DaleGribble88

DaleGribble88, 2 months ago

Lol, point well stated…

DaleGribble88, 30 days ago

And Ray Croc didn’t invent McDonald’s, but poured the foundation that McDonald’s is built on. I place Musk in a similar, although not entirely the same, category.

DaleGribble88, 30 days ago

Reasonable minds feel free to disagree, but I’ve got to admit that I’m shocked to see the lemmy community rally around the defense of Ray Croc of all people.

DaleGribble88, 1 month ago

The subset of integers in the set of reals is non-zero. Sure, I guess you could represent it as arbitrarily small small as a ratio, but it has zero as an asymptote, not as an equivalent value.

DaleGribble88, 1 month ago

It feels like you didn’t read the 2nd half of their comment. They do practice. They have a creative side that they want to explore, but they don’t enjoy that sort of grind. Instead, they like tinkering and combining tools in interesting ways. I don’t think this is a bad thing.

Leo Fender didn’t play guitar and always wished that he’d sit down and devoted the time, but never actually enjoyed it. But to say that Leo didn’t contribute to the music world, would be insane.

DaleGribble88, 1 month ago

My great grandfather was aboard the USS Missouri when the Japanese came aboard to surrender. He always said that it was one of the biggest moments of his life, and he always regretted that he didn’t have a camera during that visit. I think that I would like to go back in time to that event, and bring a camera with me.

DaleGribble88, 1 month ago

Can someone give a brief overview of Lakka? Will admit that I’m on mobile and am being a bit lazy. Top 2 Google results were fluff pieces. Is it just a launcher? A drop in replacement for retroarch? Emulates a only a specific set of consoles that aren’t being cared for by the retro arch community?

DaleGribble88, 1 month ago

Thank you!

DaleGribble88, 1 month ago

That word would probably be either “skeuomorph” or “vestigial”

DaleGribble88, 14 days ago (edited 14 days ago)

Friendly reminder that chattel slavery didn’t end in the United States until almost ww2, and some places still illegally enslaved black families continously since the civil war up until the 1980s. (EDIT: I thought that I remembered an old AP article online about this from the 1980s about a police raid at a farm compound somewhere in Alabama. However, I cannot find the original source for this claim, so I am retracting it. From what I remember of the story, this family had basically just kept their slaves hidden away on their small plantation during reconstruction, then just kept them hidden away from the rest of society by not allowing them to leave the compound. Someone finally escaped during the 1980s, was discovered, and eventually taken into police custody. This eventually led to the raid on the compound and the AP article that I remember.)

Then obviously prison slave labor is still an ongoing issue.

DaleGribble88, 11 days ago

You really don’t think the context of the woman correcting him, Jesus accepting the response of a canaanite woman, admitting fault, thanking her for her faith, and then rewarding her doesn’t change the context of “Jesus compared a woman to a dog” just a little bit?

DaleGribble88, 12 days ago

Why did you stop at verse 26?

27 “Yes it is, Lord,” she said. “Even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their master’s table.”

28 Then Jesus said to her, “Woman, you have great faith! Your request is granted.” And her daughter was healed at that moment.

DaleGribble88, 1 month ago

Random fiction and poetry - strangehorizons.com

Scifi Shorts - www.uncannymagazine.com

DaleGribble88, 1 month ago

A mechanical metronome will help with a visual indicator, but this smells like a classic XY problem to me. Your issue isn’t that you need a visually distinctive metronome, it’s that you are rushing the beat and need to break that habit.

Sadly, a metronome can only get you halfway in that endeavor. The real fix will be to practice with other musicians who can call you out on it in real-time. It is embarrassing, it is time-consuming, and it isn’t fun, but it WILL break you of the habit and force you to play better. And make sure they call you out on it immediately. As in you do not get to continue the song once it is noticed, and you must start over like dying in a video game.

