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- Comment on Microsoft now pops up a poll asking why you'd want to use another browser when you download Chrome 1 year ago:
Yes, at this point the choice is who gets to spy on you.
- Comment on Does anyone drink instant coffee anymore? 1 year ago:
I do when I’m in a hurry. It’s not as good as the real one but gets the job done when I really need it.
- Comment on Why does some social media platforms calls it an "account suspension" but others calls it a ban or something else? 1 year ago:
A ban usually means that the account is closed forever, while a suspension is temporary.
But even if it’s not, brands like to distinguish themselves by using different lingo to their competitors. For example, even though Lemmy
is a Reddit cloneis heavily inspired by Reddit, they use different words like community instead of sublemmy. - Comment on Youtube ads finally got me 1 year ago:
That’s really expensive, I pay around €7 for the family plan and I live in the EU.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
It’s also ok to support neither or to say it’s too complicated to pick a side.
- Comment on Programming Languages as Essays 1 year ago:
JavaScript: i know it was easy to write it like this but you should index your citations next time
Typescript: I meant properly, not on your scratch sheet
- Comment on Bike Riders of lemmy, you okay with me riding my eScooter in the bike lane? 1 year ago:
It doesn’t bother me unless you go super slow, which is rare.
- Comment on Which programming language is hard to understand? 1 year ago:
Depends on what you already know.
Functional languages like Haskell, Clojure or Erlang have a reputation of being hard to grasp.
Rust’s borrow mechanics are hard for some people at first, especially because it’s very unique to the language.
Javascript can be frustrating because it also has some rare features among popular languages, and uses the same keywords for different concepts. It’s not bad at all once you let go of your assumptions and dedicate the time to understand how it works under the hood.
C++ is also notorious for being hard but I haven’t used it for a very long time so I can’t say anything about it.
- Comment on What is your favorite programming language? 1 year ago:
Probably Typescript, it has so many quality of life features that I miss when I’m using anything else. A close second is C#.
Rust when performance really matters.
PowerShell when scripting and automating stuff. It’s common to hate it because “microsoft bad” but it’s very logical and it feels modern. Funnily enough, I’ve only used it on Mac and Linux.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
She’ll never get my vote, she killed Sotha Sil
- Comment on How do I get informed on Joe Rogan without watching his videos. 1 year ago:
So many assumptions based on so little information.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Notable Thief Rule could be Grand Theft Auto?
Notable - grand and thief - theft make sense, I don’t know what to think about rule - auto, tho.
- Comment on What's the difference between asking someone title or someone's pronouns ? 1 year ago:
I’m not an expert on American politics but my impression is that there are a bunch of people with conservative attitudes towards change, and politicians know exactly how to play them.
They get riled up with the proper slogans and become what you have described. I’m not saying they are innocent victims here, they definitely should know better and everything they do is on them, but I still think this is mostly what’s going on.
- Comment on What's the difference between asking someone title or someone's pronouns ? 1 year ago:
It’s not really about that, sometimes conservatives also agree that a change is needed but they disagree on how to get there.
They see the current state as something that was built up naturally over a long period of time and everything has its place for a reason. Sometimes those reasons are not apparent immediately and making a sudden change will bite us in the long run in an unexpected way, maybe 100 years down the road.
They might agree that the status quo is bad but they think change should come gradually in small steps, allowing things to settle down a bit, and reflect on the consequences before moving forward. They might say that at least we understand the situation and the rules of what we have now, we shouldn’t stray too far ahead into the unknown.
For example, imagine that you live in a country under foreign rule. Should you start a war of independence and risk getting crushed or should you try to force concessions gradually over time and risk not getting anywhere? This is roughly the debate that took place in my home country in the 1800s.
While it’s true that the extremes are that conservatives want time to stay still while progressives want to burn the world down and reform everything in a single day, but most of the time people are somewhere in between, or even change their positions depending on the issue.
- Comment on What's the difference between asking someone title or someone's pronouns ? 1 year ago:
Conservatives (with a lowercase ‘c’) prefer a series of small incremental changes over a longer period of time while progressives believe in big leaps. Both are valid viewpoints depending on the issue, sometimes we should take things slowly but other times we needed that change yesterday.
Asking titles has been around for a long time so conservatives are ok with it. It also conforms to their existing ideas about gender and roles in society.
Asking for pronouns is a relatively new thing and the whole debate around them is a big and sudden change (at least as far as they see), and it turns everything they believed in on its head.
Of course, there are people who are just plain hateful but I think there’s more nuance to it than that most of the time.
- Comment on Is there a labour-friendly car company? 1 year ago:
It’s worth noting that a huge part of their manufacturing takes place outside of Germany where salaries are way lower and regulations aren’t as strict.
- Comment on Big projects are ditching TypeScript… wtf? - The Code Report 1 year ago:
I wonder how Svelte’s code is built to make this tradeoff worth it. I’ve been using TS for a long time and in every project the compilation part was the shortest task in the whole build process, especially when you compare it with bundling or running unit tests.
- Comment on Big projects are ditching TypeScript… wtf? - The Code Report 1 year ago:
The title makes it seem like it’s a wide spread thing in the industry but according to the video it’s 3 frameworks.
Yeah, it’s additional work but I’ve found that really convoluted or complex type definitions usually mean you should consider refactoring. Of course this is a bit different when it comes to developing frameworks where you might want to support a bunch of different use cases.
Maybe I’m biased because I’ve been using TS ever since it first came out.
- Comment on Are straws an unnecessary (but convenient) invention? 1 year ago:
The problem is not straws but the single use, non recyclable plastic ones. They’re a convenience and not a necessity. Same goes for cutlery, plates, cups, bags, wrappings etc.
There are alternatives like durable plastic ones that you can reuse, metal or paper if you want single use straws.
- Comment on How does someone with no experience learn to make food? 1 year ago:
The search field uses javascript
- Comment on How does someone with no experience learn to make food? 1 year ago:
There are many youtube channels that aim at beginners. Find recipes there that are easy (no advanced techniques required) and require few ingredients that are easy to prepare.
The advantage of youtube is that you actually see how the food is made, how it should look, how much salt “to taste” means etc.
Stay away from short videos with titles like “most delicious meal with only 5 ingredients, I make this every week”. They’re mostly made to farm views and don’t actually teach the basics. Not to mention they’re mostly unhealthy.
Look for stews, soups, casseroles and oven cooked meat. They’re the easiest to make in my opinion, you prepare everything and wait until it’s done, maybe you stir every 10-15 minutes. Eastern European recipes are generally easy to make, cheap and taste very good. Simple Italian pastas are also great for the same reason.
Pay attention to the heat level, wash your ingredients, follow the instructions to the letter for the first several recipes and don’t worry if your first few meals are too salty/spicy or tastes bland. Take it as a learning experience, you’ll do better next time.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
I drink carbonated water almost exclusively, it’s the same water, just with some carbon dioxide to make it sparkle.
It has no downsides afaik, it’s a bit more acidy but not as much as sodas, and it might make you burp, but that’s it.
- Comment on That'll be my last word 1 year ago:
It’s 231231 where I live
- Comment on Is the blockchain an interesting innovation, aside from cryptocurrencies ? 1 year ago:
I find it to be an interesting solution looking for a problem. There could be many applications but I’ve yet to see one that blockchain could solve better than anything else that we already have, outside of crypto currencies.
Web3 is an interesting though experiment but I don’t see how it would work in real life. It would be extremely slow, data loss would be a daily occurrence and it would be a privacy/security nightmare.
- Comment on My logics are strong 1 year ago:
X-Men are secred confederate agents confirmed
- Comment on Do people just not use the YouTube subscription feed? 1 year ago:
Same. My subscription feed is a curated list of creators whose videos I look forward to and probably watch on release. If I notice that I consistently don’t watch the new videos anymore I unsub.
I thought everyone used YT like this.
- Comment on The Fall of Stack Overflow 1 year ago:
I was working on a hobby project where I used a niche framework in a somewhat uncommon way. I was stuck on a concept that I think the documentation didn’t explain well enough, at least for me, and I couldn’t find any resource on it aside from the docs.
I asked Bing to write a piece of code that does what I wanted and explain each line. It was perfectly working and the explanation was also understandable. All it did was search for its official documentation. It really blew my mind.
- Comment on Why is there such a large amount of communist and transgender related posts on the Fediverse compared to other websites? 1 year ago:
The way I understand from what I’ve seen and read is that these are mostly people who were banned, shunned or chased away from other platforms. While Reddit can ban you, you can just spin up an instance of Lemmy, Mastodon or whatever yourself and play by your own rules.
Interestingly, on Reddit there were tons of trans related posts and comments, but what I see here (and other fedi platforms) is trans people posting whatever interests them, and not about being trans. It’s like they can just be themselves without people constantly talking about or questioning their identity.
- Comment on Why did Zuck green screen himself outside in a back yard? 1 year ago:
“So in order to solve the dependeny issue, I think we should contact the…OMG those readings suggest an artificial quantum singularity, it must be a cloaked D’deridex-class Romulan warbird!! Red alert!”
- Comment on Miiiiiiiiiiiiiist 1 year ago:
Should I play System Shock 1 to fully enjoy 2?