jas0n
@jas0n@lemmy.world
- Comment on Instagram and Facebook under EU investigation for causing child addiction and harm 3 days ago:
Facebook is almost more effective on adults. So whether or not you’re right here is so ridiculously beyond the point anymore. They’ve lost all credibility and should be indefensible.
- Comment on Choose your difficulty 1 week ago:
New Zealand is just happy to be on the map.
- Comment on A German state is ditching Windows and Microsoft Office for Linux and LibreOffice on the 30,000 PCs it uses for local government functions 1 month ago:
Good. Now, you want to make a bigger impact? Do the schools.
- Comment on USB hubs, printers, Java, and more seemingly broken by macOS 14.4 update 1 month ago:
Oh wow. Nasal demons in the wild.
- Comment on Microsoft sneaks ads into the new Outlook for Windows 3 months ago:
Embrace Extreme Extinguish
- Comment on Doing the important work 3 months ago:
Wouldn’t have got the peppers if I knew they wouldn’t fit
- Comment on Is It Worth The Time? XKCD 1205 updated for open source and shared tools. 3 months ago:
I used to write tons of automation in my previous data role. While time saved matters, the other important takeaway is reproducibility. Other people on the team were writing giant SQL scripts and highlight running each one and then manual checking to see if it worked… I’m talking about tables anywhere from 1-100 millions records. You aren’t checking shit by skimming a top 1000. And what a ridiculously error prone process that is. Take the human out of that equation!
If the data came out wrong, it would be because the data came in different/corrupted, not because I missed a query. Speaking of different causing problems… one time a company sent us data that was fixed width by character instead of fixed width by byte. Smh…
- Comment on Why do some websites have a "Continue Reading" button? 4 months ago:
You can still write plain html websites, and they would be super fast! But that’s not how we do things damnit! I need to implement feature x. Do I spend all day rolling my own lean version? Fuck no. I download a 5-ton JavaScript library that already has that feature, and I fuck off the rest of the day.
You are correct on one thing. The math does not add up at all.
The root cause is the current meta of software development. It’s bloat. Software is so ungodly bloated today because we’ve been taught since as long as I can remember that hardware is so fast nowadays that we don’t need to care about performance. Because of this mindset, many of the best practices that we were taught work directly against performance (OOP was a mistake. Fight me).
There might be overhead on the ad tracking bullshit… Sure. But, if developers cared about performance, that ad tracking can be fast, too ;]
How long should it really take to render a webpage? That should be near instant. If modern games can render a full 3D landscape over 100 times a second, surely a wall of text and some images can be done in under 1 second, right?
This is a problem in all software. For a simple example, I remember Microsoft word from 20 years ago being quite snappy on the desktops of the time. And by comparison, we are running supercomputers today. A cheap android phone would blow that desktop out of the water. Yet, somehow, word is a dog now…
- Comment on Steam keeps on winning 4 months ago:
What’s in your wallet?
- Comment on They won't teach you this in Drivers Ed 6 months ago:
Because they’re objectively worse in all measures other than
funcontrol. - Comment on They won't teach you this in Drivers Ed 6 months ago:
We did?
- Comment on We have had guns for 200 years but mass shootings only became common in the last 30. So what changed? 6 months ago:
Yeah, that makes sense. It used to not be a partisan thing to be an NRA member either. But I suppose I can say that about any bullshit culture war issue nowadays. This whole politics as a team sport thing is cancer.
Owning a gun just seems like another way to show support for your team. I’ve just got a sneaking suspicion that if it were somehow illegal to tell people that you own a gun, firearm sales would plummet. Otherwise, how would anyone know how cool they are?
- Comment on We have had guns for 200 years but mass shootings only became common in the last 30. So what changed? 6 months ago:
Total speculation from my own experience… so maybe just me.
It seems like there is just a completely different culture surrounding guns that didn’t exist before (or just want so damn loud). I’m talking about the whole I need guns for “protection” because crime is out of control, the 2nd amendment SHALL NOT be infringed, “don’t tread on me,” I have guns and I’d like to see the government “try” and take them, etc. It’s like this delusional, childish owning a gun so you can tell people you own a gun… thing? Anyone else notice you can always tell who owns a gun by how dumb their bumper stickers are?
I talked to an older dude who went to my high school 20 years before me and he told me how him and a buddy always brought their rifles to school. It was never a “thing.” They might have gone hunting before school or something. But the whole attitude he had about it was the polar opposite of what it has become.
No one is coming for your guns guys. On that note, no one fucking cares either.
- Comment on How do poor people in the states give birth without money? 6 months ago:
Hi, I down voted you.