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Digital Mark @ mdhughes @lemmy.ml
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  • I've never had that happen, within the same type. I had some loose-fit Levis 568 which were very different, but the 501s never change. Just switched from 40w to 38w, got exactly the size change I expected.

  • Levis. Cheap pants are never worth it, the 501 is always in style and perfect.

    1. Pythonista. Great Python editor, REPL, and platform-specific libraries.
    2. Editorial. Same author, Markdown editor which can be scripted in Python. I routinely write al new features for it, like dice rollers, list renumbering, etc.
    3. Documents by Readdle. PDF & epub reading, file management, bunch of optional features.
    4. iCabMobile. Browser with a ton of ad-blocking, filters, good file management, I routinely use it as a private browser.
  • Would you prefer they eat live animals?

  • "The War to End All Wars" was a good season finale, but then just 20 years later they made a sequel with bigger effects budget and openly evil villains. Lazy writing. And the way things have been written towards WWIII but then backing off is a long season tease.

  • They also bike to work.

  • RUN, BE FREE! You can escape their tracking now. They will never find you in the forest, eating nuts & berries.

  • If you actually understand the programming language, libraries, problem, and think about your solution first, you can code just fine in ed, the standard text editor. Sometimes I do, I'm the third real programmer

    In practice, I mostly code in Vim, which launches instantly, is completely customizable, and I can type and edit faster than in anything else. IDEs are excruciatingly slow, with all the highlighting and analysis stuff on, waiting for code completion instead of just typing it out because you know things.

    You don't need any of that.

    There's also the issue that VSCode is spyware created by Microsoft, and both things should send you running away.

  • But nobody's doing anything about it. Me, either.

  • Thanks for your completely useless post.

  • Now this is the story all about how, My life got flipped-turned upside down, And I'd like to take a minute, just sit right there, I'll tell you how I became the prince of a town called Bel Air.

    In West Philadelphia, born and raised On the playground is where I spent most of my days. Chillin' out, maxin', relaxin all cool, And all shootin' some B-ball outside of the school.

    When a couple of guys who were up to no good, Started makin' trouble in my neighborhood. I got in one little fight and my mom got scared, And said "You're movin' with your auntie and uncle in Bel Air."

    I whistled for a cab, and when it came near, The license plate said "fresh" and it had dice in the mirror. If anything I could say that this cab was rare, But I thought "Nah forget it, Yo home to Bel Air."

    I pulled up to the house about seven or eight, and I yelled to the cabby "Yo homes, smell ya later." Looked at my kingdom, I was finally there, To sit on my throne as the Prince of Bel Air.

  • But the thing is, Rings of Power is incredibly fun, because it completely ignores source, steals just enough character names & places to get Lord of the Rings fans excited, but it's not boring. Lord of the Rings is about thousands of pages of walking.

    Galadriel is a WOMAN and therefore according to Professor Tolkien is useless. Show makes her the one badass in Middle Earth.

    I did hate the not-yet-Hobbits, that was not a good invention.

  • "I Am Legend" has been made into 3 or more movies, none of which have anything like the book's ending.

    The Last Man on Earth (1964) is dull and misses the point almost entirely, but almost manages the title line. Not quite.

    The Omega Man (1971) is exciting and misses the point even further.

    I Am Legend (2007) almost gets it. The vampires are competent. Will Smith's smarter than Neville of the book, but crazier. But then both endings fail to treat the vampires as a society.

  • What made me mad at RP1 movie was they put the Easter Egg in Atari Adventure. Which is mentioned in chapter 0 of the book, and again in the fake town (not put in the movie) because it's so obvious, nobody who cared about games at all would hide anything there.

    And no Tomb of Horrors.

    Instead Spielberg put a bunch of lame movie references in, because he's too senile to understand the game references.

    And the actors are far too pretty for the "but you're beautiful inside" plot.

  • If you're looking for validation, then probably you want numbers on anyway!

    (I leave them on, but don't seek validation. I'm just around to talk and/or fight.)

  • All my career. They can't program, they have no valid opinion about programming, as long as we finish the user stories. Which is several times faster in a nice dynamic language than a bondage language.

  • There's some math & CS papers you should read, GΓΆdel's incompleteness theorem, Turing's halting problem. YOU CANNOT prove your way out of logic errors. You cannot make a universal type system. All you're doing is wasting time with false confidence.

  • Terrible projects are terrible because of the developers, not because of the language.

    I find dynamic projects easier to refactor and fix, just write some tests and if it's green bar before and after, you're fine.