TheFogan
@TheFogan@programming.dev
- Comment on Into the meat grinder! 1 day ago:
I think the star trek transporter debate is more apt.
- Comment on Into the meat grinder! 1 day ago:
No actually works on more. If you grind a human into a seive into salt water, pour the salt water into a busy walkway.
After forensics is done in there… the cleanup crew also organizes it into sponges, Mops… and all kinds of tools.
- Comment on I mean... I don't see the problem? 1 week ago:
Kind of like Lou Gehrig… lucky SOB did nothing, yet will be forever immortalized.
- Comment on I mean... I don't see the problem? 1 week ago:
does he really do much pontificating? I’ve generally just seen him as someone that communicates upper high school, lower college level concepts in ways that are fairly understandable for those with little science background.
I mean yeah he comes off as a smug asshole in the process, but to my knowledge I’ve never seen him really pontificating on say the bleeding edge of what fields he’s not in can do. Though maybe that’s just something I’ve missed seeing him do.
- Comment on Do you know the answer? 3 weeks ago:
Selecting not at random, A xor D must be correct, because the answer key can only have one correct answer so even duplicate right answers must also be wrong.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Disqualifying no… though I would say it’s a disadvantage, just as being a woman is. IMO it’s a bigger disadvantage than being a woman, in the fact that more religious groups are outright opposed to gay people being allowed to be out.
So in short, it could win the democratic primary in theory. It would take an especially weaker than normal republican candidate.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
I mean, all the events leading to trump winning the first time seemed far fetched… and the second time… insane. Honestly it was over half way into the 2016 general that I realized… oh shit this isn’t just a meme and a joke of people ironically saying they support this lunatic, there’s actually enough serious supporters that he could win.
- Comment on Why are popes always really old? 5 weeks ago:
You’d think there’s not much reason for that… I mean, the god they believe in famously selected a lot of unqualified crazy people. Noah an alchoholic, David couldn’t keep it in his pants, and had to arrange the death of one of his best soldiers to deal with it.
- Comment on What are the odds of a person getting poisoned by food delivery driver? How would the odds change if the person is a public figure (such as Twitch Streamers)? 1 month ago:
More importantly even then… IE there’s absolutely been cases of streamers attracting crazy stalkers etc…
But proportionally they are extremely few. Would be insanely unlikely for the kind of person that’s obsessed with them, also being a door dash driver, happening to have come across the streamers address. (from my recolection of my very brief time helping my GF door dash, when deciding which jobs to take, you only get the restraunt and the distance, only learn where the delivery is going after.
So hypothetically even if I knew Logan Pauls address. I’d have to camp out near restaurants near him… time my working when he might be ordering, guess which restaurant he’s ordering from… Honestly it seems like a plan that would take years to hit all the boxes to go with… probably more efficiant to camp out on streets I think he’d walk down or break in to his house the old fashioned way if I already had that level of information.
- Comment on Why do European Leftist call their government's right wing despite having free healthcare? 1 month ago:
Easy because the standards… in short the democratic party would be considered far right of acceptable in their country… our republicans would just be laughed out as so fringe it’s ridiculous.
- Comment on Am I entitled to compensation? 1 month ago:
is 200m what’s been discovered, or just what was worth putting into this program? Not a huge expert but I thought it’s all fairly easy to get the next number of pi, just seemingly never ending.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I think that is a current weakness that’s being worked on, I’m seeing requests of more or less that github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4485
to make it federate or block, but unless I’m missing much newer updates, that is kind of the problem. My guess is on the whole it mostly resolves itself as… he probably will piss off the mods of cafe eventually as well, and the limited audience of only being visible to cafe would result in a near shadow ban effect to mostly starve them out.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
That’s my understanding of it, I’m not an expert so… I’m only giving 70% confidence in my answer.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Put simply, Lets say hypothetically he’s like you on lemmy.cafe.
and we’ll say he’s posting to to lemmy.world/c/memes which he was banned from.
His post will show up to lemmy.cafe users connected to memes… but his posts will only show up on the lemmy.cafe version of memes. When cafe federates back to world, world will just ignore the posts and not share them.
In addition they won’t be seen by, lets say programming.dev here, while it hasn’t banned this person, it’s looking to world for it’s copy of the community, which will not have your friends posts.
