calcopiritus

@calcopiritus@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chances for the fediverse? Elon Musk takes hit as Europeans ditch X in droves⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Well. In that case we have to either move on to argue why I believe that a stateless society is bad and you believe it is good. Or just call it here and agree to disagree. Whatever you prefer. Since I don’t think I can change your mind (on the basis of past experience about this topic, not something personal about you) or that you can change mine about that topic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chances for the fediverse? Elon Musk takes hit as Europeans ditch X in droves⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  No I won’t. Just like arguing a murder is not illegal grafitti, doesn’t make you pro-murder. Arguing that a specific genocide is not xenophobia does not make me pro-genocide. I absolutely hate what Israel is doing to the Palestinians and I believe that someone should assassinate Netanyahu and all of his pro-genocide people on power of the Israeli government. Or imprison them for life.

  But you can miss my point all you want.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chances for the fediverse? Elon Musk takes hit as Europeans ditch X in droves⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  This specific technicality is important for your point though.

  I’m gonna explain my reasoning so you can choose whatever you want have a conversation about.

  Your claim was that putting citizens above non-citizens is xenophobic.

  My point is that putting citizens above non-citizens is a natural consequence of a state. And furthermore, that it is a good thing.

  Xenophobia is widely regarded to be a bad thing and that we should avoid it.

  If both of our statements are true. The natural conclusion is that we should have a stateless society. I don’t think that a stateless society is a good thing. Therefore I’m trying to find a flaw in the argument. I think that the flaw is that you are wrong. So I have to have a conversation with you about why I think you are wrong.

  If you are wrong, it must mean one of these statements are wrong:

  • Putting citizens above non-citizens is xenophobic.
  • Putting citizens above non-citizens is a natural consequence of the state.
  • Xenophobia is widely regarded to be a bad thing and we should avoid it.

  Since 2/3 statements are made by me, of course I think they are true. So I’m going to argue about why the first one is wrong.

  The only way to proof your statement to be wrong is by first defining what xenophobia is. Which you might call a technicality, but I don’t think it’s possible to have a conversation if we don’t first agree what the meaning of the words we use is.

  After defining what xenophobia is, we have to figure out if the “equation” is true: “putting citizens above non-citizens” = “xenophobia”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It would require about 31 hectares of corn ethanol to produce the same amount of energy generate⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, cornfields consume resources other than solar energy. Like CO2. However the benefits of consuming CO2 goes away if you’re just gonna burn the corn, which releases CO2 again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chances for the fediverse? Elon Musk takes hit as Europeans ditch X in droves⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  The results of an action being done for a reason being discriminatory does not make the reason invalid.

  Almost any policy is discriminatory.

  Taxing the rich more is discriminatory against the rich. Helping women out is discriminatory against the men. Ending segregation is discriminatory against people that don’t want be near people different to them. The list is endless.

  I assume you agree with all 3 of those policies. Yet they are discriminatory. Those 3 policies are done because of very valid reasons.

  There are very few policies that I’d say are not desceiminatory. Like universal basic income or universal healthcare. And even then, by your definition of discriminatory, those would be discriminatory. Since they would still discriminate against non-citizens.

  There is no world where a person born in X country that has never left X country to receive income from a UBI policy of Y country. Unless X and Y countries have some sort of deal where that happens.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chances for the fediverse? Elon Musk takes hit as Europeans ditch X in droves⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Putting citizens over non-citizens is called being a government.

  Xenophobia is the irrational fear of foreign. And fear in this context usually shows up in the form of hate.

  Putting citizens first does not mean hating the rest. Being a citizen of a country means that your government should represent you and your interests. It’s only natural that it develops into benefits for citizens.

  Xenophobia on a person level is when you see a person that you think is not part of your same origin, do you cross the street, or attack him or whatever. Of course this is not even close to being an exhaustive list.

  Xenophobia on a country level is when you punish foreigners irrationally. Not letting foreigners into your country because you have a housing crisis is not irrational, it is a valid reason.

  I find it hard to find examples of country-level xenophobia. Even if the act itself may seem xenophobic, the government may want to gain popular support of their xenophobic population, which would be a reason and thus non-xenophonic.

