ursakhiin

@ursakhiin@beehaw.org
1 Post – 261 Comments
Joined 1 years ago

Yeah. This was the face of an old man having trouble believing what he was hearing.

He looks like a walking corpse, but he seemed to understand what he was hearing and was just amazed by it.

Not gonna lie. I've never heard of Substack but I appreciate their stance of publicly announcing why I would continue to avoid them.

That's not a Reddit thing. That's just a thing.

Back in my day we just looked at photoshopped pictures of celebrities like respectable men!

2 more...

Where is the nearest fire to dump this comment in?

I'm not sure I agree with the premise that gamification is bad. Many people need a push to do things that improve their lives.

The Fitbit example is one that jumps out in that it is there to motivate people into exercise. While I personally don't respond to comparisons to others, I do respond to data where I can compare my results and recognize that my watch telling me I did a good job feels good about the exercise I just did.

Kahn Academy is gamification of a form of education. Earning points for learning many subjects.

I think there is merit to the argument that Duolingo went a bit overboard with trying to guilt you into continuing, but I don't think it can reasonably be argued that trying to motivate people into language study is bad.

I think mentally, the author is probably just one of those like myself that doesn't respond well to gamification overall but the majority of people definitely do and it can help in self improvement.

That said, I totally agree about a gamified workplace. That strikes me as a slippery slope to an unhealthy relationship with work.

4 more...

This was my take away. They paid 1 individual over twice the amount they lost last year. That fix is easy math to me.

The biggest thing he got wrong is the assumption that it's good programmers writing libraries.

I'm this particular case, I think there is a lot to criticize.

8GB minimum RAM is a lot of requirement for an OS. It makes Microsoft look like they have forgotten what an OS is supposed to be doing.

The floating taskbar might look nice, but to me it looks like they are trying to mimic MacOS or Gnome3. While there's nothing wrong with that, it does seem like Microsoft is not innovating so much as following.

I think many people are just jaded by Microsoft, though. The last couple of releases have been kinda meh and with them dropping support for older hardware entirely and sunsetting support for Windows 10 soon they are leaving a lot of users out to dry.

As a developer who has to support Windows 11 currently, I find the prospect of Windows 12 replacing 10 to be cause for worry. Windows 11 has been a nightmare to support just due to the API not being idempotent with 10. Queries that work in 10 don't work anymore in 11.

1 more...

And this whole conversation overlooks one of the major complaints a player would have of Bethesda did the same thing.

Entering an atmosphere changes the physics and those physics are different for all sorts of reasons on every planetary body for every ship. From gravity to atmospheric density the ship would fly differently on every one and that ignores the fact that ships are near enough to infinite in configuration in this game due to the builder.

If Bethesda did this, players would be complaining it wasn't realistic enough.

6 more...

Statements like that are why I tend to follow the idea that any government service should be provided to every citizen equally without exception.

We spend so much money in the US trying to make sure only the "correct" people are receiving things like welfare or Medicaid. If we just dropped the restrictions we'd likely be fairly close to being able to afford covering everybody with those programs.

1 more...

I've actually been wanting to watch this one and didn't even realize it had released. I thought it was scheduled for early next year. Poor marketing for sure.

If I had to make a wild guess I'd say he isn't trying to mislead others but has convinced himself.

He was holding the gun that accidentally killed somebody. That's a heavy burden to carry and a trauma in is own right. He probably needs to believe he didn't pull the trigger.

1 more...

I genuinely think it's funny that in a post that isn't making fun of Emacs you felt the need to defend Emacs.

It's making fun of Emacs users for always finding ways to talk about Emacs. (Which I don't think is a real problem anymore)

If this guy only has 600 hours, he wasted his money. I'd expect this guy to have closer to 6000 at this point.

1 more...

You all are definitely doing good in my view but I don't think it fair that we'd expect you to spend all of your time moderating literally every aspect of this community.

May I suggest that it just be a community rule that if somebody has a request we just say they should put it in Beehaw Support and let the community engage on the topic to discuss the merits.

If we are all fairly like minded on respecting others and the defederating or bans that have occurred it would seem we could self regulate those discussions and catch people up as a community rather than expecting the moderators to handle every engagement.

You've been transparent on actions that have been taken and why, I think we can handle propagation of that info ourselves at least.

1 more...

In principle, if a government is going to distribute content to the public, they also have a duty to equip the public to be able to consume the content. Telling people to come up with their own private sector tools to reach the public sector is a bit off.

This statement is a rearrangement of events. The governments of the world didn't create an online presence and then tell the private sector to create browsers. Governments joined in an already existing method of communication because it was convenient, popular, and browsers already existed to view the content.

15 more...

I think Chrome OS did an excellent job of achieving what it set out to do. Which was be a low profile closed ecosystem meant for people who just need to surf the web.

I won a Chromebook in a drawing and used it fairly regularly until my wife co-opted it as her own.

This. C# has been losing momentum for years but some people just won't see it. I think Microsoft trying to move 365 of of it is just another big flag that devs need to start looking elsewhere.

Microsoft has been pretty open that they intend to move to Rust. They are currently re-building the Windows API in Rust as well. I do expect they will try to push .NET in that world which will be a bummer.

To be clear here, I actively hate what Tucker does. He's a symptom of a great sickness to society that causes more harm then anything else.

