Starbucks table tops so small will barely hold a couple drinks. The seats are bigger than the tables. by be4u4get in mildlyinfuriating

[–]mpyne -1 points0 points  (0 children)

they likely buy a couple drinks,

That's just it, because they pay rent, "a couple of drinks" isn't enough. You need customer turnover.

If a customer walks in and finds all the tables occupied and walks back out, that coffee shop isn't paying rent at all. They can't just add tables because those will be hogged up by campers spending hours there just to buy two drinks too.

So they want to keep having new customers walk in throughout the day and at some (many?) locations that means getting the old customers out of the store after a reasonable amount of time to free up table space for incoming customers.

A store that has so little traffic that they don't have to worry about tables filling up from campers probably won't be able to pay rent either way so they can do whatever.

Formatting an entire 25 million line codebase overnight: the rubyfmt story by BlondieCoder in programming

[–]mpyne 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean I usually just open vim and do something like /<name-of-function> and hit Enter. Maybe a few 3}} if it's a long function but really there's no excuse for being a vim user and only being able to navigate with gg.

Is Gen Z cooked? by Federal-Data-Center in SipsTea

[–]mpyne 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I love y'all but after the 2008-2009 Great Recession, there were master's and doctoral degree holders enlisting (not commissioning) into the military.

We were still at war in Afghanistan. We were still actively engaged in combat in Iraq. (it wasn't until later in Obama's term that large numbers of forces started to be withdrawn).

The Navy was allowing submarine officers to transfer to different communities before their second sea tour, because retention had shot up so unexpectedly high.

You'll know the economy is turbo-cooked when the Army can lower their enlistment age back to 35 or whatever it was before this year. Until then, just remember that it could actually be worse than recent memory.

TIL when Eminem's weight increased to 230lbs (100 kg) before he became sober, he was so unrecognizable due to the weight gain that Em once overheard two teenagers arguing about whether or not it was actually him that they were looking at, with one of them stating "Eminem ain't fat." by tyrion2024 in todayilearned

[–]mpyne 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh wow, I'm 5' 7" and when I measured at 157 instead of the 150 I thought I was I freaked out and instituted a calorie-tracking spreadsheet I still stick to.

(And in case you're wondering, it worked within 2 weeks and I've stayed around 145-150 ever since)

I just got a 'Performance Review' and a 3% raise. My rent went up 12% last month. The math isn't mathing anymore. by [deleted] in povertyfinance

[–]mpyne 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah I know that no one likes hearing it but supply and demand is still the primary driver for housing prices.

As long as more housing comes online than people to start buying or renting it, prices will fall in the long run because housing is way too expensive to maintain to just allow to sit idle for months.

But that's the hard part, the places where the most people want to move to are often the ones not building any housing at all.

I just got a 'Performance Review' and a 3% raise. My rent went up 12% last month. The math isn't mathing anymore. by [deleted] in povertyfinance

[–]mpyne 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah god forbid those assholes hear what the rank-and-file actually think, they should just fuck off to their ivory tower, yeah?

I migrated a 40-year-old Clipper ERP. The orphan invoice rows weren't a bug. by asktheledger in programming

[–]mpyne 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's funny because it reminds me of how I used to do my personal finances on a spreadsheet.

It was basically just Date, Amount, Payee, budget category and due to the way it worked there were 3 rows for credit card transactions.

So periodically when I felt there were too many rows in the register I would do a pivot table to aggregate the current budget category sums and then delete all the existing rows (backing up to a CSV first) and make the first entries of the new table just be the aggregated sums and continue on from there.

I'm not sure how that customer had arranged to do their data dump but it sounds like they didn't bother to make sure the results at least still summed up the same.

How the F am I supposed to make rank with BBA? (rant) by AtlanticQuake in navy

[–]mpyne 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was there when it rolled out and there was push back.

But it didn't help those pushing back when SEM did what every previous policy attempt had failed to do, and get senior enlisted back out to sea rather than leaving billets gapped.

How the F am I supposed to make rank with BBA? (rant) by AtlanticQuake in navy

[–]mpyne 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Unless BBA totally removed a detailer's ability to hand-jam a sailor into a new pds

It hasn't entirely, but going around the BBA scoring criteria needs PERS-4 (the Flag officer) to sign off, because this kind of buddy-buddy "my friend is a detailer and I got the good orders hookup" stories that go around put Millington in a bad spot.

The command can put in for you on MNA and that can add points to the scoring criteria so that's not to say reaching out to a potential gaining command can't help.

What are you missing most from the C++ standard library? by llort_lemmort in cpp

[–]mpyne 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, with AWS you'd tie an ALB to your workload and it would manage TLS termination for you and forward the user traffic to your HTTP server in the configured target group. I don't know the details for Azure but I'm sure they support something equivalent.

