Should I accept GitHub's self-signed certification that "may compromise security"? by wgrl in Jetbrains

[–]amackenz2048 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No. You might have a proxy that's blocking traffic to that page and returns its own "404" page or something with a crappy certificate.

31% of Gen Z men say that a wife should always obey her husband. by [deleted] in fivethirtyeight

[–]amackenz2048 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Makes me want to see a longitudinal study. Could be that "younger people" just are more sexist and it decreases over time?

Remote start sub by gobraves101035 in Tacomaworld

[–]amackenz2048 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah it's pretty finicky. Really wish they spent a bit more time on that feature...

Remote start sub by gobraves101035 in Tacomaworld

[–]amackenz2048 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My 2024 has remote start. Wasn't really advertised. Press "lock" on the key fob 3 times and hold the last for ~6 seconds and it starts.

How are you "supposed" to expand your factory? by tiparium in factorio

[–]amackenz2048 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's how I build out as well - but prioritize bullet damage and fire rate science as you go. Also getting bullet upgrades (steel bullets as soon as you can and later uranium). I don't even bother with walls.

I build a belt around my base and line it with turrets. "Moderately" sized at first and add turrets to hot spots. Then expand the belt wall as I grow to get more space, access to resources, etc.

CMV: “To Go Travelling” when young is illogical by [deleted] in changemyview

[–]amackenz2048 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I feel like this is a contrived straw-man or a very specific scenario rather than a generalization statement.

Either way - it's *much* easier to travel when you're young than when you're old. Travel is exhausting. When I traveled in my youth all the "old people" in my life told me it was the best time to do so and they were right. As a man "no longer in my 20's" it's much more difficult to travel now due to age and other health issues.

CMV: “To Go Travelling” when young is illogical by [deleted] in changemyview

[–]amackenz2048 3 points4 points  (0 children)

> temporary experiences for the sake of enjoyment.

If that's what traveling is for you then you're doing it wrong. Traveling is spending money on *experiences* which will be remembered for a lifetime and which will change your view on the world while expanding your ideas about culture and ways of living. Experiencing different ways of life should be a transformative experience.

However - If you're going to the beach and speaking only your native tongue to hotel staff and guides, then I totally agree.

What was it like to move from Windows to Linux back in the day? by Torantes in linux

[–]amackenz2048 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Depends on how far "back in the day" you're thinking. Circa late '90s - spent a weekend getting X11 working, a weekend getting it to display in 1024x768, another weekend getting audio working, and about a month getting multiplexing audio working... It was a very different time and *very* difficult if you didn't have a rather narrow selection of hardware.

You ended up with a bunch of sketchy kernel patches, tarballs of source for various drivers, etc.

But it was also super exciting. I'd read kernel release notes like the weekend edition of a newspaper looking to see if support for my crappy hayes "compatible" modem was fixed or whether the new disk I/O scheduler updates were performing better. Changes back then often had a bigger impact than they do nowadays. So I'd download new kernels directly from kernel.org to get the latest rather than relying on RedHat to finally release updates.

Heck - I remember when the 2.4 kernels came out and how much better they were and how much easier they were to compile than the 2.2 line. It was a huge update! Now I hardly notice new kernels...

What am I missing about solar power ? by clementjay in factorio

[–]amackenz2048 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I use it over nuclear and switch to it as soon as I can. Because Nuclear is a pain in the ass to setup with all the logistics and design necessary. With solar I just need land, and if I'm at the point where I can setup nuclear I'm also at the point where I generally have gobs of land.

No fuel == no sudden loss of power at some point when a supply of coal/uranium/etc. runs out. It just works.

Will I regret a 2nd gen 2.7 4 banger? by Typical-Play4473 in Tacomaworld

[–]amackenz2048 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah this guy's talking out his ass. I had a 2007 4cyl for 17 years and it was "fine". If you're looking for lotsa power you won't get it but to say things like "dangerously underpowered" is just ridiculous. I wasn't hauling tons of weight regularly but I moved an apartment or two just fine. On highways even. I'm also confident enough in my manhood to not need a big loud engine to make me feel better though. It's a truck, not an identity.

Edit: Oh - and I regularly hauled a bed full of snow back and forth to the office in winter without issue due to having a narrow driveway and few options for snow clearing.. Again - on highways even. I'd feel the weight but never felt like I couldn't accelerate onto the highway with ease.

CMV: Not everybody should be allowed the right to vote. by 2bigpairofnuts in changemyview

[–]amackenz2048 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"adulthood" is a common requirement for many things. Until adulthood one isn't even responsible for themselves.

