drcobaltjedi
@drcobaltjedi@programming.dev
- Comment on Maybe the RAM shortage will make software less bloated? 4 days ago:
As a software dev, theres a lot of stuff thats just bloat now. Electron apps are really easy to make pretty and write for web devs and are super portable, but each one is literally an instance of a chrome browser. Theres still a lot of devs that care (to some degree) about performance and are willing to trim fat or take small shortcuts where viable.
However theres also the issue of management. I once was tasked with a problem at work dealing with the traveling salesman problem. I managed to make a very quick solution that worked fairly well and was fast but always left 1 point for last that probably should have been like point 3. Anyway, it was quick and mostly accurate, but my boss told me to “fix it” and in spite of my explaination that hes asking me to solve an unsolved math problem he persisted. I am now ashamed of how slow that operation is now since instead of just finding the nearest point it now needs to look ahead a few steps to see what path is shorter.
- Comment on A swing and a miss 1 week ago:
I still love the post where some dude bitches at Tom Morello something like “I liked RatM when you weren’t political” and Tom shot back asking him to name a single song that wasn’t political so he could delete it.
- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, we aren’t buying it like maple syrup, although most maple syrup is just corn syrup with maple flavor here, it’s just shoved in to everything sweet.
Go ready the ingredients list for practically anything sold in a box here and fir some reason HFC is just in there. No reason. Its cheap as fuck.
- Comment on idk 4 weeks ago:
Back when metaverse was the hot shit bubble, he was bragging how fortnite is the metaverse and was clearly the future.
Funny, not a single techbro vould meaningfully distinguish games from the metaverse.
- Comment on We have one at home 5 weeks ago:
I wanted to buy one when I saw it in target years ago for dumb reasons, now I want to biy one to tinker with.
- Comment on Plant Protection 1 month ago:
A generally good evolutionary strategy is to be useful to humans.
- Comment on Apple is reportedly getting ready to introduce ads to its Maps app 1 month ago:
severely underpowered camera
Bruh, the first iPhone didn’t have a camera
- Comment on Apple is reportedly getting ready to introduce ads to its Maps app 1 month ago:
I have a lot of shot to say about Steve Jobs, but he knew what asthetics he wanted. He would loathe the current trend with phones having a camera bulge. Look at all the iPhones released under him, look at the back of them. If they had a camera it was flush with the back of the phone.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Whoops, I was sitting down a few hours later and suddenly remembered it and edited my comment. My bad
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Mine was when, i don’t remember, speaker of the house ®?, said his favorite band was rage against the machine.
Like dude, those guys hate you.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Yeah it’s a profoundly stupid take.
There’s the famous Whoopi Goldberg quote about how as a little kid she saw it with a black woman not beimg a maid and running around the house screaming about it in celebration
There’s the famous story about Nichelle Nichols wanting to quit to do plays until MLK jr told her that she needed to stay for black people everywhere to be represented as an equal member of the crew, and it was the only show he’d let his kids stay up late to watch.
From its inception it’s been “woke” by daring to put both a black woman and an asian man in roles where they were to be treated as equals and valued members of the group.
I’d like to add more examples, but it’s been so long since I’ve watched any star trek.
- Comment on the robots are helping 2 months ago:
I remember getting flagged on my sources and properly attributed quotes. I’m sorry joe schmoe and I both quoted the same article and used the same quote from it.
- Comment on Efficiency! 2 months ago:
I once applied to a job at microsoft, and got a rejection email from them, on their own email platform, from 5 minutes in the future.
- Comment on GTA V was released on this day, 12 years ago 3 months ago:
Man, I tried multiple times to get into RDR2. I really want to like it, and I love RDR. But my god that game feels like a job with all the small things you need to remember to do.
Man, even the gun system annoyed me. I’m fine with them having like 4 slots or whatever it was for weapons, but I remember so many times riding to a mission on my horse, selecting the guns I wanted to use and after like 50 feet Arthur would decide “welp, I’m not using these guns, better shove em back in my horse” leadong me to not having a gun ready at the start of a mission. I think that was the straw the broke the camels back for me, just hold the guns I selected Arthur.
- Comment on A good tool? 3 months ago:
Fun fact, IE is still on windows 11, and it can be used though not through normal means. To any C#/.NET devs out there, on winforms the “browser” control is IE, and is still supported. Additionally some programs (like my company’s ERP) still can and do launch full standalone IE under certain situations.
- Comment on What's the e-reader you would buy if you were in the market? 6 months ago:
It’s all good man. Different people have different wants and needs. Your hands are a bit full with other stuff so setting up an ereader the way I have with mine is just too much om your already full plate.
Have a wonderful day and I hope you can find a good solution for yourself.
- Comment on What's the e-reader you would buy if you were in the market? 6 months ago:
The process isn’t hard or time consuming, but I understand, this sorta stuff isn’t for everyone. I’m just a huge proponent of “this is my device it’ll do as I say”
- Comment on What's the e-reader you would buy if you were in the market? 6 months ago:
I have a Kobo n437, I swaped the internal sd card with a 32gb one and installed InkBox/Quill OS.
You’ll need a bit of linux skills to use a bigger storage solution to its full potential. The project is currently on hiatus as they port the OS over to the pine64 e-reader.
Worth noting otherwise, currently pictures in epub formated books don’t load (at least on mine don’t know about other models) so youll want to convert them to pdf.
- Comment on The Circle of iLife 8 months ago:
My coworker bought an ear bud case that he can play flappy bird on.
- Comment on Suggestions for mouse only games? 8 months ago:
Faster than light