PeriodicallyPedantic

@PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Simpler times?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  If you lived through 2006 then you’re too old to enjoy having a couple of highschool goths fawn over you 😏

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Simpler times?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  “Hurt people hurt people” is a common saying for a reason; dealing with trauma is difficult and not dealing with it often leads to problems.
  That’s not to say that victims always become victimizers, it’s to say that the cycle of violence often begins with violence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Simpler times?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Because girls have cooties. Didn’t you know this???

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best Synology Replacement?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m waiting for hexOS to get more mature before I dive into the DIY NAS setup.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We need a Thomas the Tank Engine horror game⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, it was made by a single dude. Not even a small indie studio, just one guy.

  It doesn’t make it more fun, but it makes it more impressive and deserving of slack.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Here's a fun game.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah yes, dick dick, my favorite movie

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Animal guessing game!!! ⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Banana

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deep⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Image

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A question for the ages⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  As much as I want it to run tall wise, there is clear evolutionary pressure to run longwise so the dog doesn’t fall out of the bun.
  There is no way the hotdog could evolve sanding upright

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OK what is your Roman name?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Grapius

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ibuprofen⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  ◴~◠~◷

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ibuprofen⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Is that going clockwise or counterclockwise?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Need a keyboard with a dedicated "slop" button⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I struggle to believe that someone who writes English as well as you, and is familiar with the subject can misread what I’ve written so grossly, except by intention.

  using someone’s preferred pronouns doesn’t harm anyone.

  This post is about being made to use someone’s preferred pronouns. The context of this whole discussion is the usage of preferred pronouns. The pronouns being discussed are preferred pronouns. The harm being discussed is harm (or lack thereof) in using them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dinner is ready! ⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  RIP to the Mediterranean

  Or alternatively, everyone gets a little bit of Mediterranean food

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's only funny when I do it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think that that equivalence matters here, or that they don’t care that they’re being hypocritical.

  We can still enjoy a meme about how they are hypocrites and how their stated beliefs crumble under the smallest pressure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ActivityPub vs RSS Atom etc. Why Federate instead of aggrigate?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because with federated services people don’t have to host an activity, you can join a federated instance that someone else maintains.

  The typical Twitter user balked at just selecting a mastodon instance when they signed up in the app… similar issues for reddit users looking to come to lemmy. If you think that they’re going to be willing to go and set up and manage their own server, even on a free hosting site, you’re wildly mistaken.

  If you don’t think you need the normies on your social network anyways, I have no polite way to tell you that most people want to join social networks with their friends.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ActivityPub vs RSS Atom etc. Why Federate instead of aggrigate?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe? But I wouldn’t hold my breath.

  I mean, it’s the best option you have, but that doesn’t make it a good option.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ActivityPub vs RSS Atom etc. Why Federate instead of aggrigate?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s ephemeral because now you’re demanding that everyone stand up their own web-addressable servers that the rss readers can search, if they want their own content to be searchable. Which isn’t going to happen. So in practice, it’s going to be either federated, or ephemeral.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ActivityPub vs RSS Atom etc. Why Federate instead of aggrigate?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why do we advocate for, and pour hours of development into, ActivityPub rather than

  Because that’s what the devs are interested in doing. If you’re going to ask anyone, ask them.

  a big thing you’re missing is discovery of old content and searching. You’re describing a purely ephemeral social network. Activitypub itself can’t solve that, but this is why federated networks exist instead of purely P2P.
  Maybe some people want that, after all Snapchat became popular. But it wouldn’t work for something like Lemmy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨proportional reaction⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Switch is good if you only need to compare equals when selecting a value.
  Although some languages make it way more powerful, like python match.
  but I generally dislike python despite of this, and I generally dislike switch because the syntax and formatting is just too unlike the rest of the languages.

  Generally I prefer the clear brevity of:

  var foo=
      x>100 ? bar :
      x>50 ? baz :
      x>10 ? qux :
      quxx;
  

  Over

  var foo;
  if(x>100) {
      foo=bar;
  } else if(x>50) {
      foo=baz;
  } else if(x>10) {
      foo=qux;
  } else {
      foo=quxx
  }
  

  Which doesn’t really get any better if you remove the optional (but recommended) braces.
  Heck, I even prefer ternary over some variations of switch for equals conditionals, like the one in Java:

  var foo;
  switch(x) {
  case 100:
      foo=bar;
      break;
  case 50:
      foo=baz;
      break;
  case 10:
      foo=qux;
      break;
  default:
      foo=quxx;
  }
  

  But some languages do switch better than others (like python as previously mentioned), so there are certainly cases where that’d probably be preferable even to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did Luke Skywalker learn to communicate with Astromech droids? How did he learn the language whilst living on Tatooine?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  MicroHondas?
  Bro I think that’s just called a civic

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨proportional reaction⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey, when you gotta pick a value from a bunch of options, it’s either if/elseif/else, ternary, switch/case, or a map/dict.

  Ternary generally has the easiest to read format of the options, unless you put it all on one line like a crazy person.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨proportional reaction⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Bah

  Ternary is just a compressed if-elseif-else chain with a guaranteed assignment.
  If you format it like a sane person, or like you would an if/else chain, then it’s way easier to read than if/else chains.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did Luke Skywalker learn to communicate with Astromech droids? How did he learn the language whilst living on Tatooine?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The microFloridians translate it for him

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A conundrum⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh no, their own process that they made for being given a house is so expensive, I feel so bad for them!

  Why are you defending them so hard? You just have to look at their quarterly financials. They’re making out like gangbusters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A conundrum⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But if you don’t pay, they get the house. There is no risk of loss, only risk of not maximizing profit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A conundrum⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s the impression I get too

  But it’s plausibly deniable enough because you can still get decent credit score if you pay off your credit before you pay interest. It’s a numbers game for them, I expect, but still.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A conundrum⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  you need to pay us interest because we’re taking the risk. Also you need to give us a down payment to offset our risk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A conundrum⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  you’re not gonna be able to afford this apartment after a few years of 10% rent increases, and we don’t want the inconvenience of evicting you when that time comes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A conundrum⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The first time I applied for a loan, I didn’t have a credit card yet. And they were like:

  How can we know you’re responsible with money?

  Because I haven’t needed credit in the past and I’m still alive, idk? Having enough liquidity to not need credit would seem to suggest I’m good with money.

  But maybe your parents are paying for everything

  Ok? How does using a credit card change that?