natecox
@natecox@programming.dev
- Comment on How to get people to use Mastodon? 1 week ago:
Too damn close to tankie (TANK-ie), hard pass.
- Comment on nuked from orbit 2 weeks ago:
Wow what a lousy take from this exchange.
- Comment on Netflix accidentally made its content show up in the Apple TV app 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
Solid argument. Go you.
- Comment on Netflix accidentally made its content show up in the Apple TV app 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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.
- Comment on Hogwarts Legacy Reportedly Getting New Content & A Sequel 4 weeks ago:
I’ve tried to get through HL twice and I really struggle with it. About the time they introduce discount-Pokémon into the game I start to struggle.
A major improvement to the game would be contextual actions. Stop making me swap my equipped spells for every context specific thing.
- Comment on 'Stupid, illogical' — Zelensky blasts Ukraine for relinquishing nuclear arms without strong security guarantees 5 weeks ago:
I wish we could stop using terms like “blasts”, “slams”, etc in the news.
I feel like it’s hard to take even very serious things seriously when it sounds like middle school me drafted it.
- Comment on US suspends tariffs after Colombia agrees to deportation flights 5 weeks ago:
We’re literally pushing back on treating people with “dignity and respect”.
What a fucking joke this administration already is.
- Comment on Elon Musk says too many game studios are owned by giant corporations so his giant corporation is going to start a studio to 'make games great again' 3 months ago:
Lest there be any doubt about his motivations, Musk wrote in another post, “Can’t they just make good games and skip the woke lecture?”
I assume we’re all done with pretense and he’ll just go ahead and call it “Bigot games”.
- Comment on USA | Trump threatens to impose sweeping new tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China on first day in office 3 months ago:
“On January 20th, as one of my many first Executive Orders, I will sign all necessary documents to charge Mexico and Canada a 25% Tariff on ALL products coming into the United States, and its ridiculous Open Borders,”
This inveigling of the American public needs to stop, and democrats need to start absolutely flooding every single media outlet possible with rebuttals. You don’t charge a foreign country tariffs, you charge your own country the tariffs; but the deceptive phrasing here is an intentional misleading of people who don’t understand global economics.
- Comment on Star Trek: Section 31 to Premiere January 24 4 months ago:
Did I even watch the movie which hasn’t come out yet? I’m pretty sure I know which of us is a bot.
- Comment on Star Trek: Section 31 to Premiere January 24 4 months ago:
No.
Bring back my hopeful vision of the future Star Trek, I’m all done with this new wave.
- Comment on If I lose the spread gun, I start over. 4 months ago:
youtu.be/gp4_GcI-atg?si=DE6K30H1wwmwpfgM
You’re welcome.
- Comment on Friendship is Universal 4 months ago:
Fuck you, Tony!
- Comment on I just wanted to take a moment to enjoy how clean the web can be 6 months ago:
This is so common it has a name, it’s called banner blindness.
One of the important aspects of interface design is supposed to be not showing alerts for everything, so that when they pop up you feel compelled to pay attention.
Not long ago a nurse killed an older woman by giving her the wrong medicine; she took accountability but called out that the software they use provides so many alerts that (probably unofficial) policy was to just click through them to get to treating the patient. One of those alerts was a callout that the wrong dosage was selected and she zoomed right by it out of habit.
- Comment on If you bought a 3D printer for personal use, was it worth it? 6 months ago:
I’m on my third upgrade machine after getting my first printer years ago. Very rewarding hobby, much recommend.
- Comment on is it possible to be married and still feel lonely? 6 months ago:
Anyone can be lonely at any time, even surrounded by people who love them.
I’m happily married, I love my wife very much, she is my favorite person and I would be devastated and lost without her. Still, sometimes I feel lonely.
Sometimes I think about my dad who isn’t with us any longer and I feel lonely. Sometimes I think about work stress and I feel lonely. Sometimes I feel lonely for no damn reason at all.
None of that has anything to do with how much I love my wife, or her ability to “provide”; people are just complicated.
- Comment on Decentralised YouTube alternative Odysee no longer serving ads 6 months ago:
They’re being downvoted because one platform being shitty doesn’t excuse another from it.
See: Tu Quoque
- Comment on I have created a simple laptop stand 7 months ago:
Don’t let the feedback here get you down. Some of the comments are overly negative; you’ve got the start of a cool stand going, keep it up.
- Comment on I have created a simple laptop stand 7 months ago:
I think you could keep the basic design but add a pillar to support the back edge at the mid point and substantially reduce the risk.
- Comment on I have created a simple laptop stand 7 months ago:
I’d be worried about something (perhaps unintentionally) applying torque at the top of the device.
- Comment on Dark mode’s bright future: How dark mode will transform Wikipedia’s accessibility 7 months ago:
I don’t think KDE has a native way to do this, I’ve also heard of Koi for this but I haven’t used it. I’m mostly a Mac user where this is just a default option.
- Comment on Dark mode’s bright future: How dark mode will transform Wikipedia’s accessibility 7 months ago:
Cool
- Comment on Dark mode’s bright future: How dark mode will transform Wikipedia’s accessibility 7 months ago:
All I want is “follow system theme” for us light mode at day, dark at night fellows.