alsimoneau

@alsimoneau@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon's Death Machine (aka Tesla) Mows Down Deer at Full Speed , Keeps Going on "Autopilot"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sensors that the Tesla famously doesn’t have (afaik, didn’t check) because Elon is a dumbass.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did people poop before smartphones were invented?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Y’all take more than a minute to poop?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla’s Autopilot and Full Self-Driving linked to hundreds of crashes, dozens of deaths⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fair enough

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla’s Autopilot and Full Self-Driving linked to hundreds of crashes, dozens of deaths⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Please, most people don’t know how to use a scientific calculator at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple Vision Pro Owners Are Struggling to Figure Out What They Just Bought⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If I want to look at the world through a screen I’d stay home and watch a documentary.

  The camera they use will never have the acuity, color perception and dynamic range that your eyes have. It probably doesn’t work super well in dark environment and it’s definitely completely useless for stargazing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some common misconceptions about programming that you'd like to debunk?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m a scientist that has been coding almost exclusively in Python for the past decade and I strongly disagree.

  Python is great at being the glue that holds everything together, and everything crunchy part of the program is being handled by a library anyways.

  I code with two terminals, one for iPython and one for vim. And you don’t need anything else. The beauty of Python is that it’s not a language that is so full of boilerplate that you need an IDE to type it for you to be remotely productive.

  Overall, Python is a language made to be used by people that need to make something that just works and don’t need to spend years learning programming paradigms and industry practices. Fortran and C are so unwieldy in comparison and everything more modern lacks the expansive and diverse libraries of Python.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US agency will not reinstate $900 mln subsidy for SpaceX Starlink unit⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, but the cost of low latency is thousands of satellites that burn up in the atmosphere, need to be continuously launched, are a catastrophe for optical and radio astronomy and crowd LEO, reducing available space and increasing collision risk. All for a barely scalable system.

  It’s not worth it. If you want low latency get a cable run or talk to a ground based antenna.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US agency will not reinstate $900 mln subsidy for SpaceX Starlink unit⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A geosynchronous satellite makes much more sense for those use cases.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starlink loses out on $886 million in rural broadband subsidies⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The issue with starlink is the choice to be in LEO instead of using geosats. It lowers the latency but it makes the whole project completely unsustainable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Git is hard⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  In my (admittedly limited) experience, mercurial is much more intuitive than git. I really dislike that git branches are only tags on the heads and completely ephemeral. It favours creating a single clean history instead of preserving what actually happened.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your Windows 10 PC will soon be 'junk' - users told to resist Microsoft deadline⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I know I’m the weird one but I liked 8 and Vista more than 7.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some alternative to soulless videogame franchises?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Fair enough, I’m hooked but it is different in some fundamental ways.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some alternative to soulless videogame franchises?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Just here to plug Captain of Industry if you like factory games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Remaster Core Preview now available⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  For your third point, isn’t that already the case? The only difference is that now there is no focus spell option that doesn’t increase your pool size.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People are getting fed up with all the useless tech in their cars — For the first time in 28 years of JD Power’s car owner survey, there is a consecutive year-over-year decline in satisfaction, wit...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Here’s an idea: don’t live in a desert.