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hornywarthogfart

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  • Computer Science Courses that Don't Exist, But Should

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  • Well said. I find I have a hard time with trying to get devs who cut their teeth on Node to take a moment and think before just reaching for a dependency. A dependency might be the right move but taking a moment to consider is a bare minimum and most people don't do that.

    I'm trying to keep my panic over how that behavior translates to AI code in check but it's a struggle given human behavior time and time again.

  • Anti Facial Recognition DIY

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  • Yes. The capacitors can carry a high charge for a long time. Much longer than you'd think. Also there is a pressurized glass tube with very strong magnets which could lead to sever pinching or breaking the pressure tube.

    It's definitely not something people should do without knowing what they're doing.

  • Computer Science Courses that Don't Exist, But Should

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  • We desperately need to teach people when a 3rd party dependency is necessary and not just optional to save writing a single function (cough left pad cough).

    Also when the dependency is really good but other considerations override it being a viable option like security or code ownership.

    How we all didn't collectively learn our lesson from left pad baffles me.

  • They say word-of-mouth marketing is the most effective form of marketing. What games did you (not) enjoy that came well-recommended by friends to you, and why did they recommend it to you?

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  • I don't have a term for it but it sounds like you fall into a specific group of gamers. They enjoy gaming but they thrive on the difficulty curve. The curve is the draw no matter what it's wrapped in.

    Fighting games, easy to pick up, unbelievably hard to master.

    Shmups: easy to pick up but unbelievably hard to master.

    Certain rage games like Bennet Fodey or the Trials series or musical games like DDR which, again, have a crazy difficulty curve.

    I'm in the same boat although I do enjoy the other games. They just aren't nearly as good as people hype them up to be if not outright bad. In my experience, it is entirely the difficulty curve that drives our obsessions with these types of games.

  • They say word-of-mouth marketing is the most effective form of marketing. What games did you (not) enjoy that came well-recommended by friends to you, and why did they recommend it to you?

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  • Gris is a hard game to recommend because, while it is a game, it doesn't really do anything particularly unusual for a game. The platforming is passable and there really isn't a narrative in the sense of the game telling you what is happening. If you go into it expecting a game it will be disappointing or at least just ok.

    Instead, if you go into it expecting a visual and audio journey through the emotional prossessing of grief, and growing to move forward, it is incredible. Especially if you happen to play it while working through your own grief.

    People who recommend it need to provide a caveat that it is less the game mechanics and more the emotional journey.

  • Memes @lemmy.ml
    hornywarthogfart @sh.itjust.works

    He always has a look that he was slightly surprised moments before.

  • If A.I. is so fast and efficient, and CEOs are paid so much, why not replace CEOs with A.I.?

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  • Might end up with more humanity in business decisions by replacing the empathy-devoid CEOs currently running things with something trained on a larger sample of people.

  • Webp

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  • Windows is mostly so entrenched because Microsoft applied monopolistic practices in the 90's to ensure it was the most used operating system thereby cementing their place for decades to come.

    Then, they applied monopolistic practices in the cloud industry to ensure vendor lock-in at the OS level with their most popular services (like Office).

    You are right that most people just don't care though. I don't blame them, there is enough stress in the world.

  • Webp

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  • For the first point, I'm just going to throw out that sending the content can be preferable given how likely the link is to go dead eventually. There are a number of things I can no longer find because of this although it is admittedly an edge case.

  • xD.

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  • I never used it on Linux so I can't speak to that but it's pretty bad on Windows. It wasn't great a couple years ago (on Windows) and it's only gotten worse. The downward slope of the product quality seems to be steeper each year as well. It's really frustrating to witness since they could have put out something great.

    They were already sunsetting Skype, MSN Messenger was basically gone (or was it previously rolled into Skype? I can't remember). They could have started from scratch and built a really great communication tool using all of the knowledge they gained running the aforementioned products and not carrying forward all of the tech debt and glue they had to add to make the older services work with modern architecture. But they didn't and now the majority of the corporate world suffers relentless little pain points while using the software.

    Not to mention it's poor quality has splash damage: loss of productivity due to issues and performance, increased IT tickets, increased computer specs to run the new features MS thinks we all need despite people not asking for. All of that amounts to millions (billions?) of dollars more spent each year for products that are themselves subpar. That cost is only growing as well.

  • xD.

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  • Yep 100%

  • xD.

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  • Yeah the entire piece of software is just really poorly optimized, they use ambiguous language and labels, their controls are constantly in the way (when sharing), and so forth. It is objectionably a bad experience because so many fundamental things about it could be improved drastically.

