olafurp
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- Comment on What hot af take do you have that you think you will be HORRIBLY executed and shunned from society for? 4 hours ago:
US is a very flawed democracy, it’s a bad example. Unlike most European countries you can’t just vote both out so if both parties agree on something the public opinion doesn’t matter.
There are oligarchic elements in all democracies but the purpose of a rep democracy is that you can elect the most qualified person to do the job of sorting all the governing out full time.
To further illustrate the point, most votes for the presidency of the US just flat out don’t matter. You can’t even vote for your preferred candidate since there’s no runoff/ranked choice election in either primaries or presidential election and each state is a winner takes all so republicans in New York don’t get a say nor do Dems in Alabama.
- Comment on What hot af take do you have that you think you will be HORRIBLY executed and shunned from society for? 5 hours ago:
Maybe you can fix them
- Comment on What hot af take do you have that you think you will be HORRIBLY executed and shunned from society for? 5 hours ago:
I’ll personally shun you. Programming by hand is an art form, there are infinite ways to solve the same problem and resilience, security and UX are all spectrums. Programming style is so unique that in a company of 10 people without a linter you can kinda tell who wrote what based on style alone.
Take an upvote, this is exactly what OP requested.
- Comment on What hot af take do you have that you think you will be HORRIBLY executed and shunned from society for? 5 hours ago:
I think cars should be outlawed in population centers with exceptions for product deliveries, mobility scooters and e-bikes. If you want your ikea furniture into your apartment you need to either fit it into a cargo bike setup or get it delivered by a company with a delivery license.
I hate cars
- Comment on And what was wrong with my old widget? 17 hours ago:
Correct
- Comment on And what was wrong with my old widget? 1 day ago:
The KDE builtin widget works pretty well. Not sure what OS you’re on.
- Comment on brand new sentence 1 day ago:
The way I see it is that you’d do it gradually by laying a foundation first such as crushes, why people get married and how girls start looking nicer.
Then you hammer it home on how to not get STDs and preggo. Then if they end up bringing someone home you introduce them to the “energy for the kid” vs “money for the kid” tradeoff for timing getting a baby and saying that not having one is fine too and their decision.
- Comment on Is coding possible on smart phones ? 1 day ago:
You can, but small upgrades go a long way. Upgrade path I’d go for is keyboard -> mouse -> monitor -> used pc/laptop.
Honestly though, if you’re going to spend some money on it buying a used bargain bin laptop and installing Linux on it will be nice. Plenty of used laptops in $100-200 range are good enough.
- Comment on is it spelled "grey" or "gray"? 2 days ago:
Yes
- Comment on Australians doing the country proud again... 2 days ago:
The wiki explains really well how it’s not a white power symbol. It requires fingers pointing up and even in that case it’s ambiguous.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
I actually don’t think they will, they’ll go for an alternative that has a big ass marketing budget and backed by a large corporation next.
- Comment on I still can't get over Skyrim. Are there any games that can replace it? 6 days ago:
Skyblivion is coming out soon. Not better tech but it’s still exciting
- Comment on Good cloud alternatives for Google Docs? 1 week ago:
Proton and nextcloud.
- Comment on Is there a community for cursed pictures? 2 weeks ago:
Post more, this is quality
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 3 weeks ago:
Relatable comment
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 3 weeks ago:
As a counter example MonsterSSS has a lot of fun.
- Comment on Vibe management 3 weeks ago:
This is what happens when you reward people based on token usage. People no joke can just put in before every PR “review every detail, be very thorough, make sure it fits into everything, check for every possible undefined behavior etc.” while giving the model a massive doc with list of all files in the project.
Not even sure if they check the prompts because “review formatting of the entire codebase” is also super heavy in a large repo but if prompts get checked it’s an obvious token sink.
The model will just ransack the whole project every time through the whole stack when you could enforce a contract with a couple of tests with strict input validation.
Uber has the dumbest AI policy in the industry.
- Comment on Gold 4 weeks ago:
Gold price would lower until it’s the same price as it costs to mine and bring it to earth, if that’s at all lower than whatever it’s currently.
- Comment on Your grammar lesson for today 1 month ago:
Huge - > enormous - > humongous - > gigantic - > massive - > supermassive - > your mom
- Comment on What would you do? 2 months ago:
Wow, that’s one of the worst takes on math education I’ve ever heard.
- Comment on The way this egg peels in infuriating 2 months ago:
Not putting the egg in cold water after boiling it and then blaming the egg really smells like a skill issue.
- Comment on i guess lunar eclipse got an update too.. 2 months ago:
The turtle A’Tuin swims through space, it doesn’t need to stand on anything unlike the world and the elephants.
- Comment on What's your favorite band? (Of frequency that is) 3 months ago:
I like drum and bass so it’d have to be bass but subbass under 200Hz plays a very important supporting role.
- Comment on Avocado. Is it really so untasty or I am doing something wrong? 3 months ago:
Try salt and lime/lemon or try putting it on bread with some type of meat.
- Comment on Consumerism ahhhhh moment 3 months ago:
Revanced is alive and kicking guys.
- Comment on BREAKING: PlayStation is shutting down Bluepoint Games (Demon's Souls/Shadow of the Colossus remakes) 3 months ago:
Yeah, but the landscape is pretty harsh for AA games right now. They could easily milk the IP they already have.
- Comment on BREAKING: PlayStation is shutting down Bluepoint Games (Demon's Souls/Shadow of the Colossus remakes) 3 months ago:
I would buy a shadow of the colossus remaster and pay for a DLC for more bosses.
- Comment on Anon finds a glitch 3 months ago:
For fun I’m going to explain why. So air can hold some amount of water in it at any temperature. Water energy in form of heat is not evenly distributed so some molecules move faster than others, at the surface some move fast enough to escape the water and into the air. That’s called evaporation, boiling does however require 100°C.
This also explains why humid weather affects evaporation (lower capacity to hold water in air) and at high humidity there’s an a similar chance of water being deposited to the body of water as water escaping which affects evaporation speed a lot.
Honestly, I really like this quality of water, it would be super annoying to deal with otherwise.
- Comment on I don't care if this is fake, I choose to believe it 4 months ago:
It reminds me of this one. Sure you could make a case for selection based on breeding qualities but that’s a huge investment for just looking good. I think this guys take is more plausible.
- Comment on Man posts his incorrect opinion online 4 months ago:
US culture varies a lot by state to state, YMMV.
