TheFogan

@TheFogan@programming.dev

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d say it partly depends on where you live… or where you plan to live. Bottom line is in the US anywhere that isn’t a big city. Being able to drive is basically going to be a pre-requisite to having a job.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do low framerates *feel* so much worse on modern video games?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah but even now you can go back and play Majora’s mask, and it not feel bad.

  But as mentioned the real thing is consistancy, as well as the scale of action, pace of the game etc… Zelda games weren’t sharp pinpoint control games like say a modern FPS. Gameplay was fairly slow. and yeah second factor is simply games that were 20FPS, were made to be a 100% consistant 20 FPS. A game locked in at 20, will feel way smoother than one that alternates between 60 and 45

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“Yay! We made our project objectively worse!”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean at best though, it’s admitting they had something wasteful and useless for the last several decades and only just now figured that out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Jordan Peterson both a Christian and not a Christian?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s dumber is the video origionally was called 1 christian vs 20 atheists, and you see in the video at least one atheist brought up the video title that they all knew before they started. (In other words, Jordan Peterson specifically volunteered to play the christian in a video that when he agreed to it was called, 1 christian vs 20 atheists) Then later demanded they rename the video.

  But further its simple, JP preffers to attack people’s specific stances, from a nebulous position where he never has to give his own stance because he can’t defend his own stance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you gently tell someone you only want to keep seeing them if it's on a dating level?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly it sounds like the opposite. I’ve been there before… having feelings for someone but not being able to act on them. Feeling complete jealousy when she begins dating someone else, it can fucking hurt big time. People can say it’s selfish or whatever, but honestly the feeling can tear the hell out of someone, and it’s better for both parties to cut ties.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can a person use AI or whatever and get rid of their name and history off the net? And can it create a new ident with a bunch of history pictures and so forth?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not really, it can try but honestly at the end of the day most things are roughly equivelant to tracking down the sites, and hoping they actually remove things when asked. Some services try this, and do an OK job of it usually, but there will always be bad actors and archives of everything you have.

  Creating bogus history etc… very plausible, but also most likely will still be tracable to the idea that none of it was there before a certain date.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Into the meat grinder!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the star trek transporter debate is more apt.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Into the meat grinder!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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)?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.