petersr

@petersr@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is an engineer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
  3. if you hated engineering in uni, will you love the work afterwards?
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why dont we do this??? are we stupid??⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like a risky click for some reason.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon's first job⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Yes”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it really possible to tax the rich?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The newly elected government is actually quite cost efficient in this regard. Since they already are all crooked business men, they don’t need to pay anyone to get those tax laws passed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Realistically... How fucked is the US?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Then we are good.

  Hopefully.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon has a plan⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Does it really need to be a big container ship?

  Didn’t people transport stuff in smaller boats back in the day?

  (You still make a valid point though)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon uncovers something big⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The first point-contact transistor was invented in 1947. What a coincidence…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wild times in a wild world⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes… Something like that…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wild times in a wild world⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you need to take the same approach as the British during WW2 with the Enigma. They could decrypt the messages and know when attacks would happen, but if they stopped every attack, the Nazis would know and change encryption device. So you need to accept that some people will die and only mitigate the disaster in small but impactful ways.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Black mold growing on the dispensers at my local McDonald's⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  1. Wtf, there is a Wikipedia just for mold?

  2. How can it feature 0 pictures

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First contact when?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I am kinda hearing what you are saying, but it also sounds quite depressing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨meow_irl⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is that wine vegan?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon defends Michael Jackson⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  His father was a complete piece of shit and treated him horribly and also he was never really allowed a proper childhood.

  So I have heard some people argue that perhaps he was not a pedophile, but rather just really mentally ill, partly believing to be a kid that just wanted child playmates. Still wrong for an adult to act like this, but perhaps there was no sexual misconduct.

  Not sure what to believe and perhaps I just don’t want him to be a villain, but I would like to hear if there is some concrete evidences.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the ultimate rarity acale⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My restaurant just drags me out to pet the cow and I say thanks, pay them and go home.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fuck Chasing Youth. What's the URL DAMMIT⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It somehow disappears when I close my private browser.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tough Trolly Choices⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry, we sold out of that 5 min before you walked in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elsevier⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, I guess PDF has one thing going for it (which might not be relevant for scientific papers): The same file will render the same on any platform (assuming the reader implements all the PDF spec to the tee).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LPT Do it.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I hear ya. But to be honest, what they are doing here is fine, and doesn’t seem malicious. There is an Open Document specification and they stick to it, but the spec doesn’t enforce everything. For instance for the ordering of certain elements on the page, I bet you they store store those elements in memory in an efficient data structure where ordering doesn’t matter, so when writing out the memory to disk, the easiest for them to do is just write it out in what order it appears in their data structure.

  But there are probably other cases where they are not so innocent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LPT Do it.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I will join that therapy session. This is pretty much what we did, except LFS, since it was “a requirement” to also track what they layouting of the Excel file was like.

  And even extracting and inserting the code was not stable. Excel will arbitrarily change the casing of “.path” to “.Path” for no reason and add and remove whitespace between functions as it see fit. It was such a pain. We also had a hard time handling unicode strings for instance containing a degree sign. And the list goes on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LPT Do it.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I made such a tool - and kept polishing edge cases until I gave up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LPT Do it.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Let me tell you something. I cannot tell you what company, but I have been tasked with putting Excel files in git “because they are just zip archives with xml” and it is just a disaster. Everytime you save the document it will save certain parts of the xml code in arbitrary ways (like each image is in a list and the order Og that list is random everytime), some metadata is re-written everytime like time of last modified and finally all the xml files are one single line. The git diffs are complete useless and noisy and just looking at the Excel file will cause git to consider it updated. So sure, you can use git to snapshot you Office documents… But just don’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon looks up Danish cuisine⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hard to argue with that logic 😂

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon looks up Danish cuisine⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I am Danish and I have never seen this…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I the only one who's "shorts" feed is all basically softcore porn?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And how long you watched

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is a Test⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Look. Doing A-E is going to be expensive enough for the young fella. I don’t think he can also afford gunshot wound treatment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon reveals their deepest trauma⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You knew it was fake/going to be a joke when OP got a girlfriend so easily.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the fuckgraph⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And that’s even more interesting. As someone who was not part of any of the graph in high school / college, how would a big link of chains play out in real time?

  Like “The Mary and Tom met at a party. Next week Tom stumbled into Lucy by the lockers…”

  I find it hard to imagine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon plays poker⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Almost as if this was made up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why didn't SBF flee?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I will give you an upvote for maintaining critical thinking, but I will say that the book is not that bad. And it is really well written and interesting, but might be favoring SBF more than other books. The truth is probably somewhere in the middle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why didn't SBF flee?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Read “Going Infinite” which describes the rise and tall of FTX and SBF. “isn’t smart” is not true, but he is definitely not “human smart”, but rather “math smart”.