DaleGribble88, 1 month ago

“We choose to go to the moon and do the other things not because they are easy, but because they are hard. This is just one of those other things.” - My dad quoting JFK at me to get me to do the dishes as a teenager. I don’t think he would remember even saying that to me, but has always stuck with me. Something said about something so monumental being applied to something so benign. But that wasn’t the point, because it was hard for me.

DaleGribble88, 1 month ago

Glancing over their other comments for about 15 seconds, I’m going to vote yes: it’s sarcasm.

DaleGribble88, 1 month ago

The slight roll to your finger that others have mentioned sounds like pretty good advice to me. I’d also try playing songs that you are already comfortable with in a barred position. For example, playing a classic I-IV-V progression (like G, C, & D or A, D, & E) at the 3rd and 5th fret. There is much less resistance at that part of the neck, and it pulls your hand in closer which can straighten our the muscles in your arm a bit if you have a smaller frame; this makes for less stress for your muscles across your list and the base of your thumb. So, while you develop the technique with less factors fighting against you, you can focus just on that technique, and not on learning a new song, or really feeling like you are having to work on something completely new - just different - which can make for a better mindset as well.

DaleGribble88, 1 month ago

A friend of mine used to always make fun of me for not drinking tap water. I explained that it taste bad and that you can see the particles floating around in it. He said “no no no, the Gov wouldn’t allow that. It’s safe to drink!” I know it is safe, but the quality sucks.

This same friend stopped drinking from the tap after he moved to the neighborhood next to mine.

All that is to say that while the tap water in most areas of the US are perfectly safe for consumption, that doesn’t mean that it is pleasant tasting.

DaleGribble88, 1 month ago

Lol, it sounds worse than it is. The water here is just very hard.

Not sure if it is a filtration issue or if it absorbed during transit in the pipes. At any rate, there is a very large chemical manufacturing plant and a nuclear fuels processing plant a stone’s throw from where I live, so the state monitors the waterways like a hawk. They’ve been busted a small handful of times over the years, but thank goodness nothing serious enough to worry about- despite what some of the other locals say.

That’s super interesting about the plants! Something to keep an eye on in the garden over the summer. I appreciate the tip about leaving the water out overnight too.

DaleGribble88, 1 month ago

Not really, once Reddit closed off their API to all but the absolute highest of bidders, it broke a lot of functionality of a lot of smaller apps like this. You might still be able to find something to spruce up the CSS client side somewhere, but a lot of devs abandoned the ecosystem once Reddit, the company, made it clear in no uncertain terms that community support and 3rd party partnerships were unwelcome.

DaleGribble88, 26 days ago

In regards to the known bug with the mouse, you can press “e” on the keyboard to shoot.

DaleGribble88, 12 days ago

Yes, but the political blowback from both parties would likely not be worth it. Especially because Republicans would immediately add double the amount Biden would, and it would very likely quickly grow into full bore shenanigans.

DaleGribble88, 1 month ago

Teaching also involves stating an idea - which the author forgot to actually do. If it is your article that I am criticizing, I’m sorry for being crass, but make no mistake, the writing is half-assed. An article whose primary piece of advice is to “focus on the datatypes”, shouldn’t avoid the word “datatype” until the 2nd to last header.

Truthfully, the article would be better served by removing the first and 2nd to last section and instead be titled “Why I dislike working with monads in languages that support monads.”

DaleGribble88, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

Holy cow! What an absolute slog of a read. I’m not an AI model, but I’ll do my best to summarize that link:

[When writing code that works with non-trivial and null-able data types,] use a data structure that makes illegal states unrepresentable. Model your data using the most precise data structure you reasonably can[, …] as quickly as you can. [W]rite functions on the data representation you wish you had, not the data representation you are given. The design process then becomes an exercise in bridging the gap.

There. Hopefully someone out there learned something cool without having to read a 25-minute striptease before the author rushes through their main idea in the span of two bullet points found in the final 25% of the article.