moopet
@moopet@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 2 days ago:
Most of the people who hate cars can’t even drive one
Whether or not this is true, it doesn’t have any bearing on whether they hate cars. I mean, I don’t own a pistol but that doesn’t mean my views on gun ownership are irrelevant.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 2 days ago:
I’m typing this on a Macbook so take it with a 0.5g NaCl but just because a lot of devs use Macs doesn’t mean they’re good. It just means a lot of devs like them as status symbols, Windows sucks for most non-Windows-specific development and there’s a cult around Apple. My linux desktop is way better for 99% of development than this laptop, but this laptop is better built than most other brands.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 2 days ago:
I’m upvoting this because it’s a genuinely unpopular opinion, but I’m noting that’s because it’s wrong.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 2 days ago:
For every one you find like that, there are a shitload where everyone needs to stop because you can’t see past the hedge or there’s a curve.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 2 days ago:
Challenge accepted
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 2 days ago:
Surely if their code has deep issues, they’ll discover that eventually and maybe learn from it, right?
Maybe… but that’s definitely not a given, and if they’re not already an experienced developer it’s almost certainly something they’ll try to solve by prompting, “don’t make any mistakes” or similar.
- Comment on They eliminated cashiers and keep the profits. NY Democrats are fighting back. 1 week ago:
Depends what you want to call work. I’m down for these comparisons usually - I count watching adverts as “work”, for example - but in a supermarket with self-checkouts I have to wait for a shorter period before leaving the premises, I don’t have to have any social interaction, I can take my time packing my bag without feeling so much pressure from the person behind me in the queue. These are more spoons than traditional work, but my overall expenditure is lower. I am saving myself time and social cost, which is a discount I would not discount.
- Comment on They eliminated cashiers and keep the profits. NY Democrats are fighting back. 1 week ago:
I’d rather people be unemployed and not destitute while the capitalists are consigned to the history books.
- Comment on They eliminated cashiers and keep the profits. NY Democrats are fighting back. 1 week ago:
Mm, drag it out as long as you can, right?
- Comment on They eliminated cashiers and keep the profits. NY Democrats are fighting back. 1 week ago:
There are multiple solutions for poverty, making people dig holes and then fill them back in is not a great one.
- Comment on They eliminated cashiers and keep the profits. NY Democrats are fighting back. 1 week ago:
Employment for the sake of employment isn’t a good thing, though. The problem that’s trying to solve is people not having enough money to live, which has multiple better solutions than makework.
- Comment on They eliminated cashiers and keep the profits. NY Democrats are fighting back. 1 week ago:
If the self-checkouts cost the company less, then it’d be good for them to pass on the savings - but in a capitalist world, that’s not normal. If a company gets one of its food ingredients cheaper, does it usually drop its prices? Not unless it’s already competing at that price.
Self checkouts are a good thing. They’re not “us doing the shop’s work”. They’re not “free labour”. In fact, they’re a boon to a lot of us as customers, and shops with them still have “traditional” tills you can use if you want (e.g. if you have a huge trolley of things or you want a nice chat)
- Comment on the Home Alone house then and now 2 weeks ago:
I get what you’re saying, but switching my gaze between the two is like turning a siren off when I see the “after” pic. It’s desolate and boring, but it’s not AWOOOGAAAA
- Comment on Anon orders food 2 weeks ago:
This post has literally inspired me to order a pizza for my lunch today rather than open the fridge.
- Comment on take their money and arrest those responsible 2 weeks ago:
The only practical way to get power from water is to break it apart and then burn the hydrogen, and it takes more energy to break it apart than you’ll get back.
- Comment on take their money and arrest those responsible 2 weeks ago:
I hope the water thing is /s
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Ah, gotcha.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Marketing -> looks inside -> scam -> looks inside -> marketing -> looks inside -> scam
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
The italics show up for me fine, so they’re getting through!
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Wireless router looks inside wires
- Comment on EA VP Urges Companies To Think About In-Game Ads During Development: ‘That’s A Huge Opportunity’ 4 weeks ago:
Kind of. Like racing games where they have banners all round the track? I get that it’s “realistic”, but why should we settle for that, when games are supposed to be escapism, better than life? Having ads in games just because they’re in real life is normalising in a bad way.
The only ads I like in games are the pets-by-mail type.
- Comment on EA VP Urges Companies To Think About In-Game Ads During Development: ‘That’s A Huge Opportunity’ 4 weeks ago:
I understood this reference.
- Comment on 📡📡📡 1 month ago:
She wouldn’t care about the cold, she can survive without discomfort in the vacuum of space or in a house fire.
I mean, realistically her and Superman’s clothes should rip off within milliseconds of them doing 99% of the things they end up doing.
- Comment on British Charlie Kirk wannabe beaten up debating people in Manchester 1 month ago:
The Metro isn’t a newspaper, it’s a comic.
- Comment on What’s your favorite video game that most people didn’t like ?? 2 months ago:
I thought it was awful. The graphics and the 2d textures looked weird and the movement was absurd. It was unplayable. UT, on the other hand, was fantastic.
- Comment on Anon reads horror 2 months ago:
Good points, actually. I’ve seen Shawshank, Shining and Misery and they were all good.
- Comment on Anon reads horror 2 months ago:
His books are variable, but they usually have like 300 pages of genuinely good character development and scene setting, an inciting horrible incident and then another 100 pages of suspension-of-disbelief. All of the film adaptations I’ve seen are pretty bad though.
- Comment on bring 👏 him 👏 back 2 months ago:
Analysing titanium for weaknesses.
- Comment on baby blues 2 months ago:
Was that when she trash talked the actors?
- Comment on baby blues 2 months ago:
Like, say, this here stick. We’ll call it a “metre”.