sugar_in_your_tea

@sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works

Mama told me not to come.

She said, that ain’t the way to have fun.

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sugar_in_your_tea,

First, they will ignore you, then they will laugh at you, then they will fight you and then you win.

We’re at the end game.

sugar_in_your_tea,

TL;DR - when your guns are really inaccurate (like, give or take a meter), putting a bunch together increases the odds you’ll hit something. If you spread them out, you’ll hit less stuff. Modern guns are a lot more accurate, so cover makes more sense.

The Earth Awaits - a site for checking affordability of various areas (www.theearthawaits.com)

I was doing a little EOY accounting, and I wanted to see where I could afford to retire to with my current amount of investments. I searched a bit, but couldn’t find anything good, and then I remembered the old /r/financialindependence sidebar....

sugar_in_your_tea,

I used Opera until they bailed on Presto in 2013. I then switched back to Firefox and I’ve been using it since.

Just use Firefox or one of its derivatives if you care about the open web. It has real ad blocking (uBlock Origin extension), is fast, and basically all the features you’d expect from a browser. Give it a whirl, you’ll probably like it.

sugar_in_your_tea,

Relevant cicada news for 2024.

sugar_in_your_tea,

It’s bizarre in that I’ve never heard of it before. I’ve heard of paying for online access, expansions, and new characters, but not for NG+, which is usually just replaying the same campaign with higher stats and maybe more difficulty.

sugar_in_your_tea,

Fourth person

Doesn’t exist. We/us is first person plural. Some languages have a little complexity here (e.g. Tagalog has “kami” which means “we without you” and “tayo” which means “we with you,” but they’re both still first person plurals).

  • first person - speaker
  • second person - audience excluding speaker
  • third person - everything else
sugar_in_your_tea,

The problem isn’t with testing (which is an issue), but standardization on specific solutions. When everyone needs to use the same thing, it’s a lot more valuable to attack it.

So what we need is more alternatives that work together.

I don’t know anything about the trucking industry, so I’ll use IT instead. A lot of companies standardize on Cisco equipment, so when there’s a breach, everyone is screwed. The problem isn’t that Cisco is insecure, it’s that Cisco is ubiquitous, so one breach screws over everyone. If networking equipment was more a la carte, it’s unlikely a breach would impact all of the equipment used (e.g. a Mikrotik Router, Mikrotik Switch, Ubiquiti Access Points, etc). But bundling solutions is the name of the game for these large operations, which increases the fallout from a breach.

That’s why Windows gets so many viruses, it’s not because Windows sucks (it does), it’s because it’s such a huge target and you’ll get so much more value from attacking it than attacking a potentially easier target.

sugar_in_your_tea,

It’s probably worth it if they’re built better, which they probably are if they’re intended to run continuously. So better heat dissipation, mosfets, etc.

sugar_in_your_tea,

I’ve looked, and it’s surprisingly difficult to find one with decent resolution in a decent size. It seems they’re all 1080p nonsense.

I’m not even looking for fancy features like OLED or whatever, I just want 4k in >60" screen size without any smart features. Why is that so hard??

sugar_in_your_tea,

Cool, now do the API and I’ll consider not actively avoiding your website.

sugar_in_your_tea,

Can confirm, I was super excited about D about 10-15 years ago when all of that had recently been resolved. It’s a really cool language, but it didn’t really get much traction and Rust solves a lot of the problems I have with it, so I use that now.

That said, here are some features I really miss from D:

  • compile-time function execution - basically write macros in D; I saw some madlads writing a complete shader render loop at compile-time
  • opt-out garbage collection - you get GC by default, but it’s pretty easy to make portions or all of your code safe w/o it
  • explicit scopes for finalizers - destructors can be run deterministically instead of “eventually” like in many GC languages
  • safeD - things like tagged pure and safe functions; basically, you can write in a checked subset, but it’s opt-in, unlike Rust’s opt-out
  • nice functional syntax
  • reentrant coroutines
  • really fast compiler

But at the end of the day, Rust provides more guarantees, enough features, and a fantastic ecosystem. But if both had the same ecosystem today, I would give D a serious consideration.

sugar_in_your_tea, (edited )

team level decision

Exactly. The main difference between my office and Rockstar in the article is that ours was a bottom up decision, whereas Rockstar’s was a top down one.

