natecox
@natecox@programming.dev
- Comment on Star Trek: Section 31 to Premiere January 24 4 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks ago:
youtu.be/gp4_GcI-atg?si=DE6K30H1wwmwpfgM
You’re welcome.
- Comment on Friendship is Universal 4 weeks ago:
Fuck you, Tony!
- Comment on I just wanted to take a moment to enjoy how clean the web can be 2 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? 3 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? 3 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 3 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 3 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 3 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 3 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 3 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 3 months ago:
Cool
- Comment on Dark mode’s bright future: How dark mode will transform Wikipedia’s accessibility 3 months ago:
All I want is “follow system theme” for us light mode at day, dark at night fellows.
- Comment on Ya know what they say about big noses.... 5 months ago:
A much luckier researcher, meanwhile, measured the lengths of their flaccid nose.
Comedy gold.
- Comment on Turkish student creates custom AI device for cheating university exam, gets arrested 5 months ago:
Finally a use for AI I can approve of.
- Comment on Starfield's latest update draws player ire by sticking a bounty hunting quest behind the Creation Club paywall 5 months ago:
I think there’s a very clear and distinctive difference between an upfront, honest cost for a content pack; and breaking that content pack into itty bitty bits and charging for each.
The latter has an obvious goal of obfuscating the total cost of the content pack, so as to inflate it past what their market research indicates people would normally be willing to pay.
It’s dishonest and anti-consumer, and it’s foolish as the consumer not to push back against this practice before it becomes normal.
- Comment on Starfield's latest update draws player ire by sticking a bounty hunting quest behind the Creation Club paywall 5 months ago:
Fun fact: when you need to resort to hyperbole it’s a good indicator that your position may not have merit.
- Comment on Starfield's latest update draws player ire by sticking a bounty hunting quest behind the Creation Club paywall 5 months ago:
It’s funny how people will chant “vote with your wallet” but when someone votes against business practices they don’t agree with using their wallet they’re all surprised pikachu about it.
Charging per quest in a micro transaction scheme (which isn’t really micro at all $10 entry fee) is shitty and I don’t want to support it by pumping their gameplay numbers right after announcing it.
- Comment on Starfield's latest update draws player ire by sticking a bounty hunting quest behind the Creation Club paywall 5 months ago:
Damn, I was just thinking of giving SF another shot. Guess it wasn’t meant to be.
- Comment on Trump pledges to scrap offshore wind projects on ‘day one’ of presidency 6 months 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 6 months 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 6 months 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 6 months 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 6 months 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? 6 months 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? 6 months 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 6 months ago:
- Comment on Musk moves Tesla's goalposts, investors happily move shares higher 6 months ago:
- Comment on Musk moves Tesla's goalposts, investors happily move shares higher 6 months 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.
