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- Comment on Why do people see me as far older than 19 when I type the way I do sometimes?/Why do people think full stops are rude? 6 days ago:
Young people focus on the tone they’re conveying.
Old people focus on following the rules that were beaten into them as children for no reason.
- Comment on Why do people see me as far older than 19 when I type the way I do sometimes?/Why do people think full stops are rude? 6 days ago:
Is your intention to convey a certain tone or win a grammar competition?
- Comment on Why do people see me as far older than 19 when I type the way I do sometimes?/Why do people think full stops are rude? 6 days ago:
They didn’t say do it right, they said do it with propriety, as in making sure to follow the rules for the sake of following the rules.
- Comment on Why do people see me as far older than 19 when I type the way I do sometimes?/Why do people think full stops are rude? 6 days ago:
Because those of who grew up communicating a lot via the written word stopped feeling beholden to type using classic grammar rules like ending every sentence of every communication with a period no matter what.
The entire purpose of language is to express yourself, and people started noticing that their texts sounded friendlier if they sounded less abrupt, so they started typing that way.
You type according to traditional essay writing rules which is how older people learned to write, younger people learned to focus on producing natural sounding language and conversation.
- Comment on US could cut Ukraine's access to Starlink internet services over minerals, say sources. 1 week ago:
Oh yes of course, the whole world has of course been watching the mass protests and general strike being organized with baited breath, oh wait.
- Comment on US could cut Ukraine's access to Starlink internet services over minerals, say sources. 1 week ago:
You sound like Putin supporting little bitch.
- Comment on US could cut Ukraine's access to Starlink internet services over minerals, say sources. 1 week ago:
Come on doc, you’ve gotta help us, we’ve tried nothing and we’re all out of ideas!
- Comment on US could cut Ukraine's access to Starlink internet services over minerals, say sources. 1 week ago:
Jesus fucking christ. If you do this, and exploit Ukraine while they are literally under the gun, the US will be dead to the rest of the western world.
I cannot express how hard you can go fuck yourselves.
- Comment on Why are there so many graybeards in FOSS? 1 week ago:
Yes, but I would point out that:
a) a bunch of those commercially supported Foss projects still started out as a personal project of one of a small handful of programmers that then got popular and exploded.
b) more importantly yes, a lot of commercially useful FOSS is developed by paid developers working at tech companies as part of their line of work, stuff like browsers, languages, frameworks, packages, etc. but a lot of the most jconic and beloved consumer facing FOSS applications are not as it’s harder to monetize at that point since you’re not building on top of those projects.
- Comment on Why are there so many graybeards in FOSS? 2 weeks ago:
One aspect of FOSS that most people don’t appreciate is how it’s funded. Like how it’s actually funded.
Once you put a dollar value to the hours put into it, it fairly quickly becomes apparent that most FOSS projects are basically only possible because super rich software engineers (relative to the average person) have the relative luxury to be able to dedicate a ton of free time and effort to building something they think should exist.
It’s why there was a huge FOSS boom after the dot com crash when a ton of software engineers suddenly got laid off but were relatively wealthy enough to not have massive pressure to immediately start grinding a 9-5 again.
- Comment on Defaults are crucial for good UX and getting more users on the Fediverse 2 weeks ago:
It’s a very easy change to default ‘Auto expand media’ to true for half of new users, and see what effect it has over a few months. It’s also a fun experiment with no real drawbacks.
Writing the code to do that is very easy, determining what metrics are actually important and impact user success and what metrics accurately track user success is much harder.
I do generally agree though! Personally I just asked the instance admins of lemmy.ca to redirect
lemmy.ca/r/…URLs tolemmy.ca/c/…URLs as a tiny user facing feature for Redditors coming over, and they did it in a second. - Comment on Advice on enjoying your life 2 weeks ago:
No. If you’re going to be pedantic, at least be right.
Average
noun
- a number expressing the central or typical value in a set of data, in particular the mode, median, or (most commonly) the mean, which is calculated by dividing the sum of the values in the set by their number.
The term average, inherently refers to three different ways to calculate the central value in a data set. What you’re talking about is mean, but it can also mean mode, or median.
- Comment on Defaults are crucial for good UX and getting more users on the Fediverse 2 weeks ago:
It’s not that popular of a concept on here, probably since there’s massive selection bias (everyone here evidently found a way to struggle through), but you’re completely right and I find that that lazer focus on usability is one place that Open Source advocates and projects often struggle with.
And personally, I think it’s because most open source projects are built and run by programmers since they’re the ones who can build an open source project, whereas a consumer facing site like Reddit / FB / TikTok/ IG, would be planned out and designed by a product manager, working closely with a designer and market researcher, and then get programmers to build that for them.
It’s a model that’s really difficult to pull off though in a community primarily consisting of programmers volunteering their free time, but I think it’s worth keeping that in mind. Open Source projects that are consumer facing (and especially ones that rely on network effects), really need to work hard to stay in that user facing headspace.
- Comment on There’s No Dancing Around It: Apple’s Vision Pro Was An Ugly Dud 1 month ago:
Honestly, the killer application is really simple, but this headset wasn’t quite designed for it (nor is MacOS in general), and that is simply as external monitors.
You know what’s annoying? Trying to use your computer outside, trying to use it on an airplane, or while travelling. Or being in an open plan office with a million visual distractions.
If you’re working in a professional setting where your company is already buying you a giant ultra wide display or multiple professional 27" screens then you’re approaching the territory of a thousand or two dollars spent on each employee, and suddenly a VR headset is starting to look more reasonable as a monitor replacement.
