Kazumara
@Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de
- Comment on Behold, "the whole story of Steam's economy in one picture": the top 1% of games earn 84.5% of estimated revenue, and most games barely make anything 1 day ago:
That seems like a good distribution for digital art and entertainment.
- Comment on sometimes nature is a tattle tale 1 day ago:
Maybe I’m imagining it because I already know they are twins, but their noses do look similar to me
- Comment on How hopeless is getting a job with a CS degree? 4 days ago:
ISP Network Engineer might be something.
It is my current feeling that the blend of physical work to install devices, with the mental work of planning, configuring, documenting, is kind of protecting the field.
Although maybe we are a bit special in my workplace because we don’t have a separation between planners, NOC, and field team. It’s all just the twelve of us, doing bits of everything. Maybe in the big ISPs things are circling the LLM drain as well.
- Comment on this is so dark, Black Mirror couldn’t have imagined it 6 days ago:
Those agents aren’t yours in multiple ways. That’s not how things work.
- Comment on A customized delivery experience 1 week ago:
It’s funny in the first place to argue from what “they allow”. The customer doesn’t have to care about your internal policies, fucko. Fulfill your end of the bargain.
- Comment on Why put data centers in space? 1 week ago:
I don’t think it makes any sense either:
- Cooling will be large and expensive as hell
- Getting computers there will be expensive
- Getting solar cells there will be expensive
- The radiolink to earthbound networks will be expensive and slow
The only positive is that the energy will be cheap, and that the computers are safe except from nation state actors and untracked space debris.
- Comment on Going Back ↪️🏨 1 week ago:
Deposit at a hotel? I haven’t seen that before.
- Comment on We can save Social Security. Scrap the Cap! 2 weeks ago:
Anti-social security
- Comment on Correlation == Causation? 2 weeks ago:
Some of those people might have fallen for scam glasses too
- Comment on Anon institutes the draft 2 weeks ago:
Hamsters are way heavier, around 200g, unless we’re talking pups or dwarf breeds. That’s around 8 - 12 times the weight of a mouse.
And they are a more compact shape with stubby legs and tails, which I imagine has negative implications for terminal velocity.
- Comment on Do non-English speakers learn to code in English, or in their native language? 2 weeks ago:
Well we learn to code in the programming language that the teacher choses, not in any natural language at all, so neither English nor our native languages.
But all significant programming languages that I know do have reserved control words that are taken from English. Maybe that is the direction of your question?
Then no, mostly we don’t use specifically crafted or preprocessed programming languages just to have control words recognizable as words in our native languages
As for the variable names and natural language comments embedded in the code, that we create, that varies. I’d say as soon as interlingual collaboration or code sharing is a possibility, people will go for English in my experience. And I suspect that people who have gone for English before tend to stick to English even in their private use.
This is also related to learning materials, documentation of language features and libraries being available to the largest degree in English.
I perceive it as easier to stick to English, rather than to code switch between natural language while I program.
- Comment on Do non-English speakers learn to code in English, or in their native language? 2 weeks ago:
Yes they are very related.
Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese loaned the symbols from China when they began writing their languages. However Japanese uses two moraic writing systems in addition (Hiragana and Katakana), Korean has later switched to a syllabic one (Hangul), and Vietnamese switched to a latin derived alphabet. Those are probably what you recognize as distinct.
Where and when they use or used Chinese symbols the meanings per symbol are or were not consistent in the languages, and later separate drifting of meaning and reforms of the writing system occured over a long period.
The symbols are called 漢字 in traditional chinese and 汉字 in simplified chinese, the are called 漢字 in Japanese, it used to also be 漢字 in Korean, now in Hangul it is 한자, in Vietnamese it was 漢字 and is now Chữ Hán or Hán tự.
As you can see they used the Chinese name for the Chinese ideograms. But they all say it a little differently. Hànzì in Mandarin, Kanji in Japanese, Hanja in Korean, Chữ Hán or Hán tự. But it all means “Han” “characters”, with “Han” referring to the Han dynasty of Chinese rulers here.
I think Japanese is the only language who loaned them and is still significantly using them. Only texts for children or learners would typically be written fully in Hiragana and Katakana, normal daily written language will have most concepts represented by Kanji, modern loanwords and foreign names in Katakana, and Hiragana for particles and some verbal endings etc for inflection.
- Comment on Don’t you lie to me 3 weeks ago:
How much do you guys think that is, assuming it’s all 100 USD bills? 3000 USD?
- Comment on Anon is 23 3 weeks ago:
Why does he not say what his bachelor’s degree is in? It seems highly relevant
- Comment on Work harder, afford less? 3 weeks ago:
The Patrick Webb (@Patrickwebb) guy on twitter only links to a publication called “Leading Report” who also doesn’t provide a reference.
x.com/Patrickwebb/status/2081107766735740996
theleadingreport.com/…/new-study-finds-that-a-min…Turns out Patrick Webb and Jacob Cabe started Leading Report to make their Twitter fakes more believable by being able to link to a website.
…feedback.org/who-is-behind-the-misleading-leadin…
Your instincts were spot on.
- Comment on Where has the "www." gone? 4 weeks ago:
The A record is the record in a DNS entry that contains the IPv4 address to which you wish to map the name in general.
There are various others, for example the AAAA record is the one that contains the IPv6 address, the MX record is the one that contains the name of your mail server, the NS record contains the name of your nameserver, the SOA record has refresh timers and contact information for the zone admin, RRSIG records have cryptographic signatures proving authenticity of various other bits.
Another interesting one in this context would be CNAME, there you can put the canonical name you’d like the user to look up instead of the one they were asking for. So you can leave out the A and AAAA, and put in a CNAME instead if you want to tell the user to look somewhere else.
For example you can put in the DNS entry for www.example.com a CNAME record containing “example.com”. Now if a user comes asking for the A record of www.example.com, they will find the CNAME instead and know that they are supposed to look at the A record of example.com instead, because there isn’t a separate IPv4 address specifically for www.example.com.
- Comment on Where has the "www." gone? 4 weeks ago:
Back when people still hosted their own email and web pages and domain controllers etc, it was more common to break it out into subdomains. The www subdomain was for the web stuff that the webmaster would administer. Nowadays everything is outsourced, and you just point your main domain ar whatever webhosting company you’re using.
But it was always possible to have a normal A record on your main domain and have a webserver listen to its port 80.
I guess at some point everybody got so used to the world wide web just being there and every business being on it, that using the cool alliteration didn’t feel necessary anymore.
- Comment on A Majority of Americans Now Support Seizing Wealth From AI Industry 4 weeks ago:
I don’t think there is any wealth there, just undeserved trust that allows them to raise money through debt.
If you seize that, then the debtors will come calling for higher risk premium and the venture implodes - sooner than they otherwise would.
So maybe it is a good idea anyway.
- Comment on Alternative medicine 4 weeks ago:
I knew as I was writing it that the term was bad, but couldn’t think of a good one. I meant layman, or something equivalent just for the field of medical science instead of law :-)
- Comment on Alternative medicine 4 weeks ago:
Its really helpful for treating rosacea (for which it is approved by the fda as a topical prescription drug, under the name soolantra)
Interesting as fuck. Not something you’d expect as an outsider.
- Comment on Anon works in an office 4 weeks ago:
It doesn’t say whether programmer is he they or she
I hear it’s a pipeline anyway
- Comment on Anon works in an office 4 weeks ago:
After going around and around with them for 4+ calls and realizing we were right there, I just walked over on my lunch break, got hired as their helpdesk, walked back, quit
What made you switch over? Better conditions? Or just that the job sounded more interesting?
- Comment on SpaceX stock drops to a new low and loses $1 trillion in value in a month 4 weeks ago:
Non-voting common stock is a scam pulled by these fucking billionaire founders to reduce public participation, and concentrate their power, even as they use other’s money for their pet projects.
If a company just needs to take up money for an investment, it can issue bonds. Then it gives up no control, but enters into a fair agreement with someone loaning them capital at fixed rates, with no pretense of ownership.
If they sell shares, that is supposed to represent partial ownership and allow all the owners to collectively decide on strategy. It also brings with it the right to recall board members who go insane, like Musk or Zuckerberg. To prevent that these scumbags issue non-voting stock, or stock that has such reduced voting rights as to be essentially useless. Like SpaceX recently, all the IPO shares (class A) carry a tenth of the voting rights compared to the ones they kept (class B).
- Comment on SpaceX stock drops to a new low and loses $1 trillion in value in a month 4 weeks ago:
No I’m just pointing out that your view on who should morally control the company is wrong from the start.
- Comment on SpaceX stock drops to a new low and loses $1 trillion in value in a month 4 weeks ago:
i were to own a public company
It is my company
No, by definition it is not, if you sell part of it to the public and make it a public company.
- Comment on Finally HR does something right 5 weeks ago:
Does this person know what a break is? Not keeping any momentum going is exactly the point of it. Resting regenerates your mental capacities. A lunch break is not just for calorie intake.
- Comment on How often is normal to masturbate? 5 weeks ago:
I think it averages out to once a day, maybe once and a half.
On weekdays mostly in the evening, sometimes in the morning. On the weekends often twice a day. Sometimes three or even four a day, but that happens only if I’m using toys, just manually it feels a bit raw after two.
32, male, happily single.
- Comment on We are all in the same boat 5 weeks ago:
The correct method has everyone pulling in the same direction like in this schema:
If they all pull, then the oars move through the water to the left, thereby propelling the ship to the right.
In contrast, in the post, everyone pulling exerts a force that is counter clockwise around the vertical axis of the ship.
- Comment on We are all in the same boat 5 weeks ago:
Slop. Real rowers weren’t set up to spin the ship in circles.
- Comment on What's the weirdest thing in english? 1 month ago:
That officially you have “whom” on the books, but then if anyone uses it you think them weird.
