dhork

@dhork@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are you doing for digital estate planning?⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  When I go it all goes with me.

  Not true at all, they’re not gonna bury you with it. Your bank accounts do go through a process after you depart. In many states if you die without a will or any other instructions they go through a long processes to identify your next of kin, and if they can’t identify it then the State takes it all.

  You are much better off making a small will and leaving some simple instructions. If you have no relatives you trust with the money, leave it to a charity, like your local animal shelter if that’s your thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How common were video game scalpers in the 1990s?⁩ ⁨⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  The closest things we had back then was USENET (which required you to already have a connection to a provider that hosted a server) and BBS’s (which required you to dial in to connect to a local server, which proabably did not have its own USENET connection). I suppose there was also Compuserve, and QuantumLink/AOL, but they were metered dial-in providers, and when they finally connected to USENET, they ruined it.

  There was no concept of a device that was always connected to the Internet in the 80s for most users. Most home computers were islands. Maybe if you were on a University campus you might have access to a computer with that permanent wired connection, but that was about it.

  My kids have grown up in a world where everyone is connected, all the time. We’ll see what they do with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are you doing for digital estate planning?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  #1 thing is to make sure all accounts have beneficiaries. Accounts should have a primary beneficiary (your spouse), and if there is the ability to make a secondary beneficiary, see if they will divide it among any children you have . This is of paramount importance.

  I know someone who passed away suddenly, and did not have a beneficiary on his “play money” stock account. His widow had to go through a lot of hoops to get access to it.

  From there, I am a big believer in paper. I want those statements coming to the house. I file them all, and my wife knows where I put them. If I were to go poof , I’m sure she (with a lot of help from her siblings) would make sure nothing is missing.

  The Crypto is a different story, of course. When you can Be Your Own Bank, there are no beneficiaries or contingencies: it’s all keys. I have a bit of crypto in a HW wallet. But, years ago I moved some BTC to Coinbase, and it’s still there after all these years. I am thinking of moving the rest, just to make it easier for people to sell if I do go poof.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are lemmings so touchy about downvotes?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I only use the report button for obvious spam, and for some rulebreaking posts where the community has clear rules about what can be submitted, like communities that require links (no selfposts).

  But most communities don’t necessarily have mods online the same time I am, so if someone is obviously spamming I I block them, too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does a game server differentiate between multiple clients on the same network? Do they even?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of good answers here, talking about the IP/port combinations used to identify both sides of a connection. But a key thing to understand is that both ports don’t need to be the same. On the Client side, the port number is often assigned just for that connection. (The standards call those “ephemeral” ports.) So, two independant connections from the same IP are differentiated by their client side IP ports.

  It should also be noted that NAT works by translating both IP addresses and ports. So if those two connections are coming from behind the NAT and have different internal IPs but the same port, the NAT will translate that to two different ports from the public IP.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It was a pretty unique experiment in Decimal Time

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, when you are comparing times across time zones, you can use UTC time. (UTC is essentially a more modern GMT, there are differences but only the nerds care.)

  You will want to use all times in UTC. But be aware that when you do this, any times that are meant to be the same throughout the year will shift one hour due to Summer Time/DST. Not every region does summer time, and the ones that do start and stop at slightly different times. (And Southern Hemisphere countries do it in Northern Hemisphere’s winter.)

  If that’s too inconvenient for you, or most of your users are in your country, an alternative is to explicitly state the chat hours in your local time zone, with the understanding that it will shift a hour vs. UTC twice a year, and anyone outside your country’s summer time rules will just have to deal with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Posted by a school district's official Facebook page in response to a shooting⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t have a problem with the sentiment behind this picture. I don’t even have a problem with the AI art style. But don’t people critically examine their work before using it?

  How hard would it have been to tell the AI “Hey, please remove the extra hand on the wolf’s shoulder? It doesn’t belong there.” Isn’t that a thing you can do?