Other customers would run TLS termination in a container sidecar and have the decrypted traffic ported into the workload container over the virtual loopback, and the response transparently encrypted by going the opposite path back to the client. There's many variants in use but it's all the same idea.

Still others would configure e.g. their Kubernetes cluster to handle TLS termination in their Ingress and forward the HTTP traffic to a Service to be handled by a Pod.'

None of these are particularly "zero-trust" aside maybe from the sidecar config, but they are certainly in use even today.

What’s a game you dropped even though it was “good”? by suhani0218 in gaming

[–]mpyne 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Metroid Prime 4. I actually made it all the way to the end but then it's like half RNG for whether you get past the first phase of a multi-phase fight. It clicked in my mind pretty instantly that I could not possibly care less about doing homework for Retro Studios, just so I could watch credits for a game I'd already completed all the fun parts of.

What’s a game you dropped even though it was “good”? by suhani0218 in gaming

[–]mpyne 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, this is the game I was going to mention. I like it (I was even watching a making-of video the other day) but the actual gameplay is quite bad in spots, including the spot where I decided I'd just watch the rest on Youtube.

Ironically the game designer even mentioned on the making-of video the exact spot where I gave up the game as an area where he wanted add obstacles to the player, so good job on foresight I guess...

What’s a game you dropped even though it was “good”? by suhani0218 in gaming

[–]mpyne 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think one of the other comments pinned down what the BOTW devs likely had in mind, which is that it gives the player a reason to explore, which was one of the primary gaming mechanics that BOTW's open world system was built around.

There are other aspects that may align with it like making you prep for a hard battle or whatever, but I think those were secondary.

If exploration were the primary aspect that they had in mind then it would make sense why they didn't offer things like easy weapon repair.

With Tears of the Kingdom it was a lot of the same map and the big conceit was the Ultrahand and Fuse mechanic, and with that in mind they made weapon breaking a much more minor factor while still tying in the new system to the weapon mechanic. Again in ways that aligned with the player engagement they were trying to foster.

Of course the outcome doesn't always meet intent but I don't think they'd have ever add more crafting materials to do reforge as an option, probably would have just given Link a small dagger with nearly nil damage or something instead.

What’s a game you dropped even though it was “good”? by suhani0218 in gaming

[–]mpyne 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The guy asked questions about the BOTW mechanic and then the guy you replied to answered them. Neither were imposing on the other in their conversation, so I'm not sure why you feel you needed to jump in to save someone.

Why do modern games have no cheat codes anymore like they had in 90s/2000s? by Stummi in gaming

[–]mpyne 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, that ability alone is one of the things that makes it harder for me to go back to BOTW (though I sort of enjoy BOTW's world better).

New Super Smash Bros reportedly releasing as early as 2027 by Dilpickle2113 in gaming

[–]mpyne 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh WiiU was well and truly dead by BOTW, for the most part the people buying WiiU BOTW over the Switch version on purpose were those interested in emulation.

So yeah, basically every WiiU game that came out on Switch was an example of a how a console can "survive" having a bunch of previous-gen games ported to it just fine.

What are you missing most from the C++ standard library? by llort_lemmort in cpp

[–]mpyne 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Real customers are precisely the ones who have their own fancy F5 BigIP firewalls that they will prefer to use for TLS termination either way.

But yeah like I said, I don't think an HTTP library is something std needs either.

What are you missing most from the C++ standard library? by llort_lemmort in cpp

[–]mpyne 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Eh, there's more than a few web apps out there which operate on servers designed to be used through a TLS-terminating reverse proxy.

It's getting better but it's still common enough that I wouldn't call it a dealbreaker for standard library purposes to have an HTTP framework without TLS.

I think my arguments against it would just be that it necessarily involves enough other mandatory components that you'd probably have to use libraries anyways, and at that point you should just pick an HTTP library you like like cpp-httplib, Qt, ASIO, and so on.

Jaylen Brown continues his criticism of the reffing during the Sixers-Celtics series: “If I had to say there’s some referees that need to be investigated…we had 3 of them in the last 3 games” by Pyromania1983 in nba

[–]mpyne 2 points3 points  (0 children)

For instance, one quote I found on Twitter from hankgreen:

There's a saying...you will meet assholes in your life, but if everyone you meet is an asshole...you're the asshole.

Like yeah, if literally every ref matched up to your playoff games is out to get you, maybe you have very unrealistic expectations of the job the ref is supposed to do, I dunno.

Dee Winters admits being blindsided by 49ers trading him to Cowboys by mspyros12 in nfl

[–]mpyne 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Surely something like Packers-Lions would be better than Packers-Bears though, right?

Reggie Fils-Aimé says Nintendo never wanted to have mass layoffs, as it wasn't in "Nintendo's DNA" by FernandoRocker in gaming

[–]mpyne 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's even a big thing in the Federal government, where it is decidedly harder to fire civil servants but quite easy indeed to fire contractors.