BougieBirdie @ Bougie_Birdie @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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I was in a thread the other day about what things make us feel stupid, and for me it was front end development. Saying it out loud made me realize that I should probably take another kick at the can, and I'm starting on React today.

Software's one of those tricky things where sometimes you never feel like you're very good at. Every thing you learn makes you realize there's more to learn, and as you become more knowledgeable sometimes you might actually feel less knowledgeable. The Imposter Syndrome kicks many a new developer's ass, so try to bear in mind that you probably know way more about software than before you started, and now you have about a year's experience to boot!

Good luck to you!

Oh hey, that's really cool! A lot of the music I like to sing along to frankly isn't popular enough to get the karaoke treatment

How do you get started learning about that? Do you need a high quality source with a separate vocal track, or can you somehow isolate the vocals from a simple rip?

Super cool hobby, good luck to you

Okeydoke, thanks for the explanation.

I don't really have any more evidence and I agree that silence on the topic would be damning. I guess I'm more inclined to give the benefit of the doubt, but I understand you can't moderate based on vibes. I respect the rationale behind zero tolerance moderation especially where Blahaj's mission is to create a safe space. I'm sure we've all heard the parable of the nazi bar.

This one is completely different from your typical ARPG, but I'm going to recommend Noita.

It's a 2d game where you play as a wizard off spelunking. The magic system is rad as heck, you find wands with spell slots in them, and spells that you can put in the wands. You can rearrange and combine spells to get some truly bizarre effects

I've killed myself in a dozen hilarious ways trying to make the perfect wand. It never gets old

He does not look happy to be discovered

Can we put him back?

Oh yeah, and if you want any online services, you'll want to look up what those cost. I don't know if they offer a family discount for multiple accounts

I guess ultimately it depends on what kind of games your family likes

As you mention, party games you only need one. If your family's into single player or portables then each person needs one

How is it affordable? Well, it isn't really. Although I guess a switch probably retails for about half the cost of a PS5

It's funny though, if you compare it to other consoles, I think people are far less likely to buy an Xbox or Playstation for each family member. And yet, people would do that for the gameboy and DS without batting an eye. The switch is trying to be everything, for better or worse.

When we got ours, we were pretty content having just one and then playing party games or taking turns on single player games. Sooner or later though, we had to get another so we could play pokemon together. Which is a shame because my interest in pokemon seems to have suddenly fallen off a cliff and now my switch is collecting dust

So I guess all that to say: your mileage may vary

How do you know they're a clown if they're naked?

They might just be a juggalo

I heard a report recently that suggested that Microsoft Recall (the program to take a screenshot of your PC every few seconds to process in AI at huge ecological damage for dubious benefit to the user) is an unlisted dependency for the file explorer.

What that means is if you somehow manage to remove Recall entirely, then you won't be able to view your files.

And sure, they'll probably fix that. And they'll probably also include a "disable AI" checkbox hidden eight levels deep in the control panel to give the user a small sense of control over their own machine - which will turn itself back on with each update because Windows

I don't think you'll be able to actually remove AI from Windows. At least, not easily, and not permanently. Your plan to switch to Linux seems like it'll be less headache in the long run

I feel like if I stocked up, I'd then feel more tempted to shop as my supplies dwindle. I also find that if I have a large supply of something, I use it faster than expected.

That said, there's a few replacement parts of things I use regularly that I have no idea where I'd shop for something compatible physically. Things like produce savers for my fridge and filters for my air purifier

Who is protected by rules that keep you on the path? Who am I impressing by taking the ten seconds out of my day to stay on the pavement?

I don't have much respect for grass. Take the shortcut and relish the rare opportunity to be near nature in the city

Math is one of those funny things that's always all around you even if you're ignorant of it. The ancient Greeks calculated the circumference of the world to an impressive degree of accuracy and they didn't even have calculators - they just looked at some triangles and made some guesses.

Do you need to know the circumference of the world in your day-to-day life? Probably not. But it's cool as heck knowing that you can figure that out by applying the right formulae.

If you know math and you're faced with a problem that can be solved with math, then you can solve the problem. If you don't know math and are faced with the same problem, you might not know how or if it can be solved.

Your specific question: "Are there any upsides to go beyond everyday math?" is an interesting question because of the implication of what 'everyday math' is. Depending on our professions or interests, your definition of everyday math might be radically different from someone else. Numeracy is enough to go on for a lot of people, which often implies arithmetic. But hey, fractions are always coming up in places, and if you add algebra to the mix you can start solving some interesting problems.

Some level of applied mathematics are used in all sorts of fields. Construction, Finance, Medicine, Software, Logistics, Conservation, Cooking, you name it. And the beautiful thing about a lot of these cases is that you don't need to know very complex math in order to follow along an established procedure. For instance, I don't need to know how to find the proof for compound interest, but I can easily look up a formula so I can make some projections of my investment plan.

Anyway, long story, but math is one of those 'use it or lose it' things. And if you've lost the math, then you start to be unable to see where math can be used. Keeping the math alive or rekindling it opens you up to possibilities that you might otherwise be ignorant of. Learning math for its own sake is fine, but finding ways to use the math you've learned is what helps keep it alive, and broadens your own horizons too.

Speaking from the purely meritocratic view that capitalists take, I'd hazard that if the wages were similar then men would still get better employment because they're less likely to take time off for menstruation.

I suppose that's only really a benefit if you're employing salaried workers though, so if you're hourly they might actually be more likely to hire women because then individually they'd each get fewer hours. Depending on legislation, that might interfere with their requirements to pay benefits or something. We often see that businesses prefer to employ four employees at 10-hours per week as opposed to one employee at 40-hours because individually the part-timers are less expensive.

