jas0n
@jas0n@lemmy.world
- Comment on Choose your difficulty 1 week ago:
New Zealand is just happy to be on the map.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 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] 2 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 3 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? 4 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 4 months ago:
What’s in your wallet?
- Comment on They won't teach you this in Drivers Ed 6 months ago:
Because they’re objectively worse in all measures other than
funcontrol. - Comment on They won't teach you this in Drivers Ed 6 months 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? 6 months 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? 6 months 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? 6 months ago:
Hi, I down voted you.