Lifter

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Lifter,

Have them meet at a tavern, someone at the tavern knows them and can give all of the gossip.

Lifter,

It can even be made into a game where you have to earn the gossip.

Lifter,

Yes speaker. On the bus. On the subway. On the street. In a cafe.

Lifter,

This doesn’t make sense because they have the monopoly on video now. By monetizing a bit they are creating a a huge demand for a competitor, risking their monopoly.

Lifter,

Right,too much coverage is also a bad thing. It leads to having to work on the silly tests every time you change som implementation detail.

Good tests let the insides of the unit change without breaking, as long as the behave the same to the outside world.

Lifter,

That leads to focusing on the nitty gritty details first, building a library of thing you think you might need and you forget to think about the whole solution.

If you come up with another solution half way through, you will probably throw away half of the code you already built.

I see TDD as going depth first whereas I prefer to go breadth first. Try out a solution and skip the details (by mocking or assuming things). Once you have settled on the right solution you can fill in the details.

Lifter,

Why would we still be counting Earth years when we leave Earth?

Lifter,

And it’s nice to know that the sun is actually at its highest at noon and its lowest at midnight. Seems weird to me to decide that 13:00 is when the sun is highest…

Lifter,

The latest estimate of how many people that use the internet at all is around 5 billion. Where did you get that number?

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Internet_usage

Android is by far the most used operating system for web use and for servers it’s estimated at 77 % linux, not 50 % as stated above.

…wikipedia.org/…/Usage_share_of_operating_systems

Windows dominated the desktop segment, you should realize that desktop use is in decline in favor of mobile usage.

TIL that the judge in the Carroll rape case clarified that Trump did rape Jean Carroll (www.washingtonpost.com)

All the news headlines and verdict said sexual abuse, which was kind of vague, but I just found out today that the judge clarified that this was a matter of legal definition and by the verdict of the trial and the case, trump has been found guilty of penetrative rape.

Lifter,

Is it less rape it you use a condom? What if you ask her if she’s on the pill and trust her?

Lifter,

As little as possible,I think

What are some FOSS programs that you think are a far better user experience than their counterparts? (sh.itjust.works)

I used Plex for my home media for almost a year, then it stopped playing nice for reasons I gave up on diagnosing. While looking at alternatives, I found Jellyfin which is much more responsive, IMO, and the UI is much nicer as well....

Lifter,

Gimp is a shame, they really had something to begin with. I use Krita now which is way more like you would expect a FOSS image editor to be. Much more similar to Photoshop if you came from there.

At work, we use gimp headless though. The scripting capabilities are great!

Lifter, (edited )

Yes that was the wrong comment. Hmm. Someone said they don’t use some of the FOSS tools because they are so bad.

I think the main complaint with Gimp is that it is way more complex than the simpler editors, without actually being excellent for experienced users, like Photoshop is. Photoshop is also simpler to use for beginners to Gimp really missed both targets.

Krita is simpler than Photoshop and Gimp but much more powerful than n base level like Paint.

I’d say layers and masks (and operations that go with that) are the main step up from entry level.

Edit: fix typo

Lifter,

It takes getting used to but it really is much better for multi tasking to stop using alt + tab and minimize altogether. Send one window to desktop 1 and another to desktop 2. Now you have consciously chosen where they are and can go there quickly (i. e. Win+1).

I always put the same program in the same place, just like organizing a toolbox/kitchen. Every tool has it’s place.

Both macOS and Windows have virtual desktops too though.

Lifter,

On digital vs physical:

  1. Digital versions are locked into the whim of Nintendo. For instance, you can’t play the game on another switch if the user who brought it is playing another game on their account. In fact, the second Switch can’t even play it without having an internet connection.
  2. You can’t sell a digital copy second hand, meaning the value is way lower for digital copies. They still have the same retail price though…
Lifter,

X’it the bed

Lifter,

Sources please before making recommendations about health. Even for animals

Lifter,

Please add “/s” just to avoid comments like this. :)

Lifter,

Also sounds like a pretty stupid menu to have two burger names that similar. Any new server would be confused about that initially.

what are .webp files and why has my online experience been plagued by them?

I don’t know what a .webp file is but I don’t like it. They’re like a filthy prank version of the image/gif you’re looking for. They make you jump through all these hoops to find the original versions of the files that you can actually do anything with....

Lifter,

The seems like there is a problem with your platform if you can’t easily switch to a reasonable file explorer.

Lifter,

It is half of the circumference, multiplied by the radius, of course.

like in this image I found online

Lifter,

[insert pie joke here]

Lifter, (edited )

I can level up with more sources (stanford, wiki).

The circumference is 2pi x radius, which obviously means half the circumference is pi x radius.

Edit: formatting. Asterisk results in italics

Lifter,

Now you’re just being silly.

Lifter,

I wish this worked on the mobile browser

Lifter,

The what? ELI5?

Lifter,

They don’t want to pay architect salary to do decorating work and I fully agree. Problem is that stuff like this are often overlooked until someone makes a fuss about it, costing PR. The other 90 % of the overlooked stuff is never found though so it’s still a good decision to skip stuff like this.

Lifter,

Vespucci is great for editing.

It’s pretty advanced though so maybe not for a casual user.

Has anyone used or contributed to OpenStreetMap?

I’ve tried using it over the years but I never liked it because there was no information. So last night I looked at my local city and there is almost no information at all. I spent a few hours last night adding buildings and restaurants and removing incorrect items. It was actually kind of fun and therapeutic and I plan to do...

Lifter,

I have done 14k edits over six years. I too like it for being therapeutic. I’d rather do micro-edita on osm than play another level of candy crush. Same kind of reward but you are also helping out creating something larger!

Honestly though, I don’t think osm will ever catch up to the commercial alternatives. Mostly because their harsh stance against automatic edits (and lack of version control). Also the lack of standardization is a problem. It’s very hard to create client applications because the data is structured way different in different regions.

Lifter,

Only half of it is infinite. The first half is horse, the rest is infinite centaur. Maybe that’s what you meant.

Lifter,

It takes less download but more CPU to unpack it so the loading time depends on your connection and hardware. In extreme cases it may be worse than png.

Lifter,

Lossy compression?

Lifter,

I thought it was common knowledge that princess Peach is a toad too. Her name is even Princess Peach Toadstool.

Lifter,

But corporations are driven by the consumption of people. Without people there would be no consumption and no corporations.

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