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- Comment on What do mean things so small we can't see them with the human eye? Are you crazy? 11 months ago:
But that’s a good thing. If everyone considers the status quo as final, no one would research anything. It’s fine to question stuff, if you at least follow scientific methodologies. Just saying “nah, I don’t buy it” and then leaning back doing nothing is just lazy, and not critical thinking.
- Comment on What do mean things so small we can't see them with the human eye? Are you crazy? 11 months ago:
If we only ever act on things we think we got 100% nailed down, we will either be as ignorant as these fools who locked Semmelweis away or we will stop doing anything at all, because realistically there is always a chance we got some seemingly basic understanding wrong.
The only intelligent thing is to work with a good mix of “what you know” paired with a sane amount of “critical thinking” and an assessment of potentially involved risks.
Covid was also an example (at least here in Germany). People fought against the invonvenience of having to wear masks or stay inside (or get vaccinated) because (as they said) we don’t know for certain how dangerous the illness really is and/or how effectice these measures are.
For me the calculation was simple: doing these measures and being wrong has far far less fatal consequences than being wrong and not doing these measures.
- Comment on What do mean things so small we can't see them with the human eye? Are you crazy? 11 months ago:
IMO the common sense part isn’t “oh right of course those are germs”, but following the observation that points to some correlation. They don’t have to know or understand the root cause to at least consider (or accept) that something is wrong.
- Comment on My children will refer to me as father. 11 months ago:
But daddy…
- Comment on Bob and the bobcat 11 months ago:
Motion denied.
- Comment on When you think things are going your way... 11 months ago:
The stacking I know means if player 1 puts down a +4 and player 2 happens to have a +4 he can evade his penalty by stacking. If player 1 doesn’t have another +4 now he needs to draw the stacked 8 cards. If he had a +4, player 2 might now have to draw 12 instead, and so on.
- Comment on Non-native english speaker here. Need help with my work emails 1 year ago:
Unless they are given. But typically in these constellations they aren’t.
- Comment on Gamedev and linux 1 year ago:
It’s a double edged sword. If the actual devs are exposed too much, they get bombarded with shit from so many people who have no clue and/or just want to vent, that they would not be able to do their actual work or would even burn out from all the toxicity.
Unfortunately people with actual helpful input are so rare that it’s likely not worth the hassle.
Would be cool though if the people triaging reports would have the knowledge to sort the wheat from the chaff. But same problem there: it’s likely so rare to encounter these reports that it’s not worth training people for it.
- Comment on Gamedev and linux 1 year ago:
They also have different processes. Each report would start as a support request that goes through some customer care department or even call center first, that will triage the issue with some knowledge base or decision tree. So before a meaningful report makes it way to a department that can actually deal with it, a dozen other people are involved first.
- Comment on Control Ultimate Edition on Steam | 75% off - 9,99€ 1 year ago:
What should I expect then?
- Comment on It's the letter of the day 1 year ago:
In the age of smartphones with cameras the same could be said about supernatural sightings in general. I mean if there really were ghosts, werewolves, whatever someone would have them on “tape” sooner or later. But for whatever reason (cough) it’s only ever hear-say and/or footage in the quality of 1990s security cams. Weird…
- Comment on 1 year ago:
I did a 2 day long “bootcamp” for the company I now work at. Basically two days working directly alongside my future colleagues but on a non-product related exercise task. I really appreciated it. First day was still weird and I was nervous, but on the second day it already felt normal and all conversations were extremely relaxed.
I got involved in the daily team routine, took part in coffee talks, etc
Doing the actual task was just time filler for getting a feeling of the new workplace and for them to see if I fit in.
Especially thanks to the second day I knew I loved it there and that switching job will be the right move.
This was before Covid, though. Today this probably wouldn’t work anymore, with most people working from home and most meetings being remote anyway.
What I am saying is: it’s not just for the company that hires you, it’s also for yourself. Expecially if you have to quit another job first.
