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With the recent issues of transgender people in sports, why don’t we move some sports over to a weight-class system?

Obviously this won’t work for all sports, but things like football, track, soccer, it would allow for de-gendered team, even allowing athletes with the skills but not the genetically-endowed physical attributes to have a place to play....

PeriodicallyPedantic ,

You’re wrong, they are trying it. Search for the Enhanced Games

PeriodicallyPedantic ,

That’s kind of the point.

We now have access to the information, and we’ve discovered that all along it was our inability to distinguish between misinformation and real information that was causing the stupidity.

PeriodicallyPedantic ,

Ceiling light is best light.

All these fucking mood lighting I see people talk about make you look like some kind of underlit villain, or like you’re telling goosebumps stories around the world’s mildest campfire.

Why am I the only neurodivergent person who finds floor lights fucking disgusting ???

PeriodicallyPedantic ,

I’m not talking about descriptions, I’m talking about pictures and videos.
And I’m not talking about lighting set into the floor, I mean like floor lamps and shit.

They put these laps on shelves and desks and standing on the floor, but they’re almost always below eye level when standing, so everyone looks like a b-movie villain as they move about the room. It drives me crazy.

Give me an overhead area light. Soft shadows from light cast downward onto my face.

PeriodicallyPedantic ,

You’re right wrt personal preference. It’s just strange to me how seemingly all the neurodivergents but me hate overhead lighting 😭

Floor lamps that are above head height are… Ok I guess, but that’s still mostly head-on. Light that is clearly cast down is so much more satisfying. Personal preference, of course.
And to be clear I don’t have anything against mood lighting or accent lights, I like them… Just not only them.

The impression I have (mainly from social media like tiktok and Lemmy) is that the desired lighting is head high and below which just… Puts me in a tailspin lol. Idk how people can live like that 🤣

In my ideal room, there would be indirect overhead lighting that illuminated most of the ceiling to provide an indirect overhead area light, with a near-head level accent lights. I’ve looked into if I could use a short-throw projector onto the ceiling to provide some kind of crazy configurable overhead lighting, but they’re simply not meant for that kind of application

PeriodicallyPedantic ,

I prefer not to be lit like a b-movie villain, when I’m walking around in my own home, but you do you.

PeriodicallyPedantic ,

Owners:

Now that we have generative AI, we can finally get rid of all those expensive employees

Lemmy.ml tankie censorship problem

I feel like we need to talk about Lemmy’s massive tankie censorship problem. A lot of popular lemmy communities are hosted on lemmy.ml. It’s been well known for a while that the admins/mods of that instance have, let’s say, rather extremist and onesided political views. In short, they’re what’s colloquially referred to...

PeriodicallyPedantic ,

I don’t think there is a solution.
Effective moderation to protect vulnerable people needs more centralization. Avoiding the influence of bad-actor mods needs more decentralization. The two seem fairly mutually exclusive. Or rather, they trade off against each other.

With more users, having a fractured community wouldn’t be a huge problem, because they could all have critical mass. But with the current user base that is generally not feasible, even for really popular topics.

PeriodicallyPedantic ,

I’m talking about systemic solutions for the general problem of bad-actor mods.

Defederating an instance is fracturing the community which difficult for a community to withstand with our current user numbers.

Giving mods less power, such as making communities themselves defederated, makes problems for good-faith mods who are trying to protect vulnerable community members.

It’d be neat if the community itself could vote to migrate to a new instance, but that’d be so fraught with abuse that I can’t see it actually working.

PeriodicallyPedantic ,

But again that fractures the community.

You lose all the community history, and not everyone migrates to the new community. You end up with a bunch of new splinter communities, none of which have critical mass to survive.

PeriodicallyPedantic ,

I actually already discussed that if you go back and read the comment that you’re replying to

PeriodicallyPedantic ,

I don’t necessarily agree that decentralized is fractured by design, nor that “working as intended” means that it’s the best solution for this/every situation.

I’m saying that as we decentralize, we get both advantages and disadvantages. I’m saying that this is a situation where we can’t both have our cake and eat it too.

For example:
We could decentralize communities themselves, preventing them from fracturing. Instead of having communities hosted on a single instance, communities could be feeds aggregating all posts tagged as belonging to that community. Then if you defederate an instance you simply stop seeing posts from users in that instance.
But then good-faith mods are defanged and can no longer protect vulnerable community members from antagonistic actors.

I think my straw example tradeoff is a bad one, that’s too much decentralization of power.

PeriodicallyPedantic ,

About to drop full release male v2.0

PeriodicallyPedantic ,

Incorrect, you’ve always been cheating at the game

PeriodicallyPedantic ,

The culture was no great loss

PeriodicallyPedantic ,

Now you’re conscious of how your tongue is resting in your mouth

PeriodicallyPedantic ,

There are common traps and employer don’t spend money/time to train their devs to avoid them.

SOLID principles are pretty decent but a surprising number of people don’t do any of them

PeriodicallyPedantic ,

Tbf they both lay eggs.

PeriodicallyPedantic , (edited )

The British call women “birds” sometimes. Idk.

PeriodicallyPedantic ,

I see what you did there 😏

PeriodicallyPedantic ,

I wonder how hard it’d be to make a PWA and host it on GitHub 🤔 Maybe this would be a good yet-another-hobby-project-ill-never-complete to pick up

PeriodicallyPedantic ,

He’ll kick you apart, he’ll kick you apart! Oohh!

PeriodicallyPedantic ,

Richard 😏

PeriodicallyPedantic ,

What are they gonna do if you refuse to sign? Fire you?

If this guy voluntarily left, then he wasn’t getting a severance package that they could withhold (and on that note, this is a good reason to include involuntary severence in your employment contract, if you can negotiate it).

