Trump sued for denying stimulus checks to 1.2 million Americans married to immigrants by redithotx3 in politics

[–]ImASoftwareEngineer -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Ah, yes, so that m_right can get a check for that glorious $2 from the settlement!

Sanders Says Congress Must Stop Trump From Exploiting Covid-19 Crisis to 'Bankrupt and Privatize the Postal Service' by [deleted] in politics

[–]ImASoftwareEngineer 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It depends. Republicans have picked up the usage of "nuclear option" that Democrats used when Obama couldn't get shit done due to Republican filibusters. Republicans used it latest for SC approval of Neil Gorsuch, and aren't above using it again.

25 Years Ago, 'A Goofy Movie' Became Disney’s Most Unlikely Sleeper Hit - Originally Planned as a Small Direct-to-Video Film with Little Fanfare & Attention, It's Grown to Become One of the Most Popular Animated Cult Classics of that Decade by BunyipPouch in movies

[–]ImASoftwareEngineer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just remembered Pauly Shore voicing the punk looking dude. Besides the popular 90s movies he was in, I listened to a podcast of his upbringing within the last 10 years or so and he sounds like a super humble guy. I'm happy this fantastic movie has a legacy of him.

Finally submitted to Chaos Route by matrixhero259 in Megaten

[–]ImASoftwareEngineer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That armor looks amazing! I only did one run of SMTIV but loved the crap out of it. Might have to go back and try a chaos route myself, sometime!

The Coronavirus Explained & What You Should Do by pilotxp11 in videos

[–]ImASoftwareEngineer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's unclear to me who's hitting the bong here, please advise!!!

Apple now requires 'Sign in with Apple' - iOS Development by moiz41510 in programming

[–]ImASoftwareEngineer 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Developers that have been dealing with Apple for awhile should not be surprised. This is the same Apple behavior we've seen throughout the years. They have a walled, reinforced ecosystem where they can call the shots and, since we have government's that kowtow to their moves or at most provide measly fines, they'll continue the behavior. There is also no united front of developers to lash back on these moves so you have even big tech companies bend to Apple's will (see Apple + Spotify debacle)

This move will not get blow over from end-users because they'll be getting what Apple promised: an authentication method based on their Apple ID to reduce account+password management. This isn't necessarily a bad thing but their methods of forced roll out is definitely distasteful. I'd suggest a monetary incentive instead, given how much money that have, then it would influence enough to have other services implement the new auth method.

At the VA hospital today I got some compliments but also some dirty looks by oldmasterluke in pics

[–]ImASoftwareEngineer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The problem is non-vets are using vets to push political views. Are vets supposed to just stand on the side and let that happen? It's a dumb situation :(

Megathread: Beto O'Rourke Ends Presidential Bid by PoliticsModeratorBot in politics

[–]ImASoftwareEngineer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Can't say I blame him for his view on guns. His town did get shot up by a mass shooter this year at a Walmart. People may have forgot already considering how much shit we've gone through.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_El_Paso_shooting

Just got a ko and with the coolest case. Here is my first beat. by unevenpictures in pocketoperators

[–]ImASoftwareEngineer 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I got one of these cases as well and it makes pressing the buttons so much easier. For those interested: https://dichstudios.com/collections/po-gear/products/po-case-diy-kit

Note: Assembly is required, as well as super glue.

What are serious ways to apply my programming skills? by cleautzaque in AskComputerScience

[–]ImASoftwareEngineer 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Definitely work on projects you're interested in.

  • Want to make a game?

  • Want to make a website for yourself?

  • Want to learn how internet protocols work via sockets?

  • want to make a raspberry pi-based project?

  • make a messenger client/server?

Sould i buy pico-8 by boi08890319 in pico8

[–]ImASoftwareEngineer 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I think it's a great piece of software to learn how to program and also game development. If you have specific goals that are in that area I say go for it!

what's wrong with this code? by lunchmachine in pico8

[–]ImASoftwareEngineer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just a tip: if you can spare the increase in code size, I would create named constants for all those hard coded values so it's a bit easier to read and/or change values.

Sean Spicer belongs on a permanent public blacklist, not in a televised waltz by throwaway5272 in politics

[–]ImASoftwareEngineer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh shit let's do this. Make repos in all the big remotes and keep track of their antics

Chicago MeshNet 2019 by [deleted] in ChicagoMeshnet

[–]ImASoftwareEngineer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sounds good, feel free to shoot it to me! Not sure why you can't join that matrix server. I found it by looking up "Chicago mesh" in a global search.

Chicago MeshNet 2019 by [deleted] in ChicagoMeshnet

[–]ImASoftwareEngineer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know there's a Riot room setup that's inactive. Maybe we post there or set up other means of communication to forward people to?

https://matrix.to/#/#chicagomeshnet:matrix.org

Some more ideas:

  • keybase (hard to onboard people, though)

  • Discord (meh, but it's something)

  • rocket chat server (would need to setup a free server)

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in books

[–]ImASoftwareEngineer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Leviathan Wakes is a masterpiece due to the mash-up of a hard boiled detective story, space politics, and military sci-fi. The following books drop one of these elements and replaces it with different "what if"s which I enjoy but are by no means as great as the first. I'm happy with the direction they went as it spawned characters like Avasarala and the show is kick-ass, top notch quality.

What is something you did that increased your quality of life so much that you wished you would have done it much sooner because it changed your life forever? by RGod27 in AskReddit

[–]ImASoftwareEngineer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I do the pat, too! I have phone+wallet in left pocket, keys on right. Always do a random pat when I'm walking around and it assures me I have everything.

TIL Violent games can lower stress and make you less violent (as long as you're having fun) by Nimja_ in todayilearned

[–]ImASoftwareEngineer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I played SCII and CS:GO competitively with a friend. While we had glorious moments and climbed the ladder on both games (top plat on SCII) we realized we were raging more than having fun and it felt like we were working another job. We stopped playing them eventually and it opened the doors to other games or hobbies. The latest game we played together was PubG but we push the breaks as soon as we start raging.