lengau
@lengau@midwest.social
- Comment on Forced E-Waste PCs And The Case Of Windows 11’s Trusted Platform 3 weeks ago:
I’m grateful to Microsoft for Windows 11 providing me a bunch of free machines to stick in my basement and put Linux on.
- Comment on Let's play this game again 4 weeks ago:
You will then think about how you’re supposed to be relaxing but aren’t, which will spike your anxiety.
- Comment on Let's play this game again 4 weeks ago:
Ohai fellow ADHD-haver!
- Comment on Let's play this game again 4 weeks ago:
Congrats! You have this superpower and I am jealous.
Unfortunately you can now only concentrate on things you are supposed to do. You try to watch TV and you can’t follow the show because you’re thinking about how you need to mop the floors. Want to read? You can’t concentrate because you really should wash your windows. Your life becomes a hell of boring productivity. You lose sleep thinking about all the things you’re supposed to do, including how you’re supposed to be asleep by now. There is no more pleasure in life. There are no more quiet moments. There is only stuff you are supposed to do.
- Comment on Common British L 4 weeks ago:
American food relies far too much on capsaicin for making things spicy. There are other spices too.
- Comment on Common British L 4 weeks ago:
Most “American” foods were brought by immigrants too.
- Comment on Common British L 4 weeks ago:
Honestly at this point if people want to try this I’m not gonna stop them.
- Comment on Speak American 4 weeks ago:
I saw a New York Times recipe once that called for ¾ cup plus 2 tablespoons of all purpose flour.
They meant 125g.
- Comment on Don't ask for more pixels 5 weeks ago:
Because they know by doing that they can both get engagement and someone else to find the best quality version for them.
- Comment on Apple adds red exclamation mark warnings on EU App Store listings for apps using third-party payment systems, not Apple's “private and secure payment system” 5 weeks ago:
My experience with Apple has been more like
- Comment on Apple adds red exclamation mark warnings on EU App Store listings for apps using third-party payment systems, not Apple's “private and secure payment system” 5 weeks ago:
I credit Apple in many ways for their choice to design their business in a way that their profit motive often aligns with their users’ interests.
Their app store model for iOS is one of the strongest examples of them not doing that though.
- Comment on EU fines Apple $568m for deterring third-party payment methods on App Store 1 month ago:
Yeah, Steam is pretty much a monopoly. But I haven’t seen what I’d call monopolistic practices from them. It’s just that everyone else appears to fall flat on their faces when trying to make a competing product.
- Comment on EU fines Apple $568m for deterring third-party payment methods on App Store 1 month ago:
I’m less mad at Steam and Google because there are clear, simple ways to avoid their cuts.
I have no basis to say whether they’re providing a service worth the 30% charge. I’m also less mad at Steam than at Google because they’re being less shady about trying to push people into their store too.
- Comment on Based tesla user??? 1 month ago:
Anyone in tech who followed the rise of paypal
- Comment on Based tesla user??? 1 month ago:
He was always this bad and I’ve been warning people about him for a decade or more. That’s the point - own the fact that you were ignorant rather than pretending this was some sort of change in him.
- Comment on Based tesla user??? 2 months ago:
Honestly I view Teslas with these sorts of stickers as even worse than not having them, because Musk was always this bad.
An “I didn’t know and now I regret it” sticker would garner much more sympathy from me.
- Comment on Do it 2 months ago:
Blown by the Wind in my Ass
- Comment on Python Performance: Why 'if not list' is 2x Faster Than Using len() 2 months ago:
I think a better analogy would be that you’re tuning your bike for better performance because the trade-offs of switching to a car are worse than keeping the bike.
- Comment on Python Performance: Why 'if not list' is 2x Faster Than Using len() 2 months ago:
It’s all about trade-offs. Here are a few reasons why one might care about performance in their Python code:
- Performance is often more tied to the code than to the interpreter - an O(n³) algorithm in blazing fast C won’t necessarily perform any better than an O(nlogn) algorithm in Python.
- Just because this particular Python code isn’t particularly performance constrained doesn’t mean you’re okay with it taking twice as long.
- Rewriting a large code base can be very expensive and error-prone. Converting small, very performance-sensitive parts of the code to a compiled language while keeping the bulk of the business logic in Python is often a much better value proposition.
These are also performance benefits one can get essentially for free with linter rules.
Anecdotally: in my final year of university I took a computational physics class. Many of my classmates wrote their simulations in C or C++. I would rotate between Matlab, Octave and Python. During one of our labs where we wrote particle simulations, I wrote and ran Octave and Python simulations in the time it took my classmates to write their C/C++ versions, and the two fastest simulations in the class were my Octave and Python ones, respectively. (The professor’s own sim came in third place). The overhead my classmates had dealing with poorly optimised code that caused constant cache misses was far greater than the interpreter overhead in my code (though at the time I don’t think I could have explained why their code was so slow compared to mine).
- Comment on Dont worry about your retirement plan... 2 months ago:
Well in that case may e he can find religion? amp.cnn.com/…/south-african-insecticide-prophet
- Comment on Framework temporarily pausing some laptop sales in the US due to tariffs 2 months ago:
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 2 months ago:
No that feature is only planned for TPM v3
- Comment on - Buy Once Software 2 months ago:
I use almost exclusively FOSS and I have monthly/annual contributions set up for various projects.
- Comment on OpenWrt Two will be a higher-performance router with 10 Gigabit LAN and WiFi 7 support - Liliputing 2 months ago:
This takes me back to my childhood… My dad would take me to the fair and get me a deep fried router on a stick and a roll of cat5.
- Comment on Be careful what you name your kids 2 months ago:
I would say this is fake and low quality, but the picture does say the Daily Sun so I can only be sure that it’s low quality.
- Comment on Fascinating and efficient new lamp design 2 months ago:
The design is very human
- Comment on Rocky rock rocking 2 months ago:
No
- Comment on Rocky rock rocking 2 months ago:
Looks more like a stone to me.
- Comment on Digg is about to be rebooted. Thoughts? 3 months ago:
Not really the same thing though, since Trump’s thingy wasn’t one of the things that popularised that type of site.
- Comment on Digg is about to be rebooted. Thoughts? 3 months ago:
It would be hilarious to see Digg restart as a Lemmy instance.
