Good story. I’ve bookmarked that one.

I’m not an ambiturner

Some of them, sometimes. But some are adulated and free and contribute vast swathes to our culture and understanding.

A new London bus costs around £300k, so whilst is plausible that the watch cost more than my ‘car’, it’s a pretty stupid way of spending that amount of money…

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This is the most excellent summary of Go I have ever read. I agree with everything you’ve said, although as a fan of Scala and in particular its asynchronous programming ecosystem (cats for me, but I’ll forgive those who prefer the walled garden of zio) I would also add that, whilst its async model with go routines is generally pretty easy to use, it can shit the bed on some highly-concurrent workloads and fail to schedule stuff in time that it really should’ve, and because it’s such a mother-knows-best language there’s fuck all you can do to give higher priority to the threads that you happen to know need more TLC

You say crappy, I say wait. My knees won’t have to bend so much. I’d actually take this if I didn’t have kids

Well that makes sense

As more and more libraries are open source on GitHub or gitlab or sourceforge or whateverthefuck, asking questions on the libraries themselves (as an issue) is often the right thing to do, too… Less centralised than SO but also the only people who care about how to do things in a lib are people using the lib, so…

Wellllll the implications of the ending of 28 weeks later is that the rest of the world had a reprieve but are fucked eventually…

Ufghh I know but omg I’m not one of nature’s posters. I was on Reddit for like 5 years before I even made my first comment. I dunno if I have it in me. That’s probably one of the reasons I’m so loath to complain about content - like, what right have I?

Yeah I agree 100% with this sentiment. Every so often - say, every 20 posts or so - there’s something that’s actually uplifting. But most of it is just political wank, as you say. Or one was ‘Israel finally allows some food into Gaza’ which tbqh I don’t find uplifting so much as absolutely sickening because it reminds me of how absolutely awful the context for it is.

Still, not gonna unsub because Lemmy is too small for me to be that picky 😅

That’s a lovely little idea, imma steal that

YouTube will put multiple ad breaks into a popular 8 min video. Which is why I use playtube and/or Firefox with ad block unless I’m too hungover to fully function

Is this some American usage of the word University as opposed to College that I’m too British to understand? I don’t think I quite followed your second paragraph; unless you mean that a university that doesn’t support genuine academia over conflicting interests is undeserving of the name, in which case I agree with that much… But I would say that as far as value goes, it should also have those same benefits I mentioned for those as attend it.

That’s a bit OTT IMO. You don’t need to become an academic for knowledge of the world, the ability to digest information, and the ability to effectively communicate, to be useful. I think it’s valuable just as, like, life enrichment, too. Not to mention that spending the first few years of your independent adult life around people going through that same transition has other value - socialising, shared experiences, it’s not unusual to make many friends for life.

Discord, YouTube, Lemmy and Reddit was the list in the comment you replied to. I was referring to that list. Seems like we just had our wires crossed in the ambiguity in your usage of ‘those’ in the comment ‘I don’t use any of those’ wherein you were referring to the OP and I thought you were referring to the comment you replied to. Does that sound right to you?

You’re… You’re on Lemmy now? How can you claim not to use ‘any of those’ when you’re posting on one of those?

you can only see that apple is in the chat by pressing cmd+shift+alt+l+7

Was that FPS Commandos or am I getting mixed up?