aesthelete
@aesthelete@lemmy.world
- Comment on Do you really have to let everyone know 16 hours ago:
I feel like most social media is the online version of this.
- Comment on How are the blatant anti-competitive practices of Apple just…allowed? How is this even possible? 21 hours ago:
Eh, they’re perceived as more “lefty” than most of the stereotypically “patriotic” corporations of the US.
There are a couple of reasons for this: (1) Steve Jobs has/had a “crunchy granola” reputation (despite likely being a crypto fascist) due to likening himself to civil rights leaders and other “woke” people, and (2) they have a large amount of usage by people in the creative arts such as music producers, visual artists, and other people who the right would call “woke” without blinking an eye.
I think it’s all perception, and they are easily just as fascistic as the rest of the corporations. But they try to stay on the good side of a lot of people that care deeply about eroding democratic norms, and the removal of people’s rights – or at least claim to – that produce a lot of the cultural artifacts the right largely hates, but are broadly-speaking massively popular.
- Comment on How are the blatant anti-competitive practices of Apple just…allowed? How is this even possible? 1 day ago:
Probably market cap
- Comment on Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message? 5 days ago:
Yes they are that lazy. The average office worker also has the attention span of a gnat.
- Comment on Max pulling THIS shit every time I finish watching Last Week Tonight 1 week ago:
Things you may absolutely hate
- Comment on I used to really like that one 1 week ago:
Japan’s sending PlayStations
- Comment on LinkedIn’s cofounder Reid Hoffman says seeking work-life balance is a red flag that you’re ‘not committed to winning’ 1 week ago:
It’s a fucking lotto. Lucky people always think they’re smarter or more hardworking than others.
- Comment on Do you eat shrimp shells when eating shrimp? 1 week ago:
No it’s gross
- Comment on Switch 2 mouse mode (such potential) 1 week ago:
Nintendo shop regularly runs deals similar to steam. Usually at around the same times of year. Same with PlayStation. I run games on all three platforms. You have to be kind of a sucker these days to buy a game at full price when it’s first released. But none of what I said makes $80 games reasonably priced.
- Comment on If these mother fuckers are trying to make me pay for Healthcare to talk to fucking ChatGPT I swear to god ChatGPT is going to write me so many scripts for opioids its won't be funny. 2 weeks ago:
Dude within ten years people in the US will be lucky if they have potable water.
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- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
At one point, it seemed like we were getting smarter, and then it very didn’t.
- Comment on Now that's an interesting question 2 weeks ago:
It’d really be a pleasant place to live if it weren’t for the huge amount of selfish, entitled fucking pricks that do.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I’m a hunching it up a bit. But there’s some amount of absurdity in expecting large amounts of scientific rigor in lemmy comments when those leading purportedly scientific bodies are being led by vaccine-denying simpletons.
That ubiquitous expectation of powerless individuals to reason and behave perfectly while ultra-powerful people can behave like spoiled five year olds is foundational in making life fucking miserable for me personally.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Every country suffers from what? Mass stupidity?
Maybe that’s true but it certainly seems like we are more individualistic and stupid than most…and I don’t think those two things are entirely unrelated.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
America is more car-oriented than most other western countries and leaded gas is how we did the majority of our poisoning.
Yes, of course microplastics are everywhere, but I’ve read studies saying that internationally they’re eating about the same amount of plastic as we did years ago, but they kind of plateaued whereas here in the good ol USA people still don’t know that it’s not a good idea to eat three meals a day of microwaved food cooked in plastic containers.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Read the book “bowling alone” if you’re interested in someone’s attempt at researching why we went from collectivism to individualism as a country. There are a large amount of factors but if I were to take a crack at it, I’d list a few: TV, the Internet, smart phones, air conditioning, capitalism, and (last but certainly not least) racism. Racism is foundational to the country and its history.
As far as the stupidity, some of the same factors apply, but there are also additional ones like environmental factors (US citizens eat more microplastics than any other major country since like 2016 and we lead poisoned ourselves for a century), a deep-seeded anti-intellectualism, and we’re a large part cultist/religious idiots that see everything through the lense of “some guy” being the best thing ever and the source of all truth.
- Comment on Oops, something went wrong! 4 weeks ago:
Yeah but most of these errors don’t even give out a uuid that could be used to relate the error to logs to be resolved by someone.
Not that that someone exists anyway. Let’s face it the entire industry is a massive joke and a pile of shit and with AI coming fast and hard soon you won’t even get the privilege of venting to a call center person about it.
