olafurp
@olafurp@lemmy.world
- Comment on How hopeless is getting a job with a CS degree? 1 day ago:
Not gonna deny it. I’m very happy that at my company we’re good enough to do the code gatekeeping so the code doesn’t become shit. Judging from a bunch of devs I’ve worked with they’ll write themselves into a corner using AI at the speed of sound instead of asking for help on how to restructure.
- Comment on Reform UK unveils massive £50bn welfare overhaul to scrap PIP 1 day ago:
This reminds me of when the government cut benefit payments for at home caretakers so it pushed a lot of people to get services that are waaay more expensive.
- Comment on How hopeless is getting a job with a CS degree? 1 day ago:
My take is that right now we’re in a software building boom. Making software is a lot cheaper now but maintaining software not as much. I think programmer numbers right now have flatlined but will probably grow in the future as we write more software.
Pivoting to trades is a much safer choice and healthcare will be a guaranteed job security because of demographic changes.
- Comment on Would hammering websites on black Friday actually cost companies money? 4 days ago:
Without some proper security issue to take advantage of such as a very intense custom search and automating it with a script to spam it while cycling IP addresses you’ll not get anywhere.
A single person doing something expected continuously is unlikely to be able to spend $1 of capacity at pretty much any website.
If you want to make a dent you need to aim for around 100k small requests a second that actually hit the database and not just cache.
The issue is that if you want something they can’t cache you have to be logged in, but if you’re logged in you can be blocked. You could target small/medium businesses but that’s probably not the ones you’re after.
- Comment on Those damned leftists!!!1!! 5 days ago:
It’s not far off from the time I was living with a gay throuple and one other in a 100m2 apartment.
- Comment on Time for therapy 1 week ago:
If my kid does something cool I do a “impressed” face
- Comment on Time for therapy 1 week ago:
As an autistic person I used something similar to learn how to smile.
- Comment on When they didn't read the manual 1 week ago:
I agree, I’m used to the opposite now but “pulling on the content” like you do with smart phones makes more sense.
- Comment on The kids are alright 1 week ago:
Just tried it, it can go in and out without touching because I have a big mouth.
- Comment on Guys Did I Get Scammed? 1 week ago:
Security code / 3D secure is not mandatory. It’s in theory enough to make a purchase but will be flagged for potentially fraud very often.
- Comment on This Is Why I Sit Down To Pee Pee 2 weeks ago:
This is what I stay on Lemmy for
- Comment on I built a free game where you try to beat a couch at timing the market. Over 80k plays later, the couch usually wins. 3 weeks ago:
That one would be almost impossible to beat unless you recognise the the boom/bust cycle. It sounds interesting
- Comment on I built a free game where you try to beat a couch at timing the market. Over 80k plays later, the couch usually wins. 3 weeks ago:
I would like a slider mode. It’s very hard to do any sensible strategy with an all or nothing approach. If market goes up by 30% I want to progressively sell and vice versa
- Comment on Weapons for defense only 4 weeks ago:
Technically SAM systems are purely for defence but to get a complete set to defend you need a lot more than just anti-air.
Defence deterrent is based a lot on potential counter attack so if you don’t have a counter attack potential it’s kinda safe to attack you. Nuclear bombs are an example of this, they are the most aggressive and destructive which makes them very effective for deterrence.
One thing Ukraine has shown is that fortifications are super important which are purely defensive. But to guard a long defensive line without a massive standing army you need a crapton of drones which can be use both offensive and defensive.
- Comment on How often is normal to masturbate? 4 weeks ago:
I’m a man in my 30s and I do around 5x per week.
- Comment on OG Console wars 5 weeks ago:
This post was written by average red team enjoyer. Reds haven’t won anything since antiquity because they’re so inferior to Blue/Green. Even smooth brain green team supporters know this.
- Comment on I agree with don 5 weeks ago:
Skill issue
- Comment on The way my partner eats avocado. 5 weeks ago:
You need to introduce your partner to spoons.
- Comment on What do you think about the dead internet theory? 1 month ago:
Major platforms already have a large portion of bot content. Online articles in Google searches are mostly bots. It’s trending upwards but there’s still a lot of human created content left. I would stay away from big tech social media to avoid bot content.
- Comment on What hot af take do you have that you think you will be HORRIBLY executed and shunned from society for? 1 month ago:
I guess it’s hard to explain how a program is a work of art and use the doctor’s note analogy but calligraphy and readability are definitely factors. Maybe if we’d consider a hypothetical note where you can’t do anything yourself but an idiot intern has to read it and follow the instructions exactly on what to do?
- Comment on What is a game that you know is bad but really enjoy(ed)? 1 month ago:
Empire total war on release, the battle AI was absolute garbage to the point where you can just start as the Netherlands, walk over to Paris and take their country.
Before everyone researches fire by rank you could just spread out the infantry and have 2x firepower. Cavalry charges straight into you, pathfinding was so bad that you’d have a single column of men moving through a wide area. Fucking loved it though, it was a grand strategy spectacle and naval battles felt intense.
I had fun unlocking the pirates via config file edit and spamming out general units from a single buccaneer sword infantry and took over all of the Americas.
- Comment on What hot af take do you have that you think you will be HORRIBLY executed and shunned from society for? 1 month 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? 1 month 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? 1 month 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? 1 month 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? 1 month ago:
Correct
- Comment on And what was wrong with my old widget? 1 month ago:
The KDE builtin widget works pretty well. Not sure what OS you’re on.
- Comment on brand new sentence 1 month 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 month 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"? 1 month ago:
Yes