ElectricCattleman

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ElectricCattleman,

One person can do something, but one person can’t do everything. If you are already running a farm co-op, leading a union, or so on, you simply don’t have the time to address the hundred other things you can see in the news in a single day. The point still stands, you can’t control everything, so even if you are making change on one or two points, you have to avoid being angry about the hundred other things you cannot.

ElectricCattleman,

A party made up of a blind character, a deaf character, and a mute character. I’d play that.

ElectricCattleman,

I highly recommend the book Pandora’s Star by Peter Hamilton. They explore using tiny wormholes. They move them, poke a powerful sensor suite though, scan, retract, and close, gradually moving in on prospective planets. They have powerful forcefield to protect against anything coming in the other way. Makes sense to me.

ElectricCattleman,

I have a recursion joke. Re-read this for the punchline.

ElectricCattleman,

Links to Lemmy are basically banned on Reddit. As is closing a subreddit. They’ll replace the admins and reopen.

ElectricCattleman,

There are some fringe benefits for blockchain but massive issues with normal human issues like:

  • Scams/theft: person has the wallet lost through scam or left, how do you invalidate the lost credentials or tickets.
  • Wallet loss: loss through any number of means: fire, incompetence, computer being destroyed, loss of account to cloud backup etc
  • Issuer need to invalidate: if tickets/credentials were purchased by fraud or an issue occurs where they need to invalidate

How does blockchain handle these common situations?

ElectricCattleman,

I really roll my eyes about the “dismantle the capitalist system because food costs money” memes. Like dude, dismantle it to what? Do you think no one starves when there’s no capitalism?

ElectricCattleman,

Some day Cloudflare will enter their enshittifcation phase and a lot of small websites will die off rather than move off it. It’s best for sites to not all be behind the same few companies.

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Great reads! Thanks for posting.

I think it would be neat if, as something gained popularity, more and more of it were re-written in optimized assembly. I mainly work in .NET, which performs fine for what it is, but there are some libraries like Dapper (which is a micro-ORM) which are written in IL, which is incredibly difficult to do but results in it being insanely fast compared to what you could do in purely managed .NET. I’m sure if it were written in assembly it would be an order of magnitude faster than that.

ElectricCattleman,

I would love it if every website change on Twitter/X didn’t result in endless “news articles”. I need to find a way to block this crap. I literally don’t care. Stop using X if you don’t like it. Done. Stop talking about it. This is worse than celebrity gossip.

ElectricCattleman,

X-COM: UFO Defense has joined the chat.

ElectricCattleman,

It’s tricky because you’re not supposed to pull it except in emergency (i.e. dead battery). There’s a door release button that lowers the window slightly since they’re frameless windows. Pulling the manual release has a small chance of damaging the window if you push out before it’s had a chance to lower.

ElectricCattleman,

I mean, almost all safety features in cars are hidden. Airbags barely have labels.

ElectricCattleman,

They’re literally some of the safest cars on the road. This is a minor issue that is blowing up.

ElectricCattleman,

They’re insanely cheap RIGHT NOW. lol

You can get a used 2018-2020 Tesla (or any other brand) for $25k and then $4k back through a tax credit.

ElectricCattleman,

Median new car price is $46k, so $21k after tax credit for a used car is very doable for many.

ElectricCattleman,

www.irs.gov/…/used-clean-vehicle-credit

ElectricCattleman,

There are 17 million new cars sold in the US every year. Somebody is buying them.

ElectricCattleman,

The title says “one of the only…” which I think they mean “one of the few…”

ElectricCattleman,

We loved season 1, but hated how far it departed from history. They should have kept it plausible. But also agree with someone else here, it became repetitive and slow.

ElectricCattleman,

Tbh it doesn’t matter if he had any business at the house. He could go there to ding dong ditch, or ask a survey question, or complain about their yard, or ask how their day is going.

None of these things are a legal reason to shoot someone knocking at your door.

ElectricCattleman,

It has some good points. I went through all 99 slides and thought it was rather interesting. Btw, there were no ads in the slides, which was good, because I would have left immediately.

Main focus is just how badly Reddit hurt their mobile web experience to constantly nag you to use their shitty app.

ElectricCattleman,

That could be avoided by using on prem properly, too. People are very capable of making bad infrastructure whether on prem or cloud.

ElectricCattleman,

I named my cat Simba after the Lion King character.

In order to determine the reasoning behind the origin of the feline member of my family it is important to understand the nomenclature of the primary cast of the Disney hit movie “the Lion King”. The primary character, Simba, was an inspiration to many, and indeed to our family as well, for when asked to pick a name for our cat, collectively we selected that name for him.

ElectricCattleman,

Baldur’s Gate 3

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They were the GOAT for SC:BW, D2:LOD, and the first couple years of WoW.

SC2 has done well over the years but I remember being really disappointed when it came out. The original’s campaign was so gritty. Playing each race, you felt like you were in this strange scifi world. It was brilliant.

The SC2 campaign was so bad. Cartoonish, one dimensional characters. They made zerg and protoss more human like and boring. They were already focused on making their games sports, so single player was not their focus at all. I was fine with the esport focus but not at the cost of making it more cartoonish.

ElectricCattleman,

I watched SC2 on YouTube on and off over the years. UThermal is worth checking out, he’s a great player and super positive self-conmentator. I’m pretty sure I’ve watched SC2 a lot more than I’ve played it. Which is sort of weird for a game…

ElectricCattleman,

I think it’s basically saying companies need to pay more if they want people in-office. Which makes sense to me. If you want someone to spend time and money to commute they need to compensate for that. You can’t ask someone who has been WFH to start coming in without some incentive or else you’re basically cutting their pay.

That said, many people won’t switch from WFH to in-office for any amount of money.

ElectricCattleman,

12 years. Migrated to Reddit when Digg collapsed. Reddit slowly changed over the last 4 years or so, for the worse, even before the recent shenanigans. Glad to be here.

ElectricCattleman,

I used to like bootstrap. Still do. But it has some faults… Depending on your needs you’re loading a lot of CSS you aren’t using.

Bootstrap 5.3 is 59kb before gzip. 6700 lines of code. That’s a lot to just apply some simple styles.

There are a ton of lighter weight alternatives nowadays.

ElectricCattleman,

This is why containers are so popular. And reinstalling.

ElectricCattleman,

My wife had a wrist issue and went to physical therapy. She did things like squeeze a tennis ball and grip coins between her fingers. We got a bill for $600 per 15 minutes. With insurance it was $1600 for an hour and a half total.

ElectricCattleman,

I’m also against loan forgiveness and agree with all your points. Especially number 3. I want to add emphasis that I think forgiveness in this way will actually make the problem worse.

Yes, it would be a huge help to those who had debts forgiven. However if forgiven once, more people will be likely to go to price-gouging colleges, sign up for the huge student loans, and think there is some chance it will be forgiven later. Colleges will continue to raise tuition because people keep paying it.

We need to address the tuition cost problem. Colleges are out of control. Until we fix that, anything else will encourage them to keep going. Another way of looking at $500bn of loans forgiven… That’s $500bn in the colleges pockets that they get to keep after tripling their tuition.

I think college is a great thing and important to be accessible. We need to make it cheap enough that students can afford it and not come out of it with $80k+ in loans (I as did).

ElectricCattleman,

Soon we will look back amazed at these growing little numbers. They're growing quickly but I expect it to grow by one or two more orders of magnitude over the coming months!

ElectricCattleman,

Client <-> vps <-> home server

I’m looking to set up exactly this for myself with a linode vps, and wireguard containers. Any tips? Even a docker compose snippet would be helpful.

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