WormFood

joined 2 years ago
[–] WormFood@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago (8 children)

object orientated programming is the wrong idiom for almost all problems, and even in the few cases where it makes sense, you have to be very careful or it'll hurt you

[–] WormFood@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

I'm probably not going to pay $10 a year with additional fees to have my music on a website unless a lot of people are already using it

[–] WormFood@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

I understand that this is a big loss for the emulation community, but as someone who did a bit of romhacking during COVID, I found their moderation to be terrible and arbitrary.

[–] WormFood@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

it's still mostly red hat even for arm, though Cray (who still supply a lot of machines here in the UK) ship a horribly butchered version of SLES

[–] WormFood@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

typeset my thesis using latex, biber and zotero. Very painless, the only slightly painful part was configuring the character encoding

[–] WormFood@lemmy.world 30 points 8 months ago

as an occasional creator of internet videos,I would much rather host my own videos, because bandwidth is actually very cheap. but YouTube has a complete monopoly on internet video, so I have to host my video on their website, subject to their weird and arbitrary conditions, their trigger happy copyright system, and their general terrible treatment of their creators. they pay an absolute pittance for impressions, which is why most professional YouTubers use other revenue streams

the company, Google, that you are paying, didn't make the videos, doesn't fairly compensate the people who did, and they are effectively holding them and the very concept of internet video hostage

people on Lemmy mostly support a free, non-corpo, decentralised internet instead of the parasites at Google because Lemmy is free and decentralised and non corporate

get real

[–] WormFood@lemmy.world 48 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I picked up a radxa zero last year and have been quite enjoying it. the hardware is better than a pi zero but costs less. same with a lot of other SBCs

but raspberry pi has a lot of inertia behind it, a lot of software and hardware support. people will keep using them, just like they keep using Ubuntu, even though it's a soulless corporate husk of what it one was

[–] WormFood@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

on the one hand, cuda is vendor lock-in and if we'd all just agreed on an open standard decades ago then we wouldn't be in this mess

but on the other hand, rocm is crap and adaptivecpp is very half baked right now, at least in my limited experience

[–] WormFood@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

I love kde, I love the file picker, I love window management, I love dolphin, I love the panels, I love Kate, etc... but every time I have to switch to a new tty to restart kwin, part of my soul dies

[–] WormFood@lemmy.world -3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

a more genuine take would have included a series of scenarios (e.g. drunk/distracted/tired driving)

I agree. they did tesla dirty. a more fair comparison would've been between autopilot and a driver who was fully asleep. or maybe a driver who was dead?

and why didn't this news article contain a full scientific meta analysis of all self driving cars??? personally, when someone tells me that my car has an obvious fault, I ask them to produce detailed statistics on the failure rates of every comparable car model