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- Comment on What's a 'common sense' thing that you genuinely don't understand, and have been too embarrassed to ask about until now? 2 days ago:
You put the opener on the top, not the side of the can. Image
- Comment on Putin's adviser warns Russia risks new civil war and internal collapse of the nation 4 days ago:
- Comment on Palantir CEO Says a Surveillance State Is Preferable to China Winning the AI Race 1 week ago:
You think the Palantir CEO has a soul? You gaze into that orb once and it’s game over
- Comment on Apple forgot to disable production source maps on the App Store web app 1 week ago:
IMO it’s sloppy, or at least a code smell, to be merging changes that still have comments like that into commercial software main branches to begin with. But it’s still not a security issue or anything like that.
The future engineer who picks up whatever ticket that’s referenced is going to have no idea that comment exists in that file unless it’s called out in the ticket anyway, or peoole just know to globally search for references to whatever ticket they picked up in a given day for some person’s old notes. At that point, just share a link in the ticket to however many lines of code are relevant. Quite irritating to see an old comment in the code saying something like “TODO: Remove once PROJ-1234 is done” and PROJ-1234 was marked done three years ago. Does it still need to go? Why was it left in?
- Comment on Humans BY DEFAULT do not want to commit violence towards other humans, otherwise things like Killer's Remorse and PTSD would not exist. 1 week ago:
I disagree. Someone doesn’t return their shopping cart…? No remorse. No hesitation.
- Comment on Apple forgot to disable production source maps on the App Store web app 1 week ago:
It’s client code, nothing there is secret. It’s served to you on a platter. Minifying is just to shrink it. Obfuscation is security theater.
- Comment on What are your favorite games from a worldbuilding standpoint? 1 week ago:
Kenshi is maybe the only game I’ve played where the more I played, the more I was like “What the fuck shit hole have I been dropped into. What happened here.” And that feeling only increased the more of the world I explored.
“AAHGH WHAT IS THIS LASER BEAM”
“AAHGH WHAT ARE THESE THINGS”
“AAHGH WHY ARE THERE CANNIBALS EVERYWHERE”
“AAHGH THE RAIN HURTS WHY IS THERE RAIN PAIN”
- Comment on If video games actually determined our real world behavior, we wouldn't be violent we would be obsessed with powerwashing and all have CDLs. 1 week ago:
Played too much Pokémon, now I run a bet-fueled dog fighting operation
- Comment on a16z-Backed Startup Sells Thousands of ‘Synthetic Influencers’ to Manipulate Social Media as a Service 3 weeks ago:
The thing is, what they’re doing isn’t technically criminal. It just violates the terms of use of most social media sites and apps.
- Comment on Scientists have been studying remote work for four years and have reached a very clear conclusion: “Working from home makes us thrive” 3 weeks ago:
The article, at least, doesn’t seem to try to define or measure “productivity”. Well no shit people are going to be happier not being forced to go somewhere for some period of time five days a week.
Am I happier working from home, or having the choice to do so? Sure. Their data strongly backs that. Do I actually get my work done equally well? For me personally yes but anecdotally group decision-making in remote contexts is much slower.
The research here is ultimately pointless, because it drives zero action to the people who would be deciding WFH policy who are making that choice based on business goals, not personal goals. It might inform politicians if they’re driving policy to promote remote work, but without data about productivity tradeoff or lack thereof, there’s no informed decision to make.
- Comment on For a while Microsoft was the King of PC stuff. How come they didn't just cozy up to the PC but had to do the XBOX and pretty much lose their ass with all the cash grabs? 5 weeks ago:
line go up
- Comment on Is it me or does it seem like review bombing on Steam has become so much worse recently? 5 weeks ago:
But since the total sample size is much smaller due to language categorization, review bombing is much, much easier and impactful when it does hapoen for the speakers of the language the bombing is targeted at.
- Comment on Are Street Racers "bad people"? 1 month ago:
Sorry what? I couldn’t hear you because of the fucking
WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA NYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA FYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
outside
- Comment on Its all bots, isn't it? 1 month ago:
You’re clearly a bot
- Comment on New EA Owners Hoping AI Will Cut Costs And Boost Profits, It's Claimed 1 month ago:
A sucker is born every minute.
