whotookkarl
@whotookkarl@lemmy.world
you’re high on mushrooms in the Viking age, the gods are everywhere
- Comment on FBI Wants Access To Encrypted iPhone And Android Data—So Does Europe 1 day ago:
It’s not a back door, it’s just a rear entryway
- Comment on Java at 30: How a language designed for a failed gadget became a global powerhouse 3 days ago:
It’s been interesting seeing the changes as they happened over time working with java pretty often for a good chunk of that time. The jvm and jit performance improvements, syntax changes and additional jep features added vs what was left out, tools for running and managing jvms, Sun & Oracle shooting themselves in the foot repeatedly, new jvm languages with scala, groovy, clojure, etc and their impact on java. I prefer other languages and tool chains for some cases, but java has been pretty good for building reliable, upgradable, extendable systems that get the job done & have a good large stable library.
- Comment on We're deep into the baggy era mate 1 week ago:
It gets weird in the gaps; kilts, parachute pants, togas
- Comment on On trees... 1 week ago:
Not to be confused with Dryococelus aka the “tree lobster”
- Comment on Low quality cropping will officially launch on Lemmy in 2025 1 week ago:
Second hand coffins, cheap!
- Comment on Catchiest video game song? 1 week ago:
Easy answer for me, chemical plant zone from Sonic the hedgehog 2
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 dev calls Randy Pitchford's $80 Borderlands 4 comments "gross" because it implies the FPS is more important than "making it day to day" 1 week ago:
Greasy Randy isn’t exactly known for being not gross prior to the comment either
- Comment on 7 for me 2 weeks ago:
5/10 are Donald Duck, 15 is Daisy Duck
- Comment on What techniques do bad faith users use online to overwhelm other users in online discussion and arguments? 2 weeks ago:
Strawmanning because they won’t or can’t understand your argument, mistaking the map for the place usually because of equivocating on vaguely understood or multiple definitions, non-sequetor this is where someone just yaps for awhile based on the crap that falls out of their head based on the words they heard but didn’t get the point and is barely tracking
- Comment on WARNING! 2 weeks ago:
A ghost who is also a dick
- Comment on How is nobody talking about the fact that The Simpsons Arcade Game got home ports to DOS and Commodore 64 but not NES, SNES or Genesis -- and didn't arrive on console until Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3? 2 weeks ago:
The story just broke on corporate news networks, I heard the president of video games is going to make an address
- Comment on Cloudflare CEO warns AI and zero-click internet are killing the web's business model 2 weeks ago:
I’m not buying whatever a billionaire nepo baby CEO monopoly owner is pedaling. Let’s hear what some labor leaders have to say about it for a change.
- Comment on i broke 3 weeks ago:
Right, kick ass. Well, don’t want to sound like a dick or nothin’, but, ah… it says on your chart that you’re fucked up.
- Comment on I installed Linux on this 8-inch mini laptop, and it's my new favorite way of computing 3 weeks ago:
Same had a little acer mini laptop in early 2000s I used it for notes, office apps, etc during college and between the battery life and how much more portable it was than the giant laptop I had at the time it was great, it ran BSD without any fuss too.
- Comment on A person born in 2015 is 20 years old 3 weeks ago:
A person born in 467953 is -465928 years old
- Comment on What is your favorite indie game? 4 weeks ago:
Monster sanctuary (turn based monster collector) and Roboquest (arena shooter) were a couple from recent years that stood out to me
For older games nethack and dwarf fortress are great if you can look past the graphics
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
It’s more run away/chain reaction type events you want to avoid I think rather than a low % inflation or deflation that remains relatively stable, swing too far in either direction and you going to have problems.
- Comment on Looking for a local co-op game to play with my SO (Steam Deck) 4 weeks ago:
A bunch of retro games have good couch co-op support & the steam deck can emulate pretty much all of them
Zombie ate my neighbors, smash TV, 2-d brawlers like TMNT turtles in time, double dragon, and streets of rage, Goldeneye, toejam and Earl, bubble bubble
- Comment on Microsoft CEO says up to 30% of the company's code was written by AI | TechCrunch 4 weeks ago:
Code written by software doesn’t mean AI unless you ignore compilers
Executives lie to boost profits and justify their decisions, I doubt MS execs even know how much of their code is AI generated just like the ad sales company exec they were talking to in the article
- Comment on You never forget your first 4 weeks ago:
In all it’s shades on green 💚
- Comment on What OS should I use for self-hosting that doesn't require extensive terminal knowledge? 4 weeks ago:
The command line is an exceptionally useful tool, you may want to spend a little time getting familiar with it and common command line tools that would probably make self hosting almost anything easier.
It’s like wanting to learn to play guitar but not learning how to restring and tune it, sure it’s not necessary but you’re going to be overly dependent on others to do something you could learn for yourself with a little time and patience, and it will probably broaden your perspective on what you can do once you do get familiar with how to pipe commands together and combine basic tools into something more sophisticated and complex.
- Comment on What would this list look like for your generation? 5 weeks ago:
Ligma Balls, cousin to Seymour Butts and Hugh Jass
- Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed? 5 weeks ago:
I think they mean forward wrt the direction the sun is moving, like this:
- Comment on I LOVE POTATO SALAD 5 weeks ago:
The Waldorf salad rises from the depths of its ancient dimension of cosmic horrors
- Comment on In a Boon for Tesla, Feds Weaken Rules for Reporting on Self-Driving 5 weeks ago:
We hide from the robots during the rain and snow, because they can’t see where they have to go
- Comment on I'm bored and desperately search for a proper game 5 weeks ago:
I’ll go with some classics if you haven’t tried them yet. Planescape: torment is a really engaging crpg if you don’t mind old graphics and dig lots of lore and dialogue. Morrowind if you prefer first person for another old school rpg with lots of stuff to discover in a weird surreal environment. Dwarf fortress sounds like another older one you might be into too.
- Comment on Here the fuck we go again 1 month ago:
I’m fairly sure Bethesda released Skyrim, Oblivion, and Morrowind with officially supported mod toolkits shipping on day one. The reason their games have official mod tools is to make it much easier to work with which leads to the huge number of mods in their games compared to other games, and contributes to the longevity of their games.
- Comment on The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall Unity Review 1 month ago:
You could try the original version, they released it for free and the pixelation may help make it feel less disorienting. Or when I used to play some games on the psvr I’d have a ginger ale or something with ginger in it to help with any disorientation nausea.
- Comment on DoubleFine Celebrates 20 Year Anniversary of Psychonauts 1 month ago:
Good game and the sequel was solid too, worth a playthrough to meet the milk man and explore the meat circus
- Comment on Infinite Monkey Theorem 1 month ago:
Yeah I think the recentness of formalizing infinities into math with Newton’s and Leibnez’s calculus (infinite series, limits approaching infinity) in the 1600s and Cantor’s sets (cardinality of infinite sets) in the late 1800s speaks to the difficulty of even conceptualizing the problems they introduce and the rigor needed to handle them
