Rentlar
@Rentlar@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Flock Safety CEO's Home Marked 'Public Toilet' After It Was Blurred on Street View 4 days ago:
I know I used to see a fairly clear picture of myself on Google Street View when it came out. It was later slightly blurred out even though it wasn’t the latest one when when I checked through the timeline.
- Comment on SmartphOWNED 4 days ago:
Shawty got low low low low blood sugar levels.
- Comment on bruh 1 week ago:
I have to say Trump is a fairly unique distillation of every aspect of American society that Americans don’t like to admit they have. He has plenty of vain, self-serving sycophants under him that could take his place, but I will say there are very few who have the same mix of incompetence and charisma draw for a certain populace.
- Comment on When the Democrats regain power, their centrist leadership will claim, "We can't do anything because...". Don't be fooled. We need to get the corporate centrists out and real progressives in! 3 weeks ago:
I agree. It’s also important to remember that that is not the destination, but the first milepost on the way to course correcting the entire system, even when following the incrementalist way to change one piece at a time.
- Comment on When the Democrats regain power, their centrist leadership will claim, "We can't do anything because...". Don't be fooled. We need to get the corporate centrists out and real progressives in! 3 weeks ago:
The thing is that you are looking too short-sightedly for the internal (non-revolution-like) reform path. The goal for change is 2028, but change in 2028 can’t get off the groind running, if a 2026 sweep doesn’t.
What Congress can do is to compel Trump administration officials to get their asses into the chamber. They can put articles and lawsuits with appropriate standing to:
- Halt ballroom construction.
- Halt reckless and unnecessary tariffs.
- Halt the endless war spending on the unauthorized military adventure Iran.
- Halt funding for Israel.
- Abolish/stymie/revoke funding from ICE.
- Have the DoJ release the Epstein files.
Congress under leadership of feckless Republicans and sometimes Democrats haven’t asserted the power of the purse. For budgetary matters, votes can be held removing the cloture rule. And if Trump refuses to sign a bill voted on D-party lines to fund the government while implementing changes, the government will shut down once again and the bill will await him on the desk until he signs it. He will try to shift blame, but the government has shutdown led by Republicans or Democrats, the common thread is his incompetent ass in charge.
- Comment on Just checking in to see if anyone cares that the mumbling turtle is still on full salary while being MIA for two-and-a-half months 5 weeks ago:
Mitch would croak so fast if he heard that Congress passed a bill giving Americans job protection for sick leave equal to the length of his absence.
- Comment on Self Host to Local Communities 1 month ago:
Which brings me to the part we cannot skip, we have to evaluate every definition of a community against a simple test…
Can it be used to harm others, and can it be used to harm itself?
I don’t believe this is as simple of a test for the definition of community as the author makes out, without narrowing down from the numerous definitions of harm as well. Harm could be physical injury, it could be crimes and derogatory hate speech, but it could just as easily be defined as someone feeling uncomfortable, or not being given an opportunity to speak when they felt they deserved one.
To have a healthy community that can still withstand some inevitable episodes of dispute and drama that brew over time, two elements are required in my mental model:
- A community’s control and cohesiveness cannot fully depend on one entity, whose absence would cause the community to fall apart.
- People within the community have to accept to a certain degree, that people don’t think exactly the same as them on everything.
And so from my perspective, what that degree of acceptable difference is will help define what the harm to be avoided is or could be, in turn informing the test to define the community.
- Comment on How hopeless is getting a job with a CS degree? 1 month ago:
As a high school senior self-hosting, you are at least a couple years ahead of the curve in your cohort in this area. Don’t write yourself off, even if you are just half-blindingly running scripts for now, keep exploring and tinkering, then learning will come naturally with it.
Assuming you are in the USA, unemployment is low yet few are hiring. Trump’s tariffs and meddling in everything has made many businesses across the world hesitant to make any hiring or firing decisions (aside from Silicon Valley tech which thinks AI will do all the jobs). I’ve encountered several reports like this over the last year, which means if you were a new grad looking for a job right now, in many fields you would struggle to find one.
Definitely ask recruiters for their insight on job market trends, and also start talking to employed people in the fields you have an interest in. Ask if their department recently hired or had layoffs, and other questions to help you decide if that’s the kind of work you could see yourself doing in the future given honing your skills through higher education and hobby development.
