DaleGribble88

DaleGribble88, 3 months ago

I remember doing a group research project on participation trophies as an undergrad. The general consensus that we got from reading the papers was that they were useless as worst, and a bit helpful at encouraging kids and adults to at least try at best.

Next, we did an experiment with students on campus to complete at a simple game to win candy. Results were clear - the participation candy and no impact on performance but did encourage more people to compete.

Then during the final presentation a teammate went rogue and added a weird rambling youtube video contradicting everything else in the presentation without telling any of us that they were doing that. It’s been almost 10 years since then, and I’m still a bit salty over that presentation. But the lesson learned about participation trophies has always stuck with me.

DaleGribble88, 3 months ago

I’m sorry, did you say Helldivers… 2?

Brb, gotta go buy a game

DaleGribble88, 3 months ago

Not quite- in Appalachia, most homes have a porch. Appalachia is, generally speaking, quite a muggy place, so most people sleep inside and then spend their time outside on the porch. The porch plays the same role as a living room or den in other parts of the US.

A porch thief is basically the same as any other burglar, but they will (almost) exclusively steal from porches because it is often less risky than stealing from the rest of the house.

Because of the important role of a porch as a primary living area, porch thieves can make off with family heirlooms, money, games, furniture, children’s toys, and even TV sets.

DaleGribble88, 3 months ago

Not an effective solution for a federated service. Just spin up a new instance and give yourself karma. Shoot, there is no centralized service for validating accounts, so just set up 50 alts across 50 instances.

DaleGribble88, 3 months ago

What happened to you “By Default”? You can’t just drop 3 absolutely amazing videos in the span of a month, then enter complete radio silence for 4(+???) Months! My heart can’t take it…

DaleGribble88, 3 months ago

Community isolation is still a big problem. Federated services like lemmy will never reach critical mass until owners start limited communities to force more user interaction, and cross posting becomes more streamlined. My favorite proposal as a solution is to allow mods of a community to subscribe to another community, and allows it to synchronize posts and comments.

DaleGribble88, 3 months ago

“There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.” - Douglas Adams

DaleGribble88, 3 months ago

That was the single most impactful movie that I’ve ever seen in my life. It changed how I view the world, war, poverty, etc. But it is so heartbreakingly painful to watch, I’m not sure if I ever want to watch it again. Especially because my, at the time, 4 year old son was asleep in the room with me while I watched. After a certain point, I just paused the film, held him in my arms, and wept.

DaleGribble88, 4 months ago

Vivaldi has been my browser of choice for years as well. Fantastic product in my experience. I’ve sadly forced myself to start using firefox and librewolf in an attempt support alternatives to chromium based browsers. Firefox and co. are fine, but I’m still reaching for features and options from vivaldi that just don’t exist in firefox without a maze of incompatible and poorly maintained plugins.

DaleGribble88, 4 months ago

As someone else who dabbles in cybersecurity - hard disagree. If developers and alleged IT professionals got their shit together, most data breaches wouldn’t be a significant problem. Looking at the OWASP top ten, every single item on that list can be boiled down to either 1) negligence, or 2) industry professionals negotiating with terrorist business leaders who prioritize profits over user safety.
Proper engineers have their standards, laws, and ethical principles written in blood. They are much less willing to bend safety requirements compared to the typical jr. developer who sees no problem storing unsalted passwords with an md5 hash.

DaleGribble88, 4 months ago

Very well written and I agree that the 3rd solution is by far the best of the three top contenders presented. Communities should be able to follow communities and have them automatically cross-post with one another to promote interaction from multiple communities on multiple instances.

DaleGribble88, 4 months ago

As an aside, it’s kind of cool to see the little community develop here on programming.dev, and lemmy in general. I remember first coming across your blog when you posted about your Solitaire game back in September. Keep the post coming popcar!

DaleGribble88, 4 months ago

Congrats on sticking with through tough conditions. Best of luck with your recovery!

DaleGribble88, 4 months ago

It is so hard to build that muscle memory up, but you will get there! Remember, “slow is smooth, and smooth is fast.”

DaleGribble88, 4 months ago

For me, college, but I was really just wanting to get a breadth of experiences from other folks. Frankly, my department is considering switching from Java to Python, and I was curious about pros and cons of that decision beyond what I could think of off the top of my head.

DaleGribble88, 4 months ago

I’ve been advocating for a CS50 style course at an introductory level. A little bit of python, some light data science labs with an SQLite database, throw some javascript at it to make some quick and dirty web representation. Really, all we want out of students are basic problem-solving skills, a familiarity with programming basics, and for students to be excited to learn more. I’ve got one other instructor in the department on board with this approach, but the rest are still having a little bit of trouble moving our courses out of the 1990s.

DaleGribble88, 4 months ago

I like this blog post that highlights the difference between “practicing” and “playing” the guitar. Highlighting what others have said, practicing the guitar should pretty much always be difficult. But it sounds like you are upset that your guitar “playing” is occasionally difficult. And - yeah that never really goes away. The good news is that you can practice your way out of it from an outsider’s perspective. You will never stop having bad playing days, but you can practice to the point that your bad days sound better than your current good days.
My buddy and I started playing together in high school. Natural talent only took us so far, so we competed to get better than one another. (Some other friends were in on this too, and we all became better musicians for it.) Anyway, I started performing less and less as my college obligations took over while my friend continued to practice every day. My friend is now a professional musician who has been on multiple world tours. We both still have bad days, but his bad days now always sound better than my best days, just because he stuck to it harder and kept pushing himself to get better.
In short, the precise practice of particular problematic parts of performing predictably improves playing prowess. I.e., “practice makes perfect.”

DaleGribble88, 4 months ago

BBS’s would like a word

DaleGribble88, 4 months ago

2300? Making a change to the repo is what makes someone a contributor. Sorry if I completely misinterpreted the question.