    Instead they needed a modern messaging application and Skype was poisoned by their handling of it so they took a bunch of individual things they had lying around and jammed them all together into a product they called Teams. If you actually look at how it works that is what they did. It's why MS Streams is used for video, Sharepoint is used for network stores, AD is used auth, and so forth. It isn't a single product but rather a shell of discrete things that were made to work together but clearly not originally designed in that way given the performance.

  • xD.

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  • Since I just had to deal with a Teams issue, I'm going to list some reasons I dislike it. Obviously, everyone's mileage is different and something that bothers me may not bother others. However when people complain about Teams, it's generally because of the following:

    • It's slow. I don't care what MS says, Teams is really slow. It is slow to start, it's slow to load content, and it's slow to upload content to, and it's slow to navigate around in. This doesn't mean it's painfully slow, but it's slow enough that I think about it and that means it's too slow. There is no excuse for performance like this in 2025 unless the excuse is you're packing as much telemetry and data collection garbage as possible into the application.
    • The integrations are really clunky (and also perform poorly). For example, if I upload a 30 second mp4 file it will go into Sharepoint and be served in MS Teams through MS Stream. Think about that for a second. A video file needed to be uploaded to Teams, shipped to Sharepoint for network storage, then read by MS Streams to feed back to Teams. Just render the fucking file in Teams. This isn't hard. With the way they have it setup, the performance is terrible, the user experience is terrible, and it's insulting that we're being fed this bloated garbage. For context, I'm on a fiber connection and I still see buffering issues and slow video load times only in Teams so it clearly isn't just something on my end.
    • It randomly loses the ability to connect. Everything else works including other MS products but Teams won't connect. Within the last 2 years, there have been at least half a dozen times where I turned on my computer in the morning and everything works except Teams. After a lot of searching for a solution, the fix was to delete two registry keys. Seriously, I have to go into the registry occasionally to delete two keys that are in no way tied to Teams based on their location in the registry before Teams will connect again when this happens. What the fuck is happening that Teams relies on two obscure registry keys that aren't even located under any MS Teams nodes. Fucking awful.
    • Did I mention performance? It is worth mentioning again because of how terrible it is. It is usable and gets the job done but people have no idea how much faster this could be if the bloat was removed. Slack isn't exactly great from a performance perspective either but (at least in my experience) it's much better than Teams.
    • I keep getting prompts about copilot in Teams which is infuriating considering I've declined every time and it's still enabled and still prompts me. I don't need AI to summarize a one-sentence chat message FFS and I certainly don't need help writing that sentence. Stop interrupting my flow to popup messages about features I've already told you I don't want to use.

    The majority of the above comes down to bad design leading to bad UX and performance. Why are they using a Streams instead of rendering the video in-app natively? Because it was cheaper to just tie into their Streams service. Why is it that only Teams randomly loses the ability to function? Because for some reason it relies on a legacy registry connection key because...reasons?

    There isn't a single bad thing about MS Teams, it's a bunch of kinda bad things that together make the product terrible. We should demand better of our software products but all leverage has been given to the people who already control these things so we're just screwed from getting actual good software made.

  • What computer life hacks are your most used?

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  • The - works with git branching as well for those who didn't know. git checkout - will switch to the previously checked out branch so it effectively toggles between your two most recent branches.

  • What computer life hacks are your most used?

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  • This is a huge one for me. For those who don't know, this brings up the rev-i-search utility which allows cycling from most recent to oldest commands executed. It also supports partial finds so if you did 'cd' it would cycle the most recent change directory commands.

    The forward search (in case you're somewhere in the history stack) is ctrl+s and operates the same except crawls the command history forwards.

    I use these constantly in my normal workflow and they save a ton of time.

  • Thumbs up to people dying.

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  • Can anyone see the token person of color or did they not even bother this time?

  • The driver for my mouse occupies over 1 gb

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  • Yeah and unfortunately it's going to get worse when AI agents are also always running in the background (which is inevitable, let's be honest).

  • The driver for my mouse occupies over 1 gb

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  • I get what you are saying and this is definitely a factor but I think the bigger influencer was mobile adoption. As soon as smartphones took off it was inevitable that we would see a surge in cross platform frameworks/libraries.

    The fact we tackled this problem by shifting everything to web apps was also inevitable given the more simplistic deployment requirements and maintenance costs of a website vs native application.

    I feel like I am shouting to the void when I talk about performance of modern software being unbelievably bad.

  • The driver for my mouse occupies over 1 gb

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  • One could say they are streets behind.

  • Whats the most quotable movie?

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  • This is the proper answer.

    "Would I lie??"

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
    hornywarthogfart @sh.itjust.works

    You must design an icon for a save function that can be easily understood by anyone in the future. What does that icon look like to you?