  The main problem with AI slop isn’t that it’s slop, it’s that so many people think the raw slop is acceptable without any refinement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨White House Launches Arcade.Gov, a Minigame Site Where You Catch Immigrants, Build a Tetris Border Wall, and 'Fill Your Kids' Trump Accounts' With Bitcoin⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes! Sorry for the confusion

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨White House Launches Arcade.Gov, a Minigame Site Where You Catch Immigrants, Build a Tetris Border Wall, and 'Fill Your Kids' Trump Accounts' With Bitcoin⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I ain’t clicking on that. I wonder what type of telemetry it’s gathering…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is USD susceptible to counterfeit in comparison to CHF?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  $20 dollar bills are the most common denomination in retail, and ATMs here exclusively hand out 20s. Even with prices going through the roof, you hardly ever see higher denomination bills out in the wild. A shop owner may look at you funny if you hand over a $100 to pay for something (and would definitely get the pen out), but would probably not blink twice when handed five $20s, even though counterfitters target them just as much. (Also note that we no longer make any bills over $100 at all…)

  We do have some currency modernization programs underway, but they will not effect the size of the bills. We seem to think it would be a disaster if our currency were like every other country’s currency. We need to think we’re Exceptional, I guess.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thank_God_for_Mississippi

  Since the U.S. state of Mississippi commonly ranks at or near the bottom of such rankings, residents of other states also ranking near the bottom may say, “Thank God for Mississippi”, since the presence of that state in 50th place spares them the embarrassment of being ranked last.[10] The phrase is in use even among state government officials[11][12] and journalists,[13][14][15][16] though occasionally with a slight modification.[17][18][19]

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The meow technician on duty⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Pro tip for AI “artists”: if you want to fool people into believing it’s not AI, don’t out anything in your pictures with actual text, AI gets it wrong every time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨British supermarket Morrisons selling AI birthday cards (£2)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  yes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When you're not a resort hotel but are in a city...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Since “F&B” Likely means “Food & Beverage”, I am guessing it’s the hotel restauraunt

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Casino charges you 10% to get your own money back.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m surprised they still use coins, the handful of casinos I have been to over the past 10 years have slot machines that take cash in, but only give vouchers out. You can still go to the cashier to cash out even small vouchers for free, but who wants to do that for a small amount, when you can just take it to another machine and see if you are “luckier”?

  A well designed casino will siphon your money away naturally, so it doesn’t normally need to add additional friction between you and your cash.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does the USA have gifted schools or was Spider-Man Homecoming lying?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Schools in the US are generally funded and organized at the State level. US schools in different states (or even schools between US cities and rural areas in the same state) are a totally different experience.

  A large district like NYC (one of the largest in the country, if not the largest) is big enough to offer several of these magnet High Schools, which you need to take a test to get into, and are highly competitive. Small rural and suburban districts don’t have the same resources, but often have advanced science and math tracks that can get those kids ready for STEM majors in college. Many US districts also have partnerships with the local Community College, where high school kids who take college-level classes while in high school can get College credit for them. A smart kid who takes advantage of these can knock a semester’s worth of credits out while in High School.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How hopeless is getting a job with a CS degree?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a golden time for embedded stuff right now, because the hobby space is so rich. Arduinos and STM32’s alone have so much material out there, and they are super cheap. I think a kid who is in college for CS, but who can take what they are learning and apply it to some of these little projects will be a hot commodity when they graduate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How hopeless is getting a job with a CS degree?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you are interested in the internals of computers just as much as programming them, take a good hard look at Computer Engineering as a major instead. You still get to code, but you also get to understand the hardware underneath it all. Since it is rooted in the physical parts of computing, I think it is less likely for AI to eat those jobs. (Plus, everything from your car to your TV to your coffee maker has an embedded microprocessor in it now. I think embedded software is a safe bet.)

  But, no matter what major you pick, it is no longer the case that simply graduating with a degree (and a good GPA) is a guarantee of a good job. You need to go beyond your classes, and find additional things to work on. Internships are great if you can get them, but even if you can’t, try to find an open source project (or even a hobby project) that you can spend time on. You want to have something more than your coursework on your resume for those first jobs. I would even value a resume with some good internships or side projects and a 3.6 GPA over someone with a 5.0 GPA who did nothing else.

