest the coming Friday off as an alternative.
I would be honest, it’s a funny mistake and worth a quick laugh.
- Comment on New Virtua Fighter Project Teaser Trailer 5 months ago:
Yes please.
- Comment on Making peace with liking very few games? 6 months ago:
I suspect this is a natural result of having much more limited time as we become adults. I used to love all kinds of games too, but today if I feel like a game doesn’t respect my time it gets thrown right onto the “no thanks” pile.
- Comment on Elon Musk says too many game studios are owned by giant corporations so his giant corporation is going to start a studio to 'make games great again' 6 months ago:
Lest there be any doubt about his motivations, Musk wrote in another post, “Can’t they just make good games and skip the woke lecture?”
I assume we’re all done with pretense and he’ll just go ahead and call it “Bigot games”.
- Comment on Vivaldi polishes its browser, adds a dashboard • The Register 7 months ago:
Now if only they could add “swipe to go back” to their Linux client. Only thing keeping me off of Vivaldi these days.
- Comment on Star Trek: Section 31 to Premiere January 24 7 months ago:
Did I even watch the movie which hasn’t come out yet? I’m pretty sure I know which of us is a bot.
- Comment on Star Trek: Section 31 to Premiere January 24 7 months ago:
No.
Bring back my hopeful vision of the future Star Trek, I’m all done with this new wave.
- Comment on Friendship is Universal 7 months ago:
Fuck you, Tony!