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- Comment on I think NAMBLA or some other similar org might buy them... 5 days ago:
As someone from the UK who works in software engineering, the combination of meanings is universally hilarious
- Comment on Modern Monetary Theory: Musk Edition 6 days ago:
Inflation is good for musk, it means his investments make more money
Let’s all not be naive here
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- Comment on [politics] I got co-kane runnin' around my brain, cocaine, runnin' 1 week ago:
Imagine referring to your dad by your surname
- Comment on Is Buying a Google Pixel with GrapheneOS Pre-Installed Dangerous? 1 week ago:
If you buy a phone that doesn’t come with the stock OS with a locked bootloader, just reflash as a precaution.
Identity theft is not worth saving yourself a half hour of messing about
- Comment on Behold, the future! 1 week ago:
I was gonna say, of all the big chains in America, Costco at least seems to try and be half decent to its customers and staff
- Comment on Are there any payment aggregators (Like Paypal for instance) that prioritize user privacy? 1 week ago:
The closest thing to PayPal in Europe is probably Klarna, albeit they put a stronger focus on their credit product, you can use it to just pay up front
- Comment on Posting everyday until my brother takes a shower day 355 1 week ago:
Anyone else see Vinnie Jones in lock stock?
- Comment on Why are so many new programming languages being developed? 1 week ago:
As others have mentioned Go and rust are nearly old enough to drink.
And the answer is pretty simple, if an existing language does something differently to how a group of people wants to work, someone will eventually write a language to do it that way.
There’s no single way to solve a problem, and that’s a good thing. If someone wants to whip something up quickly there’s a host of high level languages to do that in, it just probably won’t be especially quick. If you really care about performance, there are low level languages with varying levels of safety measures. Then there’s the whole code style thing, you might be a functional programming monk who is truly at home in APL, others may still long for something a bit more LISPy.
stuff that used to work fine in whatever old language it was in is now rewritten in a new language.
This is an illusion. If a project is moving from one language to another, that’s not a lightly taken decision, and almost definitely means they’ve had it with all the issues brought by the first language. I’m assuming you’re referring to the movement from C/C++ code to Rust that I’ve seen a fair bit.
This one particularly is because in C-like languages, any engineer will make mistakes, and those mistakes may never be obvious enough to be fixed. These kinds of mistakes are what cause those random crashes that never get fixed, but more severely, they often also give an opening for a security researcher (or someone more nefarious) to exploit. No one typically wants their software to be used for making people’s lives worse, so a lot of effort will be put into trying to catch those issues early, and manage the situation when one isn’t. With the advent of AI many projects have seen an exponential increase in the number of security issues they’re dealing with.
Or, they could bite the bullet and move to something like rust which keeps the performance benefits, but removes the ability to even make the mistakes in the first place.
- Comment on Any good tools for learning blind typing? 2 weeks ago:
Honestly, just type a lot and try to get it done quickly. I never did anything specifically to try and learn, it just happened naturally following that for me.
I’ve heard people have a lot of success with various typing games, there’s a few on steam now if that’s your jam. Glyphica and The Typing of the Dead are the ones that immediately jump to mind
- Comment on Fuck IMDB and fuck Amazon 2 weeks ago:
Letterboxd is pretty good, though it got bought by private equity a few years ago and they’re now trying to flog it off to Netflix or Paramount
- Comment on Fuck you Whatsapp 2 weeks ago:
I think you’ve got the power dynamic wrong here
If OP is having to contact loads of estate agents, it’s probably because they live somewhere with in-demand property.
That means those estate agents are going to have loads of potential people to sell to
Someone who wants to do something differently than everyone else is going to get a lower priority over someone who just does everything they are asked without question.
The estate agent doesn’t really lose anything by doing this, OP risks reducing their chances at getting a place, ostensibly one they need to live in at some point soon.
- Comment on Perception is everything. 3 weeks ago:
Oooh the beaver is half submerged, that took longer than I’d have hoped
- Comment on ...and then suggest something totally unrelated... 3 weeks ago:
And to save you jumping around different VPN countries looking for it:
- Comment on Good offer! Which one should I pick? 3 weeks ago:
I have something similar with my phone plan
My current plan includes unlimited everything and global roaming across basically anywhere I’ve ever visited (only had to get a separate ESIM once)
I’m regularly getting offers from them to switch to a plan with limits and more restricted roaming for only an extra 25% more a month…!
- Comment on Anon is a nostalgic gamer 4 weeks ago:
Mario kart 64
- Comment on If Steam were to shut down tomorrow how much money would you have lost in total on games / DLC ?? 4 weeks ago:
…erm
£12,898 according to SteamDB at today’s prices
In my defense I’ve had my account for 20 years and had humble bundle monthly/choice for like a third of that time, so the real number is hopefully not quite that
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Oh right, I think I basically only remember seeing that size in the UK in those cup dispensers on the side of those office water coolers, which now I think of it are something I’m also seeing less of these days.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
How big are they? The ones I have in mind are usually either 500ml or a UK pint (568ml)
I thought the solo cups were American pint size (473ml)
- Comment on Keir Starmer says some road and energy projects will be scrapped to pay for £15bn defence plan 4 weeks ago:
Starmer, who despite being a former human rights lawyer has supported the genocide in Gaza and the illegal war on Iran, would not be eligible for the Nato role until it falls vacant in 2028.
(Aside, I’m glad we’ve got Novara media)
- Comment on Anon comes up with a dating strategy 4 weeks ago:
I hope you don’t go around actually saying that to overweight people who are working hard on improving themselves, you might as well be saying:
“What are you even bothering for? You’ve fucked it. Game over. Damage done.”
And for a percentage of those people, that’s going to be the line that does make them give up on improving themselves.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
I think everywhere else in the world, the go-to plastic disposable cup is transparent, I don’t really see the red ones unless someone has gone out of their way to get them from an American importer for some reason (usually beer pong, funnily enough)
- Comment on What's gunna to happen when the American Federal Government starts prosecuting people for owning powerful computer hardware and software? 4 weeks ago:
Nah never gonna happen, it’s easier to just price people out of ever owning it in the first place
- Comment on High-street slot machines and casinos could face £460m tax rise under Burnham 4 weeks ago:
Honestly the high street casinos are one of the strangest things in this country.
I literally don’t think I’ve ever seen someone step into one, yet they’re on every high street. You see old fellas using the sport betting shops a bit, but never these mini casinos
Does it literally only take the occasional poor sod to keep these places open or are people just getting in when it opens and not leaving until it closes?
- Comment on Is it true that airport customs can legally demand access to your unlocked phone? 4 weeks ago:
Everyone should know most phones have a lockdown mode that makes it require a pin to unlock the next time
- Comment on time to eat 4 weeks ago:
Conventional meal for this time of day
Or
Another black filter coffee
Choose your adventure!
- Comment on Bro, I'm not picking that up. 💀 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on What is your favourite gaming console you have played? 5 weeks ago:
PS1 or Gameboy
Probably because they were the ones I had as a kid, but they both have great libraries of games from an era when it seemed like anything goes. Also the hardware limitations of each give the games a charming character
- Comment on Am I just bad at games??? 5 weeks ago:
10 mins to get to a title screen sounds like a red flag without having actually played it myself
Assuming you’re playing on PC, have you got it installed on an SSD rather than an HDD? Some games really don’t like being run from an HDD these days
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Old boys club attends old boys club
