Noughmad

@Noughmad@programming.dev

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Frasier’ Revival Sets Premiere Date at Paramount+, First Two Episodes to Air on CBS (+teaser).⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  No Niles?

  I was a pretty big fan of Frasier so I’ll probably try to see at least one episode (when I can get it in Europe), but I don’t have hopes up. It seems nobody else does either.

  On the other hand, Rodney Trotter? This just seems weird.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They are watching⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If we can’t solve every mathematical problem, there’s gonna be things in science that aren’t solvable either.

  Not at all, math and science are very different things. Math is a fixed system of rules that we constructed. Within these rules, there are possible statements which cannot be proven or disproved using only those same rules.

  Science is different, we don’t know the rules but we observe, measure, and make predictions. It’s not possible to “solve” physics but that’s because we can’t make infinitely accurate measurements, there’s nothing systemic to prevent us from making a complete theory.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would you work for a corporation that you oppose ideologically, if the pay is good?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a trade-off, so it depends on both how good the pay is and how opposed the company is.

  I’m currently working for a crypto company, and have worked for other similar ones in the past, and these all tend to be libertarian types which I don’t agree with, but they pay well.

  On the other hand, a previous employer tried to get Saudi Aramco as a client, and I made it clear that I would not support this. Fortunately those talks didn’t come anywhere.

  So yes, there’s certainly a line.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What more need be said about it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Win easily and announce that I wrote it as a parody, mocking people

  Then watch it backfire horribly. Conservatives (including those who call themselves libertarian) are blind to satire. You might remember that the_donald was satirical at the start.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blue or red door?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Does “not buying Bitcoin for $1” count as a mistake or not?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It’s going good so far 🤞🤞⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This is called enshittification, and happens to all platforms.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Patient Posters⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You can only post in communities that are at least five years old.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With The 745-mile Solid-state Battery, Toyota Just Became A Force To Reckon With⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  And if Tesla can get fully reliable self driving, it will be a game changer.

  But I’m not holding my breath for either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australian public school funding falls behind private schools as states fail to meet targets⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  How can you consider Catholic schools “independent”?

  And the idea isn’t too get rid of those schools, it’s to use the money that usually goes to these schools to fund regular public schools instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is software getting worse?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Eh.

  This “everything else” are stuff that previously didn’t even exist. There used to be only professional tools and a few games, now you have an app (or multiple apps) for everything.

  And I’ll take a garbage program over one that doesn’t exist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I feel like Fediverse users are nicer to each other and more generous with upvotes than reddit.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Every platform is nice at the start, for mainly the reason you say: people who join early have an interest in the platform, so we actually try to keep it nice.

  Then every successful new platform gets its own eternal september. A large influx of people who don’t care about the platform at all, they just want to use it to talk to people. And of these, yes many are still nice people, but also many aren’t.

  You see this in all kinds of communities, not just online. If you’re in a new or niche hobby, everybody there will have an interest in improving the hobby and the small community, so it will probably be very nice. When it gets mainstream (I’m looking at MTG here, but other people probably know other examples) then it starts to attract people who do nothing but complain.