Deestan
@Deestan@lemmy.world
- Comment on JP Morgan staff told they must share biometric data to access headquarters 2 hours ago:
Not quite like that. There is an internal wifi that I can’t get onto, and a public “guest” wifi that half of the tech staff uses and VPNs from.
Basically the protected wifi only really works on locked-down windows machines, and those aren’t usable for most developers. It’s mostly mac and linux there, and while the protected wifi is supposed to work on those, the IT staff don’t know how.
- Comment on JP Morgan staff told they must share biometric data to access headquarters 5 hours ago:
Well, I do. But it’s because the security layers on the wifi are more strict than on the VPN to such a degree that I can’t actually connect to it from my work laptop.
- Comment on Politics in America has always been dirty. How does trump really stack up? 1 week ago:
If Wikipedia had balls
- Comment on Politics in America has always been dirty. How does trump really stack up? 1 week ago:
If this is your reaction to a thoughful response, you are not going to find deep discussions anywhere.
- Comment on Politics in America has always been dirty. How does trump really stack up? 1 week ago:
The Fallacy of the Beard
Get your opponent to concede a point by burdening them with defining a strict threshold. Break their claim into smaller and smaller components and keep zooming in until you are looking at such tiny things that their original claims seem overblown.
This man has a beard! Does he? Yes clearly! 20mm hair on chin!
Would he have a beard I mean an actual beard if it was 5mm? No that’s just stubble! Where does it become a beard, at 10mm? I guess!
So a man with 9mm hair has stubble? Yes! And he grows one measly millimeter of chin hair in on one of the hairs and BAM WHOA he has a beard now?
- Comment on Relooted - Game made by South Africans has been bombarded by right-wingers 1 week ago:
It’s not about consistency. It’s about “I want therefore it is my divine right and other people aren’t valid”
- Comment on To refer casually to briefs-style men's underwear, is it Tidy Whities or Tighty Whities? 2 weeks ago:
Tiddy Widdlers
- Comment on Social robots can help relieve the pressures felt by carers 3 weeks ago:
“Can help relieve” is a weak claim.
Squeeze weak and poor people more is the goal. I don’t believe they deserve we pass along this positive narrative of “well meaning”.
- Comment on Default Settings Are Eating The World 4 weeks ago:
“Without emotional senses” is rude and inaccurate.
Social pressure is just one of many factors instead of the be-all end-all factor. That doesn’t mean this person is missing emotions or emotional sense.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Hey hey hey hey don’t look at what it actually does.
Look at what it feels like it almost can do and pretend it soon will!
- Comment on What strategy would you use to estimate the number of hazelnuts 5 weeks ago:
licks screen
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- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Then the entire store applauded his and he went home and pumped iron for 82 hours straight while coding up the first version.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Thousands of H-1B workers would be sent back to India, and those submissive, loyal Indian workers would be replaced by locals – something venture capitalists don’t want. But guess what? AI will eventually replace these workers anyway.
Most big tech companies are full of unnecessary employees. Elon Musk recognized this and fired many employees after buying Twitter. Everyone thought it was a crazy decision, but it worked perfectly.
Unhinged rant, not news.
- Comment on How fast could a human accellerate (while staying alive)? 1 month ago:
Jugding from the title, I’m not going to open this video right before or right after my breakfast.
- Comment on A Teen Was Suicidal. ChatGPT Was the Friend He Confided In. 1 month ago:
A blender with glass blades that frequently shatter when at full speed or when cutting hard food. It also has no lid marketed as a bath toy.
It’s up to the user to think for themselves and not use it as a bath toy. And to use safety goggles. And check the food for glass shards before each bite.
- Comment on Schools in Florida are testing armed drones as a defense against school shootings 1 month ago:
The number of guns will be increased again to handle the problems caused by the increased number of guns.
- Comment on Digg's new app is basic, but a great start 1 month ago:
Rich guys make a Reddit mee-too, wearing the clothes of a long-dead website.
It has no unique content, is not the center forum of any community, no untapped niche to fill.
PROMISINGGGHHHH says the journalist
- Comment on Do you read analog clocks to the exact minute? How do you do this quickly? 1 month ago:
I grew up with analog clocks and can read them at a glance.
For the most part, I don’t really care precisely about minute. E.g. the analog clock in my kitchen is only used to tell me that it’s “roughly 2 minutes past 5 soon” and it’s enough for me to put the potatoes on.
If I need to know precisely whether it’s 16:03 vs 16:04, I use a digital clock. Though mostly because my analog clocks are not precisely synced at all times.
Back when analog was the norm, nobody cared about a minute here or there unless they had some specific profession. Like, the bus came “15:15 ish maybe 5 minutes early maybe 10 minutes late”. Today the schedule says “15:17”
- Comment on Left to Right Programming 1 month ago:
That is one of the points, yes.
But, the reason for wanting the IDE to validate based on partially entered expressions is given as making it easier to follow the code for a person working left-to-right.
And it’s not an invalid thing to want, but I expect the discussion to also include how it affects reading the code for a non-beginner.
- Comment on Left to Right Programming 1 month ago:
Is string length len, length, size, count, num, or # ? Is there even a global function for length? You won’t know until you try all of them.
This is Python basics, so the argument would be to optimize readability specifically for people who have zero familiarity with the language.
(The other examples have the same general direction of readability tradeoff to the benefit of beginners, this one was just simplest to pick here)
That’s a valid tradeoff to discuss, if discussed as a tradeoff. Here it is not. The cost to readability for anyone with language familiarity appear to be not even understood.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
It’s negging.
Manipulative bullshit insult with a half-excuse tacked in.
- Comment on Meta appoints anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor 1 month ago:
What the fuck I was asking a genuine question
- Comment on LOL GitHub [2018] 1 month ago:
Well, sure.
scp -r source targetworks with git too. And pretty much everything if you have/want filesystem as your access point.Appreciate learning about fossil, but switching all my stuff to a different VCS entirely is overkill, and I can’t see it doing anything easier, simpler or better than git. Especially if I want to make it easy for others to depend on my stuff.
- Comment on Meta appoints anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor 1 month ago:
By “text” here, do you mean Apple chat, SMS, or some other platform?
- Comment on LOL GitHub [2018] 1 month ago:
Yeah migrating Git is as easy as it gets in my opinion :) Add remote, push, tada.
- Comment on LOL GitHub [2018] 1 month ago:
Time to move my lazy ass and finally do that migration I’ve been putting off.
What alternatives are you guys recommending? I’ve heard good things of Codeberg so far.
- Comment on How to Train Your Own ChatGPT: A Step-by-Step Resource Guide to Custom GPTs 1 month ago:
Sounds genuinely interesting! Is this available to read without giving traffic to a nazi allied platform?
- Comment on If I wanted to bury a hard drive for archival purposes (e.g. Country becoming Dictatorship), how to keep the contents from being damaged and where is the safest place to bury it? 1 month ago:
Archive level Blue-Rays sound interesting!
But note that any drive based solution with RAID or anything runs into the problem that the drives all age at the same time. Once one drive fails, the others are close to failing also.
- Comment on If I wanted to bury a hard drive for archival purposes (e.g. Country becoming Dictatorship), how to keep the contents from being damaged and where is the safest place to bury it? 1 month ago:
Hard drives aren’t rated for 30 years, though. Even in optimal conditions, they’d deteriorate.
- Comment on OpenAI claims GPT-5 AI model can provide PhD-level expertise. 2 months ago: