infinitesunrise

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨proportional reaction⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  OK true, technically speaking it is indeed more readable, I guess I really meant that it takes far longer to read. I do admire Lua’s barebones simplicity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨proportional reaction⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh god yea, replicating switch functionality with a huge column of elifs is so gross.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who plays like that x_x⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair my IRL best friend is one of you inverted Y monsters. Monsters are people, too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨proportional reaction⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  For real though I actually find them incredibly useful for creating clean and readable code. I wish Lua 5.1 had a ternary syntax.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who plays like that x_x⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Some people visualize their Y rotation “lever” as in front of the fulcrum of their neck, and some people visualize it as behind. Thus some people find an inverted Y axis to be intuitive, while others don’t. At least, this is how the reason for the preference has been explained to me.

  I still think all you inverted Y axis people are monsters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A PSA with spooky season rapidly approaching⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Holy shit I’ve met this Sherman. He lives outside of an armory building in Vancouver BC.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Like a heart⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It looks like a cast of a uterus made of coagulated blood cause that’s literally what it is. :P

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientific unprogress...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Though overused; medication that effectively combats eating disorders.

  I’d argue underused / inappropriately prescribed by social class. There are millions who could benefit from them who have poor access, while if you have money the Rx just gets thrown readily at your feet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Like a heart⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I know you’re joking but “solid menstruation” can actually happen and it’s called a decidual cast and it’s some brutal metal shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good news. :)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Teach me how to dougie

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thank G*d I grew up in the 90s. Everything is woke now. Smh my head⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Is calling mid-2000s stuff “90s” the new meta?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just a little bit more⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Me, a road cyclist: “I don’t see what the problem is. Why not 110?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3135: Sea Level⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Huh. TIL that there are three common types of tidal cycles and which one you get depends on geography, location, ocean currents. https://beltoforion.de/en/tides/tidal_cycles.php

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because it’s not actually about age verification, it’s about totalizing surveillance of everyone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨bet you can think of more⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Always be mean to cops.

  If you’re dating someone and they’re not mean to cops, dump their ass.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Make it make sense ⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah they could probably stand to lose the more southern of the two ramp sets at Delta Park, feels very extra and overall unhelpful. Of course ODOT’s solution, beyond replacing the bridge, is to widen I-5 south of the bridge - Which anyone with a brain and 50 years of highway traffic studies can tell us would directly contribute to worsening the problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Make it make sense ⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This driver is distinct from that driver. We definitely have those too, and they have my sympathies. But this driver is the one who just thinks to themself that it would be nice to go slow for a while, on a lark. Or they don’t think at all and in that brief 15 seconds of brain death their nerves stop sending signals to their foot to press the gas.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Make it make sense ⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s usually a complex crowd effect created by many participants trying to maneuver among each other in slightly disperate ways.

  In Portland OR, it really is because some dingbat slowed down to 20 MPH on the interstate for literally no fucking reason at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotifies come and Spotifies go, but that folder of badly-sorted MP3s will still be there in the 2050s.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To this day nearly a third of my Jellyfin library is stuff I downloaded through ourTunes over the dorm LAN in 2004/2005.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK Official Calls for Age Verification on VPNs to Prevent Porn Loophole⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Insert tasteless parody of the “First They Came” poem

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When you realize your laptop hasn't been plugged in for the last 4 hours you've been working...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The book is even better than the movie, don’t rob yourself of a great time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Redditor advises people in DC hide Air Tags in their clothes to help family identify them if they go missing.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Literally a few days after Tim Apple gifts Trump a golden sculpture?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone else guilty of this?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry, I thought you were the kind of person who could handle a little casual disagreement. I don’t mind that you think security was the primary purpose of phone OS app land, but everything I’ve watched phone companies do over the past 20 years demonstrates to me that a desire for control was the main intent. You don’t have to agree.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone else guilty of this?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The app store and permission model hasn’t stopped malicious code from making it onto users devices. So if security was the concern, I’d say that’s a failure. But I think the primary concern was control. Control by manufacturers (And eventually, thereby states) of what people see and do on their phone. Make sure they have to pay for access to features. Easily surveil what they do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone else guilty of this?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If it was primarily done for security then it was a massive fucking failure. But I maintain that security was merely a secondary concern.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone else guilty of this?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re in a virtualized container that only exposes some directories, also those directories are mostly hidden from you, also within this container you generally don’t have any permissions to them, and also every application completely obfuscates it’s folder access via some file access API.

  It’s crazy to me how hard consumers got fucked right from the start on phone software and how normalized we are to it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone else guilty of this?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Never discount the sheer volume of text and dialog contained in the average mid-90s JRPG!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone else guilty of this?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Being really good at guitar hero was the final motivating push I needed to actually learn real guitar. Today I enjoy being a consistently mediocre casual guitarist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Experiencing one of NY's fine luxuries⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Saint Vitus is one of the top things I miss since leaving.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Experiencing one of NY's fine luxuries⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Back in the day on the very rare occasion that I had a 7 or G train car all to myself, I’d belt out the loudest operatic singing voice I could manage. There’s nowhere on Earth more isolated than an empty NYC subway car, gotta seize that opportunity.