ShadowCatEXE

@ShadowCatEXE@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does the USA have so few legal protections for ordinary people, and how can we change that?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is why we have commas.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I will not be taking questions.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My cat has not once tried unraveling a toilet paper roll. He has stolen money before, but he steals shit, so that’s normal. But never toilet paper.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As a long-time user hearing YouTube wants to play ads when I pause a video⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I also HATE that if you miss the skip button on the first of multiple ads, they disable the skip button for another number of seconds.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cheesing it up⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s actually having to be used, since production of our sweet glory oil has been low.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bologna cup⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t forget to add a layer of mayonnaise in between the bologna.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm deaf⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We had a gym teacher that would allow us to play dodgeball with volleyballs… Probably the most painful but thrilling games of dodgeball I’ve played.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My pick is Rubberband Man by the Spinners.⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Plough the Shit - Ben Caplan

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What got you into coding ? (aside from money)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I was heavy into skateboarding as a kid, and I was interested in making some skateboarding media website with images and videos. I had initially began with wix, because I had no idea programming was a thing (I barely used technology, or even a phone). I messed around with it for a while, and then learned that I could make websites with just a simple html file… And the rest was history. Ended up getting into PHP, then game development with Java, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some of the best optimizations you applied to your code?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Staying on the SQL theme… The company I work for has a fairly old (~20 years) system. There’s a feature for users and site admins to export massive amounts of data, with the option to export data from when the system was first released. Purely CSV or XML data formats. On large datasets, the time for export would vary from 10-20+ hours, and would frequently timeout, forcing you to split exports into multiple timeframes and manually merging them into a single file. The solution? Indexes! Indexes were non-existent. After adding them, export times have dropped to ~10-15 minutes, which is a rather insane performance increase, especially since a single export is accepted per account at a time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i wanna have fun programming again⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, same here. I spend all day at a computer, last thing I want to do is spend more time at a computer. I’ve also spent more time working on my own vehicle’s, and just generally being outside more often.

  One thing that I do enjoy from time to time is graphics/game programming. Nothing really ever results from any of my projects, but it is something I enjoy, as i don’t do graphics programming at my job… It’s usually systems/web development, so the difference in the type of projects I choose to do as hobby programming has helped for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Military Time vs 24hr?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry, I meant 12hr is standard (agreeing with Nemo’s original comment).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Military Time vs 24hr?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s standard in Canada as well. I prefer 24hr personally. There were a couple times where I’ve napped in the evening, and woke up thinking I was late for work in the morning. Not fun. 24hr clock solves that. Plus it just makes more sense to me than 12hr clocks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What games have you been playing recently⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  …2 years ago, Rocket League. Last year, RL. This year, RL. Next year, RL… It never ends. Really the only game I never get bored of, and I have an embarrassingly amount of hours on it. Almost purely snowday.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which programming language is hard to understand?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The college I went to taught COBOL in 2 mainframe courses, and as far as I’m aware, they still do.

  It was either you like it, or you absolutely despise it. It wasn’t all the difficult, but it is very different than your standard java, C#, C++, etc, so the syntax really throws people off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨And now Bezos is trying to inserts ads everywhere⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The way I look at it, is I don’t pay to listen to the music, I pay for the convenience.

  Most music I listen to is on YouTube, where if I wanted to, I could just download it and “own” the song for free. However, in the interest of saving time, letting Spotify create playlists based on what I listen to, I just pay a monthly fee. Not to mention that I can share my playlists on multiple devices, whereas if I download music, I can’t.

  I also have a family plan with all spots filled up, so that’s 6 people listening to all their music for $20/mo CAD. Far superior to buying an album or individual songs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Rumor] Apple To Issue New Software Update For iPhone 12 To Bring Its Radiation Down To Acceptable Levels⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  We will issue a software update for users in France… So this applies to only devices sold in France? I’d love to know what changes to the software are being made to deal with radiation.