brian
@brian@programming.dev
- Comment on Bike Manufacturers Are Making Bikes Less Repairable 4 weeks ago:
I had a top end Specialized xc bike that’s basically useless now because it has a proprietary rear shock, like all of their bikes of that line for the past 10 years. I couldn’t even buy a replacement from them since they aren’t compatible between different years and they stopped making the old versions.
- Comment on PS5 Homescreen Now Replaces Unique Video Game Art With Annoying Ads You Can’t Turn Off 1 month ago:
Or 73% of a PS5 pro if you’re in Canada!
- Comment on Telecom will pay $1 million over deepfake Joe Biden robocall 2 months ago:
you can also have a custom extension list and put whatever on it. that’s what I did before they opened it up as much as they have now.
- Comment on 3D printer maker Bambu Lab faces patent infringement lawsuits that could threaten hobbyist 3D printing in general 2 months ago:
yeah but I’m not going to be able to make a Bambu printer in the US since it is a product produced by a Chinese company. A Voron is different since I can source parts from US based companies and put it together myself in the US.
- Comment on Shadows of Doubt, the procgen private-eye immersive sim, is leaving early access next month 2 months ago:
replayability seems like the big advantage of something procgen like this though, independent of price. otherwise, why isn’t it just a story curated by the dev?
- Comment on 3D printer maker Bambu Lab faces patent infringement lawsuits that could threaten hobbyist 3D printing in general 2 months ago:
a voron is american made depending on where you make it
- Comment on Deadlock (Valve's Unannounced Title) Passes 12k Peak Players in Closed Alpha 2 months ago:
friends for over 30 days apparently for everyone here asking for invites
- Comment on To what extent, if at all, would have CrowdStrike's faulty update have been made easier to deal with with an immutable distro? 3 months ago:
idk if it would be manual, isn’t the point of ab root to rollback if it doesn’t properly boot afterwards?
- Comment on Is this a bad idea? Mesh/VPN 4 months ago:
tailscale also just has a button to buy/enable mullvad as an exit node. if you’re just looking for a commercial vpn for privacy it works well.
- Comment on The United States of America, but for Trans People 7 months ago:
they’re really not, slc has a pretty progressive community but it’s in direct opposition to the mormons. they’re officially accepting of gay people, but as long as they don’t do anything gay. they aren’t ok with trans people who transition at all.
utah also recently passed bathroom laws for all govt controlled buildings and schools and there are ones for colleges in the works.
generally mormons will be nice and accepting if they think they can convert you, but that’s about as far as it goes
advocate.com/…/mormon-leader-lgbtq-advocacy-comes… advocate.com/…/mormon-leader-gender-assigned-birt…
- Comment on Roku has patented a way to show ads over anything you plug into your TV 7 months ago:
that gets rid of cec but everything else would still work. you really just have to plug your other devices into the TV directly instead of into the roku. the problem will be the tvs with roku integrated directly
- Comment on iPod with custom shell, new screen, 512gb SSD, and a 30 day battery 7 months ago:
there’s also a ton of extra space once you remove the hdd, it could be mostly battery
- Comment on 8 months ago:
I have a pair, and they’re really convenient. Occasionally they do make me feel sick if I wear them too long though
- Comment on Samsung purposely knives customer's TV to weasel out of repair 8 months ago:
I’ve had a Samsung TV for a while. They started with putting little ads in the menu not to long after I bought it. Last November they removed the steam link app so I can’t stream games from pc. Just the other day they switched the default app on open from whatever was open before to the news playing over an ad to buy their cable alternative. The setting in the menu to change it back doesn’t work.
It’s worse than no support
- Comment on Discord is laying off 17 percent of employees 9 months ago:
you can run a bridge. I forget that friends are on discord sometimes bc it’s so seamless, and they can’t tell I’m not sending messages from discord either. I do have to use the discord app for voip tho
- Comment on Intel's Meteor Lake CPUs are slower at single-core work than previous-gen models — new benchmarks show IPC regressions vs Raptor Lake 10 months ago:
A lot of languages have an asunc/await facade for tasks run on a background thread for result (c#, clj, py, etc), but it’s certainly not the default anywhere, and go most goroutines(?)/other csp implementations are probably going to be yielding for some io most of the time at the bottom anyway
- Comment on Prusa or Bambu? 10 months ago:
Voron doesn’t sell anything, you either have to source all the materials yourself or buy a kit. I bought a kit from formbot when I built my V0 and have been pretty happy with it. They also sell V2.4 kits and have a warehouse in Czech
- Comment on Is there a way to see user likes and dislikes on lemmy? 11 months ago:
you’re starting to get stalkery
- Comment on Rebalancing the price to represent the value... 11 months ago:
there’s a plugin for it here. It works well but it’s kind of at odds with the rest of blender’s tools and normal workflow
- Comment on ChatGPT, how do I use OCR in Word? 11 months ago:
fwiw I’ve used it pretty extensively on screenshots of text I keep getting sent at work, so far I haven’t noticed any mistakes at all. may just be the type of images though
- Comment on The Talos Principle 2 | Release Date Trailer | Available November 2 | PC | PS5 | XSX/S 1 year ago:
I haven’t tried it since it was a separate version, but I didn’t notice any issues at all
- Comment on The Talos Principle 2 | Release Date Trailer | Available November 2 | PC | PS5 | XSX/S 1 year ago:
They’ve had a good native linux build for the first one, and it was one of the first games in my library to have vulkan support. I’d be surprised if it didn’t have really good linux support
- Comment on Quadlets might make me finally stop using docker-compose 1 year ago:
There is some surprising behavior with some of the features of yaml, mostly arising from the fact that it looks nice to read. Here’s a list of things that you can avoid to avoid a lot of the pitfalls: hitchdev.com/strictyaml/why/ . I haven’t actually used strictyaml, but the arguments it presents are pretty solid and some are things I’ve run into in real environments
- Comment on Which side are you? Javascript or Typescript 1 year ago:
V8 also doesn’t run js, it does some byte code compilation stuff amongst other things, then interprets that. But that’s all a bit pedantic too, V8 runs js, deno runs ts.
fwiw deno.com even has as one of their first bullet points that they have “native support for TypeScript and JSX”
- Comment on Which side are you? Javascript or Typescript 1 year ago:
I mean, tsc without any of the backporting functionality is still a transpiler since it goes from a high level language(ts) to another high level language(js). Transpilation as a concept doesn’t imply that it is for backporting language features or that the source and destination languages are the same, just that it is a transformation from source code to a similar or higher abstraction level language source code
- Comment on Which side are you? Javascript or Typescript 1 year ago:
I don’t think it really fractures anything considering you can call a ts package from js without knowing. The other way also works with third party typings in DefinitelyTyped.
It really just adds a bit of extra type info into js, looks like js, and transpiles into js that looks almost exactly like the input, including comments and spacing and such if you like, so there isn’t any lockin.
There isn’t any competition, it’s just an extra optional tool for the js ecosystem in my eyes.