I agree. Clearly i is current. What is this i=√-1 nonsense.
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There are vim plugins for ai chat bot integrations. Vim is a perfectly robust IDE that can be as dumb as any other
We just don’t make tech for old people the way we should.
My mother in law says things like “Wow, your son is just so good with computers.” She was impressed at how “tech savvy” he was because he was able to change the brightness on her phone for her so she could show him a picture better.
A lot of our UIs are built for absolute no-thinking usability. How would you propose changing the brightness on a phone that would make it more “old people friendly”. It’s not a matter of difficulty. She just doesnt remember these things, and a different flow may not necessarily be remembered either.
And I’m not saying its her fault or that she’s bad because of it. She was raised learning how to do and remember things a certain way and that has necessarily changed over the years.
A phone can do a lot of things, so unless you want to have 100 apps on your home screen, you’ll have to group some together. For instance, putting WiFi into a Settings app. Having every individual setting just available on the home screen potentially complicates things even worse by being overwhelming.
Genuinely curious how you think things like this could be redesigned to be more old people friendly.
I never signed a contract to be born, or to die of old age. We don’t always get to approve of the circumstances of life.
bisby@lemmy.worldto ADHD memes@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Anyone else hating Shorts (the videos, not the pants or financial instruments)?English1·3 months agoIt’s far more complicated than I have made it sound. it’s not just “once every year apple go up”. You’d need to be following as much public information about a company as possible, and be keeping track of trends. Keeping track of those things is a full time job. Especially since you need to keep track of many companies. And then that will still often only get you a slight edge.
bisby@lemmy.worldto ADHD memes@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Anyone else hating Shorts (the videos, not the pants or financial instruments)?English0·3 months agoIn theory, if you are following a company’s public financials very closely and keeping track of things, not all of the stock market is completely unpredictable.
Some companies do certain things on predictable cadences. Every year at WWDC, apple announces a new iphone, and every year the stock price goes up a bit as a result. You’re not going to triple your money in a week, but if you can get 5% in a week, you’re already doing as good as most banks offer for a whole year.
Knowing too much information is illegal. That’s “insider trading”, at which point it is completely not gambling because you already know if the stock is going to go up or down, and that’s just cheating.
bisby@lemmy.worldto ADHD memes@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Anyone else hating Shorts (the videos, not the pants or financial instruments)?English3·3 months agoI know you didn’t ask but an opportunity to info dump is always fun.
Shorting is basically borrowing stock from someone, selling it. and then buying it back later before the person wants their stock back. Since (mostly) all shares are equal, as long as I return to the same stock, there’s no reason to hold onto a specific share.
If a stock is going down, if I borrow a share for a week, sell it for $100, then in 6 days buy it for $50 and return it to you, then I’ve just made $50.
It’s a way to make money when the stock market is going down, but is often riskier because with buying stock, you can just hold indefinitely. If I buy a $100 share, and the price goes to $0. I just lost $100. The most I can possibly lose is $100. (edit: and I sell at any point in the future when I decide. Could be 1 week, could be 30 years.)
But when shorting, you have to return the shares to the actual owner at some point, and since you sold the shares, you MUST get them back. But if I sold your $100 share, and in 6 days it is now $10,000 (this wouldn’t happen, but for example), and I don’t have $10,000, now I can’t return your share to you, and I’m in REAL big trouble. The amount of money I can lose is technically infinite, and since I don’t have infinite money to lose, it probably just devolves into legal issues.
Nano… Like… The one that has all the keybinds permanently shown at the bottom of the screen?
bisby@lemmy.worldto Science Memes@mander.xyz•At least 4,500 Americans per year die from hydroxyl acid exposureEnglish7·3 months agoHydroxyl acid? That sounds even more dangerous than hydrogen hydroxide, which is a notoriously dangerous base!
bisby@lemmy.worldto Programmer Humor@programming.dev•The difference between programmers and testersEnglish44·4 months agoBased on the only comparison we have, the OP is twice the age of their sister. so the sister is now 44/2, or 22. Easy problem.
The entire joke is that every organ has a purpose, and the purpose of your brain is to make bad decisions.
bisby@lemmy.worldto Programmer Humor@programming.dev•Well it's JSON so what can go wrong.English10·5 months agoCounter point… Both are generating perfectly valid JSON, so who cares?
Python 3.13.2 (main, Feb 5 2025, 08:05:21) [GCC 14.2.1 20250128] Type 'copyright', 'credits' or 'license' for more information IPython 9.0.2 -- An enhanced Interactive Python. Type '?' for help. Tip: IPython 9.0+ have hooks to integrate AI/LLM completions. In [1]: import json In [2]: json.loads('{"x": 1e-05}') Out[2]: {'x': 1e-05} In [3]: json.loads('{"x":0.00001}') Out[3]: {'x': 1e-05}
Welcome to Node.js v20.3.1. Type ".help" for more information. > JSON.parse('{"x":0.00001}') { x: 0.00001 } > JSON.parse('{"x": 1e-05}') { x: 0.00001 }
Javascript and Python both happily accept either format from the string and convert it into a float they are happy with.
bisby@lemmy.worldto Android@lemmy.world•Google Messages redesigns gallery + camera, adds ‘Original quality’ sending [U]English7·6 months agoCommunication is explicitly a more than one person endeavor. If the other party isn’t willing or able to use signal, then sms might be the required option. Signal removed their SMS functionality from their app.
There are perfectly valid reasons to use Google messages instead of signal.
bisby@lemmy.worldto Programmer Humor@programming.dev•Speaking words of wisdom...Let It Be, Let It BeEnglish12·6 months agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_inverse_square_root
even if you can figure out specifically WHAT a function does, it’s not always clear WHY a function does, and honestly, if this function wasnt labeled in the code, no way in hell would I know what it does.
It has an entire wiki page dedicated to explaining it, and it involves enough math that most people wouldn’t be able to follow along.
Nothing this atrocious lives in any current codebases I work on… but if you work at an old enough company, some of the load-bearing code will be tricky to figure out what is calling it, but also it was written in a time where little hacks were needed to eke out performance.
You only have to experience it once for it to be a memorable enough thing that you will cite it for the rest of your days.
Or more realistically, it IS comprehensible, but the level of effort necessary to comprehend it is not worth it. So you leave it as “undecipherable” and move on.
bisby@lemmy.worldto Map Enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz•Percent age 25+ with Bachelor's degree or higherEnglish12·7 months agoBased on the states I know, some of the surprising rural areas are where state universities are.
I would never buy Jade. I always buy snsv laptops
Correct.
For the hemotoxin, you aren’t going to “just wait for the effects to wear off.” The toxin will kill you.
For the neurotoxin, you can just wait out the effects by countering the symptoms. Can’t breathe? Respirator can save your life.
The hemotoxin itself is doing terrible damage, but the neurotoxin itself doesn’t do any “damage” other than disabling systems.
Getting bit by a venomous snake in Australia and you’re blood starts to disassemble itself. The only counter is antivenom or die. Your blood breaking down is what kills you. And there is no way to separate the bite from that.
Being able to counter the venom in such a simple way is what makes it different. You can logically break it down into steps that are separable.
Sometimes you need to specify in config which clipboard to use on unix systems that might have multiple clipboards too