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space_comrade,

2000 can absolutely be a representative sample size. The bigger worry here is sampling bias rather than sample size.

space_comrade,

I suppose that instead of destroying them, they’d need to be sold in a second hand clothes store or to be refurbished, and not just dumped into Africa or China… right?

Isn’t that, like, better than just destroying them tho? I get it this is a pretty mild and inconsequantial reform in the grand scheme of things but it feels like you’re just being contrarian for the sake of it.

space_comrade, (edited )

Oh my god dude you sound so pathetic right now. If you actually do hold radical left beliefs of any kind and it’s not just a cute online label for you (really doubt that but I’ll give you the benefit of a doubt) go outside, touch some fucking grass, and organize IRL, or at least talk to people IRL about it. We’ve all heard your bullshit “anti tankie” tirades from people like you a thousand times over, you’re not changing any minds and are not impressing anybody with your arguments, I can absolutely guarantee you that.

space_comrade,

Oh my god dude get over yourself, I feel sorry for the people around you if you’re this obnoxious IRL.

space_comrade,

I haven’t done this in years but I’ve always found open source solutions to this to be quite clunky and usually barely worked. What always just worked fine for me was Teamviewer. Yeah it’s proprietary and has crappy licensing but it’s mostly a smooth ride.

Do try the open source options first tho, it’s quite possible they got way better in the last few years since I’ve done this.

space_comrade,

That looks great, and it gets bonus points for being written in Rust. Thanks for sharing this.

space_comrade,

Also no higher-order functions like map, filter, reduce etc.

Really weird design decision for a brand new language.

Comptime is pretty dope tho, I wish Rust had that instead of relying on macros so much.

space_comrade,

It’s not THAT complicated but I wouldn’t call it dead simple. When you understand how git works internally yeah it’s pretty simple but people usually start with the idea that it’s a tool to put your code on a server to synchronize with other people and only later learn that you have both a local and a remote (or multiple remote) tree and how the tree really works.

I think the problem is most git 101 tutorials teach it wrong, IMO the best git tutorial is this: wildlyinaccurate.com/a-hackers-guide-to-git/

Unfortunately it’s pretty dense so it’s gonna scare off a lot of newbies.

space_comrade,

The researchers estimate that if the system is scaled up to the size of a small suitcase, it could produce about 4 to 6 liters of drinking water per hour and last several years before requiring replacement parts. At this scale and performance, the system could produce drinking water at a rate and price that is cheaper than tap water.

Sounds too good to be true tbh but I’d very much like to be wrong.

space_comrade,

You need pkill -9 vim to really make sure it’s dead.

space_comrade,

How long ago was this? I think the ecosystem got waaay better in the last 1-2 years. 3-4 years ago it was rough but shit still worked with a bit of trouble.

space_comrade,

because no compiler can check to see if you thought of everything.

We can try to get closer to that with better language design. You’ll never get there but I think there are obvious benefits as to why you’d want to do that.

I write way less bugs in Rust than I have in Java or C++, and that’s mostly thanks to the language design.

I’m just tired of people entirely dismissing languages like C because they don’t have these features. Especially when the operating systems their code runs on and their languages may even be implemented in C!

Because that code has been review and re-reviewed and patched by experts in the field for years. You’re not gonna write a backend for an app with short deadlines in C because that would be absolutely fucking insane.

space_comrade,

Eh, that’s unfortunate. Yeah the whole ecosystem is still a bit wonky, probably more wonky than most popular languages but tbh I rarely used a stack that just worked out of the box, it almost always took some dicking around, I’d rather do the dicking around with a language that doesn’t always seem to work against me.

space_comrade,

The torrent protocol wasn’t designed with anonymity in mind, not Tor.

space_comrade,

“Both sides should just stop being mean to each other” is in this case the blandest, most useless take you could possibly have. It does nothing for nobody, it’s just saying something for the sake of saying it.

What are his positions on how to resolve this thing? What should the Palestinians get in his opinion?

space_comrade,

Ok, cool, but that’s literally just saying “I don’t like bad thing happening”. What does he want to do to make the bad thing stop?

space_comrade,

Which one?

space_comrade,

So again, where do they go?

