Rentlar
@Rentlar@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Instance A does not federate with Instance B. But B federates with A. What does it mean to a user? 19 hours ago:
Instance A defederating B or vice versa is the same result. Any posts on the now inaccessible community wi
- Comment on I feel my life is empty. Is there any way to stop this? 3 days ago:
Change one thing just because you can. Take a different way to work, whether it is walking (and leaving much earlier), or a different bus/train or car route.
Listen to your favourite songs… look at the birds around you. Borrow a book from the library and read it, one bit at a time. Make the choices in your life, deliberate and DIFFERENT. Break your routine. Feel human.
- Comment on Anon shares his taste in music 3 days ago:
Anon’s favourite music genre:
- Comment on How does this pic show that Elon Musk doesnt know SQL? 6 days ago:
I mean saying the government doesn’t use SQL, in tech-speak is about as dumb as saying the government doesn’t use numbers.
Government is full of what are known as relational databases as you are well aware, and though it stands to reason that they aren’t all using the same software to manage it, many can be accessed using a standard language of commands. It could be a Microsoft Access, MySQL, MariaDB, Oracle Derby, Microsoft SQL server, PostgresQL, SQLite, SAP HANA, so on and so forth.
And saying there can be multiple entries in a database for one item with respect to the Social Security Database is, to me, a silly distraction and spreading BS FUD to ignorant people.
- Comment on Speedometer, or Siegometer? 1 week ago:
120km/h Hitler is just raising your hand to answer or ask a question. 160km/h Hitler is just showing off how flexible he is.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
No, only stupid reaction GIFs are allowed at my company. If an emotion doesn’t involve sending multiple megabytes of data to every member in the conversation, it’s not worth expressing.
Note: Standards are higher for secretarial and HR staff. At least 20% of the gifs must have Minions in them.
- Comment on Are mods usually confusing as hell or am I just an idiot? 2 weeks ago:
As the name suggests, a mod is “modifying” the game, in ways that the original creators never intended to support. That’s why out of very few exceptions (such as Paradox and Steam mods), there is not a centralized hub maintained by the creator to organize and apply mods.
The process tends to be different for every game because every game is made differently. To boil the concept down, basically if there’s no official interface for custom functionality (such as a plugin system), then modders will usually “hack” this in themselves. Installing the mod often means replacing a game file with one that hooks into the game, to be able to load custom code and custom game resources.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Not a border crossing but Nova Scotia’s toll road, the Cobequid Pass is doubling rates specifically for US commercial vehicles.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
If you spent 48 hours or more abroad then you can claim an $800 exemption from duties. This is the case for both Canada and the US (except the dollars is the respective currency). USA gets a fixed $200 exemption for every crossing if the other one doesn’t apply, Canada requires a 24 hour minimum stay for any exemptions, but in practicality if you tell CBSA you have around $200 of stuff that isn’t alcohol, most (especially at road/rail borders) will just wave you through without needing to fill out duty forms and pay.
- Comment on Romance scammers are now in the fediverse 2 weeks ago:
I got a similar message from that user and a near identical one earlier from a lemmings.world account. The latter onr also had links to a peertube channel with a different angle thumbnail of what appears to be the same person.
If you had an established profile and DM’d me I’d be more humoured to respond to out-of-the-blue introductions. But seeing that both accounts were created today, no public activity and immediately giving yourself a horny-bait nickname set off all the BS alarms.
- Comment on Do you need to adjust your speedometer if you change the size of your tires? 2 weeks ago:
Tangential speed of the tires is proportional to the angular speed, and the factor is the radius (assuming a perfect circle with negligible differences from tire deformation). Same thing with distance. Tires that have half the radius of stock would report speeds and distance twice as fast/far, and twice as large tires would be half as slow.
- Comment on Elon Musk Ignites Online Speculation Over the Meaning of a Hand Gesture 4 weeks ago:
Inauguration day 2017, the defining moment was “American carnage”. This year it’s this. Fine job, America.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, conservatives like to randomly plug phrases of propaganda like unfunny inside jokes. Depending on my relationship with them I do one of the following.
- Ignore if I’m not that close. Maybe roll my eyes a bit.
- Push back on it if we’re in the context of world events/news/politics.
- If we’re close enough, re-direct the culture war bullshit interjections with interjections of class war. If your friend sees it fit to just randomly call society lazy, you can also randomly call the upper capitalist class lazy government-teat sucking hoarders.
- Comment on An information dark age is upon us. I’m logging off 4 weeks ago:
If it’s any consolation, I’ve got you lot.
But I dunno, it just feels like a bunch of us just want to be told what to think, what to be happy about and what to be angry about, while ignoring the real harms and injustices being perpetuated.
