@poppastring
It'd be great if you could get someone, anyone who is responsible for your Maths programming to read https://dotnet.social/@SmartmanApps/110897908266416158 - in particular when I covered the topic of e-calcs https://dotnet.social/@SmartmanApps/111164851485070719 where I covered the DIFFERENT ways that the different MS products do it wrong. The Windows "standard" calc says that 2+3x4=20, in "Scientific" mode it says that's 14 but also says 8/2(1+3)=8/(1+3), etc.
signed,
Maths teacher/tutor tired of hearing "but my calculator says you're wrong"
There is just no question in my mind that the culture of the fediverse (by any name) is a better model for civil discussion. But oddly, even many of its biggest champions have largely returned to Twitter, or pivoted to Threads, which may be a step up from Nazis, but thatโs a pretty fucking law bar.
@shoq
I noticed that and I'm thinking some of them aren't checking where the engagement is coming from. I recently, in a rare moment, engaged in some conversation there (I was all up to date with here, so, oh well, let's see what's happenning there), and one time I got back on I had 8 notifications, but I checked the profiles and 7 of them were likes from porn bots (and only 1 of those 7 was "this profile is hidden due to suspicious activity").
I've been noticing whole-machine slow downs whenever I heavily use my Dev Drive (for example, building source) that are just unacceptable.
A common example is I'll start a full build in Visual Studio and then go to type in Windows Terminal and everything I type will be delayed by multiple seconds. Even pasting will show only a few characters at a time.
@bradwilson
I don't have the link handy, but I remember @maartenballiauw did a blog about it comparing the difference in performance. TL;DR was some improvement but not a lot. For me I decided not worth the effort.
@mxtthxw@DavBot
If you're on Windows you can add a new virtual desktop and do your meeting there, then anything on your usual desktop isn't visible (unless you switched back there during the meeting).
Iโve been posting about wanting blogging to feel more like posting on here forever andโฆI think this gets me there. Why bother hosting a #blog and all of that hassle when your #Mastodon account could literally be a blog?
Itโs amazing what a well-maintained API enables in for client apps like this. When the UI is in play, Mastodon effectively becomes infrastructure
Im currently working on trajectory systems and forgot what tan() does and I kinda am embarrassed about that. Also I'm awful at trigonometry apparently. Haven't thought about it in a couple decades!
@Tearcell@sinbad
Yeah, I was going to say that, ๐ but I can also add to remember which ones are positive you can use ASTC - All Stations To Central - so tan is only positive in the first and 3rd quadrants (the 1st quadrant is top-right - where both x and y are both positive - then anti-clockwise from there).
dotnet does not appear to require a trailing backslash when you define a custom NuGet package cache path via env var NUGET_PACKAGES but Visual Studio does.
@bradwilson
The inconsistency around the trailing (back)slash is one of the most annoying things. First I need to remember if it's forward or backward on the system I'm currently on, ๐then I ALSO need to remember if there's one at the end or not (sigh). Have these people writing these things not heard of, you know, standards? ๐
This is genuinely an important question, the open web is certainly worth saving, and I for one do think about how every task I take on might contribute to or reverse those problems. I assume we need more compassionate people at big corps, not less.
The problems no amount of compassion seem to be able to assuage include the way the entire system is corrupt and the way all our taxes are used to support an empire that turns a blind eye to poverty and supports genocide.
@poppastring
Good luck with that Mark. I've tried myself to just get MS to fix their calculators so that they actually give CORRECT answers https://dotnet.social/@SmartmanApps/111164851485070719 with the end realisation I was just banging my head against a wall, so trying to change the culture in there would be near impossible, but I'm with you on trying to!
Seriously heard someone saying they don't listen to many black artists, because they aren't really into rap. Bitch please, feel free to share songs from Black artists from any genre. Here is one of my favorites, if you like this song please check out her other work:
Why did no one tell me that Sydney Sweeney โAnyone But Youโ romcom is a riff on Much Ado About Nothing?! Itโs charming af. You had me at Bryan Brown as Leonato. ๐ (But any Sydneysider will laugh at some of the geographic liberties takenโฆ)
@web_goddess
I like playing "Spot the Sydney landmark" when watching "The Matrix", were the streets have been given American names, the cars are parked on the right-hand side of the road, but you can see Australia Square, the Harbour Bridge, the Martin Place fountain, etc.