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- Comment on Anon tries programming in Java 1 week ago:
Objects are great for game programming.
Stuff like enemies, bullets, loot, items, etc. are constantly changing and affecting each other. This makes it difficult to program in fixed functions that run through and crosscheck a bunch of constantly changing arrays. It makes logical sense to have objects with their own functions stored in dynamic lists instead of arrays. A lot of the properties are used by several different objecs, like coordinates or health points, so it also makes sense to describe them in classes.
So, I’d say that it’s a useful way to classify data that is very dynamic, or when different functions need to run depending on that data.
I don’t like putting all code into classes, because a lot of code doesn’t need that kind of flexibility.
- Comment on Cleanliness is more important 1 week ago:
Just lick it off.
- Comment on Anon takes the horsepill 1 week ago:
Not through the mouth though.
- Comment on Average Swedish dining room 1 week ago:
I think the price is alright, if you like it as it is. It appears to be well maintained, however it will require a major overhaul to make work with any other kind of interior. It might be costly to heat and it would cost a lot to update the windows and heating system.
It’s located close to a large road, the cargo railway, the harbour and industrial areas. The area is build very densely, with neighbors behind every wall. I wouldn’t say it’s necessarily a very noisy place, but it’s definitely not blissfully quiet.
For the right person, it may be cheap, but it’s not exactly what the majority of house buyers are looking for.
- Comment on Average Swedish dining room 1 week ago:
I love the idea of having the library double as a stage for the dining room.
- Comment on So this is how liberty dies... 1 week ago:
Try lifting the pillows.
- Comment on Best country of Chile 🇨🇱 1 week ago:
The southern archipelago looks like a Minecraft biome. Completely void of people and with just island after island it appears as if it would be fun to explore. It’s probably too cold to enjoy though.
- Comment on Is this what every election is like? 2 weeks ago:
I’m thinking worldwide. George Bush paved the way for a lot of populistic right wing politicians in other countries, showing that reckless incompetence is fine as long as you put on a suit and pretend to know something about economy.
He then dragged the entire ensemble of headnodding clowns into a war in Iraq on a false premise. Yes, Saddam was an asshole and needed to go, but he did not have chemical weapons. The entire war was about taking full control of oil, that Bush’s croonies had planned long beforehand.
Then there was a little financial crisis called “the great recession” in 2007 and onwards, and of course history has a tendency to point backwards, but I think it’s fair to say that the complete lack of oversight of the financial institutions was the main cause. The cause of this crisis was G. Bush Junior and all the other conservative government leaders in suits claiming to be “fiscally responsible”. If only they had been “financially conservative” that would’ve better, but they didn’t even attempt. It was pretty much as irresponsible as it gets.
I don’t think Trump or the USA as a whole can litteraly destroy the environment, because they’re not that many, 300k people of 8 billion worldwide, and I also don’t think Trump will initiate any wars directly, but they’ll do nothing to stop the existing wars, and we will see a worldwide financial crisis as soon as the next budget doesn’t get approved or earlier.
- Comment on Is this what every election is like? 2 weeks ago:
This election has the same dreadful feeling as 2000.
Nevermind the crazyness, it’s the certainty that something worldwide bad is going to happen due to the incompetence of the American government.
- Comment on How do Americans win their country back? 2 weeks ago:
Maybe Biden could pack the Supreme Court before leaving office.
It wouldn’t be a great idea in the long run, but it’d potentially stop the entire system from functioning right now.
- Comment on the distance 2 weeks ago:
Sacré bleu !
- Comment on Calculatable 2 weeks ago:
I think this is actually still an issue. On PCs the space bar + up + left arrow keys conflicts on some keyboards. Try it: open Notepad, press two arrow keys and then space. Most of them works but if you hold up and left, it will not make a space.
This is annoying in racing games, when you want to accelerate, turn left and use the hand brake at the same time.
- Comment on And 299999999 is divisible by 13 2 weeks ago:
But only in base 10.
- Comment on Know thy enemy 2 weeks ago:
the fact that developing countries will industrialize in the same way western countries have and will start to produce similar environmental emissions
That’s not a fact. It makes more sense for developing countries to skip directly to renewable energy sources.
- Comment on Bank of America will (stop|continue to) Accept $1 bills 2 weeks ago:
The actual story is that the bank will stop accepting or exchanging damaged bills.
- Comment on Scales that refuse to measure if the battery isn't brand new 2 weeks ago:
CR2032 batteries are hit and miss in my experience. Sometimes my car FOB burns through one a month2 and other times they’ll last years.
- Comment on Houses in my area increases 82% in just 4 years 2 weeks ago:
Are other homes increasing as much in that area? Or did they build a double garage, remodel the kitchen and install 15 swimming pools?
- Comment on Stop whining. Do it yourself. 3 weeks ago:
I don’t think there are any" rant" communities?
Lemmy needs that kind of large general topic community to redirect users to smaller niches communities.