If this was closer to the size of the size of the Big Screen Beyond but could let you place as many windows / monitors around you as you wanted, they might actually have a compelling product.
Or if it was cheaper it could be used for gaming.
Or if it had transparent AR displays it could be used for industrial applications like Hololens.
But yeah, as is, it feels like it had a neat idea or two, some really fancy tech, and fell right in the middle of not being that useful for anyone.
- Comment on *Everyone liked that* 2 months ago:
I mean, there are huge problems with American health care companies and insurance in general will always tend towards being a scam unless it’s extremely heavily regulated, but at a fundamental level insurance does offer a service (that of socializing the cost of extreme losses), and while executives do have fiduciary duties, the idea that they always have to pursue short term profit no matter what from a legal standpoint, is overblown and exaggerated.
- Comment on *Everyone liked that* 2 months ago:
We left Reddit because it was a corporate captured shit show that killed the only nice apps for interacting with it. We didn’t leave because they were too mean to health insurance executives.
- Comment on *Everyone liked that* 2 months ago:
Understandably. I’m emotionally removed from the situation enough to know that I shouldn’t actively celebrate, if I knew a loved one who’s medical care was denied by a for profit health insurer or if I had to waste my life fighting with them for basic care, then I’m sure I would be actively celebrating too.
- Comment on *Everyone liked that* 2 months ago:
Quite frankly, executives of health care companies continually make money by denying medical coverage to people with children and letting them agonizingly die.
I’m not on here celebrating his death for the sole reason that I think it’s just as likely this corporate espionage / assassination for money, but if it is a normal person shooting a health insurance executive for denying a loved ones coverage it’s hard to imagine how the executive didn’t deserve it.
You don’t get to be separated from the morality of your actions, just because you use neutral sounding business language to describe how you’re fucking over and killing people for personal profit.
- Comment on Calcrelatable 3 months ago:
So you’re saying mash both a bunch of times to be super sure?
- Comment on Alan Wake 2 still hasn't quite made its money back, according to Remedy's latest financials 3 months ago:
I know I tuned out of Alan Wake 1 really early thinking it was going to be a boring ‘look around with a flashlight game’. I was very surprised by how fun and intricate the combat eventually got when I went back and actually played it through.
And just how funny and tongue in cheek all the writing is. I think it’s a bit of a hard sell because they want to gradually build and surprise you with new things, and all their humour is super deadpan and satirical of this hard boiled story, which can make it seem kind of boring at a surface / marketing level until you get into it and realize what’s happening and how much fun it is.
- Comment on Alan Wake 2 still hasn't quite made its money back, according to Remedy's latest financials 3 months ago:
I will be buying this as a Christmas present for several friends.
Really, really fantastic game, and Remedy is one of the best studios in existence right now. I can’t think of many other games / studios that take swings as big as them.
- Comment on hard to argue with 3 months ago:
Russia gives Ukrainians Russian citizenship and resettles them away from warzone with all the social security preserved: food, medical, shelter etc.Russia murders some Ukrainians and kidnaps others and forces them to toil under their dictatorship to enrich Putin.Ftfy.
Jesus fucking Christ do fucking better. What is wrong with you?
- Comment on 'They Know Who You Are': Harvard Students Use Meta's Ray-Ban Glasses To Pull Up Your Identity In Real-time 3 months ago:
Everyone having a FaceTime call does this. Every dash cam does this. Every Ring doorbell and self driving car does this. You can do this with a $10 usb pinhole webcam and an android phone or raspberry Pi.
The problem here is with facial recognition databases, not with people using cameras in public.
- Comment on 'They Know Who You Are': Harvard Students Use Meta's Ray-Ban Glasses To Pull Up Your Identity In Real-time 3 months ago:
PimEyes does not use photos from Facebook or other social media.
- Comment on 'They Know Who You Are': Harvard Students Use Meta's Ray-Ban Glasses To Pull Up Your Identity In Real-time 3 months ago:
PimEyes doesn’t use images or data from Facebook or other social media.
- Comment on 'They Know Who You Are': Harvard Students Use Meta's Ray-Ban Glasses To Pull Up Your Identity In Real-time 3 months ago:
Dumb, click bait headline.
This is about PimEyes, and databases that hoard facial recognition data, not Meta or Rayban or smart glasses.
- Comment on 'They Know Who You Are': Harvard Students Use Meta's Ray-Ban Glasses To Pull Up Your Identity In Real-time 3 months ago:
This has nothing to do with Facebook or Rayban. This can be done with a webcam and a laptop from 2006.
The entire problem here is PimEyes and the fact that it’s legal to collect and build a biometrics database in the first place.
- Comment on hard to argue with 3 months ago:
Oh so you’re the type that sees Hitler invading Poland and thinks “doesn’t effect me”.
Go volunteer for Putin’s army if you love his propaganda so much.
Jesus fucking Christ, the fucking idiocy of thinking that Russia unilaterally invading a country is that country’s fault. Thankfully Biden is finally getting lead out of the water a might solve some of this dumbassery in the long term.
- Comment on hard to argue with 3 months ago:
Bruh, you’re an American repeating Putin’s bullshit about Ukrainian Nazis. You have no excuse for being so ill informed.
- Comment on hard to argue with 3 months ago:
Russian thinks he has a wife and kids, when in reality Putin has a baby maker and more cannon fodder.
You happy that your kids will die in Ukraine for no reason?