GarytheSnail

@GarytheSnail@programming.dev

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I typically like to just buy my music but the appeal of spotify, to me, is the algorithm and being able to play random singles and one offs from artists I would probably not ever hear a single thing from otherwise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Give me Options or give me death⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes but I’ve never found it to be that annoying.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Social media algorithms ‘amplifying misogynistic content’⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just like this sub. The only shit getting posted on it is articles about shitty things happening.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One thing I hope to see in the Fediverse is people engaging with old content⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oddly enough, just last week I got a reddit notification that someone had replied to a comment I made… 11 years ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify (un)wrapped: Unpacking recommender algorithms⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I just want a fuckin star rating system. I want winamp but with Spotify library.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 scores dead last in gaming performance tests against 3 Linux gaming distros⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I swear people just scroll through lemmy, see a post they like and then think to themselves, “this is cool, I should post this on lemmy!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Japanese Institute breaks optical fiber speed record with 22.9 petabits per second — 1,000 times faster than existing cables⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolutely no idea.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Japanese Institute breaks optical fiber speed record with 22.9 petabits per second — 1,000 times faster than existing cables⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Think glass pipe versus glass cylinder or rod. Though, I don’t think the hollow core is fully empty, it has some structure to it.

  Here is an example

  Source: www.rp-photonics.com/hollow_core_fibers.html

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Backlash over fake female speakers shuts down developer conference⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can go damn near all day on my m1 MacBook. Those things have insane battery life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Entire Observable Universe so far by Pablo Carlos Budassi⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Due to the accelerating expansion of the universe, the individual clusters of gravitationally bound galaxies that make up galaxy filaments are moving away from each other at an accelerated rate; in the far future they will dissolve.

  This has always been mega sad to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Monaspace - Microsoft presents a new font family for code⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m still loving comic code.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US to build new nuclear gravity bomb⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Zarya: Огонь по готовности!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Colorful quantum dots snag 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry | Ars Technica⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I would like to purchase the rainbow vials of quantum dots, please.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most and Least Verbose Programming Languages⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  String IDontKnowWhatsWorseEspeciallyWhenTheTypeIsAlsoIncludedString = “I don’t know what’s worse, especially when the type is also included”;