- Comment on What to put on a CV when I have nothing to put there? 1 month ago:
If your resumé would be light in experiences, especially if you are young, then you can expand on your “skills” section. In resumés/CVs and later possibly in interviews, show some of the kinds of problems you solved and the technologies you used to solve them. Start thinking about any communication issues you might have had with your friends and classmates, sometimes online strangers, and remember how that got resolved so you can talk about it.
- Comment on Name of a Japanese vegetable dish? 1 month ago:
www.justonecookbook.com/hijiki-salad/
Is it hijiki? Seems to match a least some parts of your description. It’s a traditional Japanese dish (other east Asian cultures as well), kind of sweet, uses sauce and boiled vegetables. It also has tofu in it.
- Comment on How do people make mods for games without access to the game's source code? 2 months ago:
Decompiling. Use ILSpy for games coded in .NET for example. You take a .dll for the game that you think contains the code that controls the behaviour you want to change. You decompile it. You change the code and recompile it. Then you replace the original .dll with your new one.
Sounds easy, but the tricky thing is that decompilers only parse what the code does, and usually doesn’t provide what the coder called the variables and functions to indicate what they were for. So a function that was coded as:
function damagePlayer(characterRef &Player, int damage) { *Player.health = *Player.health - damage; }
It will look like this after decompilation:
function func238(objRef &var4748, int local1) { *var4748.param35 = *var4748.param35 - local1; }
So a lot of the effort is interpreting what these functions actually do then replacing the generic names. The hints come from when they are called (if the game can be debugged, you use breakpoints to pause the program when that code is called).
If there is a common engine or way programs are compiled, people develop libraries that work for many games, and all you have to do is have the library hook into the spots of each game where it does the common things like load resources or manage global variables, to have them loaded from a separate additional files rather than replacing everything (See BepinEx for example). Then that saves people work from having to compile and replace files themselves, and they can get right to changing the code where they want to. Then more modding tools make the earlier modding tools easier to use, so on and so forth.
- Comment on An american on Reddit wrote: "I’m not sure it’s really a good idea to let legislation through on a 51-49 vote: making a change should really take more consensus than that" 2 months ago:
On the other hand they only need a simple majority to confirm a Supreme Court majority of buffoons that don’t actually give a shit about the Constitution or even internally consistency, over their personal pet project to turn their country into an authoritarian state.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
It’s too bad but
No one is talking about the Piefed vote quotas anymore, so you’re welcome.
More than once I brought this up as comparison on the difference between an unpopular default based on the main developer’s needs, that was announced and detailed in changelogs, that can be toggled and worked around, instead of a control-freak’s grudges manifesting as a hidden shadowban list. We lost a very friendly power user (PugJesus) from the Piefed change, but unfortunately sometimes that is the price of it.
Wanting a less-toxic fediverse is a totally normal thing, users and admins have many of the tools already for that, and I respect devs for trying to do their part. But it is the dishonest way of implementing it that no one is a fan of, and that makes everyone question this dev’s character. If this person could at the very least own up to it, call it well-intentioned error, and respond to the problem with solutions rather than a crashout, then this wouldn’t need to be as big of a deal.
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Lemmy is bandwagony but in politics you have to live with a little bit of it. I’ve said anti- and pro-feminist stuff, made anti- and pro-trans arguments while trying to be empathetic as I can, made cold, warm and hot takes, toed the line and went against the grain, got lots of up and down votes. I try to pushback against gatekeeping and purity tests, play devil’s advocate, and when I’m not shitposting, try to steelman arguments I don’t agree with. People are imperfect, I try to avoid to assign guilt by association, people will think differently about things than I do, I respect their opinions while still disagree with, and I’ll take downvotes on the chin for defending different that.
- Comment on Stay Away 2 months ago:
Thank you Mr. Paul Ruddman for the sage advice.
- Comment on Just as Nolan intended 2 months ago:
Not good enough, he demands people watch this film on a 70mm screen. So get out your GBA SP.
- Comment on Is it theoretically possible to construct a self reproducing mechanical device? 2 months ago:
You’re absolutely correct on that. For the sake of the thought experiment and trying to keep to the spirit of the conditions, my dandelion ball device is a “purely mechanical” device driven by external resources of wind, and the chemical and biological related to growing dandelions also considered external.
