This place loves her

Everytime anything from this person is posted, there’s a swat of people that actively come in to say “I don’t like that”. Which is both, like, ok, why are you telling me this? And also, not exactly fitting your statement either.

Most people, faced with something they don’t care about, just ignore it instead of clamoring it in public.

A lot of basic principles remain the same from one language to another. Some have more features than other, some have slightly obtuse grammar, but as long as you stay in the same class of programming language, it can be a good learning experience. Learning from “simple” languages and building up was the way to go for a long while.

I’m not sure I’d call Zig or Go “easy” programming language though. Most languages you’ll hear about these days are quite high level (even C++ and C got there over time). These days, I’m not sure where one would start from scratch. “scripting” languages are a good idea, since they are extremely easy to experiment with, and unless you start poking too much can’t do any harm.

But basically, if you stay with imperative programming (most used languages are like this) 80-90% of the knowledge you’ll get in one translate into another; there’s no bad way to start.

Vance criticizing something tells me the thing in question is probably correct one way or another.

I’m not sure having games made for you would be better than having games you can play. There’s plenty of shit out there that’s not marketed towards me anymore, but I still enjoy it. And yes, it’s rarely AAA games. Even more enjoyable AND cheaper.

Asked for comments, they kept saying “Rest assured there is no death ray plans”

(/j)

Well, child labor is still a thing, and doing a comeback in unexpected places, smoking inside has “forbidden” in most public places for decades… too bad there are STILL people that don’t give a fuck, and slavery, well… I guess it is illegal too.

Big woop. Over the last year or so, it moved from “can reliably set a timer” to having to yell at it, multiple times, crossing an unexpected amount of hurdles, to get it to maybe understand that you want to set a timer, and god forbids that you want it with a specific name and duration. Oh, and the icing on the cake : it worked perfectly when it was locally running on the phone, and started going downhill when they pulled the plug on that.

I wonder why people aren’t sold on such wonderful tech.

Can’t do a blood test if there’s no blood to begin with.

It seems that a surefire way for the doj to open an investigation is to be a whistle blower of any sort, and the surefire way for the doj to NOT open an investigation is to be the target of whistle blowers of any sort.

People refer to this as the “udm=14” trick. Edit your search engine settings/add one (Firefox made this harder than it needs to be) so that the url is https://www.google.com/search?udm=14&q=%25s, and it will always display the “web” page first, which have zero “automatic” content on it; only a list of sites. At least for now.

Or, use udm14.org, although it’s adding yet another site in the mix, which is unnecessary.

As long as this work. I’m using that, because it gives me actual, useful results most of the time, but there’s always a chance that google pulls the plug on that someday.

but at least you get the option to turn it off

That’s also an option with google, you know.

we just accept it

I don’t know about you, but I pretty much don’t accept it as it is, and when an opportunity is given, try to nudge things in the right direction. This requires huge, nationwide changes (no matter what country you’re in). Not having much leverage individually does NOT mean “accepting it”.

I’m not sure I’d say we’re ok with it. But what’s the alternative? Die? Not really attractive either.

We should just start supporting policies that improve the conditions of the healthcare system, but, that would require a majority of people agreeing to improve things globally. Good luck with that.

Would you look at that. They kept pushing layoff all the time for fake reasons to increase immediate profit, and now they’ll have another fake reason to do mass layoffs for maximum immediate profit.

What? AI? Who cares about that at this point. It’s like a pretty ribbon on a big gift box to shareholders.

They’ll fight, until the thing becomes Law, then they’ll stop fighting it because it would mean end of business. And ultimately, killing your business is not a good business decision, it turns out.

Some people making datacenter looks into way to recycle the extra heat, some uses it to heat local area (willingly). But all of this costs more than just, dumping it out, I guess.

This will help fighting the global colding we’ve had going on… wait, something’s off. Am I reading the charts upside down again?

A long time ago, people were selling books to tell you how to win national lotteries. I wonder how many they actually sold, and how many of the buyers thought about the fact that someone selling this kind of book while not being super rich was weird.

Roughly. It’s slightly offset later than that because I start late, though. Official work week here is 35h, which is usually more like 38h (with extra time provided as extra leave days).