[-] jeremyparker@programming.dev 12 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

If copyright protected the creatives then there would be a lot less antagonism against copyright. Most people are against it because it’s become a lever of control for big companies to use against both the creators and the public.

[-] jeremyparker@programming.dev 12 points 7 months ago

And I'm sure Microsoft would be happy to not have to do it anymore. And I personally would much prefer an actual typing system rather than a glorified linter.

Tho I wonder if it will end up being like jQuery, in the sense that, by the time core jQuery features got added to vanilla js, jQuery had developed new features that validated its continued existence. Maybe TS will go further than what gets absorbed into JS and keep it alive.

[-] jeremyparker@programming.dev 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Edit: tldr: I think I probably could've saved myself a lot of time by just saying that discord is like slack but for friends/fun.


I didn't think people use it like lemmy/Reddit. People use it like IRC. That's the analogous tech. IRC is better in almost every way, but not in the most important ways: ease of use, and voice chat.

I know only a handful of people who could set up a server for IRC, but in discord, it's a one-button process. Sure, you can use a public IRC server, but then your channels are harder to organize and you don't have as much moderation control. I dn't think

I would vastly prefer IRC, but even if it was easy to set up, I would still need something for voice chat, and, sure, there are plenty of voice chat tools, but not ones that integrate with text chat so well.

I think a lot of people like the API and the bots built from it, tho personally that's not something I use much.

I'm in probably ~50 servers: groups of friends, video game guilds, tech chat (eg HTMX, Lit, Svelte), random interests (eg mechanical keyboards), and community servers for video games (eg a couple of LFG servers, a couple servers where I can ask questions to tryhards, streamers' communities, etc).

I would vastly prefer to use something FOSS, but there just isn't something that does it so well and so easily -- and even then, I'd probably have to use discord for a bunch of these things.

[-] jeremyparker@programming.dev 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

This Just in, Singer from Punk Rock Band Says Something Provocative, Leftist

[-] jeremyparker@programming.dev 11 points 8 months ago

What are you talking about? Just because they aren't calling it "surge" doesn't mean it's not surge. Unless you're just saying you prefer the term "gouging"?

In a statement Wednesday, Wendy’s clarified that “dynamic pricing” will include new menus that could offer discounts at slower times of the day, denying the company will raise prices during peak demand.

Lowering prices, also known as "discounts," and then restoring prices after the "discount" can be understood in reverse: prices go from "normal" to "increased".

Given the fact that they (like every other fast food company) always charge the absolute maximum the market will bear, then any price -- even a reduced one -- is still going to be what they calculate to be the maximum. The fact that the maximum is different at times of "increased demand" is exactly what surge pricing is.

[-] jeremyparker@programming.dev 11 points 9 months ago

The case that undermines your point is icon toggles, since they don't need a label, but a checkbox does. For example, dark mode icon buttons: They usually show sun or moon icons, which hits OP's point: if your in dark mode, and the button shows a moon, that would make sense -- except the button doesn't put you into dark mode, at that point it puts you into light mode, so, shouldn't it show the sun?

[-] jeremyparker@programming.dev 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Raping multiple children while supposedly being the spiritual leader of a community: sideways job transfer.

[-] jeremyparker@programming.dev 10 points 11 months ago

I'm in the same boat, and I have been for a loooong time. It's awesome, because, half the time, I see a game get super cheap, and I'm like, I've been waiting for this moment for 5 years (eg, Skyrim.) Then, the other half the time, some amazing game will just fly by my head and I won't even notice, like, huh, wtf is this, $5 and like 50,000 YouTube videos about it..? (Eg, Just Cause 2.)

I put hundreds of hours into both Skyrim and JC2, for a total of like $10.

[-] jeremyparker@programming.dev 11 points 11 months ago

How hard are the puzzles? I've been coding for a while but I'm self taught and I have no idea whether I'm any good or not. I'd love to give them a shot but I have no idea whether they're totally out of reach or doable. What level of developer are they intended for?

[-] jeremyparker@programming.dev 11 points 11 months ago

That's Wikipedia's approach, arguably one of the most successful "open source" projects in history - certainly not without its problems, but overall it's pretty great

[-] jeremyparker@programming.dev 11 points 1 year ago

As a librarian irl, if I could make a horribly reductive characterization of the difference:

Librarians' top priority is providing access Archivists' top priority is preservation

Do you seed? You're a librarian Leech and no seed? Archivist

be a librarian, we're better

[-] jeremyparker@programming.dev 11 points 1 year ago

I'm no apologist but literally the country of Germany let that dude do all that shit but we've kinda let the whole country off the hook for that at this point, seeing how it was a really long time ago and the people involved aren't in charge anymore.

Have you seen their offices from the 1970s? It's like wall to wall Eames chairs. IBM deserves another chance.

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