YaBoyMax
@YaBoyMax@programming.dev
- Comment on Does anyone else feel like fireworks are a complete waste of money and a ridiculous amount of unnecessary Pollution? 4 months ago:
Can’t you say the same about virtually any form of entertainment? The electricity that runs the server you used to post this doesn’t come from nowhere.
- Comment on Why do people still eat beef when we know it's terrible for Earth? 6 months ago:
Ethics may not be fully objective, but claiming that they’re fully based on emotion is a ridiculous thing to say. You can make ethical arguments based in reason. Pointing to the war and saying “see, ethics aren’t real” is an incredibly naïve conclusion to draw.
- Comment on Why do people still eat beef when we know it's terrible for Earth? 6 months ago:
This is ignoring the fact that raising a cow for consumption requires ~10 times the amount of crops per calorie compared to just eating the crops directly. Also, I don’t think I’ve heard a single health expert recommended eating more beef - the universal understanding is that red meat consumption is generally a net negative in terms of overall health.
- Comment on Why do people still eat beef when we know it's terrible for Earth? 6 months ago:
You seem like a very pleasant person.
- Comment on Why don't we have one timezone covering the whole earth? 9 months ago:
The trouble is that “2 AM” now means radically different things depending on where in the world you are, and you lose any ability to be able to intuitively reason about the time in other parts of the world from you.
- Comment on Why don't we have one timezone covering the whole earth? 9 months ago:
So You Want To Abolish Time Zones
In a nutshell:
Before abolishing time zones:
I want to call my Uncle Steve in Melbourne. What time is it there?
Google tells me it is currently 4:25am there.
It’s probably best not to call right now.
After abolishing time zones:*
I want to call my Uncle Steve in Melbourne. What time is it there?
It is 04:25 (“four twenty-five”) there, same as it is here.
Does that mean I can call him?
I don’t know.
- Comment on Good times 9 months ago:
Yeow
- Comment on Are there typically limits to the size that ROMs can be when it comes to emulators? 10 months ago:
Bank switching is necessary because the 6502 chip in the NES has a 16-bit address space, with the bottom 0x4019 (~16K) bytes being reserved for system use (RAM, PPU/APU features, and controller I/O). Cartridges therefore only had access to a ~48 KiB range of address space (although in practice I believe only the top 32K was typically used for ROM), so bank switching was needed to be able to fully access anything larger.
- Comment on when the woke librals 😔😔 10 months ago:
- Comment on People who dont particularly care for or celebrate Christmas, Whats your favorite Christmas song? 10 months ago:
This is mine too. It’s obscure enough that I rarely hear it in public, so I basically only hear it when I actually want to.
- Comment on Does anyone else feel like 90% of the population is stupid? 11 months ago:
Tommy Lee Jones says this in Men in Black, no idea if it was coined before that though.
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
My company has on multiple occasions brought in applicants to interview who aren’t qualified for any positions we have open. I’m not 100% sure why that is, but it’s led to us rejecting candidates who everyone otherwise felt pretty positive about.
- Comment on So when Kanye said he was going Defcon 3 on Jewish people, is there some new conspiracy circles going on that I'm not aware of? 1 year ago:
To your point, I think he also said “deathcon 3”.
- Comment on Military Time vs 24hr? 1 year ago:
Except that’s not actually an issue in practice. In a real-world conversation you would disambiguate with “Let’s get breakfast” or “Let’s get dinner” if you’re not referring to the immediate future. I honestly can’t think of a single time that I’ve been genuinely confused in this way.
- Comment on Does Hexbear mandate all users to specify their preferred pronouns? 1 year ago:
Appears to be a rule against posting food made from animal products. As someone who doesn’t eat animal product myself, I don’t particularly enjoy scrolling Reddit or Lemmy and seeing a picture of a meat dish, but it doesn’t ruin my day I would never dream of demanding a content warning for it. To my knowledge CWs are geared towards content that has the potential to trigger past trauma, and I can’t understand how a food category could be so broadly traumatic to someone (outside of EDs I guess, which is obviously not the focus of this rule).
- Comment on Microsoft Edge could use a win 1 year ago:
I think this is overselling it a little. I still run into issues with Proton from time to time that require sigkilling it and its children, and some games (especially EA titles) are finnicky and can take a few tries to launch properly.
As for VR, SteamVR on Linux outright sucks. It virtually never works the first time I launch it and requires some combination of reconnecting hardware and restarting software and the computer, and it’s plagued with bugs (most recently the UI rendering upside down in the new beta).
Don’t get me wrong, Linux has been my primary platform for some 5 years and my only one for the last few and I’d never dream of going back to Windows, and gaming on Linux has progressed unbelievably in the time I’ve been daily-driving it. But it still isn’t totally painless and there’s definitely more room for improvement in the coming years.
- Comment on How to tell a girl "I love You" without telling her "I love you"..... 1 year ago:
Are you actively in a relationship with her? If not, then don’t. Love and infatuation (which I honestly don’t mean any negative connotation by) aren’t the same thing, and telling someone who you’re not dating that you love them is almost always going to be unwelcome.
- Comment on It took me 16 years to figure out why I hated a Journey song. What song did yiu hate untim yiu figured out why? 1 year ago:
Tangentially, that’s a big thing at Oktoberfest. I was there last year and it was the funniest thing to me as an American. That and YMCA.