vinnymac
@vinnymac@lemmy.world
- Comment on Intruder 3 weeks ago:
Yes a child, not a grow adult with the ability to make perfect judgement calls, shot in the direction of his attacker. Then continued to shoot as the attacker was fleeing the scene.
Don’t be naive, a grown adult who was in a panic in that circumstance would not be viewed as a psychopath, let alone a child.
- Comment on Intruder 3 weeks ago:
Can you tell me more about how context isn’t important in this circumstance?
The child told news reporter this after the event occurred. We don’t even know whether or not he laughed like, “heh wow that was scary”. Or maniacally like the Joker.
- Comment on Intruder 3 weeks ago:
As the intruder walked down the stairs, “he told me he was going to kill me, f-you and all that,” Chris said.
The final shot hit the man in the leg as he was hopping the fence, the boy said.
The man was taken to a local hospital with injuries that were not life-threatening.
Context is everything and you don’t have any. I’d be mocking the meth head who tried to kill 11 year old me as well. This kid is a hero.
- Comment on Michael Winslow (the Police Academy and Spaceballs guy) sings Whole Lotta Love by Led Zeppelin. Including the guitar and bass lines. Perfectly. 4 weeks ago:
He did an episode on dropouts game changer and crushed it. He always does
- Comment on Valve must address swastikas and other hate on Steam, writes US senator in a letter to Gabe Newell 4 weeks ago:
If you are concerned by fascism, I recommend calling your representatives and even writing letters to them.
In the case above, a sensible well written letter sent by an individual that was put in power to defend the interests of the American people is not fascism.
It’s important to understand what Fascism looks like. Such as every billionaire bending the knee when a politician gains power, or what we see with Musk in an invented cabinet position. The merger of government and corporate powers which will directly hurt the interests of the people in a state.
- Comment on OpenAI’s new “deep-thinking” o1 model crushes coding benchmarks. 3 months ago:
Eventually, we might get there, sure. But I don’t see any reason to believe this is it, and I use AI to assist in my programming every day.
- Comment on DuckDuckGoose 3 months ago:
My grandfather is/was an electrician for over 60 years. Worked on very important projects in New York City. This rubbed off on me growing up. I spent much of my childhood taking things apart, figuring out how they worked, and putting them back together how I liked. I’ve been working on both hardware and software since I was 11. Had the privilege to study CS formally in high school, and Computer Engineering in university.
Good timing mostly got me into farming, especially since interest rates fell to the floor during the pandemic. Had enough to buy the acreage I wanted, and the wife was interested in helping out. We grow a variety of things now, and not just plants. For example we sell Honey, Soaps, Walnuts, and Mushrooms. It can be hard on the body to be so active all the time, but it is more satisfying than a monitor staring back at you at 3am because of some small incident.
I continue to tinker, and assist startups in my spare time, I can’t imagine I will ever stop programming.
- Comment on DuckDuckGoose 3 months ago:
Might be one of the first few times a Lemmy post related to me.
I have owned a farm for four years, and do engineering for fun. AMA