natecox
@natecox@programming.dev
- Comment on Trump pledges to scrap offshore wind projects on ‘day one’ of presidency 4 days ago:
He’s begging for money from big oil, maybe possibly potentially related to this particular hot take.
- Comment on Overweight people more likely to take sick leave, European study finds 5 days ago:
Conflating fat people with bad people is pretty standard fare unfortunately.
I’ve struggled with my weight my entire life; I have a long history of being physically active while also being overweight. For example: I have a black belt in martial arts, which means I spent a decade of my life in a dojo three to five times a week exercising… while still fat. I don’t eat terribly either. My body just holds onto every fucking calorie.
But many many people have made shitty assumptions about me based entirely on my weight. The “personal responsibility” people are particularly obnoxious.
I was a kid in the 90s when every TV show had a stupid lazy fat guy as a cheap joke factory. That was super cool for my self esteem.
- Comment on Apple Unleashes the M4: A Powerhouse for the New iPad Pro 1 week ago:
It’s so frustratingly close to perfect too. It has a great screen, is more than powerful enough for all my dev work, it’s super portable, I can plug it into a monitor via alt mode, my Bluetooth keyboard works great on it…
It is like right there to being my favorite device, but the crappy mobile OS relegates it to sitting unused on my desk 85% of the time.
Really the only thing I use it for is CAD work via Shapr3D.
- Comment on Apple Unleashes the M4: A Powerhouse for the New iPad Pro 1 week ago:
I would be way way more excited about this if I could actually use the iPad as a dev machine rather than just a big web browser.
Gimme a full terminal, let me run containers, open up installing full Mac apps, and I will buy one today to replace my aging 2017 MacBook Pro.
Of course, then their “product differentiation” vanishes and the shareholders make slightly less money…
- Comment on Jack Dorsey departs Bluesky board | TechCrunch 1 week ago:
I follow the Bluesky devs, I feel pretty confident that they are excited and taking their role in building a protocol and platform seriously.
I’ve yet to see a board of directors that wasn’t a joke anywhere though, so I guess I just assumed that this would happen everywhere.
- Comment on Can we all agree that whatever version of predictive text we have nowadays is crap, and has been for a long time? 2 weeks ago:
If you happen to be on an iPhone, you can add the profanities of your choosing to your dictionary manually, and it will stop autocorrecting away from them.
Now I never duck when I mean to fuck.
- Comment on Can we all agree that whatever version of predictive text we have nowadays is crap, and has been for a long time? 2 weeks ago:
I’m currently learning Japanese, and one of my favorite things right now is that the “normal” phone keyboard for Japanese is basically a t9 on steroids. It gives you this grid with huge buttons, you tap a letter or swipe in a cardinal direction to get a variant. E.g., the button will show か (ka) and swiping will get you く、け、こ、き (ku, ke, ko, ki).
It is super intuitive and with like a few minutes of training I was typing faster on it than my English keyboard (albeit with my very very limited vocabulary). The buttons are so large it’s hard to miss.
- Comment on Musk moves Tesla's goalposts, investors happily move shares higher 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Musk moves Tesla's goalposts, investors happily move shares higher 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Musk moves Tesla's goalposts, investors happily move shares higher 3 weeks ago:
“Your privately owned vehicle is actually just a timeshare taxi” getting stock prices to go up is proof that our system is irremediably fucked.
- Comment on Atari's Black Beauty 3 weeks ago:
That’s some god damn nostalgia for me right there. I think I may need to get mine out and get infuriated with some Pitfall again.
- Comment on Windows 11 Start menu ads are now rolling out to everyone 3 weeks ago:
Oh it’s my time to shine! I just installed bazzite onto my ROG Ally yesterday.
It is pretty fantastic so far. Not perfect but very good.
Also, it doubles as a pretty OK developer machine because it comes with buildutils, unlike the steam deck. I was able to get my Nix dotfiles set up on it and do a little Rust work to try it out.
- Comment on The End of an Era: Women Who Code Closing - Women Who Code 4 weeks ago:
What were the challenges they faced? The article outlines that they faced insurmountable issues but didn’t state what those issues were or what they did to try and mitigate them.
- Comment on The ultimate choice 1 month ago:
Is there any other option? There’s no way to just leave one of those behind. It is just unthinkable.
- Comment on Quentin Tarantino's 'Star Trek' Movie Would Have Been a "Balls-Out Hard R" Movie 4 months ago:
I kinda feel like I just don’t have the heart for ST anymore. Picard was the final nail in the coffin, I am all out of trust for the modern generation of writers.
I’ll just watch TNG through every couple of years and be happy in my bubble.
