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- Comment on What happened to cylindrical plugs? 1 day ago:
I agree, but somehow the low end portable monitors seem to already have USB-C support. I bought a monitor for like $60 and it had USB-C.
I’m not quite sure why regular size monitors are lacking the support.
- Comment on What happened to cylindrical plugs? 1 day ago:
USB-C likely will take over video eventually. I use it for video on two out of three of my monitors and the Nintendo switch can be used that way.
- Comment on OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says his company is 'out of GPUs' to which I reply 'welcome to the party, pal' 2 days ago:
Maybe optimize your fucking code you bunch of stupid losers.
- Comment on Balatro wins formal appeal to reclassify poker game as PEGI 12 5 days ago:
Extreme programming is basically pair programming. It sucks and doesn’t work. Cucumber is also known as “behavioral driven (design/development)” or BDD. It manifests as test documents written in “plain English” that are executed via code. It inevitably becomes unit tests but worse because it’s based mainly around regex matches to bits of text within the steps.
- Comment on Balatro wins formal appeal to reclassify poker game as PEGI 12 6 days ago:
He wrote some hyped up programming books and he was involved in the creation of extreme programming (a bust), cucumber (an almost completely useless waste of time), and agile (an ok idea but in reality it’s a huge bust, it’s biggest effect is that management tells everyone “we need to be agile” all the time).
Tldr: you’re not missing out
- Comment on Balatro wins formal appeal to reclassify poker game as PEGI 12 6 days ago:
Til that he’s trash and that Uncle Bob is trash. It makes sense honestly, Uncle Bob was always hyped to no end with his mediocre contributions to software. Also the agile manifesto sucks ass.
- Comment on Facepalm on multiple levels 1 week ago:
Why don’t we just wait and see if even these idiots want that in a few years? It’s been a couple of weeks and it’s already starting to look like most of the polling locations will be covered in rubble by 2028.
- Comment on Amazon is changing what is written in books 1 week ago:
Is that what the “you can’t download your shit anymore” is really reaching at?
- Comment on How is the Stock Market keeping it's value after *points to everything*? 1 week ago:
Because the speculative “economy” necessarily grows faster than the actual economy.
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 1 week ago:
I think citizen’s united. The spirit was dead probably before I was born, but legalizing corruption made it inevitable.
- Comment on What keeps Americans from being mad about the state of their country? 2 weeks ago:
I believe you, but this is also a very left-leaning site that pretty much filters out all of the conservative idiocy from it. The general public doesn’t seem to give a shit and when I go out and about in the world it’s like nothing has even changed. I suspect it will be this way for a while even if eventually there is full-blown fascism with a world war, and death camps. I remember reading remarks by people who were around during the formation of the Third Reich in Germany and I remember them writing something like all the shops and everything were open and people were going to work like normal for a large portion of it. There was even a person that didn’t realize how crazy the country had gotten until he saw his small child imitating Hitler and saying antisemitic shit about Jews.
- Comment on What keeps Americans from being mad about the state of their country? 2 weeks ago:
The feeling that nobody else really gives a shot is what does it for me.
- Comment on How does this pic show that Elon Musk doesnt know SQL? 2 weeks ago:
I’m talking about a SQL join. It’s essentially combining two tables into one set of query results and there are a number of different ways to do it.
www.w3schools.com/sql/sql_join.asp
Some joins are fast and some can be slow. It depends on a variety of different factors. But making every query require multiple joins to produce anything of use is usually pretty disastrous in real-life scenarios. That’s why one of the basics of schema design is that you usually normalize to what’s called third normal form for transactional tables, but reporting schemas are often even less normalized because that allows you to quickly put together reporting queries that don’t immediately run the database into the ground.
DB normalization and normal forms are practically a known science, but practitioners (and sometimes DBAs) often have no clue that this stuff is relatively settled and sometimes even use a completely wrong normal form for what their doing.
In most software (setting aside well-written open source) the schema was put together by someone who didn’t even understand what normal form they were targeting or why they would target it. So the schema for one application will often be at varying forms of normalization, and schemas across different applications almost necessarily will have different normal forms within them even if they’re properly designed.
- Comment on How does this pic show that Elon Musk doesnt know SQL? 2 weeks ago:
SSNs being duplicated would be entirely expected depending upon the table’s purpose. There are many forms of normalization in database tables.
- Comment on Speaking honestly, what has to happen for you personally to take to the street in protest of the current administration. 2 weeks ago:
Other people actually giving a damn enough to do something other than post about it. I protested in the past and absolutely nobody gave a shit and it had zero effect. I don’t even think the protest was covered on the news.
I suspect that for any average American (or even a single digit percentage of them) to bother getting involved things are going to have to get extremely bad.
