AstridWipenaugh
@AstridWipenaugh@lemmy.world
- Comment on "William Shatner: You Can Call Me Bill" Documentary/Biography in theaters this weekend 1 month ago:
Hopefully it’s a 96 minute reenactment ofRocket Man.
- Comment on mycology 1 month ago:
I used to be a wizard, till I took a mushroom to the knee.
- Comment on mycology 1 month ago:
Not clones, more of a ship of Theseus scenario. A fungal network can be “one thing” because we see it as a single interconnected system. But parts grow and die over time. It doesn’t have individual cells that are infinitely old, but the one wholistic fungal organism, as we define it, can live forever through regrowth. There are types of jellyfish that can also “live forever” in this same way.
- Comment on Coles paper bags have been shrinkflated 1 month ago:
You guys have bags? We don’t have bags in my part of the USA anymore. Plastic got banned and no stores have any paper bags.
- Comment on Usage Of Elon Musk’s X Dropped 30% In The Last Year, Study Suggests 2 months ago:
They’re bots
- Comment on This Is Why Tesla’s Stainless Steel Cybertrucks May Be Rusting 2 months ago:
That’s early access selling DLC.
- Comment on "Suggested" Facebook Disinfo (Moon Landing Hoax Page) 3 months ago:
I traveled to North Carolina for work recently. The ads I got on my phone were off the deep end. Gun stores, FJB apparel, and all manner of right wing nonsense. I don’t get any of that stuff when I’m using cell data in my town.
- Comment on A literal child taking orders in a fast food restaurant in the US 3 months ago:
Our schools do a “spirit night” fundraiser at a business once a month. The business donates a portion of the sales to the school during a specific time frame. Child labor is not involved.
- Comment on Unity bans VLC from Unity Store. 3 months ago:
Epic is just a troll company. They donated to Godot when it served as a jab in the side of their competition (unity). Their entire business model is to inflict Stockholm Syndrome on their users via free games.
- Comment on Goodbye MatPat, thanks for everything 3 months ago:
I think that’s Tom Zendaya from Skibidi Drip Rizz.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Anyone making gender or race based claims about behavior is an idiot, mmmkay?
- Comment on The four houses dads belong to. 4 months ago:
Ryobi is great for starting out. They’re definitely not the best tools, but they’re cheap. If you wear out something from them, you’ve earned the right to buy a good brand of that tool.
- Comment on Steam keeps on winning 4 months ago:
No. They’re repeating cable history. The great bundling has already begun. Hulu and Disney are being rolled together. You’re going to have fewer options moving forward. You’ll have to buy the netflix-hulu-disney-peacock-hbo-starz bundle or the other one with all the rest. Then they can keep cranking up the price because it’s all or nothing. Prices will go up until too many people choose the “nothing” option, then they’ll start doing a “build your own package” to let you drop half and save 10% just because you want one of the services.
- Comment on Israel grants Intel $3.2 billion for new $25 billion chip plant 4 months ago:
That’s the same kind of logic you use about how much you saved when you buy something on sale. Would have saved more if you didn’t buy it at all; Israel would collect more tax money if they didn’t give them massive subsidies and tax breaks.
- Comment on What's up with Epic Games? 4 months ago:
This is exactly it. They’re not building their brand by providing a superior service/experience or driving market prices down. They’re using venture capital to fund giving away games to get you to use their wildly subpar services. They’re trying to buy market position without the services to justify it.
- Comment on What's your favorite note-taking application? 4 months ago:
notion.so It’s a web-based editor with a good android app. Has basic formatting, plugins/integrations, and dark mode. It’s free for individual use cases. Has some nice paid features for collaboration and business use cases, though the free plan still allows sharing and concurrent editing.
- Comment on It's canon now. And so is a certain image format. 4 months ago:
Oh yeah? Well lick my gargantuan gorilla gonads.
(I’m actually team jif but can’t help myself)
- Comment on Fallout TV Show - Trailer 5 months ago:
Maybe it’ll be good, maybe it won’t. But after the 400+ hours I spent in fo4, I’m willing to commit to another hour to see if the first episode is any good. I’ve spent longer than that hunting for literal trash in-game. :)
- Comment on Fallout TV Show - Trailer 5 months ago:
If you’re a fallout fan, you’re already on board. Our viewership is a given, and is theirs to lose. But for people who aren’t big fans, having big names attached shows it’s serious business. It’s meant to convince people on the fence that it’s worth an initial watch since there’s money and names behind it so maybe it’s not just “some dumb low budget video game shit.”
- Comment on Survive the zombie apocalypse 5 months ago:
It’s good for general protection too. It can soften blows from other humans or just accidental injury while scavenging dilapidated buildings. What we consider to be minor bumps and scrapes now can be life threatening when you have inadequate medical supplies, malnutrition, sleep deprived, no sanitation, etc.
