[-] notnotmike@programming.dev 4 points 7 months ago

Arctis 7 was truly the best headset, I have three pairs at this point. None of them broken - all were purchased because the headset was so good I wanted one for the office and for my wife.

However, Steelseries seems deadset on making worse versions of the Arctis with every iteration. The 9 was altogether disappointing and they are really trying to force all the features like the chat mix into Sonar software instead. Really disappointing.

[-] notnotmike@programming.dev 3 points 8 months ago

Okay, so your arguments are:

  1. I haven't heard it's a problem, so it must not be
  2. The breed is common and people aren't going to stop getting them so I may as well get another

(1) Is, hopefully, very obviously subjective. Just because you haven't seen a news article about it does not mean it's a problem. And unfortunately, being a couple thousand years old does not come close to the massive amount of time it took the ecosystems to get this way. By Earth's history standards, these cats have been there for a blink of an eye.

(2) Is never a good excuse to do anything. It's group think and it's a massive problem in society. I may as well justify owning slaves because "other people aren't going to stop". You surely see how nothing will change if everyone thinks that way.

I'm very glad to gear you neuter the cat at least. It's at least helping combat the issue a bit.

I just want to make the world a better place, that's all. I'm not trying to attack or shame you, I just want to save the birds (and cats) :(

[-] notnotmike@programming.dev 3 points 9 months ago

I would imagine its a case of mutually assured destruction. Neither wants to repeal it because they know once they do, they open up Pandora's box and Congress will be even more of a disaster than it currently is

[-] notnotmike@programming.dev 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I see a lot of posts that are spam that get a shipload of down votes. Usually advertising some pills or something

Fortunately, they are removed pretty quickly

Edit: Hey look one showed up

[-] notnotmike@programming.dev 3 points 9 months ago

They're more expensive because they aren't filled with advertising. Consumer TV prices these days are heavily subsidized by brand deals and ad space

[-] notnotmike@programming.dev 3 points 11 months ago

Seems like we're outliers here 😄 I keep it for those acquaintances who aren't important enough to merit texting directly, but still might want to message me on messenger every now and again. Check in with it once every couple of months and see if anyone messaged me, scroll through the feed, get annoyed at all the "memes" and then exit.

There's a new extremely annoying trend where a post at a "local" company says "hey we need to offload this expensive item, type @highlight in the chat to enter" which ends up pinging your entire friends list. Very annoying, super scummy.

[-] notnotmike@programming.dev 3 points 11 months ago

That's what I was thinking.

The fan in the thumbnail (and the one he tries in the video) fails because the fan's intake is pulling the fan away from the sail (like an airplane propeller). However, I wonder if you redirected that intake to the front of the boat while directing the output to the sail, could you get more thrust? The fan's intake and output would then be working together.

Also the leaf blower could work in theory but I think there's too much friction for the leaf blower to overcome. If it did have enough to push you, then you'd also be pushed sideways by the blower's output as well

[-] notnotmike@programming.dev 3 points 11 months ago

I like Pitch Meeting because he's excellent at pointing out plot holes, of which there are many, and isn't quite so nitpicky as Cinema Sins

[-] notnotmike@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

Agreed, multiple if statements are much more readable, in my opinion. I generally think switch statements are always just a little too ugly unless their dead simple.

Switch expressions, on the other hand, are gorgeous code (as long as you don't use expression-bodied cases). I am always looking for chances to use switch expressions. So concise

[-] notnotmike@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

Either Cut or Jubilee did this on YouTube, but with a much shorter timeline

[-] notnotmike@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

I just picked up Red Rising based on a streamer's recommendation, I'm looking forward to it

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