The one thing I hope people will come to realize is that to overcome the giants, we must stop relying on them. Rebuilding the functions they controlled from the ground up, starting from the common folk around you.
- Comment on Will getting my drivers liscense renewed mess with my employer checking my driving record? 5 weeks ago:
Get it renewed now if you have time. Unless you’re super broke there’s no reason to wait.
You’re far enough through the process that something like your license expiry date not matching the record you submitted wouldn’t be a hassle, and even if it was, looking at the date they can immediately see the reason why without even needing to ask you.
- Comment on Microsoft refund problem 5 weeks ago:
Buy on credit card? Initiate a dispute on the transaction with the credit card company. Reason is “Goods not received”, have Roblox account screenshot showing history of debits/credits, purchase receipt, and email correspondence saved as evidence, attach it if requested. Usually you’ll get your momey back without much hassle.
Buy on debit card? Contact your bank and start a similar process but it will be more difficult. Microsoft gift card? Register a complaint with your consumer financial protection organization, depending on your country.
- Comment on Anon goes on a first date 5 weeks ago:
Would anon want to be with someone full-time that they had to keep silent about their harmless hobbies?
- Comment on Stop Killing Games Petition to UK Relaunched 5 weeks ago:
It’s good, he’s the originator, but the reach in Europe is not that great and there have only been a few multilingual channels that have picked it up.
- Comment on Can I pay someone to add a specific feature to an open source app? 5 weeks ago:
Yeah you can if the license doesn’t expressly forbid modification, a FOSS program you can fork, pay someone to hack in a feature and build a modified version for you. If someone is familiar with it and it would be a quick edit and build you might be able to get it done for under 50CAD. If not then it will be a couple hundred dollars of work at least.
Just remember to follow the requirements of the program license. If it requires that you make the source also available than just add the modified files to a public git repo somewhere.
- Comment on So many options, such excitement 1 month ago:
Thank you for the reminder to drink water.
- Comment on Murphy's law 1 month ago:
Yeah, that’s what it means when it is said in the “you’re so naughty” sort of way.
- Comment on I got into the wrong career lol 1 month ago:
Not to worry then, OnlyBogans is for you! Sign up today and make fuck all!
- Comment on Murphy's law 1 month ago:
- Comment on Sonic the Hedgehog film franchise pulls in $1 billion worldwide 1 month ago:
I wonder if we are going to get Sonic the Hedgehog: The Movie: The Game.
If we ever do, then someone needs to mod in first trailer Sonic in.
- Comment on Do people still call each other at midnight on NYE? 1 month ago:
I used to call some relatives but the list I had dwindled then the last people became too hard of hearing to call.
- Comment on Anon visits America 1 month ago:
Your diet does make a real difference, more than you credit for in your reply. In university I had pizza almost every day for a month, I gained 15 lbs (7 kg) and had a way flabbier stomach. I stopped doing that and tried to eat healthier, incorporating salad with my meals, and in just about a week I started noticing it going away, and I was back to where I was before in 3 months.
It wouldn’t surprise me too much to see how a body would react noticeably to a drastic change from a sedentary, highly processed carbohydrate diet and lifestyle to an active, more balanced one. Everyone’s body is different of course so it won’t always be the case, but to me the OP’s claims seem far from impossible. Japan still has its share of oily foodstuff, but the average portion is tiny compared to the US.
- Comment on This message will not go away unless I agree to their spyware. 1 month ago:
Yeah TD headquartered in Toronto has a big US subsidiary. The branches in Canada are called TD Canada Trust, the app right now is called the TD (Canada) app so is a little different.
- Comment on Age of Empires designer believes RTS games need to finally evolve after decades of stagnation 1 month ago:
Hey you bring up a good point. I consider it innovative because they are trying to develop a non-Microsoft owned IP story/lore behind the Stormgate characters, even if in terms of game mechanics they are trying to achieve “Starcraft 2 with a new coat of paint and business model”.
- Comment on Age of Empires designer believes RTS games need to finally evolve after decades of stagnation 1 month ago:
Beyond All Reason (open source with FOSS engine), Stormgate (proprietary but made by ex-SC2 devs) are separate attempts at what I would call innovating the RTS genre.
AoE2 DE by Microsoft is tried, true and super popular still but many aspects are still from the original game 20 years ago.
The Starcraft 2 engine is amazing but now under Microsoft ownership, I was hopeful initially but it looks as though it will continue to be left to rot. If only they could give it a Halo makeover using the same engine that would be awesome.
- Comment on AT&T's CTO tells his US team there won't be 'one-for-one seating' upon the return to 5 days in office — read the memo 2 months ago:
Your new desk:
