Takumidesh
@Takumidesh@lemmy.world
- Comment on If Open Source is so great... 2 days ago:
For real open source projects, it’s a lot of the time not nerds working for free.
All your favorite frameworks and libraries are often developed in house at big companies (angular, react, vue, tensorflow, Kafka, pytorch, k8s, Jenkins, and many many more).
And even then, much of the development on them is done by people who are getting paid to use the frameworks at smaller companies.
There are tons of examples the other way too of course, but even the Linux kernel is mostly corporate commits, Google, Huawei, Oracle, and others.
This isn’t inherently bad, but it’s not as cut and dry as people make it out to be.
- Comment on This world is cruel… 2 days ago:
Yea, I would wonder why hobby engineering isn’t on the list, or something like ‘maker’ I think 3d printing as a stand alone is more of a support, it would be like, instead of woodworking, the hobby is ‘sawing’ it’s part of it, but engineering is what the hobby is actually.
- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 5 days ago:
Funny how nuclear power plants are taboo, but building thousands of nuclear warheads all over the globe is no issue.
- Comment on Is it really possible to tax the rich? 1 week ago:
Well, a lot of stock trading isn’t as simple as just stock picking, buying and selling individual stocks.
Much of the market is made up of derivatives trading, such as options, where you aren’t trading the stock itself, instead you are trading the option to buy the stock.
The value of the option is derived from the value of the underlying asset, but it is not absolutely coupled to it (this is how a lot of the money is made, by finding market inefficiencies and capitalizing on things like slippage, where there is a mismatch in the value of the derivative and it’s underlying)
What the person above is saying is that, when it becomes no longer profitable to trade underlying assets directly, new derivative markets will be invented that trade around other underlying assets.
Think about unregulated Bitcoin trading for example, while contrived, imagine a crypto currency that is coupled with the price of another asset (these exist, like USDcoin) such as a stock, future, option, or something else.
- Comment on Is it really possible to tax the rich? 1 week ago:
You know, you can just do things. Like, laws don’t need to be applied unilaterally. You can, at the same time, tax a 100,000,000 dollar loan, and not tax a 1,000,000 dollar loan.
Kind of like how generally, low income people do not pay much or any income taxes, or how certain products are subject to additional sales taxes.
- Comment on Nintendo sues streamer for playing pre-release, emulated Switch games 1 week ago:
I mean I think the guy is stupid, but let’s honestly reflect here, who gives a fuck about some leaked Nintendo game getting played a week or two early. Like honestly, it might not technically be victimless (though even that can be argued), but the ‘damage’ is so small it’s like being upset that someone stepped on your grass.
- Comment on If the EU uses online signature for European Citizen's Initiative, why isn't voting online for elections or policies not allowed? 1 week ago:
Don’t mail in voting concepts kind of contradict a lot of these points?
- Comment on Anyone know of any good cheap/free trivia party games? 1 week ago:
What? I’ve never heard of this. What are those questions?
- Comment on [Même] Which movie was this for you? 2 weeks ago:
Yes it’s odds that you will like the movie going in.
Besides, aggregate scores are hard to work with.
The best thing you can do, when dealing with critics imo, is to find a critic with similar sensibilities to you, and then figure out the things they like.
If a critic hates car chases and you love them, it doesn’t matter what the score is, because you can see them score it low for car chases and use that information. What matters more than score with critics is consistency.
- Comment on Haters will say it’s fake 2 weeks ago:
That’s a valid email 🤷
- Comment on She must be unhinged 2 weeks ago:
It’s most likely a private school.
- Comment on Business execs just said the quiet part out loud on RTO mandates — A quarter admit forcing staff back into the office was meant to make them quit 3 weeks ago:
Ease on the rto rules until people are comfy and yank the chain again. Rinse and repeat every 5 years and you can continuously flush out the seniors for freshly graduated blood.
- Comment on Disposable vapes to be banned in England and Wales from June 4 weeks ago:
It’s easy.
It’s closer in spirit to buying a pack of smokes, it’s easy to just grab one on the way somewhere, less of an issue if you lose it or have to toss it(like at some concert venues), easier to give to your friends, and generally they are much smaller, so easier to conceal.
- Comment on Why is voting before the deadline in US elections referred to as 'early voting'? 4 weeks ago:
Sorry 15 years 2010 midterm and forward.
