[-] houseofleft@slrpnk.net 10 points 1 week ago
  • Am driving into a wall
  • Turning or breaking in time sounds tricky
  • Might as well accelerate, maybe car will take off and fly over wall?
  • Woops, I died!
[-] houseofleft@slrpnk.net 20 points 1 week ago

AI: "Have you tried funding public transport and regulating the carbon industry?"

Ok, now we need to make a new AI so that AI can solve global warming but without using an existing solution that might marginally inconvenience the mega rich.

[-] houseofleft@slrpnk.net 28 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Public transport would be a much more effective and cheaper solution, but we're all looking at EVs because it means not having to change anything about the status quo.

[-] houseofleft@slrpnk.net 9 points 1 week ago

It's good to see some JSO court news that isn't peaceful protesters going to jail with crazy harsh rulings.

I know this isn't the important issue, but my brain is really forcing me to ask:

How did this protest work? What kind or glue? Was it some super strong glue or something? How did they get unstuck? MY CHILDISH BRAIN NEEDS MORE INFO ON THE STICKINESS OF THE GLUE!

[-] houseofleft@slrpnk.net 14 points 2 weeks ago

Short answer is no, I think because what tools you need for programming change so much based on the development you're doing. C++ developers need compiler toolchain stuff that Javascript developers would never need to look at and vice versa.

Curveball answer is that modern extensible IDEs with the power of language servers and plugins have kind of become this. I'd massively recommend properly getting into one of the following and learning how to configure new languages and plugins:

  • VScode
  • Neovim
  • Emacs
  • Helix

(Sure I've probably missed some great options, feel free to flame me on why notepad++ should be OPs first choice)

[-] houseofleft@slrpnk.net 12 points 2 weeks ago

I wish I'd read this years ago! I've nearly bankrupted myself buying a new machine each time, thanks!

[-] houseofleft@slrpnk.net 9 points 2 weeks ago

Not only that, but only collective action and politics can give people the choices they need to reduce climate change.

It's no use telling people not to drive if there's no public transport system. And people can't individually will their energy to have a generation mix.

[-] houseofleft@slrpnk.net 13 points 3 weeks ago

So, putting aside the questionable morals of this person. I'm not sure alt right reddit threads are the election swing spot they seem to think.

[-] houseofleft@slrpnk.net 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Good to see that Saudi Arabia and Indonesia are doing such a fantastic job meeting their target of unlimited planet melting!

Egypt and Morocco are a little under target though which is a shame.

[-] houseofleft@slrpnk.net 10 points 1 month ago

This is such a good attitude! I cut all meat out of my diet a long time ago, and when I mention it, people often say something like "I'd love to but I couldn't commit to never having meat again".

You don't have to! It's amazing if you do, but you're still gonna make a sizable impact on the cause you care about if you reduce your intake.

It's odd that people don't have this with other issues, the idea of "reducing purchases of disposable plastic" or "buying fairtrade more" make total sense to people, but food is still often cashed out in these "all or nothing" terms.

[-] houseofleft@slrpnk.net 11 points 1 month ago

Well not for the people taking them, but you can make heaps of cash doling then out! (sarcasm)

[-] houseofleft@slrpnk.net 23 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I'm a data engineer, and have seen an ungodly ammount of 200-but-actually-no-stuff-is-broken errors and it's the bane of my life!

We have generic code to handle pulling in api data, and transforming it. It's obviously check the status code, but any time an API implements this we have to choose between:

  • having code fail wierdly further down the line because can't parse the status
  • adding in some kind of insane if not response.ok or "actually no there's an error really" in response.content logic

Every time you ignore protocols and invent your own, you are making everyone sad.

Will take recommendations of support groups I can join for victims of terrible apis.

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