WormFood

@WormFood@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon tries programming in Java⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  object orientated programming is the wrong idiom for almost all problems, and even in the few cases where it makes sense, you have to be very careful or it’ll hurt you

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What types of math games are ideal for children?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  you can still get the logical journey of the zoombinis on steam (and on android/ios). no joke, I think that game taught me deductive reasoning

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reform UK pulls to within two points of Tories in latest YouGov poll⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
  1. almost every major political party in the UK has an anti-immigration stance, so they certainly do act like it’s an issue
  2. despite media scaremongering about immigration, there’s no credible evidence that immigration in the UK has negative social or economic consequences overall
  3. the lovely people behind reform UK previously campaigned for us to leave the EU in order to reduce immigration, and not only did it not reduce immigration but it was also a multi-year political shitshow (and it tanked the economy, and it pulled us out of the EU human rights convention, and it fucked up supply chains, and it decimated arts and science funding, etc etc)

  to be honest I’m kind of amazed that UK voters would fall for the same obvious grift twice

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is cloudflare breaking the internet or fixing it?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I run a small personal blog/portfolio website that doesn’t get more than a hundred or so human visits per day, but it gets hammered with bot traffic, not just malicious bots but tons of different search indexers and scrapers, many of which don’t respect robots.txt

  after setting up cloudflare I noticed a very significant drop in malicious traffic and in bandwidth use, which also corresponded to less bandwidth and CPU usage for my VPS.

  I know cloudflare has recently had a few bad customer service stories but for small and medium sized websites their service is invaluable

  my own personal criticism of cloudflare is that, as a VPS user, I get hit by cloudflare challenges more. but now that they’ve moved to hcaptcha it’s not too bad

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Delists Sites Providing DIY Hormone Therapy at Behest of UK Government⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  when people on the internet say something: ideology when the extremely conservative british government says something: not ideology

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨acceptable screws⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I worked for an engineering company that used them almost exclusively and now I won’t shut the fuck up about pozidriv l. everyone thinks I’m insane