- Comment on Survive the zombie apocalypse 5 months ago:
If the zombie plague is airborne, fuck it. Give me a barrel of bourbon and and a couple pounds of weed. That’s guaranteed to last me the rest of my life.
- Comment on Survive the zombie apocalypse 5 months ago:
Gas is no longer in prime condition after 3-6 months, but is still combustible for at least a year or two. Old gas will damage your engine over time though. Most of the degradation is due to oxidization, so if the gas were in sealed cans, maybe it could last longer.
But yeah, 5+ years in and most gas is unlikely to work in an engine. You’d have to be making some kind of bio-ethanol at that point.
- Comment on Nowhere is safe 5 months ago:
I disagree, it’s quite performant and cost effective. I work for a very large software company and it scales to our needs very well. However, it is emphatically not the solution to everything nor is it a replacement for all traditional RDBMS use cases. It also takes a quite different mindset when thinking about your data than when using SQL.
IMO what it does really well is handle being a persistent data store for well-formed REST API endpoints. When you understand your access patterns and implement your GSIs correctly, a RDBMS can’t match the performance even with well tuned queries. Dynamo excels at giving you a record set when you know exactly which set of records you want and it’s based on one or two very simple conditions.
Where it falls behind is for data warehousing and reporting use cases. Dynamo is comparatively slow and inefficient when it comes to asking complex questions about the data. RDBMS systems are built for that use case and as such have extensive tools to optimize whatever wild queries you want to throw at it.
If you’re interested in learning about single table design, which is not good for all cases, check out this video. I’ve watched it quite a few times and it’s been the biggest help in wrapping my head around how to do the data modeling for it. youtu.be/KYy8X8t4MB8
Ok my steam deck finally finished updating. Time to go. 😁
- Comment on Nowhere is safe 5 months ago:
I took a week off for Thanksgiving and came back to understand Dynamo DB single table patterns I was stuck on before leaving. Sleep learning is real!
- Comment on China's Mars Lander Detects Subsurface Geometrical Shapes in Scientific First 5 months ago:
saying they identified irregular polygonal wedges located at a depth of about 35 meters all along the robot’s journey.
So like a spaceship graveyard from the Great Star War of 4990 BC?
- Comment on Court rules Gabe Newell must appear in person to testify in Steam anti-trust lawsuit 5 months ago:
You’re not wrong, but shareholders look at their investment very differently than stockholders. Private shareholders can’t necessarily cash out whenever they want because the sale of private equity is usually tightly controlled by the company. This means they need to be interested in long-term growth and success. While public stockholders can also hold their shares for a long time, there’s much more ability and incentive to buy and sell quickly to make a quick profit.
Anecdotally, I worked for a publicly traded company for 6 years before they got bought and taken private by a private equity group. The way profitability and trends are measured is night and day. As a public company, everything was hyper focused on quarter by quarter results. One underperforming quarter meant a tank in stock prices, hiring freezes, and a general sentiment to the employees of “quit spending money on expenses if you want to have a job next quarter”. Being controlled by private equity, they’re most concerned with year over year growth and the long-term stability of our operations.
- Comment on The Feds' Vehicle 'Kill Switch' Mandate Is a Gross (and Dangerous) Violation of Privacy | Jon Miltimore 5 months ago:
If I’m trying to pass on a dotted yellow (legal) and my car thinks I’m drunk and kills the engine or governs me to 10 mph, I’m fucked. Remotely stopping a car without situational review is super dangerous (for humans in them).
- Comment on Ultra-white ceramic cools buildings with record-high 99.6% reflectivity 5 months ago:
It’s not visibly reflective. Yes, it’s white, but it’s cool to the touch because the majority of the energy is radiated out into space via non-visible wavelengths. Someone has already posted a great YouTube video from Night Hawk In Light in a comment where he explains how this tech works and makes his own paint!
- Comment on If you had to choose one programming language that you had to use for the rest of your life, what would it be? 5 months ago:
I was working on that yesterday. 😂 Building a feature to resolve variables in a serverless config file to custom sources.
- Comment on As a beginner, how should I go about learning difficult concepts? 5 months ago:
I’ll often cludge something together just to make it work but I don’t feel like I made any progress
That’s a good first step! I’ve been programming for ~25 years and that’s still usually where I start. Get a little code that compiles and produces some kind of output or tracing. Then compare the output to your requirements and tweak the code to get it closer to the right behavior. Run it and repeat till it’s doing what you want. Do this cycle with small changes, like a handful of lines or a short function, not 20 mins of coding at a time.
Test-driven development can also help with breaking down tasks. It takes a good amount of practice to learn the right patterns, but it’s an approach that forces you to work with small narrowly scoped tasks. Then you chain those testable tasks together to create more complex behaviors to create robust testable code.
Experience takes time. Junior developers frequently ask me after I’ve helped them “but how did you just know how to do that? I’ve been trying to solve that for an hour and you did it in 10 seconds!!” The answer is because I’ve solved that exact problem before. More than a few times.