MolecularCactus1324
@MolecularCactus1324@lemmy.world
- Comment on Java at 30: How a language designed for a failed gadget became a global powerhouse 2 days ago:
C++ has classes though and if you start with C and then try to go to other Object-oriented languages then you’ll be a little lost. But, by learning C++ first, you’re pretty much learning C at the same time, you just need to avoid using classes.
- Comment on Java at 30: How a language designed for a failed gadget became a global powerhouse 3 days ago:
I learned C++ as my first language and it was a great way to understand the core issues of a programming language — like memory allocation, memory freeing, and the difference between memory addresses and the memory contents themselves. Java obscures these nuances to a degree, but Python is too friendly and makes it hard to understand them.
I believe if you learn C++ you can easily learn any other language. After C++, I learned Python, JavaScript, and Java in a few days each without formal instruction. If you learn Python first, you’re probably going to struggle learning those other languages because you haven’t grasped the lower level concepts yet and may never if you’re not in a formal setting that forced you to learn them.
No one disagrees that Python is easier, but if your goal is to get a foundation in programming that allows you to easily pick up other languages, you should start with C++.
- Comment on Xitter Pause Encrypted DMs. 4 days ago:
I thought they disabled DMs when some influencer refused to have Elon Musk’s babies and shared her DMs with a friend
- Comment on Meta and Palmer Luckey's Anduril Industries partner to build EagleEye, a new AI-powered weapons system, including rugged helmets, glasses, and other wearables 5 days ago:
Palmer Luckey is one of the ugliest mother fuckers I’ve ever seen in my life.
- Comment on Former Meta exec says asking for artist permission will kill AI industry 1 week ago:
If the AI industry doesn’t ask artists for permission, then the art industry will die.
- Comment on The New York Times stands by article mentioning Chinese women small fingers. The paper says Apple engineers privately talked about this 1 week ago:
My social studies teacher cited this 20 years ago as a major reason electronics manufacturing was done primarily in China and other Asian countries.
- Comment on DOOM: The Dark Ages Has Reportedly Sold Less Than 1 Million Copies 1 week ago:
Same
- Comment on This graph but with fediverse apps? 1 week ago:
Pretty sure TikTok and instagram users have main character syndrome
- Comment on Trump says a 25% tariff "must be paid by Apple" on iPhones not made in the US, says he told Tim Cook long ago that iPhones sold in the US must be made in the US 1 week ago:
You can know the impact of what the tariffs would be by looking at Purism. They sell a Linux phone for $800. If you want the same phone built in the US, they charge $2000.
- Comment on Digg founder Kevin Rose offers to buy Pocket from Mozilla 1 week ago:
Yeah he was on Screen Savers with Sarah Lane (who he dated) and then Alex Albrecht. TechTV was bought by G4 and Screen Savers became Attack of the Show. While at TechTV, he started digg and actually advertised it on the Screen Savers, without clarifying that he was the owner. Later, G4 fired all the Tech TV staff, so Kevin worked on digg full time. He went on to start diggnation podcast with Alex Albrecht — which they’ve recently brought back. As many know, when digg v4 launched, it was widely rejected, and the site lost its user base to Reddit.
- Comment on Digg founder Kevin Rose offers to buy Pocket from Mozilla 1 week ago:
Did they actually say that?
- Comment on Spotify caught hosting hundreds of fake podcasts that advertise selling drugs 2 weeks ago:
I need to go back to this, never should’ve given it up honestly.
- Comment on Spotify caught hosting hundreds of fake podcasts that advertise selling drugs 2 weeks ago:
The recommendations are hard to beat, but I hate how these moderns treating platforms make you a passive listener. My most enjoyable music listening days were when I actively managed my music collection.
- Comment on Doom the dark ages... 2 weeks ago:
I feel the same. The atmosphere is decidedly less doom-like in my view and I’m a little skeptical of these new gameplay mechanics. Riding flying dragons? I’m also not a fan of the way Marty Stratton handled the situation with Mick Gordon. I bought Doom 2016 and Doom Eternal on launch. I will not buy this game until it is bargain bin prices.
- Comment on A family of 5 downsized to a one-bedroom apartment to escape feeling 'house poor.' Saving money hasn't been the only benefit. 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, mortgage involves risks that renting does not. Rent includes compensation for the risk spread out over time.
- Comment on A family of 5 downsized to a one-bedroom apartment to escape feeling 'house poor.' Saving money hasn't been the only benefit. 2 weeks ago:
Sort of. Rent actually should some times be more than mortgages, but only for comparable property types. I agree that renting a 1BR apartment should not be more than renting a 3 BR house. But, renting a 3BR house should be more than having a mortgage on a 3BR house.
- Comment on ‘My Property Tax Went From $15K to a Life-Altering $91K a Year’ 2 weeks ago:
That sucks, but I also think the era of the single family home is ending. No regular person can afford these home prices. Even if you can afford a one time renovation on your $650,000/year house does not mean you can afford a $90,000/year tax bill. Single family home values have gone off the charts and regular people cannot afford them. We need to increase housing supply.
- Comment on Nearly 5 years in, PS5 sales remain neck-and-neck with PS4 | VGC 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, the hardest thing is really going to be GTA6. The reason I bought a PS4 was GTA5. Needing to wait 2 years to play GTA6 on PC will be a tough thing to swing.
- Comment on Nearly 5 years in, PS5 sales remain neck-and-neck with PS4 | VGC 2 weeks ago:
This is true for me. I did not buy a ps5, but instead a PC. There are no games on ps5 that I want to play that I cannot play on PC.
- Comment on Why is coal and fossil fuels still used? 3 weeks ago:
They is used because of ignorance
- Comment on GOP sneaks decade-long AI regulation ban into spending bill - Ars Technica 3 weeks ago:
The US is a fucking joke. Completely captured by corporate greed. It’s not a democracy and hasn’t been for a long time.
- Comment on YSK if you have a library card or are a student, there's a free streaming service called Kanopy 3 weeks ago:
Had it a few years ago, and they do have some good content, but it didn’t seem like it got refreshed very often. Definitely, some Oscar nominees in there though.
- Comment on Half Life 3 4 weeks ago:
HL3 needs to advance the Half-Life story. Alyx advanced the story about 2 minutes from HL2 because it was a side-story.
- Comment on Report: Apple CEO “cares about nothing else” Than Building Breakout AR Glasses Before Meta 5 weeks ago:
🙄 not even worth responding to this.
- Comment on Report: Apple CEO “cares about nothing else” Than Building Breakout AR Glasses Before Meta 5 weeks ago:
I’m not playing fanboy, I’m just not jumping to conclusions and making shit up to serve my political views. Your article is still just speculation. And, rather than being about mass surveillance, it’s about flying aircraft with VR headsets.
- Comment on Report: Apple CEO “cares about nothing else” Than Building Breakout AR Glasses Before Meta 5 weeks ago:
You’re being intentionally obtuse to make a political point. I don’t agree with corporations making large political donations, but name one military contract that Apple holds that involves tracking users.
- Comment on Report: Apple CEO “cares about nothing else” Than Building Breakout AR Glasses Before Meta 5 weeks ago:
Apple doesn’t do that though. That’s Google, Amazon, and Meta’s MO.
- Comment on The Brits had an anthem ready for when Margaret Thatcher died. Americans should also be prepared. 5 weeks ago:
Ding dong Donny’s dead
- Comment on How do I make Lemmy feel less dead? 1 month ago:
Follow lots of communities
- Comment on Will the tariffs lead to a recession? 1 month ago:
They gave him emergency tariff powers. Idiots.