they aren’t, except perhaps as a counterexample of some dubious sort

for what, Bluetooth?

which adds latency btw, no bueno

yeah well HP, fuck you too

lower visual noise of modern movies and series also helps a lot

and you’re so happy you can just mash one single button and your favourite track, game or series starts to play.

yes, that’s why I pay for some things and pirate others, because for me pirating is often significantly easier and less time consuming than paying

participating in a community ≠ making it a lifestyle

boring work stuff, they entered wrong data and made a ticket to fix it several months after the fact. That data they enter is the input for a bunch of calculations, so cleaning up that mess is a lot of work and I’m the only one equipped to do it. They should be well aware of the importance of being exact with what they enter and only signing off on it when they’re 100% sure it’s correct, yet they keep messing it up. They made a stupid excuse about having to sign off on it even though they knew it wasn’t 100% done, when it’s been made perfectly clear that this is unacceptable regardless of circumstances because of legal ($$$$) ramifications

edit: I should add that those ramifications are potentially severe enough to bankrupt us. That particular administrative body does not fuck around and will tear us a new one if they smell blood

today, I used the word negligent in a work email. They done fucked up and I’m tired of their shit

We’ve actually taken that complex and valid system and clipped its wings to do something way less useful :')

that’s … way too pragmatic for a government project

I’ve been getting back into simracing again with Assetto Corsa Competizione, and I’m still deep into Baldur’s Gate 3

well yes, but I don’t think it’s necessarily bad to go about it like you described, as long as you know that you’re not actually using the smaller issues to procrastinate on the big issues. Tackling the smaller issues first can help you to understand the bigger issues better, both consciously and subconsciously, so as long as it doesn’t actually matter in which order they’re done, I think it can be more effective to do the smaller ones first. That all goes out of the window of course if you’re using the small issues to avoid having to think about the bigger ones

I’m not arguing that, it’s definitely very debatable if it’s ever going to have some practical use outside of its current speculative one. That doesn’t make it a scam tho

many are yes, but not all. Bitcoin and Ethereum (among others) are legit, and there are a few NFT projects out there that actually try to do the right thing even if they’re not worth much at all. Many other NFTs are nothing but pictures that have no meaningful value except what you assign it to, but they never pretended to be anything else so that’s still not a scam in my book

I guess I don’t understand this obsession with speed?

for me it hasn’t been build speed but rather execution

I’ve run into problems with dayjs slowing down requests where I need to do a lot of processing. There are arguments to be made about replacing dayjs with datefns and how I should’ve been doing it differently anyway, but fact is that if the whole execution environment was twice as fast, it probably wouldn’t have been much of a problem at all

doesn’t sqlite explicitly encourage this? I recall claims about storing blobs in a sqlite db having better performance than trying to do your own file operations

you know what I do me some mechanical keyboards but I recently switched back to a run of the mill scissor switch keyboard because I think I like low profile keys more. Now I know there are some low profile mechanicals out there but I’m not sure I care enough to spend the money to get one. I think I’ll give this one a go for a while, maybe I’ll switch back later

Can we have sound cards again, now please?

I’m happy with my FIIO, works great with my beyerdynamics and no separate driver needed

I’ve done worse

disingenuous scumbag

I literally don’t know what TypeScript is

then perhaps you should learn about it before you offer your opinion

I spent some of my formative years in public housing. It was definitely a bit more sketchy than the privately owned homes across the street but all in all it was a fantastic way for me to get my feet under me as a student and young adult. That’s exactly what scores of young and also not so young people desperately need right now

public housing doesn’t require tax money. It is often facilitated by it, yes, but don’t act as if the rent is necessarily sponsored by the government just because public housing isn’t designed to extract the maximum amount of money from the renters. There’s plenty to criticize about public housing without resorting to falsehoods

If not for landlords who would you rent from?

public housing is a thing, you know

a 4 core CPU isn’t going to cut it in 2023 anymore, and anything new that you’d want to upgrade to is going to be bottlenecked by that 1070. You could of course look at used parts if your budget is tight, there are a lot of used (ex-miner likely) GPUs out there that could tickle your fancy and I bet there are plenty of people selling their 8+ core Intel / AMD + DDR4 + motherboard as well to upgrade to DDR5

my wife was having some problems finding the right W11 drivers for our Brother HL-2030 and dared to utter the thought of replacing it

I shut that down right quick

Certainly but it will last longer.

that’s highly debatable if we’re talking about a $600 PC. I mean, yes you can argue that with games on PC you can always figure something out to get acceptable performance, but people in the market to buy a $300 console likely lack the experience, knowledge or time to do that

there’s no way engine burn time is graduated in seconds on a spacecraft in 2023, that’s way too coarse

I still haven’t gotten past the first town in D:OS2

not a good look, Linus. If he were actually serious about handling mistakes and issues head-on, none of this would’ve happened because he would’ve publicly corrected his employee when he claimed their testing methods are superior to others’

a) you don’t have the ability to understand what the client actually needs

the client doesn’t understand either. This I have had to learn to accept and not blame the client for, it’s OK and we’ll figure it out together

b) if you over-architect your solution

we can’t figure out what we actually need by overarchitecting something to death. If and when you find you’ve coded yourself into a corner because you didn’t architect well enough 6 months ago, then congratulations it seems like what you’re doing is good because you’ve made enough progress to actually need a better architecture

obviously I’m oversimplifying and people more experienced than me understand better how to walk the tightrope between unmaintainable spaghetti and an overengineered mess, but me, I try to keep shit as simple as possible because you never know

the java VM itself is actually pretty damn fast, sometimes even faster than native code because it can optimize code paths while it’s running

applications built with it tho, I’d say hit and miss but honestly we all know it’s a miss most of the time

yep, I just started playing the DLCs on story mode again. I beat the main game on regular some time back but now I just want to bask in the lushness of Toussaint without having to think too much about which buttons to press

you might not be testing your code, but it is always testing you

that’s a crime against humanity

it has a lot of cruft and gotchas and lacks a good standard library (which is why npm is a thing). That means there’s a lot of bad javascript code out there and a lot of people who have had bad experiences with it. But, if you take care to not shoot yourself with the included footguns and you know your way around npm, it’s a perfectly fine language for its purposes in front- and backend development IMO

repeat bottom panel and you get pretty close IME

you gotta pump those numbers up, those are rookie numbers in this racket

const a: any = “You have no power here!”

yeah well NPM, it’s either this or I nuke the very ground you’re standing on

Yep, as far as I know, at this time the Nvidia shield pro is the best for playing pirated content, either directly or streaming. It does all the audio and video standards you need (including Dolby Vision) and has enough power to do it without stuttering (with the right player)