Piatro

joined 2 years ago
[–] Piatro@programming.dev 7 points 2 weeks ago

My (limited) experience with the python ecosystem is: "Of course the built in package manager doesn't work, you idiot, you should use X" where "X" is a different package manager and no two python devs agree on which is "best" or "most common".

[–] Piatro@programming.dev 21 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I booked a flight recently, the translation engine was obviously having issues so instead of giving helpful labels for form fields it was stuff like: "{{ name.first }}", which I could figure out for the most part, but then on submission I got an error with no description at all. I opened the dev tools and resubmitted the form to find the API response which gave me the actual error. 2 pages previously a form field hadn't been set correctly by the web page (it was a drop-down, I selected an option, the error said it was null). I managed to force the field to populate properly and hey presto, submission works. Ridiculous.

[–] Piatro@programming.dev 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I can't even beat regular-length war. Damn snake lady and her BS action economy...

[–] Piatro@programming.dev 4 points 3 weeks ago

It's up to you. You're allowed to read/play/watch whatever you want, don't let us internet weirdos (who might not even be real people) dissuade you. My wife loves harry potter but hates Rowling's politics. That's ok. You don't have to justify your actions to anyone, least of all internet strangers! If you want a justification to play the game, as others have said, she's already made her money from the game and won't make more directly from you playing it, so she doesn't benefit. Also, by a few accounts I've heard it's a pretty mediocre game, so don't feel like you're missing out if you decide not to!

[–] Piatro@programming.dev 29 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

The game wasn't lynched though, it sold phenomenally well despite the commentary. There aren't enough people paying attention to her statements to be in a position to make a conscious choice about her one way or the other. Most people just see harry potter and go "cool, new harry potter thing, I liked that as a kid/like it now, let's give it a shot". If it does get brought up in conversation I still find people are surprised when I say I don't buy or participate in harry potter stuff because they genuinely don't know, or think its massively overblown (coverage of her statements, not necessarily the content of them). We're in a corner of a tiny pocket of the internet, even on Reddit.

TLDR This will make HBO tonnes of money from people who don't care or don't know about Rowling's obsession with trans people, just like every other HP side project.

[–] Piatro@programming.dev 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"WeLl AcTuAlLy she closed the coal mines and accelerated our path to net zero!" Said some fuckwit politician a few years ago.

[–] Piatro@programming.dev 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is there any sort of cognitive dissonance happening on a national level around this? America and it's media have been touting the "land of the free", "home of democracy" slogans for decades, is there not an identity crisis happening amongst those who believe it? I understand the left vs right, democrat vs republican arguments most of the time but surely no matter which side you're on this must be a shock?

[–] Piatro@programming.dev 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I love the argument about c having type safety with the little side-swipe at rust. "AcTuAlLy C does have type safety! You just have to jump through the following 50 hoops to get it!". I'm an outsider to both C and Rust but it's still funny.

[–] Piatro@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's Facebook, they'll take it and not even bother to beg forgiveness later.

[–] Piatro@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago

Cries in European prices...

[–] Piatro@programming.dev 7 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Genuine question, what good things? Part of the problem of only getting news from podcasts and social media is that I very loudly get all the bad things and maybe the good things are being drowned out.

[–] Piatro@programming.dev 5 points 2 months ago

Right, but my point is that that wasn't explained in the post, and it's not the only thing in the article that is stated as "you should do this thing" without telling the reader why.

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