You’ll vent to some made-up robot chatbot named veeblezorp and he will give you an impromptu therapy session about the state of the world. Your computer/tablet/phone/app still won’t work properly and veeblezorp will try to get you through the stages of grief about that.
Just unplug it and don’t plug it back in again. Go for a walk. Play with the dog. Hug your children. Stop buying crap online that scales up infinitely to take new customers (and their dollars) but is forever stuck at the garage startup level when it comes to support.
- Comment on What happened to cylindrical plugs? 1 month ago:
I agree, but somehow the low end portable monitors seem to already have USB-C support. I bought a monitor for like $60 and it had USB-C.
I’m not quite sure why regular size monitors are lacking the support.
- Comment on What happened to cylindrical plugs? 1 month ago:
USB-C likely will take over video eventually. I use it for video on two out of three of my monitors and the Nintendo switch can be used that way.
- Comment on Germany right now 1 month ago:
I was told by a German person on this very site that they’d never go right wing again because of a unique type of centrism in the country that’s hugely popular and that my tiny American brain couldn’t comprehend. Oh well, guess that’s just another common centrist L.
- Comment on Balatro wins formal appeal to reclassify poker game as PEGI 12 1 month ago:
Extreme programming is basically pair programming. It sucks and doesn’t work. Cucumber is also known as “behavioral driven (design/development)” or BDD. It manifests as test documents written in “plain English” that are executed via code. It inevitably becomes unit tests but worse because it’s based mainly around regex matches to bits of text within the steps.
- Comment on Balatro wins formal appeal to reclassify poker game as PEGI 12 1 month ago:
He wrote some hyped up programming books and he was involved in the creation of extreme programming (a bust), cucumber (an almost completely useless waste of time), and agile (an ok idea but in reality it’s a huge bust, it’s biggest effect is that management tells everyone “we need to be agile” all the time).
Tldr: you’re not missing out
- Comment on Balatro wins formal appeal to reclassify poker game as PEGI 12 1 month ago:
Til that he’s trash and that Uncle Bob is trash. It makes sense honestly, Uncle Bob was always hyped to no end with his mediocre contributions to software. Also the agile manifesto sucks ass.
- Comment on Facepalm on multiple levels 1 month ago:
Why don’t we just wait and see if even these idiots want that in a few years? It’s been a couple of weeks and it’s already starting to look like most of the polling locations will be covered in rubble by 2028.
- Comment on How is the Stock Market keeping it's value after *points to everything*? 1 month ago:
Because the speculative “economy” necessarily grows faster than the actual economy.
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 1 month ago:
I think citizen’s united. The spirit was dead probably before I was born, but legalizing corruption made it inevitable.
- Comment on What keeps Americans from being mad about the state of their country? 1 month ago:
I believe you, but this is also a very left-leaning site that pretty much filters out all of the conservative idiocy from it. The general public doesn’t seem to give a shit and when I go out and about in the world it’s like nothing has even changed. I suspect it will be this way for a while even if eventually there is full-blown fascism with a world war, and death camps. I remember reading remarks by people who were around during the formation of the Third Reich in Germany and I remember them writing something like all the shops and everything were open and people were going to work like normal for a large portion of it. There was even a person that didn’t realize how crazy the country had gotten until he saw his small child imitating Hitler and saying antisemitic shit about Jews.
- Comment on What keeps Americans from being mad about the state of their country? 1 month ago:
The feeling that nobody else really gives a shot is what does it for me.
- Comment on How does this pic show that Elon Musk doesnt know SQL? 1 month ago:
I’m talking about a SQL join. It’s essentially combining two tables into one set of query results and there are a number of different ways to do it.
www.w3schools.com/sql/sql_join.asp
Some joins are fast and some can be slow. It depends on a variety of different factors. But making every query require multiple joins to produce anything of use is usually pretty disastrous in real-life scenarios. That’s why one of the basics of schema design is that you usually normalize to what’s called third normal form for transactional tables, but reporting schemas are often even less normalized because that allows you to quickly put together reporting queries that don’t immediately run the database into the ground.
DB normalization and normal forms are practically a known science, but practitioners (and sometimes DBAs) often have no clue that this stuff is relatively settled and sometimes even use a completely wrong normal form for what their doing.
In most software (setting aside well-written open source) the schema was put together by someone who didn’t even understand what normal form they were targeting or why they would target it. So the schema for one application will often be at varying forms of normalization, and schemas across different applications almost necessarily will have different normal forms within them even if they’re properly designed.