I don’t give a shit tbh. The state of Israel is a rogue state that shouldn’t be recognized by anybody and should never have existed. The settlers can either become refugees or rely on the mercy of Palestinians.

space_comrade,

Not sure what you’re talking about, a whole lot of people use MacBooks, I don’t think their market share dropped significantly. Desktop Macs, sure maybe but I think even that won’t completely die out.

space_comrade,

I’m not sure if that’ll happen any time soon, they’d lose out on the IT professionals, audio professionals etc.

I got one just this year and it certainly doesn’t feel like an iPad at all.

space_comrade,

I got a MacBook Pro M2. It’s a good piece of hardware, MacOS was kinda annoying at first since it’s my first MacBook but I got the hang of it and it’s basically a normal desktop environment to me right now and I can’t see that changing significantly in the near future, I don’t think AI is gonna move that fast as to completely eliminate the need for typical PC desktop environments.

Israeli minister: 'We are fighting human animals' (www.middleeastmonitor.com)

Israel’s Defence Minister Yaov Gallant has ordered the complete closure of the Gaza Strip, including a ban on the entry of food, water, fuel or access to electricity as Israel intensifies its bombardment of the besieged Strip in the wake of the surprise attack by the Palestinian resistance. His comments have drawn criticism...

space_comrade, (edited )

Reminder that everyone in this conflict besides Civilians are bad people.

Shut the fuck up. Every Israeli “civilian” is complicit in the torture of Palestinians, except for children. Not to mention they’re all potential combatants anyway.

space_comrade,

Oh that’s already a thing. Remember that AI girlfriend app Replika?

space_comrade,

Furthermore, death to cars.

space_comrade,

Also the traveling part is generally tedious, uncomfortable and boring unless you have a super big luxury car. I’d much rather travel by high-speed rail.

space_comrade,

Even disregarding this being a horrible choice for your child’s nutrition that’s a pretty bad deal, you could get much more food by buying cheap brands in the supermarket.

This guy is amazingly out of touch, normally conservative EU politicians have the sense to refrain from such statements even if probably most of them believe the same.

space_comrade,

Damn the cognitive dissonance must be wild.

A Cuban teenager was offered a job doing 'construction work' in Russia. Instead he was sent to fight on the front lines in Ukraine. (www.businessinsider.com)

A Cuban teenager unwittingly found himself on the front lines of the war in Ukraine after accepting a job offer he received on WhatsApp to do “construction work” for the Russian military, according to Time magazine....

space_comrade,

I had lower back pain but regular exercise pretty much completely fixed that.

space_comrade,

Le funny prank XD

Don’t worry tho, neither the guy who did this nor the parents are going to clean that, it’s actually going to be a poor person for like $10 an hour.

space_comrade,

I don’t think it’s a good idea to use a power wash inside, I think this is going to be a manual clean.

space_comrade,

Do they ban catholic children wearing crosses around their necks?

space_comrade,

Racism isn’t exclusively about skin color you dolt.

space_comrade,

“We will forcefully integrate you into our culture by excluding you from our culture”

Genius, what could possibly go wrong.

Legendary PC developer says Denuvo is “a punishment to the consumer” (www.pcgamesn.com)

Quote from the article: “The inclusion of intrusive DRM softwares [sic] like Denuvo is a choice that yields an unfair punishment on the consumer,” Running With Scissors says. “Respect the consumer, make a game they want to play, and you will never feel the need to fight piracy. The gaming industry deserves a better future,...

space_comrade,

Death to the concept of intellectual property and all but I’ve never actually felt Denuvo making problems for me when I played a game using it, you’re right it seems to be working as advertised.

I’m still hoping someone to crack it in a more reliable and fast manner, fuck large gamedev companies and their profit margins.

space_comrade,

You’re not the target audience, the target audience is edgy teenage boys. Postal 2 was the perfect game for 13 year old me.

You’re right labeling them as “legendary” is just weird tho.

space_comrade,

Counterpoint: using anything other than ‘i’ as your index in a for loop in C or C++ is obnoxious as fuck.

At most I’ll go with ‘it’ for C++ iterators.

space_comrade,

Go sacrifices too much for superficial simplicity; but I would like to see a language that’s nearly as easy to learn, but has a better type system and fewer footguns.