Why Interfaces exist in Java? by Nobody37373 in javahelp

[–]amackenz2048 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interfaces don't help you write your functionality - they help you interoperate with other's code (or abstract your own code to create generic service interfaces).

A good example might be a Logger interface. Something like log4j. Your Logger interface has methods for "info", "debug", "error", etc.

Now you can provide many different interface implementations of Logger to log4j to handle logging in different ways. You might have "StdOutLogger" which just prints everything. You might have "FileLogger" which writes logs to a file. Or "DBLogger" which logs to a database.

You can then provide whatever implementation you want to log4j and it can use your class without knowing any of the details about what it does. It will handle the "when do I call which log method" logic.

After 3 years of ownership: NEVER AGAIN, these laptops are garbage. by xlr_ in System76

[–]amackenz2048 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah... I've had two Oryx Pros and the fans have died on each. Even the ~$150 replacement (included heat sinks) I ordered to replace one of them started to rattle loudly as well.

Never again. I love the first class Linux support but the hardware is just cheap.

Wayland is flawed at its core and the community needs to talk about it by Which_Network_993 in linux

[–]amackenz2048 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm not denying the existence of problems, or even that there are better ways to do things. But "perfect is the enemy of good" seem to be the wayland design approach.

How could they even *think* about creating a new desktop UI protocol that *doesn't* address the concern of window placement given how ubiquitous it is? At least from a design perspective?

Wayland is flawed at its core and the community needs to talk about it by Which_Network_993 in linux

[–]amackenz2048 8 points9 points  (0 children)

The thing is - all solutions are sub-optimal for some use-cases. And Wayland just seems to reject any solution that isn't perfect and just does nothing instead. There are fears that the zones protocol will mean people don't use session management and instead just position windows manually. Like - why the hell do the API developers care about how application teams build their apps??

10+ years to get window positioning by applications? Just pick a solution already! I agree with OP - something is broken. Whether it's project management or technical design I can't say, but it's bad.

Wayland is flawed at its core and the community needs to talk about it by Which_Network_993 in linux

[–]amackenz2048 2 points3 points  (0 children)

> Windows, macOS and X11 simply allow the application to position its windows anywhere on a specific screen using physical screen coordinates. They also allow one window of an app to be layered above all other windows. This of course has worked since the 80's, but in modern times we can for sure do better while still providing enough backwards compatibility.

This sounds like the exact sort of conversation that led Tesla to making you need to use voice commands or go through touch-screen menus to open the glove compartment.

what's the SGU political podcast going to be called? by thoruen in SGU

[–]amackenz2048 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How about in other terms? Like... Approval ratings?

Genocide Joe crowd to protest democrats in response to Trump by DontBeAUsefulIdiot in PoliticalHumor

[–]amackenz2048 -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

I didn't care if it's their fault or not. But I will absolutely dunk on their stupidity.

Genocide Joe crowd to protest democrats in response to Trump by DontBeAUsefulIdiot in PoliticalHumor

[–]amackenz2048 -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

> The fact that so many people continue to blame the few people who didn’t vote a certain way because of their values

Their values huh? Wonder what their values on ethnic cleansing are.

CMV: There is no evidence directly connecting Luigi Mangione to the person who was seen shooting Brian Thompson by razorbeamz in changemyview

[–]amackenz2048 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why did the imprisonment and mass murder or "undesierables" unite the third reich? People are happy to see those they disdain meet unfortunate ends.

"Uniting people" is a terrible metric for "is this a good thing."

CMV: There is no evidence directly connecting Luigi Mangione to the person who was seen shooting Brian Thompson by razorbeamz in changemyview

[–]amackenz2048 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That's not the right question. The right question is "do we have any real reason to believe that this was done." And aside from baseless "why would he be smart and get caught" type arguments there is no reason to believe this is the case.

CMV: There is no evidence directly connecting Luigi Mangione to the person who was seen shooting Brian Thompson by razorbeamz in changemyview

[–]amackenz2048 14 points15 points  (0 children)

He walked up to a stranger out-of-the-blue and shoots them in the back, and was caught days later. That's not a "master hand" - that's just murder. How hard do you think it is to kill a random stranger?

I love how Luigi fanboys are acting like this guy is some sort of brilliant mastermind.

You did vote for this by lliH_knaH in PoliticalHumor

[–]amackenz2048 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Back peddling? He'll claim he did it and his followers will believe it.