I too also wouldn’t want to mod it, but I think it’d be great for herding up angry lemmy users sharing the same frustrations, so they could be redirected or start new communities for the particular topic.
The reason is that everyone enjoy reading and writing rants about something, so the rant community will automatically grow many subscribers coming in from all kinds of searches.
For example, a user ranting about “womens pants without pockets” would get much more engagement than someone just creating and posting about a community for womens pants. The rant comment section would also already often include the potential users for a new community.
The general discussion doesn’t really cut it, because it’s too nice and polite and weird angry rants don’t really fit in there.
The thing is that (also in real life) when someone needs something bad enough, they’ll get angry, and that anger can be channeled into something useful, because they’re willing to collaborate with others who can help them or who at least supports them.
- Comment on Every place gotta have the cuck booth 3 weeks ago:
Ooh, it’s a wedge table.
- Comment on Please be patient. 3 weeks ago:
The whole thing is an abstraction. The nucleus isn’t actually tiny ball shaped things mashed together, but rather cloudy stuff which would probably not be identical if we could actually see them. The quarks that make up protons and neutrons are considered elementary particles and identical, but they don’t move around much unless energy is used to split them.
The electron however is an elementary particle that moves outside of the nucleus and can move from one atom to another. So the hypothesis is that if we could follow one electron from the big bang to the end of the universe, and this electron could move both forwards and backwards in time, it would potentially be enough with just one.
It probably doesn’t hold up very well, but it’s an interesting thought experiment.
- Comment on How are scammers getting my email address? 3 weeks ago:
It can happen in many ways. If you’ve ever used your mail for anything, then the address is out there.
Just the other day I got an email addressed to 50+ people with every email in the “to” field. Ironically the mail was about online security…
Obviously it’s a breach on GDPR, but the damage is already done. If just one of the other recipients has been hacked or has forwarded to someone who is or has allowed some dodgy app to syncronize contracts, the scamners now has all the emails.
There’s absolutely nothing I could have done to prevent it.
- Comment on A popcorn bucket with 3 holes, to share with friends 3 weeks ago:
Yes, my idea is that the sand is dense enough that anything lighter than a huge gigaton worm would not feel the fluidity. Like insects walking on water.
Anyway, I just searched it, thinking that someone else might have an idea, and it turns out that the biological explaination is that they’re not worms, but legless lizards.
- Comment on A popcorn bucket with 3 holes, to share with friends 3 weeks ago:
Maybe its quicksand with just the right density for worming.
- Comment on Why do cell phones have a data limit but home internet doesn't? 4 weeks ago:
If my phone didn’t have a cap, I’d hotspot it all, which is basically the idea of cellular home internet routers I found a home router without a cap, which time will tell to be true, but it’s still more expensive than my phone with a very large but not unlimited cap.
They want to get paid, that’s the reasoning. The amount of data is really irrelevant except for pricing.
Roaming fees used to be the same until EU stepped in. Hopefully EU will eventually step in and order a full stop to ALL CAPS too. We live in the “future” now, right? Bring me ny free unlimited connection so I can download that car they talked about.
- Comment on I hate link rot 4 weeks ago:
If you’re refering to the r-link system, just unplug the fuse and plug it back in, in the fuse compartment. The hardware reset will fix most issues and even unlock otherwise locked features.
- Comment on Diatomic 4 weeks ago:
You need a ledger line through the lowest note, otherwise the two first notes are identical, and this neither diatonic or even heptatonic.
- Comment on A decline in arable land 4 weeks ago:
I acknowledge that it’s a wild take, and I want to stir up shit.
However, in Denmark m, we do not benefit from a domestic production at all, because it’s mostly shipped out of the country for feeding livestock elsewhere.
Most of the food available to me is from Ukraine or Spain. I do not have the option to eat donestically produced foods, yet 60+ of the land around me is used for farming.
I absolutely apploud the few farmers who do have local distribution, but those only account for very few percentages of our land.
- Comment on A decline in arable land 4 weeks ago:
No, it’s not a bad thing.
Denmark being at 60% is horrible. It is land used by less than 0.1% of the population.
They don’t even contribute to the GDP. Tthe entire business model relies heavily on EU susidies and couldn’t exist without it. Always moaning about the weather, pricing and competition, fixing the papers to always show a net loss, yet still driving massive luxury cars because apparently Mercedes is the only brand that can drive on the paved roads between the fields.
However, politically, these thousand people who own or rent all the farm land have way too much power, because they have somehow managed to convince everyone living in the vicinity of this manure desert called agriculture that they somehow also benefit from the success of the business, even if they don’t.
Fuck farming. It’s a dirty industry.
- Comment on Honey 4 weeks ago:
Honey is a by-product of bees, the same way that all human made food is a by-products of humans.
- Comment on Vital Statistics 4 weeks ago:
One, maybe, but penguins live in huge colonies.