Deestan
@Deestan@lemmy.world
- Comment on Digg's new app is basic, but a great start 22 hours 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? 2 days 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 3 days 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 3 days 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 week 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 week ago:
What the fuck I was asking a genuine question
- Comment on LOL GitHub [2018] 1 week 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 week ago:
By “text” here, do you mean Apple chat, SMS, or some other platform?
- Comment on LOL GitHub [2018] 1 week ago:
Yeah migrating Git is as easy as it gets in my opinion :) Add remote, push, tada.
- Comment on LOL GitHub [2018] 1 week 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 week 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? 2 weeks 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? 2 weeks 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 weeks ago:
- Comment on I can get a 430 hearing on any family member I want. Hell i can even testify if someone else needs one. So tell me why I can't go through the legal system to get an invasive one for Trump? 2 weeks ago:
Because US officals only let law apply to poor people
- Comment on Three questions about superpowers, which is the best, and which is the worst? 2 weeks ago:
Best: reshape reality as I wish at any time
Worst: spontaneous inexistence
- Comment on How long would it take for a ball rolling across the room to bounce off the wall and get back to you - but the room has a time traveling portal halfway through? 3 weeks ago:
Assuming it comes back through the portal, and it took 4 seconds with no portal.
Your stopwatch will measure 4 seconds when the portal is there.
A stopwatch in the ball will measure 4 seconds when the portal is there.
If you want to take stepwise measurements based on your clock, the ball will be at time 1 sec before going through the portal, time negative 1,767,225,598 when it hits the wall, 3 sec after it exits the portal second time, 4 sec when it reaches you.
- Comment on Brits can get around Discord's age verification thanks to Death Stranding's photo mode, bypassing the measure introduced with the UK's Online Safety Act. We tried it and it works—thanks, Kojima 4 weeks ago:
That is important. Pointing out sane alternatives helps make it clear this isn’t an acceptable solution.
- Comment on Brits can get around Discord's age verification thanks to Death Stranding's photo mode, bypassing the measure introduced with the UK's Online Safety Act. We tried it and it works—thanks, Kojima 4 weeks ago:
The goal is to introduce general surveillance and censorship mechanisms.
Porn age stuff is just a convenient entry point.
- Comment on Google AI Overview is just affiliate marketing spam now 4 weeks ago:
oh no who would have thought it would come to this
- Comment on Why do females got to be so hard to talk or flirt with? 4 weeks ago:
Stay off redpill forums or pickup influencers. They will put ideas in your head that isolate you and make you unlikeable and lonely, and vulnerable to macho grifts.
- Comment on What's a video game that can run on any sort of device?(besides doom and pong) 4 weeks ago:
Nethack
Tetris
OpenTTD
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- Comment on Vibe coding service Replit deleted production database 4 weeks ago:
These comparisons assume equal capability, which I find troubling.
Like, a person who doesn’t understand singing nor are able to learn it can not perform adequately in a musical. It doesn’t matter if they are cheaper.
- Comment on Why Every University Needs a Robust Library Software 5 weeks ago:
What are you hoping to accomplish by pasting AI generated word soup here?
- Comment on Why democrats under Biden administration didn't release Epstein files? 5 weeks ago:
Or 4. none of this is up to any of those people it is not their job or within their right.
- Comment on Ubisoft: Microtransactions make games more fun 5 weeks ago:
If you first hack off the fun, then sure. Buying the fun back in tiny pieces is technically adding fun?
- Comment on People Are Being Involuntarily Committed, Jailed After Spiraling Into "ChatGPT Psychosis" 5 weeks ago:
I dont agree with the argument that chat gpt should “push back”.
Me neither, but if they are being presented as “artificial people to chat with” they must.
I’d rather LLMs stay tools, not pretend people.
Are we expecting the llm to act like a psychologist, evaluating if the users state of mind is healthy before answering questions?
Some of the LLMs referred to are advertised as AI psychological help, so they must either act like psychologists (which they can’t) or stop being allowed as digital therapists.
- Comment on Is it sexist to say "I've never worn a wet dress before" 5 weeks ago:
Not obviously, but it sounds like she is making a connection you don’t know what is.
You should ask her to explain what she means, so you’ll either understand that oh it was sexist didn’t think about it like that, or disagree on some knowable point.
- Comment on OpenAI launches personal assistant capable of controlling files and web browsers 5 weeks ago:
Looking forwards to all the blog posts from tech bros losing data, money, or getting hacked from this. They will be surprised that it could happen that bad, and they will feel shitty and upset.
And I will struggle to find sympathy through all my schadenfreude and piles of told-you-so-a-million-times.