- Comment on What actually came first? The chicken or the egg? 1 month ago:
ah yeah quite true, if the question is egg’s in general, then yeah, eggs existed before the first land walking creatures. I always assumed the question is meaning a chicken egg specifically. Of which the answer is still the same as, as assuming we as humans pick an arbitrary line to draw for being a chicken. Obviously before the first chicken exists, a creature just short of meeting the qualifications for a chicken, would have layed an egg of what we define as a chicken, to create the first “chicken”.
- Comment on What actually came first? The chicken or the egg? 1 month ago:
Accurate, but of course the real thing to note is in evolution, our lines and definitions of what a chicken is… is especially undefined. we just draw the line and call a particular creature a chicken… which is significantly more similar to the proto-chicken than a modern chicken is.
- Comment on how is it to work everyday but Wednesdays and Thursdays? 2 months ago:
I also second that having 2 days off in a row, is better to recharge.
Now as far as making them not the weekend…
Pros:
Great for all the millions of takes forever tasks that can only be done durring business hours… need to update your drivers license, have any taxes, negotiate with the bank on things, or anything else that can only be done mon-friday in business hours… fricking awesome ease of options.
As also mentioned, socializing is the drawback… want to meet with a friend, date etc… well that’s a bit less fun, best bet is to do it on a worknight but still be ready to come home early enough to not be dead on your ass at work.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Piracy isn’t exactly enforced in the “break down your door, slap cuffs on you” behavior. 99% of piracy crackdowns in the US, are more or less your internet service provider detects you are running torrents of something copyrighted, and tells you that if they catch you again they are cutting your connection.
- Comment on Why are Maries Sues hated while Gary Stus are loved? 2 months ago:
Isekai genre is kind of getting stupid bloated, and sadly an overwhelming portion of it is what’s come to be known as “power fantasy”, in which the main character, is intentionally made with as little personality as possible, because the writers believe that allows people to mentally “self insert” themselves as the MC.
Which I have to say, most people are considering the genre pretty tired, to the point where many of them are starting with paordies of the genre.
- Comment on Is anyone else getting failures to generate reports when reporting the constant spam from "Nicole, the Fediverse Girl" which originates from a different, new instance every time? 2 months ago:
Well yeah it’s still at best a cat and mouse game. Really I suppose the biggest red flag a system could detect is most likely sending out multiple DMs on an account with little other activity.
can’t really ballpark but I’m guessing the bot must hit several hundred if not thousands of us in rapid succession on creation (otherwise it would be a lot slower and only a few of us would have seen it).
That being said, auto detecting the links, contact information etc… would be pretty direct as well, as that would require every banned iteration to also remake whatever methods it tries to phish etc… as well.
- Comment on Is anyone else getting failures to generate reports when reporting the constant spam from "Nicole, the Fediverse Girl" which originates from a different, new instance every time? 2 months ago:
I’m assuming the issue is the new nicole has already been banned by the time you are responding to it, thus there’s nothing new to report.
Far as solutions, only ones I can imagine are I guess to allow instance owners to auto block and ban messages featuring certain words/sentences, and maybe auto delete messages from already banned users, in terms of technical solutions to getting ahead of the whack a mole game.
- Comment on If I use winrar to compress 80gb of tv and movies. Then can I compress it further by making it an iso? 2 months ago:
Bottom line, winrar isn’t the tool to compress video files. In short it’s more complex, but zipping, raring etc… those methods are all the ideal way to compress executables, word documents etc… In short, most likely your video files are already compressed as much as they can be without loss of quality. However if you were to attempt to make them smaller, most likely you’d use something like handbrake or some other video codec converter to actually try to shrink them.
- Comment on What's wrong with a technocracy? 2 months ago:
Knowledge being the key to power, I can’t say I’m inherantly against it (though power in and of itself is a risk).
The problem of course is, generally speaking… all fields run as a business under capitalism, and thus the top of them is generally the person who runs the business side.
IE I would love for knowledgable doctors to be in charge of healthcare decisions… unfortunately in practice what we get is hospital CEOs, health insurance executives etc… That specialize in how to help extract money from sick people… and not prioritize helping people not get sick, and making sure everyone can be treated if they are.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
well depends on your definition. In short it means attempting to make justice without authorization.
In the case of doing legal research, accessing things that are happening in public, and turning them in to authorities (be it community wise, or law enforcement. I would say very few have any opposition to.
Where it gets far greyer is when you are doing things that are illegal or imoral in and of themselves without evidence of what you are dealing with.