- Comment on Open source community figures out problems with performance in Starfield 1 year ago:
Which is, literally, not every major version. I didn’t say “all Unreal Engine versions are evolutionary steps over their predecessors”, I said “they don’t get rewritten from scratch for each major version”.
Someone else also brought up the Quake engine, which has even more evolutionary steps; even with forks like the Source engine.
- Comment on Well, fuck you too. 1 year ago:
It’s for the greater good, but it’s also somewhat against the intention of the law, IMO.
Dataprotection is meant to give users control of their data. A restriction like that takes away a bit of my control, however, since it prevents me from doing whatever the fuck I want with my data.
But again: greater good. It also protects people who don’t know what they are doing.
- Comment on Well, fuck you too. 1 year ago:
Some idiots keep using one of my email adresses for god knows what, ending up in me receiving newsletters and shit. Since actual user accounts are associated, I typically recover the password (since its my email adress) and then delete the account.
There are a few websites with similar restrictions though. They are completely fine sending shit to email adresses they never bothered to verify, but reject logins from countries (or even US states!) that they don’t want. Morons.
- Comment on Open source community figures out problems with performance in Starfield 1 year ago:
- Comment on Man spends 10 years persuading Newport council to let him dig through landfill site for £200m of buried bitcoins. 1 year ago:
I hardly knew herbivore.
- Comment on Open source community figures out problems with performance in Starfield 1 year ago:
Evolution isn’t wrong. It’s not like Unreal Engine gets rewritten from scratch for each major version.
- Comment on Updated Edge and it now seems to put a frame with rounded corners around every website 1 year ago:
That’s essentially how this sub-thread started 😁
- Comment on Updated Edge and it now seems to put a frame with rounded corners around every website 1 year ago:
In the WebApp this would work. Across apps it’s a different story, since they just invoke a system command to open the URL in the associated application. From there it’s in the hands of that application, how to deal with it.
- Comment on Updated Edge and it now seems to put a frame with rounded corners around every website 1 year ago:
Not quite. Let’s say I have two profiles: “work” and “private”. If I have both open at the same time, they are separate browser windows with different tabs, different settings and different extentions.
I can now specify that external links open in “work”. If I now click on a link in Slack or in Thunderbird, they open up in the window with the “work” profile, even if the “private” window was the last active one.
- Comment on Updated Edge and it now seems to put a frame with rounded corners around every website 1 year ago:
I miss the tab grouping from Chrome based browsers in Firefox.
An I think tab containers don’t provide the separation I need to properly separate work from private.
- Comment on Updated Edge and it now seems to put a frame with rounded corners around every website 1 year ago:
Yes, but with “external” I meant opening links from other apps like Slack.
- Comment on Updated Edge and it now seems to put a frame with rounded corners around every website 1 year ago:
Used it for a while. One very nice feature is that when you use multiple profiles, you can specify in which of those external links open in. Every other browser opens them in the window that last had focus so I regularly have work related links open up in the private profile.
Also the performance was quite nice.
But since they continuously rub new services in my face with new versions, I ditched it again.
- Comment on Study: Streamers Now Wasting Record Amounts of Time Finding Something to Watch 1 year ago:
Let’s discriminate the term further by calling the producer the “stream source” and the consumers the “stream sink”.
We now have “sourcers” and “sinkers”. Thank me later. Or don’t.
- Comment on just sayin' 1 year ago:
… and then you get shredded to bits by a horde of Linux users.
- Comment on Shirley you cant be serious! 1 year ago:
Oh yeah, right. Even better.
I’ve actually been to a restaurant in Prague that only handed out iPads as menus. 🤷♂️
- Comment on Shirley you cant be serious! 1 year ago:
Having free WiFi might also be nice. But the physical copy is more versatile.
- Comment on Apple security updates could be banned by British government 1 year ago:
It’s like they watched V for Vendetta and thought “awesome, but let’s prevent people like that masked dude”.
- Comment on Mark Margolis, Actor on ‘Breaking Bad’ and ‘Better Call Saul,’ Dies at 83 1 year ago:
What an explosive career.
😏