azimir @ azimir @lemmy.ml

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Apple isn't alone in that. More and more sites and programs are become space inefficient.

Not all of us have dual 36" ultra high rez monitors for you to waste the space with more and more area round every element. I know you're proud of your UI design skillz, but it's getting really ducking annoying.

I had to send in a screenshot of one Google page for editing contacts. 90% of the screen was fixed sized menus and the contacts photo. The last 10% was a tiny scrollbars box for editing a very long list of options. The devs responded basically "meh", though a few months later it adjusted to be a bit better. Do they ever test anything that's not on a huge screen before rolling to prod?

I don't know much about Poundland, but I know they're no liars about their advertising. Everything, including the business itself, went for a pound.

I salute them for their consistency!

It's not a conservative's problem until it effects them personally. By then it's usually too late, but at least they feel bad about that one issue for a while.

He told them it was okay to be openly racist and hateful again. Once you do that, conservatives will follow you anywhere.

Hey now, that's not fair: many are also abducted while attending legal immigration processes at government facilities.

Working and following the law are now dangerous activities for brown people (more dangerous than they were before).

I build a bridge out of our pillows. Two bor the base, then one spanning a small gap. I put my Earthward arm's hand up the the gap and my head on the bridge pillow.

Nothing falls asleep improperly.

At home: a hand me down Apple ][e At school: apple ][ systems At my dad's work (spent lots of time there): IBM PC

Don't worry, that was plenty of information for most of us. I spent all too many hours on an i286 machine, but I recall nothing else about the system.

This is the THIRD time the Republicans have cancelled funding to my research projects over the course of 15 years. This country isn't conducive to stable research work.

The projects cancelled were on senior care tech with smart homes, augmented reality to help prevent falls, and air quality feedback to help people during wildfire seasons. No exactly hotbeds of controversial topics, but having my career and livelihood jerked around against and again by these assholes is enough for me to go. The lastest bend to fascism was just the nail in the coffin.

It is, and I'm well aware of just how hard it is to be in my kind of position. I'm leaving very soon for a job overseas.

It took 12 years of college. It took massive debts that I spent a decade earning to pay off. It took a further 15 years of competing in academia to become a desirable candidate for the job. I'm taking a serious pay cut and spending the saving from a decade of work to make the move.

Its a privilege, but having come from a family that valued education, but had little money to help me, I kinda feel like I've earned it. Decades of effort on my part went into this.

You can be pissed all you want, but I've paid my dues and I'm spending them on a better and safer future for my children away from the US Banana Republic of Dumbfuckistan.

https://youtu.be/rStL7niR7gs

No ruler or leader ever does.

I consider that analogy somewhat different. Being able to leave your home to travel safely is a basic human right. Cars on roads are inherently dangerous, even if you try to be defensive as a pedestrian. You can be sitting in your grassy front yard and vehicles can come crashing in to kill you. That happens on a regular basis in the US. You can be walking on the sidewalk and have a car run you down. The vision of kids running into the street to be hit isn't the only risk, merely existing is. Hell, there's plenty of people killed in their home by cars crashing into their houses!

Car crashes are the #2 reason for children's deaths in the US (#1 is now guns, it was cars until about 3 years ago). It's the #3 reason for adults to die after heart disease and cancer. Those stats are actually low balling it because we're finding the noise and pollution from cars jacks up many of the other categories (including heart disease, cancer, dementia). Living by car roads is just inherently dangerous, regardless of how you try to teach your kids to avoid being run down in their own neighborhood.

The government building car only infrastructure, I feel, is an immoral and murderous act against the public. It's categorically different from the parental preference of whether your 14 year old manages to see some porn using a computer you bought on an Internet connection you installed.

I'm at the PhD level. I'm very fortunate to be in a place with more mobility in academia circles.

I'm leaving a university in the US that's not heavily reliant upon soft money (grants/donations), but we're still losing research support in various ways to this crazy administration. I start at a school in Europe in the fall. I guess I'll go teach and do engineering research there since the US isn't really interested in having academia exist.

I did the same thing with the Linux machine there, but we got it up and running with a sweet potato using a patch set for the kernel and cross compiling it from the basic potato release. We did find the drivers for the VGA card we salvaged from a scrap pile too! Got it up to the full 640x480 supported by the card.

You could say it was a sweet setup.

I hear that. It's been over a decade (or so) since I've played and I still remember a few of the games very specifically. The rest are a blur with a general feeling of annoyance left over.

Since I never spent the hours of learning how to min/max my build against every conceivable combination of enemies and teammates, I never could do well at the higher levels. The net result was mediocrity in my style and huge waves of anger from the random people I was teamed with.

To be able to compete you have to invest huge efforts into learning the builds and styles to match. I just didn't care enough, but with the XP system always climbing (by sheer games played), I was pinched out just because the system has room room for casual play.

The spikes of reward from the mid level games were quickly dwarfed by the constance negative experiences as I was forced to level up.

High five as fellow recovering ex-LoL players!

These days? Kohan: Immortal Sovereigns

It's the best RTS game I've every played for my level of care about units and willingness to invest myself in tech trees (which is very little). I hate min/maxing stats so let's get some units and brawl instead of tuning upgrades just right, or being forced to place buildings instead of paying attention to the overall strategic situation.

Holy carp you do. Once I hit about level 20 the culture of that community just went crazy. Everyone was just a complete shithead and cared so much.

I wish I could have capped myself at about level 10 and hung around with the other casuals forever, but instead I quit once I got enough counseling to put down the mouse and stop running bottom route sup.

I just finished teaching an Internet of Things class this term. I went strong on the 'things' bit of the title. We did all kinds of hardware projects, along with web apis, mqtt, and a tiny bit of clouds services to move data.

It was one of the most fun classes I've ever taught. That stuff is great!

I still live it. I use some Atmega chips like the attiny85. It only has 256 bytes if RAM and 5 i/o pins to work with. I code in C++ so I have 100% control over memory if I want it.

Someday I'll find a reason to work with attiny10 chips... There's almost no resources on it and it's about the size of a grain of rice!

https://www.microchip.com/en-us/product/attiny10