There's always going to be some way to be exploited.

My wife and I have this conversation from time to time that women should get an extra week off every month to deal with their period. She has a pretty rough go when she's menstruating, and I totally get it. She's not even a particularly exceptional case and she has a nasty period. So many people have it even worse off, I don't understand how they keep showing up for work.

I'm anti-discrimination and believe in equality, so honestly I think everyone should get an extra week off. Men and post-menopausal women should be equally entitled to worker benefits.

Some people think that's pretty radical. "How are we supposed to get anything done if we have to pay for people who aren't here a quarter of the time?" Well, the average CEO's compensation package would probably pay for each of their workers to take a week off each month. And they're usually not even in the office even a quarter of the time.

Something tells me that if we strove to be more equitable, they could afford it.

I live on the Earth, home to humans. Every human I've met, heard, or read about has been pretty stupid about something. I can't imagine that I'd be the sole exception, so if I had to guess I'm not smart.

More to the spirit of the question, for me it has to do with programming. I love programming, I went to school for it and learned a ton. It really covers a wide breadth of applications, and you can make anything happen with a computer if you're determined enough. And, like any field, there's general knowledge as well as deeper specializations.

If you're not into programming, know that there's a divide in every application between what's called the Back End and the Front End. The front end is what the user interacts with, and ultimately is an interface for the back end which actually runs the application.

I don't know if it would still be considered accurate, but in school we'd joke about how the back end is more complex (more services to integrate with), and the front end is easier because it's all about look and feel. Generally speaking, people develop an affinity for one or the other and then further specialize based on that.

I can't seem to pick up a front end framework to save my life. The thing that the self-described smart kids called easier is wayyy more complicated than it looks. I have a lot of training, I'm skilled in multiple languages, and I can whisper the secret words that open up the database. But I don't know if I could Hello World my way through a React app if there was a gun to my head.

No problem, this was the first I was hearing about it and it got me curious.

I like comics, I was thinking, "Hey, why can't I look at these?"

Here's the magic link, looks like it doesn't work: !comicstrips@lemmy.world

Full disclaimer, I don't really know what I'm doing. But I'm bored so I took a look.

Looks like the moderator of ComicStrips received an instance ban from Blahaj because they were posting nazi art. Here's their record in the modlog. That post has been deleted from Blahaj, but here's a link from lemmy.world

It looks like the image has been deleted, but from the context, it sounds like it was a Stonetoss comic, and that guy's a well known nazi artist. I think I may have seen this comic before, and unless I'm mistaken this is it: A dig supporting AI art

Okay, so here's the technical question for people who understand how Lemmy and the fediverse works better than me: If the sole moderator of a community was banned from an instance, does that make the community unavailable to the instance they were banned from? If the community had multiple moderators and only one was banned, would that still be the issue?

Regarding the ban, it seems a bit heavy handed. According to our mod log it looks like they were originally removed by automod because people were reporting a Stonetoss comic on principle. Then the post was restored (?) before the user was ultimately banned.

There's no other activity for this user in the modlog so this suggests it was their first and only offence. And if the comic shared was the one I think it was, then they weren't actually supporting fascism, they were sharing a fascist's comic about AI art.

Every time I've seen someone share a Stonetoss comic, they seem surprised to discover they're a nazi. If you read a lot of the comics, you definitely get the vibe that he's a bigot. But if it's a one-off then I understand that you might not have the context to know that this guy is an asshole.

Taking a look through Lawrence's post history, I don't get that impression from them. There's a fair bit of antiwar and hopeposting content here. They're sharing War and Peas, Sara Scribbles, and Calvin and Hobbes which to me suggests that they're all right.

Anyway, long story, it looks to me like their ban was a result of overzealous reporting because of an artist that the moderator shared, although the overall impression I get from this poster is that they don't have a particular affinity for this artist. They seem to have dropped Stonetoss entirely since learning he was a nazi.

Question for the mods: Is it possible to open a proper investigation to see if we can restore access to !comicstrips@lemmy.world? I love comics, it's kind of a bummer that I can't look at content (or even find) the largest comic community on Lemmy

Context matters a lot. I wouldn't flip off my mom, but with some friends it's how we say hello. So I guess I put it in the whole range of 1-5

Now, about you seeing it censored, I always thought that was bizarre. You see it a lot in american media - but let's be adults for a second. If they've censored somebody's hand, there's a very limited few reasons why that might be. It doesn't take a genius to guess what the censored gesture is, and the blurring doesn't really do anything to diminish the insult.

Honestly, I think it has a lot to do with the prudishness of american media. The gesture is symbolic of an erection, but I don't know anybody who'd confuse a finger for a penis.

Interestingly, all cultures seem to have a gesture for this, even if it isn't necessarily the middle finger. Some places it's the thumbs-up that stands in for it, and others it might be gripping your elbow and pointing your fist.

The magician's assistant must be a labracadabradoodle

Wake up
Sun is shining
Birds are singing
Have tea on porch
Watch the squirrels frolicking in the leaves
Despite everything, it's all going to be okay
Oh, hiya neighbour
Doing some yard work?
BWARRRARARARRRGHGHHGHGHGHGHG

Cooking from scratch is almost always going to be less expensive, better tasting, and healthier.

Cooking with pre-made ingredients is often faster and easier.

For me, the decision is often predicated on how much energy I have. Sometimes prepping all the ingredients and the resulting cleanup feels like an impossible undertaking. Which is a shame because I'm a good cook - but sometimes I hate cooking.

Meal prepping or making batch meals is often a happy medium. Homemade food that you can later just reheat. If anybody has tips for making it feel less like I'm eating leftovers all the time, I'm happy to hear them