Empathy

Empathy, 10 days ago

Why is it insane?

Empathy, 11 days ago

I want to add that, like you, I’ve become a big fan of restricting the numbers of ways to do something.

IMO, It’s more time wasted choosing, more time wasted reviewing, and makes it easier to overlook errors. I want more opinionated languages and frameworks.

Empathy, 11 days ago

If you are arguing against voting, then I’d like to know: do you think your chances are better if Trump wins, if Biden wins, or do you believe they are indistinguishable? I’m having trouble understanding this.

Empathy, 24 days ago

I kept seeing so many different ones recommended and I kept getting weird issues I didn’t understand with most of them. I don’t often need to make a bootable Linux USB, but every time, Rufus did the job quick and easy.

Empathy, 29 days ago

Rust, because I’m lazy and I want a compiler that helps me out. Performance is a pretty neat bonus.

Empathy, 1 month ago

For a while now, I kept seeing posts about the Israel/Palestine issue, and almost every time, when I looked at their poster’s history, they were full of negative news against Israel and the US (often with a negative comment from the OP about the US, even when the article isn’t about to the US), and often contained lots of positive news, comments and remarks about China and Russia. I find this very suspicious, but I may be overly cynical.

I’ve almost only been seeing this on lemmy.ml and lemmy.ca. Perhaps I’m imagining it, but I also feel like I’ve seen these accounts promote not voting during the next election.

I started tagging these accounts a few months ago and I frequently see their posts on the front page.

Empathy, 1 month ago

Insult to injury would be if they get Gameloft or some other mobile game factory to develop it.

Empathy, 1 month ago

I’ve been using both Perplexity and Kagi for searching things, and it’s working out pretty well for me. The main thing that I find Kagi useful for is filtering to Fediverse results (which tends to be mostly Lemmy threads).

It’s pretty expensive though…

Empathy, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

Are you using NextJS with the app router, or with the pages router?

Empathy, 1 month ago

For both frameworks, the directory structure controls the URL unless there’s an exception I’m unaware of.

One way to forward the cookie may be to read cookies from the API response headers and write them using the following documentation: nextjs.org/docs/app/api-reference/…/cookies

Empathy, 1 month ago

Perhaps I’m being a bit too optimistic, but access to information isn’t the same now as it was in the 20th century.

Although we have a lot of false information to filter through out there, we don’t have to rely on what’s available at the local library or what our friends and family believe. I hope that it’s going to be increasingly difficult to spread misinformation and fear mongering.

Empathy, 1 month ago

Which is the one with the snake logo?

Empathy, 2 months ago

I’m not sure if that’s what’s expected, but I also prefer an allow list approach to federation, and I answered on the survey that federation is important to me (as opposed to none).

I hope that, if many people answered like me for the same reason, it won’t give the impression that we want implicit federation.

Empathy, 2 months ago

Two days ago, I wouldn’t have felt particularly strongly about this sentiment, but my last few comments yesterday had some interesting interpretations…

Empathy, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

I’m a bit worried about the amount of people I see making this argument whenever I see posts about a TikTok ban/acquisition.

I’m getting the impression that, either:

1. People don’t believe there’s (significant) Chinese propaganda on TikTok.
2. People believe there would be (significant) US propaganda on TikTok following an acquisition.
3. Given the choice, people would rather see Chinese propaganda than US propaganda.

Am I correct? Is there a nuance I’m missing?

I can understand concerns over point #2 here, but #1 and #3 seem wild to me.

Empathy, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

If it were the US vs another democratic country, I would feel like that too.

I’m particularly concerned with China (and Russia) because:

• They are not a democratic country.
• They do not have freedom of speech like most countries
• As far as I perceive, they are generally enemies of well-intentioned countries.

I might have a different perspective though. I’m a fairly recent US immigrant from Canada.

Edit: I’d like to add, my tone may come across wrong over written text, I’m just trying to understand people’s overall perspective and whether mine is different, I’m not trying to argue and I’m not upset at you nor any of the commenters I’ve seen on similar posts.

Empathy, 2 months ago

I was wondering whether what felt like common sense to me was the same as what felt like common sense for others, and I see that between us it’s not.

I’m not gonna bother trying to argue with you, I doubt it would be productive in any way, I’m not gonna change your mind. Additionally, you’ve put a lot of words into my mouth and inferred that I believe a lot of things that I really don’t believe, which is a bit upsetting.

Empathy, 3 months ago

I really like the word you used, code smell. I often have a hard time expressing to co-workers in code reviews why something feels off, it just does.

Empathy, 3 months ago

I only worked there for a few months. I was not treated well.

They gave me most of my schedule within a few days of my shifts, and frequently called me in my off days to demand I come in. This is against official policy, but clearly it wasn’t enforced.

Additionally, I was blatantly lied to during the interview then gaslit. The only reason I accepted the job was because they had recruiters at my college advertising a program where students would only work seasonally outside college semesters. I wanted to focus on my studies and my college was very cheap. They reiterated that during my interview. A few days from my semester starting, they started listing several upcoming days where I’d need to work, and called me a liar for telling them I wasn’t supposed to work outside semesters.

There were other issues I’d rather not bother writing here.

The most insulting part of all this isn’t even how they treated me, it’s how I can’t bring that up to anyone without people jumping to poor lil Costco’s defense and saying it’s “for sure only the store you worked at”.

In case anybody feels the urge to call me spoiled, I also worked at Walmart and it didn’t really leave an impression on me. It was fine, my only negative experience there was one HR person.

Empathy, 3 months ago

If it was something self-hosted on the web, it may have been Clarity AI.

Empathy, 3 months ago

I think your comment embodies Rust more than any I’ve seen before

Empathy, 3 months ago

I’m trying out Kagi a little bit, and it has a federation search mode of some kind. I tried it for a search and it gave me results from Lemmy.

I don’t know yet how Kagi compares to Google in terms of results quality, I barely used it so far. It’s pretty expensive though.

Empathy, 4 months ago

That’s what I do all the time, and not on purpose. I don’t know what’s wrong with me

Empathy, 4 months ago

I use main because, although I never heard of anybody actually getting offended by master, it costs me nothing to use main instead. Also it looks prettier and seems to be the new convention ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Empathy, 4 months ago

I’ve been wondering for a long time whether I’d ever meet somebody else who doesn’t use their phone in the bathroom.

I don’t really judge the people who do, might as well be entertained rather than doing nothing, but I personally feel like my hands are dirty while I’m on the toilet even if I don’t do anything (probably just a mental thing). Also, even on the bus, I had a tendency to just get lost in my head.