- Comment on Quentin Tarantino's 'Star Trek' Movie Would Have Been a "Balls-Out Hard R" Movie 4 months ago:
I think DS9 set a precedent that was bad for the franchise, but I don’t hate it; the show felt like it understood its roots. I took DS9 as a way to explore how federation values addressed a galaxy not quite there yet.
It didn’t diminish the hopeful future by saying that “actually the federation is evil" it just said “listen, we still have work to do”.
Watching Cisco wrestle internally with reconciling who he knew he was supposed to be while the galaxy tested that was at least interesting on an intellectual level.
I think that bit of nuance got lost though, so I do kinda wish it had never happened.
- Comment on Quentin Tarantino's 'Star Trek' Movie Would Have Been a "Balls-Out Hard R" Movie 4 months ago:
I enjoy the Tarantino films, but I don’t want them anywhere near Star Trek.
I really dislike what’s happening with ST lately; what was in my childhood a hopeful message for how much humanity could achieve when we finally get our shit together, is now just another action movie / drama template. Government bad, corruption everywhere, war for the sake of war, etc.
I’m certain Tarantino would double down on that and I just don’t want it.
- Comment on New World outlines a partial roadmap for the first few months of 2024 4 months ago:
I see mention of full gamepad support, which makes me happy. When I can play it from my steam deck without wonky input customization I will finally dive back into the game.
- Comment on Which controller did you start with? 5 months ago:
Paddle or joystick?
- Comment on Pfizer says it will price Covid treatment Paxlovid at nearly $1,400 for a five-day course, which researchers estimate only costs Pfizer $13 to produce. That's a 10,000%+ markup. Shameful. 6 months ago:
R&D on drugs is insanely expensive, but the protections put in place with the pricing are also a bit absurd. Most drug companies will lock down the formula for a period of time and price the drug aggressively for a short time (like a few years) and then open the formula up to generics who buy it and sell the same damn thing for a fraction of the cost.
For clarity I’m agreeing with you that the price is largely due to non-manufacturing costs and the article is misleading as a result, but I also wanted to say that the whole industry is a testament to capital over humanity.
- Comment on Prusa MK4 or Bambu labs p1s 7 months ago:
I cancelled my mk4 order after a long wait that didn’t seem likely to end soon and got a P1S instead.
I was upgrading from a MK3S that I’d had for a couple of years, and I was all in on Prusa.
After using the P1S for a while now, it’s clear to me that Prusa sat on its hands for too long. The P1S is fantastic, involves virtually no setup, and gives me out-of-the-box prints better than my MK3S ever gave me even after months of fine tuning. I can’t imagine a world where Bambu doesn’t significantly erode Prusa’s market share.
Core-XY is the way to go, and I think to really compete Prusa is going to have to finally retire the i3 bed-slinger design and step into the future.
I want to support Prusa in principle, but they’re going to have to really step it up to get me away from my Bambu.
- Comment on Advice needed, son wants to learn how to program 7 months ago:
MUDding taught me programming and Regex in a very real and useful way.
It also contributed to a gaming addiction that took years to break, so food for thought I guess.
- Comment on Apple removes app created by Andrew Tate 7 months ago:
The fediverse (Lemmy included) deplatforms people all the time; it’s called defederation and it’s built into the core of the architecture.
Even platforms built on openness, such as Lemmy, understand the need to not provide a platform to violence, bigotry, and exploitation.
- Comment on what do you folks discuss in your weekly/monthly 1:1 with your engineering managers? 7 months ago:
EM perspective: your 1:1 meetings are your time to ask questions, express concerns, advocate for yourself (e.g., for career advancement or project placement), and generally have a line to what is happening with the org and upper management.
They aren’t a place for me to micromanage my reports, they’re how I figure out to to best serve the people I lead, especially when my responsibilities keep me out of the day to day work.
- Comment on Linear code is more readable 8 months ago:
The right is also easier to write tests for, which is crucially important to me.
- Comment on Which domain name registrar should I use? 8 months ago:
Cloudflare is my go to registrar today, nothing but good experiences so far.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
All the support for this. I don’t even personally care much but I’ve seen this requested so many times.
- Comment on Tabs are objectively better than spaces - gomakethings.com 8 months ago:
The emacs wiki agrees and has the correct take on this: www.emacswiki.org/emacs/SmartTabs
It seems like this basic guideline, tabs to indent and spaces to align, solves the problem for everyone. It doesn’t matter what your tab width is, it’ll look “right” regardless.
- Comment on Defederation requests, how to? 8 months ago:
I really appreciate the follow up on this, thanks for taking the time to look into it.
- Comment on Defederation requests, how to? 8 months ago:
It is very literally depictions of children engaged in sexual acts, which fits the legal definition of CSAM where I live.
Blurring is done at the client level by applying a filter to the images so even with blurring on, the (illegal where I live) image is downloaded to my computer regardless of if I actually see it or not.