- Comment on Might be fun idk 2 weeks ago:
😆
- Comment on Might be fun idk 2 weeks ago:
I can’t imagine this will reach the right audience, but in the lead up to the superb owl this year I was saying that a great sketch about this country would be to have this giant hyped up spectical where everyone’s getting all fucking jazzed up and talking about how all of this epic shit is going to happen and then at the climax of the sketch you get to the actual “action” and it’s just a dude flipping a coin once.
That’s America IMO, and it’s definitely illustrated fully in the super bowl: six hours for ten seconds of actual action interrupted constantly by bullshit and commercials and followed by idiots tearing “their city” apart because their laundry was crowned “world champions” of a sport only played by people in one country.
- Comment on Microsoft gives up on users experiencing problems updating their Windows 11 machines. Now recommends a "manual correction" 2 weeks ago:
That manual correction: installing Linux.
- Comment on I miss when you could get a flagship phone that could fit in your hand 3 weeks ago:
I’ll go shittier phone before I’ll go phablet ever again. I bought a motorola razr 2023. I bought a foldable because I want the shit to fit in my pocket. It also is the only flip phone I’ve seen that hasn’t made the imbecilic decision to coat the entire front panel in glass. I don’t need a full miniature phone making my shit more fragile when it’s clamped shut. If they continue to glass panel it up on the outside I’ll try to find a case that just covers the entire outside.
But ultimately I’m holding onto this thing as long as I possibly can.
- Comment on When they say they got your back, that means they will stab you there. 3 weeks ago:
When people (inevitably) retaliate against for you going to HR, if the labor laws in your state support it, you can file a lawsuit against the company and they’ll usually settle out of court for a tidy sum of cash. I don’t remember what I saw it on but this one dude was talking about how that’s what he always does. He gets a job at some factory or something, goes into the breakroom and someone’s always talking about something sexual regarding their personal life, he says “I don’t want to hear that” and they always repeatedly fuck up, he goes to HR about it, HR doesn’t do what they’re supposed to and the person reported retaliates and then he sues and they settle out of court with him and he gets another payday.
- Comment on Reddit is purging NSFW subs as well as trans-related subreddits 3 weeks ago:
How this is called that when “lemmygetnaked” would’ve been infinitely better I’ll never know…
- Comment on Reddit is purging NSFW subs as well as trans-related subreddits 3 weeks ago:
We should not forget that these people scrunched up their faces at Twitter itself for years and said ”but what is it?” Only in the fullness of time did it permeate our entire society.
This is a very good point that should be pointed out more often. I think the longevity of the ecosystem matters more than the active user count today. Eventually through pure erosion lemmy and other decentralized platforms could wind up winning in popularity as well if things get worse everywhere else and they’re stable enough to continue adding new users.
- Comment on Nothing a whole lotta *COPE* can't fix 3 weeks ago:
Being overly informed is a trap. You definitely don’t need to know every bowel movement Trump takes. I’m sure they’ll eventually prove scientifically that consuming the constant barrage of doom news impairs your ability to effectively plan and organize against “shock and awe” politicians.
- Comment on Nothing a whole lotta *COPE* can't fix 3 weeks ago:
Yeah it’s definitely conditional and worse the younger you are. If you own a place or have owned a place for a while your overall cost of living is treading water and in some cases even going down over time. That’s definitely not the case for renters.
- Comment on Teslas turn toxic as sales crash in Europe and the UK | EV sales in the region are growing, but not for Tesla 3 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t fuck with VW after their “eco-diesel” bullshit from a decade or two ago.
- Comment on You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism | Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them 3 weeks ago:
Social media is doing everything in the establishment’s favor
For about half a second, people used social media to organize. Then the fascists saw how to manipulate and control it, and jumped at the opportunity. At this point social media – especially corporate controlled social media – is just part of the fascist apparatus.
To a lesser extent, as this article talks about, the coping mechanism of posting allows you to vent enough to prevent you from having the discomfort necessary to actually do anything. It’s not nearly as harmful, but it’s not good either.
- Comment on You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism | Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them 3 weeks ago:
Is signal not good enough or something? I basically switched to signal.
- Comment on You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism | Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them 3 weeks ago:
100000000% agree
- Comment on I'll show them 3 weeks ago:
When was January Jones a nineties office worker?
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Cuz we’re a society full of propagandized idiots who constantly victim blame.
I would recommend taking all of the shame out of getting ripped off. Shame only helps the person who ripped you off because by not discussing and naming and blaming the people who did it due to your own shame, you help them victimize others.
This is the land of the fee, and home of the rip-off. We’ve nearly all been ripped off either knowingly or unknowingly many times in our lives.