darkpanda

@darkpanda@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨America's Next Health Secretary Enjoying A Meal With His Future Boss and Colleagues⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah it’s probably legit. Trump is famous for eating like trash. His usual order is reported to be two Big Macs and a Filet-o-fish, but I only see one Big Mac on his tray so maybe he’s on a diet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Castlevania Anniversary Collection free on Epic Games through 2024-11-21⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d like a counter of how many people have quit after not knowing where to go when you had to kneel in that one specific place for that specific amount of time to have a tornado come and take you whatever place it was.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨And 299999999 is divisible by 13⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s also the classic “no three positive integers a, b, and c to satisfy a**n + b**n = c**n for values of n greater than 2“ trick but my proof is to large to fit in this comment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨And 299999999 is divisible by 13⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If all of the digits summed recursively reduce to a 9, then the number is divisible by 9 and also by 3.

  If the difference between the sums of alternating sets digits in a number is divisible by 11, then the number itself is divisible by 11.

  That’s all I can remember, but yay for math right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Support local bands⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Or “Wagpn Wheel”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Support local bands⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  DENIED

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Support local bands⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t forget to yell out “Free Bird” you clever bastards.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vinegar⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, basically. You get the same flavour but in a powdered form. Imagine opening a bag of chips and getting a soggy mess of liquid vinegar. It would be chaos. Its probably cheaper too, but I don’t know shit about chip manufacturing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vinegar⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately most chip companies don’t actually use salt and vinegar directly, they use sodium diacetate and sodium acetate which when combined produce the salt and vinegar flavouring we know.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Gamble: What will be the plot of *Lower Decks*'s Finale?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Riker and Troi learn a life lesson and the exit the holodeck.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Toilet specific plungers get the job done faster and with way less effort and mess.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Which raises the question of what the difference is between the sink poop knife and the toilet poop knife?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hideo 1⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty much.

  youtu.be/YlGCL8OvYr4?si=G8jj30iyB1G4QYpf

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bravo, Ridley⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They say he’s out standing in his field.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google layoffs: Sundar Pichai-led company fires entire Python team for ‘cheaper labour’⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just for the sake of comparison, Alphabet had $308 billion in revenue and $74 billion in profit in 2023 if I’m reading the numbers correctly. But they need cheaper labour.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Antybooties⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you woke up with stilts on one day wouldn’t you be confused? Seems self-evident that ants would be too. Like, “I don’t remember going to bed with stilts on, wtf man, what was I on last night?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Winning the Silver Cup on Mario Kart 64 as Luigi⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Shake and bake in full effect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Boston Dynamics introduces a fully electric humanoid robot that “exceeds human performance”⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Who’s ready to fly on a zipline?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Getting old sucks⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Holds up spork.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I used to be with it, then they changed what "it" is⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  www.youtube.com/watch?v=KF2X1o0FGA0

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SpaceX is reportedly building a $1.8 billion network of spy satellites for US intelligence⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In the recent Musk biography it was said that at some point after a meeting with NASA he changed his laptop password to “ilovenasa” so you’re not far off in terms of terrible password security if the story is accurate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Akira Toriyama, the Creator of Dragon Ball, Dead at 68⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was never into Dragon Ball but Chrono Trigger and Dragon Quest were my jams. Will have to play DQXI over my vacation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rate my Tinder profile⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why do you think he’s so insistent on proper use of lotions?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chronology⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s just ridiculous, goofy, supercilious, absurd, laughable, comical, ludicrous, chucklesome, and risible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whitespace⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The code in the image is C or C++ or similar. In those languages and languages derived from them, curly braces are optional but the parentheses are required. It should be the other way around to avoid logic errors like this:

  if (some expression)
    doSomething()
  else if (some other expression)
    printf(“some debugging code that’s only here temporarily”);
    doSomethingElse();
  

  Based on the indentation you’d think that doSomethingElse was only meant to run if the else if condition was true, but because of the lack of braces and the printf it actually happens regardless of either of the if conditions. This can sometimes lead to logic errors and it doesn’t hold up to a principle of durability under edit — that is, inserting some code into the if statement changes the outcome entirely because it changes the code path entirely, so the code is in a sense fragile to edits. If the curly braces were required instead of optional, this wouldn’t happen.

  I have all of my linters set up to flag a lack of curly braces in these languages as an error because of this. It’s a topic that sometimes causes some debate, ‘cause some people will vociferously defend their right to not have the braces there for one liners and more compact code, but if have found that in general having the, be required consistently has led to fewer issues than having arguments about their absence, but to each their own. I know many big projects that have the opposite stance or have other guidelines, but I just make ‘em required on my own projects or projects that I’m in charge of and be done with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whitespace⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I also sometimes wish that the syntax in if statements was inverted, where () was optional and {} was required.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TrekMovie.com: Patrick Stewart Reveals New Star Trek Movie Script Featuring Jean-Luc Picard Is In The Works⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I prefer to think that Picard is just still stuck in the Nexus and everything that has happened to him since has been a result of magic Nexus fever dreams.

  Movie Picard and PIC Picard acted nothing like TNG Picard to the point where they were seemingly completely different people. Movie Picard wanted to make the Borg pay for what they did and literally beat in dead Borg with his fists and snapped the Borg queen’s spine in two with his bare hands while TNG Picard knew things weren’t that cut and dry and even had an opportunity to potentially genocide the works of them and didn’t because ethics and shit. Movie Picard would have drove Hugh up to their doorstep infected with the fractal virus the first chance he had.

  PIC Picard… is literally an android I guess? But still old? They kind of ignored that later. So, literally he isn’t the same Picard as TNG Picard.

  The Nexus is my head canon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A 13-year-old is the first human to beat Tetris | Numerous theoretical milestones remain⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Any idea how long such a run would take? This kill screen took around 40 minutes I think? I

  ’m not a Tetris community member but I’m interested in the whole ordeal as a gamer in general and programmer, and these sorts of things are interesting as an intersection of the two. I’ve also been playing Tetris since before it even came out on the NES or GameBoy and still play it in various instalments from time to time. I think I have to consider it to be the perfect video game in concept to this day, and seeing it get so much love after all these years is endearing to those of us who remember its beginnings.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A 13-year-old is the first human to beat Tetris | Numerous theoretical milestones remain⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s also one weird level that takes 800 lines to clear as opposed to the usual 10.

  The trick to getting that high regardless will be making sure not to hit the conditions required for the kill screen to occur, like getting a single line on level 155 which didn’t happen here, and somehow making it past all of the potential kill screens to reach 255. I’m not knowledgable in the ways of NES Tetris to know if this is possible but I’m surely interested in finding out. I’ve read various analyses that say it’s theoretically possible and theoretically impossible so it would be nice to see something definitive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wal-Mart ad speaking truth⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You need to get in the refrigerator with them and eat them there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 10 end of life could prompt torrent of e-waste as 240 million devices set for scrapheap⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  rtfm