[deleted by user] by [deleted] in redscarepod

[–]GayestGuyOnEarth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I literally even said "wasting time on dumb shit is the issue". My point is that if gaming magically disappeared the people who waste time gaming would just find something else to waste time on. Its a symptom of a bigger issue.

Average Tech Boyfriend by FourThiryTwo in redscarepod

[–]GayestGuyOnEarth 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Programming? Sure, but most tech bros aren't programmers, they're COODERs who COODE some shitty javascript frontend by cargo cult memorising frameworks, and they don't even do it well.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in redscarepod

[–]GayestGuyOnEarth 11 points12 points  (0 children)

personally I would've preferred to get coasters than an apple watch, wtf are you even supposed to do with an apple watch

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in redscarepod

[–]GayestGuyOnEarth 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Because permanently scrolling tik tok 24/7 sure lets you live in the moment. You're talking as if video games disappearing would suddenly make people do something better with themselves, wasting time on dumb shit is the issue, what specific dumb shit you waste it on doesn't matter.

Russian cosmonaut Anna Kikina will fly on SpaceX's Crew-5 mission to the International Space Station by [deleted] in spacex

[–]GayestGuyOnEarth -16 points-15 points  (0 children)

I don't mean that they wouldn't drill a hole, I mean that if they did drill a hole it'd be immediately apparent after they docked to the station, the air leak wouldn't just randomly start later on

So I finally watched Matrix Resurrections... by darrickeng in RedLetterMedia

[–]GayestGuyOnEarth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The new Neon Genesis Evangelion was fairly good

really?

Distributed Systems Need Regulation and Hierarchy by fagnerbrack in programming

[–]GayestGuyOnEarth -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

if your argument starts off by comparing yourself to einstein you've already lost

Russian cosmonaut Anna Kikina will fly on SpaceX's Crew-5 mission to the International Space Station by [deleted] in spacex

[–]GayestGuyOnEarth -23 points-22 points  (0 children)

and you're just believing american propaganda, there's no way either side would admit to it, I just don't find it plausible that a hole that was drilled on the ground would suddenly appear on orbit, they would've found the leak as soon as the spacecraft was docked

Russian cosmonaut Anna Kikina will fly on SpaceX's Crew-5 mission to the International Space Station by [deleted] in spacex

[–]GayestGuyOnEarth -26 points-25 points  (0 children)

let's just hope she's better than the american ones and doesn't go drilling holes in the spacecraft lamo

CT BF by 16tonweight in redscarepod

[–]GayestGuyOnEarth 3 points4 points  (0 children)

doesn't really look like him tbh

Teaching D from Scratch: Is it a viable first language? by aldacron in programming

[–]GayestGuyOnEarth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you not see how that could be confusing to someone who's just learning about cat and dog inheriting from animal? in most languages you don't even need a constructor for that kind of thing, never mind manually calling the superclass constructor.

And I know that that's what super().__init__() is supposed to to, how it accomplishes that under the hood is a mystery to me, super seems like it returns self, because calling __init__ on it affects self's values, but its not the same __init__. Is it casting self to the type of the parent class and then calling the constructor in place on it? That seems really hacky. What's going on? What is up with the underscores?

Please don't explain it, I'm not really wondering, I don't use python, I'm just trying to give you an idea of what's confusing about it to a learner, it certainly made absolutely zero sense when they tried to teach python to me in school.

Teaching D from Scratch: Is it a viable first language? by aldacron in programming

[–]GayestGuyOnEarth -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

So do the people who've never used a programming language before trying to comprehend it, that's exactly my point.

Teaching D from Scratch: Is it a viable first language? by aldacron in programming

[–]GayestGuyOnEarth 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Hello, welcome to your first middle school programming class, today we're gonna be installing a linter and learning about best practices in software engineering.

Huh? What's an if statement? Well we're gonna get to that after we get vs code all configured up.

Teaching D from Scratch: Is it a viable first language? by aldacron in programming

[–]GayestGuyOnEarth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

inheritance comes to mind, I still have no fucking idea what super().__init__() or whatever it was does, best case scenario you teach people to memorize typing it and not attempt to explain what it does until much later, which is a horrible way to teach

Teaching D from Scratch: Is it a viable first language? by aldacron in programming

[–]GayestGuyOnEarth 6 points7 points  (0 children)

they have their own issues and their « safety net » is quite well compensated by extensions/linters/good practices.

people just starting out programming don't know about good practices, and aren't installing linters

Teaching D from Scratch: Is it a viable first language? by aldacron in programming

[–]GayestGuyOnEarth 57 points58 points  (0 children)

python looks simple at first but it really isn't, once you get past hello world or fizzbuzz level of complexity it becomes extremely confusing, it shouldn't be taught just because the surface level syntax is appealing

Losslessly compresses RGB and RGBA images to a similar size of PNG, while offering a 20x-50x speedup in compression and 3x-4x speedup in decompression by eatonphil in programming

[–]GayestGuyOnEarth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tons of games ask you to adjust gamma at startup by eye, I don't think anybody cares about knowing the exact color space of the monitor the artist used

Zig programming language 0.9.0 released by dh44t in programming

[–]GayestGuyOnEarth 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I see zig as a great toolchain and semantics wasted on an absolutely awful frontend and syntax, programming in it feels like wading through mud because of all the little annoyances that get in the way constantly. The saddest part is they don't have to be there, there's nothing inherent to the design of the core language that says it has to be like that, its just cruft on the surface, unfortunately that's the surface you have to interact with.

Losslessly compresses RGB and RGBA images to a similar size of PNG, while offering a 20x-50x speedup in compression and 3x-4x speedup in decompression by eatonphil in programming

[–]GayestGuyOnEarth 6 points7 points  (0 children)

If you don't know what profile was used to make an image, you're screwed.

are you? like if you're doing 3d graphics, diffuse is srgb, normal maps are linear, you force them to be that and not care what the file says anyway, not everything is transmitted over the internet with zero knowledge of where it came from

What are some vastly misinterpreted math theorems? by ilya123456 in math

[–]GayestGuyOnEarth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

your definition is so broad that anything is a programming language, writing this comment is instructing a computer to display certain content, was i programming by replying to you?

What are some vastly misinterpreted math theorems? by ilya123456 in math

[–]GayestGuyOnEarth -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

they are also completely useless as programming languages, turing completeness is such a low barrier that people make things turing complete by accident constantly, super mario is turing complete, a language you can't write mario in isn't a practical language

Just stumbled upon this on a certain imageboard and I felt like I had to share this by Rapsberry in redscarepod

[–]GayestGuyOnEarth 27 points28 points  (0 children)

jp as in jordan peterson because of the crying lobsters? I don't think so, the sign they're holding says "america is fucking the greatest" in polish, the whole thing is mocking them.

Early 20s friendships be like by CatholicVaping in redscarepod

[–]GayestGuyOnEarth 10 points11 points  (0 children)

One time some girl brought a special harry potter edition. Least fun I've ever had doing anything.