  Of course, not being xenophobic does not mean it is good. For example Israel genociding Palestinians is horrible. But their reason is that having a neighbor that claims the same land as you do is problematic, and they figured if they just kill everyone the world will forget in 100-200 years (or less) while the land will be theirs for longer than that with no revels, since they genocided them. Of course, having a reason does not mean that it’s not many other bad things (in this case, genocidal, which is worse than xenophobic).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chrome is worth around $50 billion, DuckDuckGo CEO guesstimates⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  IMAP is an incredibly simple protocol compared to the sum of all the protocols that are needed to implement a web browser.

  A web browser also has to be way more performant.

  Both an IMAP client and a web browser have to be reliable and secure. However achieving so in a system as complex as a web browser is incredibly expensive.

  Web browsers are almost as complex as operating systems.

  Complexity, performance, reliability and security on that level are expensive. You would be delusional to think a web browser should be worth as much as an IMAP client.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where do I go if I want to find someone to help me make an app game?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  No. There is no way to learn programming without a programming language. That’s like trying to learn art without using any form of artistic expression. I’m not an artist or nowhere near it but I believe it’s an appropriate analogy.

  Just like art, you start by doing something, say drawing with a pencil. It is incredibly hard since you have to learn both how a pencil works and how to do art at the same time.

  Once you have practiced, you know how a pencil works, and must’ve learned something about how to do art.

  Now you take colored pencils and try to do art. It is difficult because you never did anything with color, but it’s easier than the pencil because you now have knowledge about art that you didn’t have before starting.

  Programming is the same. Usually you start with either a single programming language and try to acquire the basic knowledge about programming. And then you learn other languages, which takes a fraction of the time it took to learn the first one. Since programming concepts are very similar across most programming languages.

  Going back to your original question, assuming you want someone else to do the programming:

  1. It will not be cheap. So follow this route if you’re either willing to lose money, or willing to earn money with this app.

  2. Once you have the money, you find programmers like any other company. Post job openings and wait until you have applicants.

  3. You will not only need programmers. You will most likely also need art. Games are not a number-crunching program. They are art forms. If you want people to play your game, it must have artistic value. Without art, a videogame is no much different than an spreadsheet. You might find someone that both programs and does the art, but then probably it’s going to be expensive or won’t be of high quality.

  4. The game is not fully designed yet. Maybe the gameplay is, but there’s a lot of design that needs doing on the software side.

  5. I’m a software engineer. Not a business man nor a project manager. There’s probably many other big things I’ve missed.

  If instead you want to program it yourself, I have some advice.

  First of all, you should probably aim for a platform. Is it mobile or PC? If mobile, both IOS and android? Or only one of them? If PC, Linux, Windows or Mac? Your path will probably vary wildly depending on that.

  Being a good programmer takes years, but I’m going to assume you don’t want that. You just want to learn it for this project. Well, it’s still probably going to take years, just less of them.

  Whatever you choose in those questions. The starting point is the same. You gotta learn the basics. For that, unless you are developing from a Linux computer (and are somewhat experienced doing so), I would recommend you start with a language that is easy to set up and install. For that I would recommend either python, java. Another language I love and is easy to set up is rust, but it’s not beginner friendly at all.

  Python is a very beginner friendly language. There’s thousands of free learning courses online. And installing it is very easy. If on windows, the installer has a checkbox like “add to the PATH”, just make sure to check that, even if you don’t know what it is. After that, it’s as easy as making a file with a name ending in “.py” and you can just run the program with “python mygame.py”. Python is also a great tool for everyday life automating things related to computers.

  Java is less beginner friendly than python, but it has a very important feature called “static typing”. Static typing is very unergonomic and rigid when you are writing, but it prevents many mistakes that are very frustrating to fix. It also has many learning resources since it’s a very popular language. However most resources are older than python’s since java is way less popular than it used to be. Setting up your first java program is a bit trickier than python, but it’s not too hard.

  Once you choose the starting language (you can also try both! Or switch mid-learning if you don’t like your initial choice), you have to do some simpler projects than the one you want to do. There’s plenty of beginner project ideas online.

