I don’t think you were hostile, you just have a different experience than others in this thread. At my workplace we design hardware and make embedded systems. Depending on which part of the system you’re working on you’ll either never leave Visual Studio or exclusively use the unix command line. Both groups are absolutely serious professionals. Not every workplace is like mine; most will have only one of the two groups.
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PC Gaming@lemmy.ca•Reporter suggests Half-Life 3 will be a Steam Machine launch titleEnglish
4·2 months agoStill better than Duke Nukem Forever.
The neuter pronoun (“it”) doesn’t work for humans in English either.
Warning: my music nerd’s about to come out.
I’m in my 40s, and have been playing music since single digits. I still remember the order of lines in the staffs with “Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge”, “FACE”, “Good Boys Deserve Fudge Always”, and “All Cows Eat Grass”. I did teach my kids “Good Burritos Don’t Fall Apart”, though, since they seem to like burritos.
My internal math nerd agrees with the grandparent though, for some reason I just remembered the order of operations and was confused when my kids came home with PEDMAS. But to be fair, I use the order of operations every day at work, so 🤷. I’m also one of those people who will insist on using parentheses everywhere there’s more than two terms, though, so take from that what you will.
dankm@lemmy.cato
Technology@lemmy.world•In 1982, a physics joke gone wrong sparked the invention of the emoticon - Ars TechnicaEnglish
121·3 months ago1982 was 43 years ago…
Geforce 4 came out in 2002, so this meme is likely about 23 years old. Can legally drink, and could have voted for both Trudeau and Carney.
Yup. Nunavut in 1999.
I was taught that Canada has 10 provinces and two territories. That was proven false before I even graduated high school!
dankm@lemmy.cato
PC Gaming@lemmy.ca•Major VAC [Valve's non-kernel anticheat] Live updates leaving cheaters cryingEnglish
1·5 months agoThat’s correct. I do do similar things professionally, but never with games. VAC always worried me.
dankm@lemmy.cato
PC Gaming@lemmy.ca•Major VAC [Valve's non-kernel anticheat] Live updates leaving cheaters cryingEnglish
71·5 months agoAlong that line of thinking, I’d be nice if there were a “cheating allowed” sandbox option. A VAC enabled game mode where cheating is explicitly allowed. Cheat in it, no harm done, people get to experiment, VAC gets to learn about potential cheating methods they hadn’t considered, and nobody gets banned. Do it outside the sandbox and down comes the banhammer.
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Technology@lemmy.world•UK Official Calls for Age Verification on VPNs to Prevent Porn LoopholeEnglish
1·6 months agoYou mean Star Trek? But where are the suffering people?
On the planets in the Cardassian/Federation neutral zone…
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Technology@lemmy.world•GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignationEnglish
2·6 months agoSplit the repository? It’s not an unreasonable thing to do.
That said, FreeBSD’s repo is 2ish GiB, and Linux is 3, LLVM is huge too. Not unreasonable to want to mirror those.
I thought it was named after Lieutenant Broccoli of Star Trek fame.
Better than Brussels sprouts. Anything is better than that hell.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Popup Ads in Your Pickup Truck? RAM Trucks Now Feature Scammy Ads on the Center DisplayEnglish
1·6 months agoMine will tell me the measured pressures of all tires. But only if at least one is low. I haven’t found a way to get it to just tell me the pressure in any tire if it’s not throwing an error at me.
Dear Mazda, you have a full user interface in your vehicle. Why can’t you let me see the tire pressure from just a menu option?
TIL I live North of Canada!
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Canada@lemmy.ca•Millennials Are Becoming Caregivers Whether They’re Ready or Not
1·6 months agoThank fuck my grandparents were completely independent until they got very sick very quickly and died.
Two of my grandparents passed before I was born, of rather aggressive cancer. The other two lived completely independently until age-related illnesses got them in a matter of weeks.
I kinda hope that’s what happens to my parents; they’re in their mid 70s now and doing just fine on their own. My sister and I only need to help with with the occasional thing, like fixing stuff around the house that takes a decent amount of strength to do, or climbing ladders.
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Canada@lemmy.ca•This car has more than 1.2 million km on it — and it's still going strong
41·6 months agoWhoa? Worse than Ontario? Here the stereotype is BC and ON cars are rusty.
dankm@lemmy.cato
PC Gaming@lemmy.ca•BioShock 4 fails to impress at internal 2K review resulting in leadership shake-up and revamped narrativeEnglish
2·6 months agoHave you played the remasters? Are they any good? I got about 40% of the way through 1 and ran out of time. Wondering if it’s worth restarting on the original or the new.



One step closer to a solar powered laser beam guitar.