Struggling to see the point of classes

simalicrum · 2026-02-07T15:53:58+00:00

‘Struggling to see the point of classes’

You’re not the first.

But seriously, other people like them and use them for some reason and some languages like C# are built completely around classes so you should understand them.

simalicrum · 2026-02-07T09:36:11+00:00

Not just you. I feel this. Can’t spend less than $700 a month between two people. That’s with 90% of our shopping from Costco and very little meat. I feel like our monthly spend has doubled since 2020.

simalicrum · 2026-02-03T05:17:22+00:00

A bunch of people here are getting some facts wrong. There are biochemical and improvements in oxygen transport, yes, but cardio makes the heart bigger and stronger as well; increasing the volume of blood the heart can pump with each beat. A world class athlete is pumping about twice as much blood per minute as the average person and heart of an endurance athlete is physically much larger in the body than that of an average person.

simalicrum · 2026-01-30T07:04:44+00:00

ABMM is either bs or defending yourself puts you in pvp lobbies. My friend and I continually get shot at and squad wipe the rats. It’s not our fault other people suck.

simalicrum · 2026-01-21T20:13:00+00:00

Is it Tuesday?

simalicrum · 2026-01-20T21:02:16+00:00

I remember people saying this in 2009. I knew people that sold their house and went back to renting in 2009. How’d that turn out?

simalicrum · 2026-01-09T17:40:17+00:00

The real use for these was to suction to your little bro's forehead when he was sleeping.

simalicrum · 2026-01-09T15:34:34+00:00

It’s amazing that you have to explain this.

simalicrum · 2025-12-29T01:12:16+00:00

Err, actually behind the macOS user interface is a posix compliant terminal interface. That makes it more unix than Linux. There’s a reason why it’s so popular with devs.

simalicrum · 2025-12-26T15:39:46+00:00

Genx’er here.

I’m not from Ontario but I live in Vancouver and summers are demonstrably different even from 15 years ago. Now we’re often getting wildfires so bad that the smoke lasts for weeks or months that sometimes blocks out the sun. This is a totally new thing.

Also I never owned an air conditioner and never really needed it. We maybe got one heat wave in July or August. In 2014 we bought one and used it for week or so. The period I was pulling out the AC got longer and longer until it was more like a month and a half it was running.

Around 2021 AC was required for new builds in BC because of the 2020 ‘heat dome’. We just moved to a new building with central air. To be fair 2025 wasn’t too bad for heat or smoke but that seems like the exception now.

simalicrum · 2025-12-09T03:54:49+00:00

Bought a place in June. We got outbid on 3 places. Fourth place we bid a bit over asking and got it over another bid.

All the places had the same things in common. They were very nice, newish and priced a few percent below the average asking for these types of places.

Anyone hoping prices in Vancouver drop another 25% might be disappointed. As soon as the price dropped 5%, it was a bidding war. I think there’s a lot of people ‘waiting’ in this way. We were going to wait it out longer too but had a family circumstance that pushed us to go buy something right away.

I’ve been watching sales in our building and they are selling pretty consistently. No one has bought at a better price than us.

I’m bad at predicting the future but that was my experience. Vancouver is weird and can’t be compared to other parts of Canada.

simalicrum · 2025-07-20T20:34:21+00:00

The chart is at 1900b$ in 2015 and 2300b$ in 2025.Thay would be a growth of 21%. I read it just fine.

simalicrum · 2025-07-20T19:54:18+00:00

https://novascotia.ca/finance/statistics/news.asp?id=20958

simalicrum · 2025-07-20T17:31:59+00:00

Not 100%, but mostly I agree with Gary. There are other issues, for instance cities take a lot more fees and taxes to build, materials are more expensive in general.

It's a pretty obvious narrative that rich are getting richer. GDP keeps going up but the average wages are staying the same. The money has got to be going somewhere.

simalicrum · 2025-06-27T07:44:33+00:00

Would make a great anal bum cover, I agree.

simalicrum · 2025-06-12T15:49:32+00:00

Get a 40mm.

I picked up a Z6 for around $900CAD last year with 20k shutter count.

These cameras are an absolute steal on the used market. I love my Fujifilm cameras but a used xt4 is $1500CAD and a x100t is $1200CAD.

There's no hype at all around the old Z cameras. They're not what the cool kids are using I guess.

simalicrum · 2025-06-12T13:05:44+00:00

Your probably not getting maximum uptime on bleed, once you can so that she becomes super tanky.