  Finally, whatever you do, don’t extend yourself to go into debt. Maybe there are a small handful of CS schools that are worth going into debt to attend – but let’s face it, if they want you and you’re good enough, they will find a way to get you to afford it there, and you will get hired somewhere. But, I know folks who went into 100+k worth of debt to go to a CS program at a small liberal arts college because they liked the campus. Don’t be that person. Unless you are MIT or CalTech material, your local State University is probably good enough. If you do get through 4 years of school and can’t find a job in your field and need to pivot, that will be so much easier to do if you have as little debt as possible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People who do not specify units of measurement in international contexts⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We don’t measure weights in cups, but we do measure some ingredients (like flour) by volume, so it’s not uncommon to see a recipe that calls for 1 cup of flour instead of 120g

  However, we do use “ounce” to mean both 1/8 of a cup in volume and 1/16 of a pound in weight…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Text spam aimed at my ex⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Do either of you have a common last name? I get spam calls (and even more emails) all the time really meant for people with a similar name somewhere else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The word Chav is still being used by British people, when it's derogatory shorthand for working class lads and it's not even subtle...⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t this the country that puts some random person’s pictures on all its money based solely on which vagina it came out of? You mean to tell me that country is classist? Who would have known?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, President Dumbass definitely wants a census. The census explicitly needs to count all residents, but he wants to add questions about citizenship to it specifically so he (and Stephen Miller) can have a list of non-citizen residents to harass.

  If they get their way, by the time the census after that one is taken, there won’t be any non-citizen residents to count anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dev at id Software says Microsoft 'burned a lot of bridges' in the industry: 'They fundamentally don't understand art, they don't understand games'⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know about all that, didn’t they develop Windows just to have a platform to play FreeCell Solitaire?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How no-techy/"common" people know if a Open Source code is secure?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I keep forgetting there are people who live in places without all the FREEDOM^TM^ we have in America. Carry on, then…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How no-techy/"common" people know if a Open Source code is secure?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No you’re not free to sue. If you read that license agreement you will find that your right to sue has likely been waived into some corporate-friendly arbitration process. Yes, you can try to sue anyway, but you have to find a way past that clause first.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Feeling that way occasionally as you get older might be a legit thing. (I felt that way in occasion, but it didn’t start until my 40sp. But all the time? That is excessive.

  I would start keeping a health diary if I were you. Start writing down how you feel every day, nad note the time you are feeling poorly. You can just use a note taking app (or even a physical notebook), it doesn’t need to be a health app.

  Also write down everything you eat or drink. You might find after a week or two that an obvious pattern emerges, and you can try changing your diet. But regardless, the next time you see the doctor you can discuss that history with them.

  Don’t be afraid to get a second opinion on those lab results, also. Some doctors put an emphasis on different things. Another doctor might see a different pattern in the same results.

  I hope you figure it out!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the difference between Woke and Political Correctness?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would argue there is a difference. PC language (at least the stuff that started being pushed in the late 80s) was primarily aimed at avoiding anything that might be considered offensive or exclusionary to certain groups.

  I always connected the term “woke” to “awake” or “aware”. It goes beyond language, and into an understanding of social systems and why they have historically been biased toward certain groups, in ways that people ,right not have even b3en aware of at the time.

  It is “PC” to edit a job description to use gender-neutral pronouns. It is “woke” to rewrite the entire job description to be attractive to a broader range of candidates from diverse backgrounds.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You shouldn't be able to just crash into the moon⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I found this: www.projectpluto.com/25010d.htm

  On 2026 August 5, within a few minutes of 06:35 UTC, an upper stage (section) of a rocket used for a lunar mission will hit the moon. This may be of some (probably minor) scientific interest, and we may learn some things from it. It doesn’t present any danger to anyone, though it does highlight a certain carelessness about how leftover space hardware (space junk) is disposed of.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This post telling tourists which areas to avoid in New York⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Except left turns