- Comment on Why is voting before the deadline in US elections referred to as 'early voting'? 4 weeks ago:
I’ve voted 'early, in every election I’ve participated in. For as long as I’ve known, which is about to be 4 presidential and all of the elections in between, the polls have always been open for weeks.
That’s approaching 20 years, I don’t think it’s a new concept really at this point.
- Comment on Why is voting before the deadline in US elections referred to as 'early voting'? 4 weeks ago:
Right I get that.
But why is it marketed, for lack of a better term as early. Why wouldn’t it be, ‘the polls opens on October 20th, and you can vote late up to November 5th’
- Comment on What kind of special knowledge or equipment does piracy groups have? 4 weeks ago:
TPM isn’t inherently bad, it’s just a way to cryptographically store keys. TPM overall is great as it gives you a very secure way to store things like encryption keys.
You also don’t need TPM to lock down a system. Locked bootloaders have existed for decades and platforms have historically rolled their own encryption modules as they wanted, like your ipad example, or any video game console in the last 20 years, or most mobile phones, etc.
The ‘knows enough to be dangerous’ crowd has been fearmongering about tpm since it’s been introduced, it isn’t some magic bullet for vendor locking, since vendor locking is already achieved.
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- Comment on Anon finds the culprit 1 month ago:
I agree, functional programming is the future
- Comment on Anon tries smoking for the first time 1 month ago:
I’m not gonna downvote because I think your experience is valid. That being said, I think it is a little dismissive. Many people in this thread likely have direct issues with specific addictions, and many people likely have been around death or serious harm because of it.
Chemicals like nicotine have a direct addictive effect on your brain, whether or not you personally can overcome that or not doesn’t make much of a difference over that fact that it isn’t even about personalities or willpower in every case. Nicotine in particular digs very deep, altering brain development, changing the perception of pain, and controlling dopamine levels. Nicotine also has direct effects on the limbic system, and overall effects of the entire nervous system.
This isn’t some issue of people being stupid or weak, nicotine is one of the most addictive (chemically) substances known to man, and a common delivery method is to freebase and concentrate it. It is constantly being developed in laboratories to be as addictive as possible, and there is a 1 trillion (and growing) dollar industry that is financially incentivised to get it into your hands.
1 in 8 people in the world smoke or otherwise consume tobacco products, that’s almost the same amount of people that drive cars.
- Comment on Anon tries smoking for the first time 1 month ago:
This reduction of addiction is surprising to see here. You can literally replace your scenario with anything, booze, heroin, junk food, whatever and it may be easier to understand. You have already crossed the barrier on enjoyment, so why is it a stretch for you that people might overindulge. I’m sure there are things in your life that you overindulge in.
Our brains and bodies are vastly complex and all of these things have chemicals that alter your brain chemistry, everyone’s brain is different and these chemicals affect people differently.
- Comment on Crypto bros have discovered idle games, and the results are incredibly boring 1 month ago:
While trading in general is zero sum, if you believe the product you’re trading has intrinsic value, then no one needs to be holding a bag.
If I sell you a car and you get to use the car, you wouldn’t be holding the bag, because you wanted the car. This applies to stocks, and stock derivatives, as well as commodities.
The problem arises when there isn’t an intrinsic value (or the intrinsic value is very small), such as with NFTs or many cryptos in general.
There are cryptos that have some intrinsic value like monero, since they have fungibility and a use case, but most do not.
- Comment on Nintendo filed a lawsuit against Pocketpair, Inc. 2 months ago:
The steam deck didn’t exist when the switch came out, it innovated and filled a niche that turned out to be a severely underserved segment of the gaming market.
Nintendo struck gold with the switch, and a ‘switch 2’ likely isn’t going to cut it.
It’s not like Nintendo is infallible, remember the console before the switch was the Wii u.
- Comment on Burning Up 2 months ago:
My thermostat increments by 0.5c
- Comment on Burning Up 2 months ago:
It’s about crossing into triple digits, a new order of magnitude, it feels heavy.
- Comment on Is "disk" just a different spelling of "disc" or are they actually different words? 2 months ago:
I usually store food on them
- Comment on Is "disk" just a different spelling of "disc" or are they actually different words? 2 months ago:
Is a plate optical or magnetic?
- Comment on Bread 2 months ago:
You understand that the bread is in the bag already right?
- Comment on Anon is living like royalty 3 months ago:
Immigrants bring their culture (and thus, cuisine)
- Comment on Anon faces his greatest challenge 3 months ago:
I don’t remember why, but I have you tagged as: Image