- Comment on Is it theoretically possible to construct a self reproducing mechanical device? 2 months ago:
Because you say mechanical that does preclude chemical reactions…
At least a basic level of a real world self-replicating “device” in an abstract sense, you can “grow” some crystals given sufficient substrate liquid.
I think it is theoretically possible, and may be easier at to realize at a microscopic scale since you can get a sufficient amount of liquid that can be considered a ‘functionally-infinite’ space and the device can more freely float around without having to worry about needing complex dextrous parts to put things in the right place.
My idea of a simple self-replicating device that operates mechanically, would be putting together a loose ball of dandelion seeds. It floats around in the area and if there are dandelion fields where it goes, it can pick up the seeds, and if it bumps into a random obstacle in the landscape it will break into parts that can pick up other seeds.
- Comment on Is this a rope hanging under a helicopter? 2 months ago:
Got me good there.
- Comment on "We're all in this together" 2 months ago:
The heck is Infantino doing in Edmonton and Middle-of-nowhere, Ontario?
- Comment on Revealed: Farage’s £5m gift reported to UK crime agency over money laundering concerns 2 months ago:
I would like to see the Loony party come 2nd or 3rd in this race, or if I can dream, possibly unseat Farage???
- Comment on Bill to raise minimum wage to $25 an hour will be introduced in Senate 2 months ago:
We should go through the effort of writing bills to do all of those things too. Pieces of it could get picked up in other bills as amendments. The point is not to just give up because you think putting any one improvement together is useless until everything is already put together nicely.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
This is Canadian Tire Jumpstart so it’s likely operated by a charity foundation run by a major hardware retailer. The app system seems kind of stupid, but I don’t believe at first glance the aim was to profit out of this scheme.
- Comment on Bill to raise minimum wage to $25 an hour will be introduced in Senate 3 months ago:
Congress, campaigns, non-profits and advocacy organizations.
- Comment on Bill to raise minimum wage to $25 an hour will be introduced in Senate 3 months ago:
Write the bills ahead of time, so that when a favourable Congress is formed you don’t have to spend more time putting it together from scratch.
Min wage should also be attached to inflation. Also, “bills going nowhere” didn’t stop Project 2025, Heritage Foundation fascists and Republican abortion ban projects from persistently marching forward.
- Comment on Keep off the sofa 3 months ago:
Tucker Carlson is curious about this, as he is looking like he has been constipated for 3 days…
- Comment on What do you think about the dead internet theory? 3 months ago:
I think there are dead networks, like Twitter, YouTube comment sections, facebook, TikTok etc.
I just have to create my own networks or participate in different networks than the mainstream where there is sufficient human activity and limited bot activity, and wherw there is bot activity it is clearly delineated.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
In current day tech, East Asian characters are taken from a combined set called “CJK unified ideographs”. When regional variants exist, the language it renders as depends on the font of the user’s device.
There was a recent example that came up: 骨(bone) has the little square on the left in Simplified Chinese and on the right in Japanese. With Hiragana it’s more obvious because of all the curvier letters, but with kanji only phrases even smartphones tend to mix it up.
I can’t tell between Hungarian, Romanian, Bosnian, Albanian, Czech or Slovak, because I haven’t really studied any of them or know any words. In the Cyrillic field, Belarusian, Russian, Ukranian (except for the existence of ï), Bulgarian, Serbian I probably couldn’t be able to tell you what faced with a random paragraph of text.
- Comment on Was Alex Jones right about anything? 3 months ago:
There’s a cabal of rich pedophiles pulling strings in society… except many of them are his friends and benefactors, and he’s been awfully quiet since the Epstein files got partially released…
- Comment on is it spelled "grey" or "gray"? 3 months ago:
A “Pint” of beer served commercially in Canada must be 20 imperial (UK) ounces (aka ~568 mL), with a 2.5% margin of error permitted within the law, unlike a US pint (16 US fl oz ~473mL).
Just for fun, “Une pinte” of alcohol in French served commercially is “a quart” of alcohol in English which is double that value.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Welcome to Lemmy, glad you’re here!
