natecox
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- Comment on Someone should make an anticapitalist Dexter. A serial killer who kills evil rich people. 1 week ago:
… as a TV show, right? Right?
- Comment on Study finds smartphone bans in Dutch schools improved focus 1 week ago:
I don’t think there is a good answer here. I didn’t really want my kids to have phones either but all you’re doing by denying them the primary social tool of their generation is ostracizing them from their peers.
Being a parent sometimes feels like a series of un-winnable choices.
- Comment on Study finds smartphone bans in Dutch schools improved focus 1 week ago:
Wat? It’s called a colloquialism. It’s a way to describe something I know you know without needing to spell it out.
You’re basically asserting that anything described using an analogy must inherit all the traits of anything else that analogy is used for, which is just silly. It’s a classic composition/division fallacy.
- Comment on Study finds smartphone bans in Dutch schools improved focus 1 week ago:
Yeah, my state just enacted a “bell-to-bell” ban on cell phones in schools for my kids. I absolutely support a ban on phones in class (so long as the school is providing necessary tech to educate with) but banning between class just ignores that phones are an important part of how kids socialize and ripping it away cold-turkey can’t be healthy.
- Comment on ICEBlock climbs to the top of the App Store charts after officials slam it 1 week ago:
I loathe and despise using percentages like this.
500% sounds super scary, but is meaningless without providing the baseline. If there was only one instance before and now there’s 5 it isn’t a significant increase but 500% sure sounds scary.
- Comment on Here's your first look at the rebooted Digg | TechCrunch 3 weeks ago:
That was a wild ride.
- Comment on What's the e-reader you would buy if you were in the market? 3 weeks ago:
FWIW I have the color and the non-color libra, and if you’re just interested in reading books where color isn’t a huge part of the experience I highly recommend the non-color version. The contrast ratio and legibility are simply far better.
- Comment on Microsoft uses 'Copilot' for practically everything. A watchdog wants the company to change its advertising. 3 weeks ago:
NAD
You’d think people who think a lot about advertising would have picked a different agency name…
- Comment on Radicle - Federated Git 4 weeks ago:
This is the first time I’ve seen it and I was pretty interested until I saw the crypto ties.
What a disappointment.
- Comment on Bambu Lab Controversy Deepens: Firmware Update Sparks Backlash 4 weeks ago:
I support protesting. If they had said “we know this will impact some of our users negatively and we regret that, but we are choosing to protest this change anyways” I’d be much more on board.
Calling it simply useless though I think hurts the protest.
- Comment on Bambu Lab Controversy Deepens: Firmware Update Sparks Backlash 4 weeks ago:
Orca Slicer’s developer, SoftFever, has publicly declined to adopt Bambu Connect, calling it unnecessary and of no meaningful benefit to users.
This is a frustrating take. If they don’t adopt Connect then at some point Bambu users are going to be forced into that update and will lose what I consider critical functionality. Seems pretty meaningful to me.
- Comment on Asus and Lenovo’s handhelds get price hike as Valve pauses some Steam Deck sales 5 weeks ago:
Price hikes for what, Lenovo? I’m still waiting for them to send me my Legion Go S SteamOS edition that I preordered on day one.
- Comment on Duolingo deletes all its TikTok videos after AI backlash—and then returns with a strange message 1 month ago:
Yeah I’m dropping my super subscription and my usage of the app. Fuck AI, and fuck the companies using it to deepen the enshitification of tech.
- Comment on Star Citizen’s new cash shop offerings provoked fresh pay-to-win and predatory monetization accusations | Massively Overpowered 1 month ago:
SC has so much potential. There is real magic in some of the game they have produced; the aesthetic is fantastic and the fundamentals are solid… all of which makes what they’re doing to run the game into the ground so fucking disappointing.
- Comment on Forget foldable phones – LG's 'stretchable' in-car display can grow physical buttons when you need them, and I can't stop watching it 2 months ago:
It still seems like you have to be doing a lot of looking at the controls to use them, which is the whole complaint about a lack of physical buttons.
- Comment on Elon Musk's Social Platform X has filed a lawsuit agains Minnesota, challenging a law banning political deepfakes 2 months ago:
What a fucking chode.
If you need it to be legal to deepfake to manipulate politics you’re the problem.
- Comment on Have you tried Jolla phone? Is it really a good alternative to iPhones/Android phones? 2 months ago:
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Subscription pricing for security updates kinda sucks.
- Comment on Starfield PS5 Release Should Be Ready With Next Expansion 3 months ago:
I’ll believe it when I see it, but that would be cool.
- Comment on How do you not feel overwhelmed using Mastodon? 3 months ago:
I guess I don’t understand the mastodon/twitter style feed, I’ve always found that I couldn’t seem to get a feed interesting enough to come back to.
- Comment on How to get people to use Mastodon? 4 months ago:
Too damn close to tankie (TANK-ie), hard pass.
- Comment on nuked from orbit 4 months ago:
Wow what a lousy take from this exchange.
- Comment on Netflix accidentally made its content show up in the Apple TV app 4 months ago:
I’m not surprised. The argument at the time was that they needed users to be inside their own app and anything less was unacceptable.
Gotta gobble up dem user metrics, I guess.
- Comment on Netflix accidentally made its content show up in the Apple TV app 4 months ago:
Solid argument. Go you.
- Comment on Netflix accidentally made its content show up in the Apple TV app 4 months ago:
I mean, you lead with “logging out is hard so I have no choice but to have a single user”. I countered with “it’s not hard, we do it just fine, here are mechanics that make it fairly easy”.
If you don’t understand that closing the tv app stops showing the tv app I’m not sure how to help you.
- Comment on Netflix accidentally made its content show up in the Apple TV app 4 months ago:
I have been using a single Apple TV in a multi-user home for many years, I think you’re overselling the difficulty here. Virtually every app will just ask you what user profile you want to use when the app opens; and when you’re done, closing the app is simple.
It’s far more obnoxious to need to browse every single app for their content rather than having a single unified watch list and closing an app when you’re done.
- Comment on Netflix accidentally made its content show up in the Apple TV app 4 months ago:
Apple provides a system for apps to expose their shows to the TV app; effectively every app other than Netflix uses that system but Netflix intentionally removed themselves from it.
Which effectively removed Netflix from my viewing habits because I use the TV app to manage all of my other apps/subscriptions, and because Netflix doesn’t show up I never consume their content. I still think it was a really stupid move on the part of Netflix.
- Comment on How does this pic show that Elon Musk doesnt know SQL? 4 months ago:
Yeah this strikes me as safeguarding against a possible bad decision.
- Comment on How does this pic show that Elon Musk doesnt know SQL? 4 months ago:
No, who said there was a relationship?
A compound key is a composite key where one or both sides can be foreign keys to other tables themselves; it’s a safe assumption this is probably true in a large data set like social security. A composite key is a candidate key (a uniquely identified key) made up of more than one column.
This basically means that there is a finite number of available SSNs because they’re only 10 digits long and someone intends to recycle SSNs after the current user of one dies. Linking it to birthday is “unique enough” as to never recur.
- Comment on How does this pic show that Elon Musk doesnt know SQL? 4 months ago:
Because a simple query would have shown that SSN was a compound key with another column (birth date, I think), and not the identifier he thinks it is.
- Comment on Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop 4 months ago:
Maybe so, but honestly gps on the dash makes my life easier routinely, and safer in that I don’t need to touch my phone or try to drive while reading a paper map.
Also having the backup camera there is just a win for everyone.
I don’t like the idea of needing to lose these things because advertising ruins them.