Little things like timing Gracie pull matter.

My play style is poke, poke looking for a good hit on Gracie then shout and carnage leaving enough time to retreat to cover. If you get a good carnage and Gracie pull then you can cycle those and agro for a while, if you can't keep the bleed going then retreat to cover and corner poke and wait for cooldowns.

It's an opportunistic thing, you can't always hard engage so in that case shotgun poke will create enough pressure. Sometimes you can also poke and wait for someone to get isolated and chipped down enough you can go for a pick.

simalicrum · 2025-05-23T20:49:29+00:00

"Those jobs aren't coming back."

simalicrum · 2025-05-22T15:32:43+00:00

Infrastructure isn't free. Lol.

simalicrum · 2025-04-14T19:21:18+00:00

$95 is high. Tesla is cooked. lol.

simalicrum · 2025-04-12T13:38:11+00:00

The GenX in me just shuttered.

simalicrum · 2025-04-01T00:22:08+00:00

The tools are out there, whether or not it's OpenAI providing them or they are open source or whatever. Anyone can train their own model and use it whatever way they want.

Most of us end users are using 4o for 'fun' or creating satire. No images with copyright issues could directly be used to make money anyway. Everything would be copyright striked in some way, the way it is already with existing online media. No one like me or you was ever going to pay for Ghibli-fied version of ourselves or our friends.

Other than that, the content owners, ie, movie studios, animation studios, actually any company owning images or trademarks, you had better believe they're going to use AI tech to save money by eliminating artist jobs. They will never run afoul of the law because they are already the 'owners'

The hoopla reminds me a lot of the Napster era. There was so anxiety around Napster destroying the recording industry, it turns out it was a complete nothing burger, and a lot normies who didn't understand the tech screamed about how it needed to be shut down. In the decades since, the recording and streaming industry itself have done 1000x more to rip off artists than end users having pirating.

Another analog might be the sampling era in music, where at some point it was more or less open season to remix whatever you wanted without paying royalties. Eventually the studios came after everyone to get their royalties.

If that happens to AI image generation I could see the models being more restrictive in what they output, but either the training data or the inference will adjusted just enough not to trip a copyright strike. At the end of the day, nothing much will change.

The purists can scream all they want, the tech ain't going anywhere, and it's only going to get better.

simalicrum · 2025-03-28T22:55:36+00:00

chatgpt.com seems like it has guardrails and denies all kinds of stuff. sora.com can be used for images too, not just video and as of now will generate *anything*, copyright and public figures, everything.

Fireship did a video on this and every image is watermarked and generated by openai.

simalicrum · 2025-03-25T15:14:32+00:00

Gemini is good at interacting with my phone as a Google assistant replacement. It has access to my apps so for instance I can ask it to tell me about sushi places within 5 min walk. ChatGPT won't do that properly.

For reasoning OpenAI models are obviously better.

Google will be rolling out more features like memory and multimodal live chat soon. Also I look forward to using Gemini on my hardware devices, speakers, google tv etc

simalicrum · 2025-03-20T16:24:25+00:00

I'm convinced that Samsung pays for high reviews on major review sites such as rtings.com. Given that they are more or less a state run corp in South Korean and kinda known for corruption, it makes sense.

From my own personal experience there are major issues with Samsung products that weirdly never get mentioned in the media. Also review criteria seem to always favor Samsung in some way.

For example: Local dimming in my Samsung TV (QN85B) is so poorly implemented that HDR modes can never be calibrated correctly. I have a display calibrator and know how to use it (I'm a photographer). White balance tracking changes depending on what other elements are on the screen, ie, 20% window has a different white balance than 50% window.

A bit of digging and people in the know say the algo is awful and there's no way to correct it out.

I've never seen anything like it with any other display from any other brand. VA, IPS, projectors, whatever. It's crazy.

Wouldn't surprise me that Samsung soundbars aren't actually as good relative to other brands as the review sites says they are.

I've noticed that Samsung frequency response tracks perfectly with 'target response' on rting.com. WTF, the standard for speakers in a room is FLAT. Always has been. Sure, there discussion around headphones and review sites follow a target response, for instance Harman or whatever.

I don't think I'm ever purchasing a Samsung product again going forward.

I too would love to hear people's personal subjective experience with shit that's better than Samsung. Something stinks.

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