  Usually you start by implementing simple little usefull functions. For example string comparison. That is, having 2 strings of text: “mytext1” and “mytext2” you want to make a function that tells you if those are the same. Usually people reimplement functions from the standard library.

  After that, you learn making a data structure. For example a list. So that you start with an empty list “[]” and you add numbers to it: [0], [0, 1].

  Then you learn how classes work. How methods work. How global variables work.

  Once you have basic knowledge of that, you do one of those beginner projects.

  Then you learn how to use (and install) libraries.

  Then you probably will want to learn how threads, and mutexes work.

  Once you feel somewhat confident, you should try implementing your game on PC, without graphics, just the command line.

  After that. You move on to your selected platform (iOS, android, PC). You probably will want to use a game engine. That comes with an entirely new and different learning curve. I haven’t used any of those so I can’t help you with that.

  That game engine probably comes with its own programming language. Repeat the steps above with that new language until you feel confident.

  Then you will probably start with your project.

  You are still learning though. You will probably learn a lot with that project. So your work quality will probably be much larger at the end than at the start. You will probably be frustrated that the shit code you wrote at the start is hindering your progress. Don’t be afraid to start over the project from scratch again. It’s not from scratch. While doing it you probably developed a better design in your head, having that design will make writing the code the 2nd time much faster than the first time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gold hits $3,500 for first time as US dollar sinks to three-year low⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s what investing is about. You have money, and want to make more money from it. What will you do?

  Some people, like you, decide to invest it on producing a product, or invest on a company that produces products so they can produce more and give you a cut.

  Other people, prefer to store that value in another form. Say buying gold with your dollars.

  The thing is, that there’s no objective better option.

  Both options have risks and rewards. And the reward is very closely related to the risk. There’s no such thing as low risk high reward. In your example, a risk would be new lab technologies developing that would make your lab equipment obsolete, which means that you just lost a lot of money. But if you manage to sell that lab equipment, you’ll probably make good money.

  The thing about these news is: the reward of buying gold is decreasing (and risk increase). Why? Because its price is increasing, which means that if you buy gold today and sell it tomorrow, it’s likely that you’re gonna lose some money.

  The fact that people keep buying gold even though the risk increase and rewards decrease, means that other options have an even worse risk-reward ratio. This means that people are pessimistic about the economy.

  It’s not about one way of investing being better than the other. It’s about seeing people’s perception of the economy through their choice of investment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: You can block almost all cookie popups with Ublock Origin.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you don’t click on yes. You haven’t given your consent

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Leading AI models fail new test of artificial general intelligence⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ai companies will just train on these specific puzzles. Then they will claim their AI is AGI and the quality of the models will be the exact same or worse than before. They’ll just have one checkmark more in their marketing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After 50 million miles, Waymos crash a lot less than human drivers⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe the reason they crash less is because everyone around them have to be extremely careful with these cars. Just like in my country we put a big L on the rear of the car for first year drivers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Vs codium is a FOSS vs-code

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘If 1.5m Germans have them there must be something in it’: how balcony solar is taking off⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Until I read this comment I was 100% certain the post was about short Germans somehow preferring having their balconies occluded by taller-than-them solar panels.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fuck geometry⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This triangle is impossible.

  If the distance between B and C is 0, B and C are the same points. If that is the case, the distances between A and B and A and C must be the same.

  However, i ≠ 1.

  If you want it to be real (hehe) the triangle should be like this:

      C
      | \
  |i| |  \ 0
      |   \
      A---B
       |1|
  

  Drawing that on mobile was a pain.

  As the other guy said, you cannot have imaginary distances.

  Also, you can only use Pythagoras with triangles that have a 90° angle. Nothing in the meme says that there’s a 90° angle. As I see it, there are only 0° and 180° angles.

  Goodbye, I have to attend other memes to ruin.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US couple blocked from suing Uber after crash say daughter agreed to Uber Eats terms⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It should be illegal for companies with a legal budget over X€ to have illegal clauses on their terms and conditions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Couple tried to sell baby for a 6-pack of beer and $1,000 at campground, police say⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair abortion is not risk-free and side-effectless. It’s much preferable to encourage the use of contraceptives in those situations.