In fact, our company policy is 3 days in office, but our team tried it and decided we’re less productive that way, so our VP overrode company policy to go back to 2 days. We’re not expected to come in if we need to stay for some reason (e.g. waiting on furniture delivery or the car isn’t working). In fact, one coworker hasn’t come to the office for months because her dog is prone to seizures and she needs to be there to intervene so he doesn’t hurt himself. Several of my coworkers are immigrants and work remotely for a month or more at a time when they go back to their home country. I’ve done the same when I visit family out of state. Some coworkers come in every day because they get distracted at home.

It’s a totally nontoxic atmosphere where everyone is treated like adults. Our current policy came from a team vote where most voted for 2 days in office, so that’s what we do. And as long as people don’t abuse the flexibility, there’s no reason for it to change, and in my 3-ish years working here, I’ve only had to have one conversation about the in-office policy (my coworker was working from home due to their car being in the shop, but after a month it was becoming abuse of the policy; a gentle reminder later and it hasn’t been a problem since).

sugar_in_your_tea, (edited )

Eh, I like their DLC policy. I’d rather pay a little every year or so and get a continually updated game than pay a lot every few years with no updates in the meantime. But that’s only true for grand strategy games where a new release isn’t likely to significantly change gameplay, just add flavor and whatnot.

The one change I’d make is making DLC free after a few years, so there’s less to catch up on. That would reduce the barrier to entry for new players like subscriptions do, while still funding ongoing development by existing players who don’t want to have a subscription.

I usually wait a year or so to get a discount, especially since it takes about that long for them to fix the bugs anyway.

sugar_in_your_tea,

Yup, I’m interested in cryptocurrencies as an alternative to fiat currencies, but I don’t currently own any because it’s just far too unstable. I may buy a small amount as places continue to accept it, mostly because I think it’s cool.

sugar_in_your_tea,

Maybe here on lemmy, but I don’t think that’s a majority opinion in the broader public.

This article does a decent job explaining it, EV sales have leveled off or are down across the industry because the EV market has saturated the early adopters and hasn’t yet grown into the early majority. A few things need to happen for mainstream adoption:

  • prices need to come down
  • charging network needs to improve
  • range needs to improve

A reduction in sales means one of those isn’t in line with what the majority wants.

I really need lower prices and don’t care about the other two. I want something for my 25 mile commute, and it doesn’t need to be fancy, it just needs to be inexpensive and reliable. So give me a car with 100-150 mile range where the battery pack is cheap to replace (those sodium-ion batteries look nice).

For our family car, I need better range. We often go on road trips with 400+ miles between stops. Give me that and a better charging network and I’ll consider switching the family car over.

sugar_in_your_tea,

Looks like it’s just:

  1. Page prompts user for write access to directory
  2. User grants access
  3. …
  4. Shocked Pikachu when page overwrites files

The proper fix here IMO is to not let the user grant write or read access to an entire directory, only the files the page needs. Ideally, the only way a page could get write access to a directory is if the page owns the directory (i.e. the browser creates it for them and the user copies files into it).

sugar_in_your_tea,

Both sides are wrong here, though Israel is more wrong. But that doesn’t make Hamas right, it just means we should condemn Israel harder than Hamas.

I’m not rooting for anyone here, I’m just hoping it will end. But unfortunately there isn’t much I can do about it.

sugar_in_your_tea,

You can have automatic updates without automatic restarts. I have automatic updates on my work Mac and it never restarts itself. My other computers are Linux, so I control when those get updates.

The finals game doesnt run on linux so i switched back to windows 11.

Linux is all good if you only play singleplayer games. My friends started playing the finals yesterday and it doesn’t run on linux because of EAC. Windows can run all my games without any proton switching and all the nvidia features like ray reconstruction and pathtracing with frame generation just works (alan wake 2 looks so...

sugar_in_your_tea,

Feel free to make another post to discuss it then. Something like, “Games that don’t work on Linux because of EAC - links to voice your support for Linux compatibility included.” That’s constructive and can get into how to best ask for support (e.g. I want to play on my Steam Deck, but this needs Linux EAC support enabled).

But saying “I’m bailing on Windows because of game X” isn’t helpful, it’s just complaining. Instead of that, focus that frustration onto something constructive that might actually solve the problem.

sugar_in_your_tea,

Then please downvote them. Fanboyism is stupid regardless of what you’re shilling for.

I only post if I think it’s directly relevant and constructive. Like noting Steam Deck compat for a game, or if someone asks about Linux on something I happen to be browsing. Then again, Linux isn’t new or fresh to me, it’s just the thing I’ve been using for 15 or so years, so I suppose I’m less excited about it than someone who just found it in the past year or something.

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