jas0n
@jas0n@lemmy.world
- Comment on How embarrassing 2 weeks ago:
Jury nullification
- Comment on The doctor then had to go and treat that lawyer for being a burn victim 5 weeks ago:
Also, don’t forget to split the video in half so you can watch someone react to the video you’re watching.
- Comment on Eat lead 1 month ago:
Half the earth was actually created in 1969. The other half was finished 12 hours later =]
- Comment on Donald Trump Bringing 'Lots of Relief Material' to Hurricane Victims 2 months ago:
Wrong place.
- Comment on It's an epidemic 5 months ago:
Some real wisdom in this one.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
A related problem I see on YouTube is talking heads pruning their comments to create mini echo chambers. This is a real problem.
- Comment on Lemmy is the best social media 5 months ago:
Thought “libs” was an American specific term. My apologies.
- Comment on Lemmy is the best social media 5 months ago:
I guess you’re part of the American right? You see… the right in the US has been fed a steady stream of Russian propaganda through their talking heads for a while now. So the right has become indistinguishable from Russian bots. Sorry for the confusion!
- Comment on Academia to Industry 5 months ago:
While you’re not wrong, I don’t ever recall people en masse believing a game AI was truly intelligent. Everyone was always aware of the truth. There just isn’t a great name for the computer players. I think it’s an important distinction here because people do believe ChatGPT is intelligent.
- Comment on Academia to Industry 5 months ago:
All aboard the hype train! We need to stop using the term “AI” for advanced auto complete. There is not even a shred of intelligence in this. I know many of the people here already know this, but how do we get this message to journalists?! The amount of hype being repeated by respectable journalists is sickening.
- Comment on Thanks. That was what I was looking for. 6 months ago:
Sorry, I changed it manually. I should have cropped out the search.
- Comment on Thanks. That was what I was looking for. 6 months ago:
Yeah. This was the problem. i just wanted to copy and paste it quickly but they rounded it off. It’s a useless conversion. And I switched it to mebibytes as well since that’s what everyone really means when they say megabytes unless you’re making storage devices. =]
Indeed, I should have just used my calculator program.
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- Comment on Winner's Luck 6 months ago:
Your point is that he sounds like an asshole? Because you badgered him for an explanation to a joke you obviously understood and he didn’t give it to you nice enough?
Preemptively deciding you won’t agree doesn’t make him right. He preemptively decided you wouldn’t be happy with his answer … and he was correct.
By the way, I thought it was funny. I sent it to my wife and she thought it was funny and sent it to her mom. (No one asked for an explanation).
- Comment on Choose your difficulty 7 months ago:
New Zealand is just happy to be on the map.
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
On one hand you have something that has no business existing and provides no value to humanity, and on the other, you have a terrible operating system. I’m feeling conflicted… Upvote.
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
Not sure what you’re on about, but I can’t help myself but upvote a “fuck Putin.”
- Comment on "Morbidly Wealthy": The world’s five richest men have more than doubled their fortunes from $405b to $869b since 2020—at a rate of $14m/hr—while nearly five billion people have been made poorer 11 months ago:
Yeah, I feel bad for those billionaires, too. You know what, I think they deserve a tax break.
In totally unrelated news, can you believe those left wing communists want paid maternity and paternity leave. That’s going to cost $12 billion annually… have they not seen the national debt?!
- Comment on Why do some websites have a "Continue Reading" button? 11 months ago:
You can still write plain html websites, and they would be super fast! But that’s not how we do things damnit! I need to implement feature x. Do I spend all day rolling my own lean version? Fuck no. I download a 5-ton JavaScript library that already has that feature, and I fuck off the rest of the day.
You are correct on one thing. The math does not add up at all.
The root cause is the current meta of software development. It’s bloat. Software is so ungodly bloated today because we’ve been taught since as long as I can remember that hardware is so fast nowadays that we don’t need to care about performance. Because of this mindset, many of the best practices that we were taught work directly against performance (OOP was a mistake. Fight me).
There might be overhead on the ad tracking bullshit… Sure. But, if developers cared about performance, that ad tracking can be fast, too ;]
How long should it really take to render a webpage? That should be near instant. If modern games can render a full 3D landscape over 100 times a second, surely a wall of text and some images can be done in under 1 second, right?
This is a problem in all software. For a simple example, I remember Microsoft word from 20 years ago being quite snappy on the desktops of the time. And by comparison, we are running supercomputers today. A cheap android phone would blow that desktop out of the water. Yet, somehow, word is a dog now…
- Comment on Steam keeps on winning 11 months ago:
What’s in your wallet?
- Comment on They won't teach you this in Drivers Ed 1 year ago:
Because they’re objectively worse in all measures other than
funcontrol. - Comment on They won't teach you this in Drivers Ed 1 year ago:
We did?
- Comment on We have had guns for 200 years but mass shootings only became common in the last 30. So what changed? 1 year ago:
Yeah, that makes sense. It used to not be a partisan thing to be an NRA member either. But I suppose I can say that about any bullshit culture war issue nowadays. This whole politics as a team sport thing is cancer.
Owning a gun just seems like another way to show support for your team. I’ve just got a sneaking suspicion that if it were somehow illegal to tell people that you own a gun, firearm sales would plummet. Otherwise, how would anyone know how cool they are?
- Comment on We have had guns for 200 years but mass shootings only became common in the last 30. So what changed? 1 year ago:
Total speculation from my own experience… so maybe just me.
It seems like there is just a completely different culture surrounding guns that didn’t exist before (or just want so damn loud). I’m talking about the whole I need guns for “protection” because crime is out of control, the 2nd amendment SHALL NOT be infringed, “don’t tread on me,” I have guns and I’d like to see the government “try” and take them, etc. It’s like this delusional, childish owning a gun so you can tell people you own a gun… thing? Anyone else notice you can always tell who owns a gun by how dumb their bumper stickers are?
I talked to an older dude who went to my high school 20 years before me and he told me how him and a buddy always brought their rifles to school. It was never a “thing.” They might have gone hunting before school or something. But the whole attitude he had about it was the polar opposite of what it has become.
No one is coming for your guns guys. On that note, no one fucking cares either.
- Comment on How do poor people in the states give birth without money? 1 year ago:
Hi, I down voted you.
