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corytheboyd corytheboyd @kbin.social

Computer guy, occasional gamer, shitty music producer. Denver, CO

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[Good news] European car safety body is coming for touchscreens. The European New Car Assessment Programme mandates that key controls need physical buttons or switches
  • Money. Screens are cheap, just like the companies doing this. It fucking sucks, I agree. Needs to be made illegal with remediation mandates forcing these companies to replace every touch screen with physical controls of a certain minimum quality for free. Will never happen, at least in the US. Maybe hope for EU.

  • Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (2016) ⭐ 6.7 | Comedy, Drama, Music
  • Knew she was a freak when she started talkin’

  • Is this a family reunion?
  • These are actually pretty good for NA (https://athleticbrewing.com/)

  • Games that respect your time.
  • Rocket League. Games are quick, you can play one or many in a session. I don’t know if epic has ruined it yet, but last I played the good old core game was still there.

  • Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019) shows the masterful camera work of Quentin Tarantino, as he films this iconic scene one-handed.
  • I had such a good time watching this movie. I had just gotten out of a bad relationship, and got tickets to see it at the Alamo draft house in SF in whatever amount of millimeter film is the cool one. It gave me life. I will never forget.

    Also big lolz at more feet stuff were had haha, he knows what he’s doing.

  • [News] Hayao Miyazaki’s "The Boy and the Heron" Wins Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film
  • It was a wild ride, and so fun to look at, well deserved!

  • Ernest needs to quickly delegate or this instance will quickly die
  • It doesn’t NEED to be anything, this is run by Ernest, for free. It’s worse than that, he is paying for it and not being subsidized with ad revenue. He can totally ask for help if he wants, he can also say no to that and continue running the site on his own. You are not entitled to this, good grief.

  • Ernest needs to quickly delegate or this instance will quickly die
  • This is like complaining that the little mom and pop sandwich shop can’t product sandwiches as fast and uniformly as Subway. This clearly isn’t for you, just go to Reddit or something if you want stability. I love the little slices of janky internet we get from activitypub, im sick of everything needing to become highly available around the globe supporting millions of requests per second with no downtime tolerance.

  • Suyu, a potential replacement for Yuzu
  • Also, how do I verify that this fork isn't malware wrapped in emulator code?

    The code is open source, you read it all, ensure that you download exactly the code you read, and you compile it yourself. That’s the only way, in general, to accomplish this.

  • Welcome to The Flavortown Gym
  • The flavor type Pokémon has no known weaknesses

  • Balatro removed from sale temporarily due to age rating changing from 3+ to 18+ without warning.
  • Yeah lol learning poker hands is all it does, which is trivial. The hard part of gambling is learning odds and how to bet. There is a little bit of odds calculation in the game, but it’s incredibly unrealistic with all the modifiers, and they change on each run.

  • Baldur's Gate 3 developer asks fans to "please stop" sending threats over upcoming mod support
  • More like the internet, computers without internet are pretty chill.

  • For those thinking of going back to reddit. Gaze upon this comment section and reconsider.
  • Meh, sounds just like the general internet stranger rhetoric here too. If you don’t like Reddit… stop posting about Reddit?

  • How widespread is the use of Copilot, CodeWhisperer and other AI assistant in your company?
  • It really does need to be stated that AI code completion is indeed NOT a learning tool. It’s an accelerated “copy/paste code from stack overflow” tool. Useful in its own right if you just want some rough code fast, but it’s not going to teach you anything. There is no easy way out of having to deeply understand code. It’s your job as a programmer.

  • ditch discord!
  • I mean, I get it, but when the wrong tool is used so ubiquitously, you have to start asking questions about why people aren’t using the “right” tool. Forums seem to end up being hostile to newcomers, with all this “did you search the forum first you fucking noob?” mentality. Having a living place for real-time questions and discussion just feels better, same way email exchanges feel terrible after using Slack for so long. You can still have incredibly toxic people in real-time chat servers, obviously, but there just seems to be less overall stress to keep the posts in the forum “pristine” or… whatever that was.

    Not being able to search for old content is a huge con to real-time chat. Even if the history is retained forever (in self-hosted instances), real-time messages just aren’t the best bits of data to recall later like forum posts. Clear drawback.

    Still, people are using discord, not to spite forums, but because it works, is free, and is easy.

  • Strings do too many things
  • You joke, but Rails actually does make Integer do too many things lol. I’d argue they’re useful things, but it does so by patching the core Ruby Integer class :p

  • Strings do too many things
  • Strings became ubiquitously used for a reason, they map really clearly to the way we think as humans. Most importantly, when you’re debugging, seeing string data is much friendlier than whatever data your symbols map to (usually integers, from enum structures)

    No, obviously it’s not the most efficient thing in the world, but it hardly matters, and you’re not getting anyone to stop because you’re “technically right”.

  • [Josh Strife Plays] Was it Good? - Warhammer 40'000: Dawn of War
  • Excuse me. This was one of the greatest RTS and 40k games of all time, and I will accept no other answers.

  • I’m looking for a self hosted solution to this problem:

    I’m looking for a self hosted solution to this problem:

    I want to create a full text search index from a collection of PDF manuals (text, not images, I don’t care about OCR here). There is a UI to search for text matches in documents, and clicking a search hit opens the PDF scrolled to where the search hit is (bonus points if the search hit is hilighted)

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