The only part of this that is Carlsons fault is that he took the interview and went to Russia. There's no other way this would have played out when a reporter does an interview of Putin. Carlson was likely in that room with nothing but Russian agents who let him know exactly what was going to happen before the interview.

Anything else could have easily resulted in Carlson never coming home.

4 more...

I like the niche communities for hobbies. Reddit was a good place to get an introduction to a new hobby or activity one upon a time. You could go to a community and their wikis had a getting started section.

I hope we get there at some point. I do think the worst thing we took from Reddit is the over active meme pages, though.

3 more...

JS is fine. But as with any tool it's not the best for every scenario.

The flak JS tends to get us mostly because of the rise of popularity is Node.js leading to backend JavaScript beginning commonplace. which it's overall a poor choice for backend when compared to many other languages as the strengths that JS has are more tailored to frontend.

This is the biggest difference between myself and my brother.

My dad is fairly well off having run a company for decades at this point and I knew I didn't want to lean on that. So I went on my own career path.

My brother decided to join the family company. Over the past 20 years he was gifted 50 percent of the company as a bonus. He didn't understand that he's only in that situation because the owner was his dad. He's never understood how big of a safety net the two of us had growing up. He genuinely thinks that his hard work is the sole reason for his position in life and that anybody that's willing to work as hard as he did (and he did, I won't deny it) would be on a similar situation as himself.

The luck factor is also called opportunity. People succeed financially because they had some opportunity arise that enabled the success to be a possibility. Be it a random chance that they were given a job interview, that their dad owns a company they can start at, or they happened to grow up in an area with good education options they could lean on to develop skills, or just a serious safety-net.

I had option 2 and 4, but used option 3 to eventually get option 1. I'm mostly unsatisfied with the world because I wish everybody had option 3 and 4 to start with regardless of family.

He would have continued getting away with it if he'd never run for President.

1 more...

If lunchables had Prosciutto and Brie that weren't made of plastic, is probably get that, too.

It's simple. They see the writing on the wall and are going to act like it was what they wanted all along.

I think Python is easy to learn but difficult to get past the basics. I'm also not convinced that getting past the basics is even worth it in three long run. I say this as a person who has used all Python at work for roughly 70 percent of the last 15 years. My current position is moving to Rust and my last 2 positions were moving to Go. Everybody was happier.

I'm sure it will be shorted by a lot of rich folk

I've had my dad agree that something the Republicans are doing is extremely authoritarian and state that he is going to look past it because he wants lower taxes and likes guns in the same breath.

I think Golang had the potential to take over just because it's so easy to pick up and start contributing.

My last position was Golang focused and our hiring was never focused on experience with the language because we knew that if you understood programming concepts you would succeed in Golang.

Today, I'm working on Rust and while I enjoy it for what I'm using it for (Systems level instead of Web Services) I'd be hesitant to suggest it for most backend application just due to the ramp up time for new developers.

tl;Dr Golang will have an easier time hiring for because no language specific experience is required.

3 more...

My immediate thought when I read the headline was

Musks attempt to garner attention manages to garner attention.

The main thing I want from ES6 is the same level of modability as Skyrim. I'd love for it to be as stable as Starfield.

I didn't think the need to dump creation to make a great game, they just need to stop trying to polish the rust. Some aspects of Creation aren't amazing but the staying power of Bethesda games has been about modding a compelling world in a well supported way. They need to ensure that whatever they do that they don't lose that.

I think Starfield has a lot going for it but I don't find the world compelling enough to want to spend time in the way I did Skyrim. I enjoyed the time I did spend but I don't see that itch coming back. Starfield made me want to play a space game with magic, but I've I got it's magic unlocked I didn't feel that desire was fulfilled.

Are you saying you played it in 2015 and your whole opinion is based on that experience?

I just now discovered why people are hating on Ubuntu pro by receiving a note that Ubuntu will not provide security updates for some apps it came with unless you activate Pro.

I think I'm done with Ubuntu on any personal machines.

Remember when they included a bunch of Amazon integration in Unity?

2 more...

Thanks for the update! No need to apologize! That dropping Lemmy proposal is sounding better. 😂

1 more...

As a developer, the baby is how I see developers, too.

I can see value in a summarization bot or an auto moderator so long as allowing some didn't turn into a burden on the admin team on which ones to allow.

I think their value can easily be outweighed if there are too many bots providing no value.

Beehaw is hardly and echo chamber. Generally defederation is done because of significant trolling or other negative behavior from an instance, not a disagreement with a philosophy.

I think an excellent example of how Beehaw allows opposing opinions is that you and I, who clearly disagree, are still able to talk about it.

The thing we want at Beehaw is respectful discourse. So long as neither party is insulting the other and conversation is productive it doesn't matter if the opinions differ.

That said, I myself would probably not follow Beehaw off of ActivityPub. I prefer the content on Beehaw to most of the content in the fediverse, but I don't want to maintain multiple accounts and Beehaw would definitely have less content if it moved off of the fediverse.

It's a class warfare anthem, yes. But it's sung by somebody who actively and openly supports the party that is most egregiously anti-working class right now.

It's most likely that 30 years ago he wasn't as well off as he is now and has had a change of heart in his older age. My point is that he likely doesn't fully agree with the messaging anymore as he is in fact now quietly rich and voting against the poor.