IE say you hack someone’s computer to discover they have been doing illegal actions etc… In the case of the guilty person most people are good with that… but it begs the question, did you hack a bunch of innocent people, to find that one guilty person. How did you know they were guilty etc…
and then of course the more absolute extreme ones, when you apply the punishment yourself in spite of that being a crime in and of itself. Say you beat up, kill, kidnap, destroy proporty etc… That’s generally frowned upon, except in instances where most people can agree on the horror of the crime, and completely lack any faith in the legal channels to appropriately enforce it even when the evidence is right in front of their faces. IE why fictional superheros like batman are popular (and why making him popular mostly involves the story implying that gotham’s police are either incompetent or too corrupt to enforce the law), as well as say in the real world people like Luigi are loved.
- Comment on I left negative feedback on ebay for dropshipping and the seller has messaged me four days in a row asking me to change it 2 months ago:
Basically the way it usually works is.
Chinese knock off mass factory, makes stores and has the items.
They find a guy in America and say "Hey can you list our items on ebay, when you sell them, we’ll take $20, you can probably sell them for $50.
Guy lists item for $50, someone buys it, he then just e-mails the dropshipper and asks them to send it straight to the buyer. Sometimes he will have to give ebay a fake tracking number (because ebay doesn’t approve the practice).
Point is the drop shipper is just there to conceal the actual source of the product. That’s generally because they are sketchy in some other way.
A co-worker of mine at one point got into a drop shipping scam. She was selling golf clubs that way (she was selling them about 80% of expected retail, place she was buying from was charging her about 25% of retail. She didn’t know (but probably should have guessed) that the clubs she was selling were counterfeit, and she about had a heart attack when her 2nd customer called her out on it (she refunded him and took the loss).
- Comment on I'm sure people fall for this type of greenwashing all the time... 2 months ago:
I mean it sounds to me more like they are admitting they were intentionally stupidly inefficient originally. IE the one they are comparing it to has 94% more detergent, but only does 14 more loads. (74 vs 60).
- Comment on Did anyone else learn that "a group of cats is called a Whisper?" 2 months ago:
Well they make some great puns/jokes.
A man regularly was feeding crows in his yard in an attempt to get them to follow and protect him.
He was arrested for attempted murder.
- Comment on Is it a pattern for right-wing people to attack films, series and animations with protagonists from minority groups? Or is this an exaggeration? 2 months ago:
The only “grain of truth” I would say to the “woke movies” claims etc… Is that sometimes, studios will use minority casting, as a substitute for coming up with a good story or doing anything actually original in the plot. IE a shit movie with a diverse cast is still a shit movie.
I would suppose it also ties down to the fact that, actually trying to represent more people as a push, also started around the time that, movie costs scaled up so much that investors aren’t willing to go in on a movie that isn’t a sequel or remake of something that everyone has already seen. Movies now are more diverse, and 90% of them are crap, but the correlation isn’t causation, and that’s demonstrable by the fact that movies that have all straight white characters, are as bland and unoriginal as the ones that the right blames DEI for why they suck.
But yes… in short DEI, affirmative action, and whatever they called it before has always been the scapegoat for why everything gets worse.
- Comment on How do you feel about someone taking the coins people tossed into a fountain or other public waterworks display for "wishes?" 2 months ago:
THE CRIPPLE PEOPLE JAR!!!
- Comment on i took an iq test and it was nice and i took my time doing it but the answer was 86, is that bad?? 2 months ago:
is that harmful for my future job opportunities?? what if a company wants to see my iq and they see 86
Has any job interview you’ve ever gone to ever asked for an IQ? I’ve never heard of it, and it sounds like a crazy stupid idea for anyone to go for. You like linux, you’ve programmed websites. The bullshit test that your employers are going to care about are certifications. Look around at job opportunities in your area (or if you are lucky remote), see what certs are most commonly demanded, and focus on getting them. In addition whatever you go for, try and get some hands on experiences in them, projects etc… whether it’s personal.
Or say if web development is the direction you want to go… then try and find a friend or family member that needs a web site or project made… make them a “client” so that you can claim it as “work experience”.
Honestly in my experience in IT… generally speaking when it comes to getting a job, in order of value “work experience” > Certifications > Primary education (IE Degree/diploma).
IQ test, I’ve never once in my life come across that question coming up… just don’t advertise it and most likely no one will ever care.