- Comment on The Video-Game Industry Has a Problem: There Are Too Many Games 1 month ago:
The problem they describe will self-correct; the “market” will drive that. But it might not be pretty. The things below are already happening, but will be further instigated:
New AAA non-franchise titles will be less common because return is less likely amongst the sea of new games coming out. Investors will continue to gamble on them, but they’ll be fewer and further between.
Mid-budget AA games not in a niche will disappear. You’ll still have your city builders, your milsim squad shooters, your competitive RTS games, but you won’t be seeing many new AA action platformers, multiplayer CoD style shooters, block puzzlers, adventure RPGs, etc. They’ll either be bare budget / indie or mega budget.
You’ll see dev cost continue to be driven down to mitigate this risk, making quality suffer. Asset flips, AI, and outsourcing will increase for most studios that don’t get recurring revenue from live service games.
Indies will continue to be random breakout hits, but their studios will die fast because followups to their breakouts often drown in the sea too.
Being an employee in the industry will probably mean jumping from company to company where you might only stick around for 1 - 2 titles before a major layoff. Contracting will get more common.
- Comment on Electronic Arts nears roughly $50 billion deal to go private, WSJ reports 1 month ago:
If EA weren’t already so bloated and full of suits, I might imagine this would allow them to pump the brakes on their scummy moneymaking policies.
- Comment on U.S. to impose tariffs on pharmaceutical drugs, kitchen cabinets, furniture and heavy trucks 1 month ago:
You can tell they’re bullshit made up political numbers. If there was a 68%, a 31%, you could convince me an expert may have at some point been involved. But exactly 100%? Someone pulled these totally out of their ass.
- Comment on Jesus was Jewish, but Christians aren't 1 month ago:
But like…would Jesus have been cool with that?
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- Comment on I'm stupid...how do I avoid wires when mounting things to the wall? 1 month ago:
I never have, never needed to, never will. I’ve stripped a couple over the years but they come in boxes of like 100 and I just take it out with a bigger phillips head and use a different one.
- Comment on I'm stupid...how do I avoid wires when mounting things to the wall? 1 month ago:
The stud finder sucks, those give false positives for electrical all the time. You’re probably fine if the wall isn’t riddled with outlets, switches, or has a breaker panel.
If you’re really concerned, drill through only until you’re past the drywall. It’s only about a half to five eighths of an inch thick. Wrap a little piece of tape around your drill bit as a depth gauge. Alternatively, there are drywall anchors that look like fat plastic white screws that don’t require a pilot hole. You can get those and avoid drilling entirely.
- Comment on Scam Warning: there's a false-flag crypto coin scam campain on GitHub right now 1 month ago:
Currency is just a debt marker. Person from 3000BC watches their friend’s kids for a bit while thet go on a hunt. Gives em an IOU, maybe it’s some fun looking shells. The markers evolved over time for convenience and counterfeit prevention.
- Comment on Coincidence 1 month ago:
No because Neil was short for Neilbert
- Submitted 1 month ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 18 comments
- Comment on The Unbearable Inefficiency of Fossil Fuels 1 month ago:
The efficiency of fossil fuel energy sources is in their energy by volume. That’s is and has always been their main benefit.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density
Sort and compare. Battery technologies, even state of the art ones, are an order of magnitude worse than fuels for energy density. This matters immensely in transport, less so in stationary energy.
Sorry, these sensationalistic headlines just irritate me. I’m all for avoiding the externalities of oil based energy.
- Comment on everyone talks about chip bags being 50% wasted space but no one talks about creamed corn cans being 50% wasted space 1 month ago:
Government trying to take away our cornographic material
- Comment on how do school shooters know how to use guns? 1 month ago:
Or alternatively (historically), expendable peasants that you don’t want to finance painstaking archery training on.
- Comment on how do school shooters know how to use guns? 1 month ago:
It’s not exactly hard to operate a firearm. They are designed to be used by the lowest common denominator of person - total morons.
- Comment on Marriage is FOMO 2 months ago:
Loser: “This person is legally bound to me so they can’t easily leave even if they want to”
Chad: “This person has no obligation to stay with me, but chooses to because they want to”