PeriodicallyPedantic ,

A wonderful product or a wonderful community? It sounds like you’re describing the people who were on it and not the platform itself.

PeriodicallyPedantic ,

But they’re not gonna offer severence to someone who quits, right?

The wording made it sound like he quit rather than got laid off.

PeriodicallyPedantic ,

Laws will differ in different places, but I’m familiar with 3 categories of terminations:

  1. With cause (firing)
  2. Without cause (layoff)
  3. Voluntary (quitting)

When someone is terminated with cause or quits, they are not entitled to severance and they do not collect unemployment insurance. When someone is laid off, the employer is obligated to pay a severence package.

The Amazon focus and pivot program is interesting. That definitely looks like they’re bribing low performers to quit, and I smell an ulterior motive. Maybe it’s to get them to sign an NDA but I feel like it’s to avoid wrongful dismissed lawsuits. Although I suppose why not both?

PeriodicallyPedantic ,

I have to admit I mostly only used it for testing purposes. I worked on a product that integrated with it, and I remember it being frustrating to work with. I forget the details of what frustrated me about it, though.

PeriodicallyPedantic ,

Gross
But considering the current state of Google search, not as gross as it was.

PeriodicallyPedantic ,

I kind of agree. I’m not a pro but I’ve been using gimp to do little bits of editing (mostly to make slack emojis and memes) for a few years, and I constantly encounter little things that seem like they should be simple and intuitive, but are not.

I haven’t used Photoshop in over a decade, but I feel like I rarely felt the same frustration regarding basic tasks.

PeriodicallyPedantic ,

Fun fact, the vast majority of the mass of a plant is extracted from the CO2 in the air, not from matter in the ground.

Trees mainly appear out of thin air

PeriodicallyPedantic ,

Deviled eggs. And quiche.

PeriodicallyPedantic ,

Isn’t “misadventure” just aka “accident”?

PeriodicallyPedantic ,

I’ll grant you that. “Died by aviation misadventure” definitely sounds a lot better than “accidentally drove his paraglider into the side of a barn”

PeriodicallyPedantic ,

Last I remember, serif fonts were easier to read on physical mediums, and sans was easier on digital mediums. Never learned why though so, grain of salt and all that

Justice Department says Boeing violated deal that avoided prosecution after 737 Max crashes (apnews.com)

The Justice Department has determined that Boeing violated a settlement that allowed the company to avoid criminal prosecution after two deadly crashes involving its 737 Max aircraft, prosecutors told a federal judge on Tuesday....

PeriodicallyPedantic ,

ShockedPikachu.jpg

PeriodicallyPedantic ,

I mean… The account exists if you log into it or not. You still need to keep track of it so that you’re paying into the correct account, and so that you know how much to pay.

Only you now have to talk to a person if you need to check or change anything.

PeriodicallyPedantic ,

I assumed this was in the context of paying recurring bills rather than shopping. Agree with you about stuff like groceries.

PeriodicallyPedantic ,

My VPN sometimes sends me reminders and special offers when my contact is almost up, for example. Mobile phone data usage reminders and warnings. Even just reminders that they’re going to be charging your card on payment day.

But mainly I don’t wanna leave home so paperless has already won for me lol

PeriodicallyPedantic ,

IMO there are two underrated benefits:

  1. It enforces separation of concerns
  2. It provides options to OPS.

Designing for micro services doesn’t mean you need to deploy it as micro services. You can deploy it as a monolith and configure it too skip the network stack

PeriodicallyPedantic ,

A coder after my own heart. State machines are the bane of my existence.

PeriodicallyPedantic ,

I think that was the point he was trying to make

PeriodicallyPedantic ,

Who TF down voted you? That’s absolutely 100% accurate

PeriodicallyPedantic ,

You said yourself they’re equivalent. You either have to read the blocks in both cases or neither case.

You need to read the blocks to know what gets returned (either early or in a single return). You need to read the blocks to see what resources get created but not released. What are you hoping to achieve by only reading control flow?

At least with an early return you can stop reading.

PeriodicallyPedantic ,

Right. Like I said.

What are you hoping to accomplish by only reading control flow and not the contents of the blocks? You keep raising concerns like not properly releasing resources, but if you don’t read the blocks you don’t know what resources we’re allocated.

I think your argument depends on both having your cake and eating it.

PeriodicallyPedantic ,

If you’re reading the control flow, and the control flow tells you the first block isn’t being entered, then it doesn’t matter if the first block contains an early return or not, because it wasn’t being entered. If it was being entered then you have to read it anyway to make sure it’s not manipulating state or leaking resources.

To use your example: in subsequent reads, when I’m interested in the second block out of n, say during defect analysis, I can head straight to the second block in either case since control flow shows the first block was skipped - but in the case of early return from the second block I can stop reading, but in the case of a single return I need to read the flow for all subsequent n blocks and the business logic of any subsequent blocks that get entered. The early return is a guarantee that all subsequent blocks may be ignored.

To me this is also obvious. I’ve been doing this for quite a while and 95% of the time, reviewing and debugging code with a single return is far more tedious.

PeriodicallyPedantic ,

Have you stopped to consider why you can’t explain it better? Perhaps the reason is because you’re wrong.

Your toy example does not show the issue you think it shows. You’ve moved your cleanup block away from the context of what it’s cleaning up, meaning that you’ve got variables leaking out of their scopes. Your cleanup code is now much more complex and fragile to changes in each of the blocks its cleaning up after.

You tried to use your toy example to show A is better, but then we showed that actually B is just as good. So fix your toy example to show what you actually want to say, because everything you said so far depends on you setting different standards for each scenario.

PeriodicallyPedantic ,

Now that’s the pot calling the kettle black.

What work have you even invested? You’ve just repeatedly restarted your original stance. But sure, whatever.

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