“Easy to learn” and “good type system” will by necessity be opposing forces IMO. If you want to work with a good type system you’re gonna have to put in the effort, I’m not sure there’s this magical formulation of a good type system that’s also intuitive for most new developers. Hope to be proven wrong one day tho but so far no dice.

space_comrade,

Most types force premature design/optimization.

I disagree. What you’re saying is true for Java-like OOP languages because OOP is actually complete garbage if you want to design good abstractions. Types are way more elegant in functional or functional-inspired languages.

space_comrade,

Skipping classes as a “gifted” kid always seemed like a very weird concept to me, you’re making the child lose a lot of interaction with their peers for dubious reasons. It seems to me like it should only be reserved for the most bulging hyperwrinkled brains, like those kids that finish college by the time they’re 16 or whatever that would obviously be extremely understimulated when going the normal pace. Even then you could argue the gigabrain kid would probably benefit greatly from socializing with their peers, I mean where’s the rush really? They’re young, they can always learn more later.

space_comrade,

It’s just difficult to start using it when the corporate culture isn’t able to adapt and change it’s structures, that’s the hard part.

Yeah but that’s almost every company ever. At what point do you blame the methodology then if it doesn’t work properly almost anywhere?

I feel like scrum and agile in general are almost religions at this point, just blind belief in a system you haven’t really seen work properly ever but you still believe in it.

space_comrade,

I don’t think you can truly change anything with these methodologies. At the end of the day most companies are still privately owned companies, and you as a developer will do what the owners and/or the managers tell you to do. The owners aren’t going to delegate important decisions to developers unless it’s a really technical thing. The part where “developers take control” in scrum is bullshit and always will be by necessity of how our economic system works.

I feel like Scrum and similar stuff just serves to obfuscate real material relations in the company that aren’t going to change no matter how many story points you assign to this or that or how many scrum masters you have. Also it makes micromanagement easier I guess.

space_comrade,

They are empowered to work autonomously, which is a big difference.

That means nothing to me. Just platitudes. I’ve never felt “empowered to work autonomously” in scrum.

space_comrade,

I don’t read such books because they’re almost always written by “consultant” grifters trying to make money off of proselytizing the latest bullshit corporate fad. And it’s almost never based on actual data or a coherent theory, just gut feelings and a few anecdotes. My own felt experience and that of my colleagues is enough to confirm that it’s all just corporate ideology bullshit.

space_comrade,

What’s the difference between that and just receiving orders from managers, like every other office worker in any company ever?

space_comrade,

I worked in a large company where they used scrum and I just don’t see where it ever helped me. Sure I guess forcing you to write down in Jira or whatever all the features/bugs you worked and will work on is good practice but I can do that without scrum too.

Daily standups were annoying and rarely ever helped people resolve issues that wouldn’t have been resolved by just talking to some people directly, which you would have done anyway regardless of the standup meeting.

Sprint plannings were useless and amounted to either taking 3-4 things off the top of the backlog or the manager forcing their priority feature in the sprint.

Story point estimation was awful, everybody pretends the points aren’t just measures of time but rather this complex abstract of multiple factors and whatnot but everybody still just converts them to time in their head anyway because of fucking course they do because the time estimate is the most important thing to know and the only truly objective measure of task difficulty.

In the end management gets what it wanted when it wanted no matter our complaints because that’s how things work in privately owned companies. Scrum for the manager at worst just becomes another bureaucratic hoop they need to jump through to get what they want.

This is also the experience of my colleagues from other companies, and also I read a lot of similar anecdotes online. I have literally never heard anybody seriously claim scrum works great in their company that also wasn’t personally invested in the ideology like a “professional” scrum master or consultant or whatever.

space_comrade,

Death to all golf courses. Except minigolf, that’s fun.

space_comrade,

I’ve used it a few years ago, it might have gotten better but when I was trying to use it it was annoying as fuck, cross-application links that you would expect to open the browser or whatever other app just didn’t seem to work right and that was kind of a big deal for me since I use Slack a lot.

Also I’d imagine your disk usage would go through the roof with it.

I just don’t see the point in it tbh, what was wrong with Linux package management as it is?

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