Max-P

That’s the smart way to do math. I mean not with such small numbers but you’d do the same thing adding up large numbers, you break down the numbers and rearrange them in a way that’s easier to compute.

Algebra probably feels intuitive to you.

They’re also trying to teach that in math classes (it gets called “new” math) but the boomers are freaking out because “why can’t they just do normal additions like we used to, this is so complicated”. And the answer to that is, 99% of the time you’ll be doing algebra because we literally all carry a calculator in our pockets and sometimes on our wrists at all times and we never need to just do a long division. And that kind of thinking really makes it easy to break down formulas because your brain thinks in terms of moving stuff around in an equation.

And since when have you known any computer to be problem-free?

Software that’s not made from overworked engineers working 80 hours a week pressured to work even faster to complete this week’s sprint.

I’m so tired of “computers are buggy and everyone accepts that”. No! Computers don’t have to be buggy, you just have to not shove trash software on it made by morons doing the bare minimum.

I have software that’s been running on servers for literal years, not a single bug. The hardware’s been sized appropriately and I wrote good, sustainable and maintainable code. My computers all can easily do weeks and months of uptime. I pick up my laptop and open the lid and 100% of the time it wakes up from sleep and it’s ready to go.

The overwhelming majority of “production” and “enterprise quality” code I work with is total garbage that should never have been written and its author never hired in the tech space. We repeatedly get reports on how X car manufacturer was pwned for not following best practices that are a decade or two old.

Corporate greed makes EVs suck because it’s developed for as cheap as possible and the target is “good enough customers tolerate it”. Shit barely works properly when going through the happy path and the error path just… usually crashes your car.

I’ve had to reboot my car at red lights way too fucking often and it’s not even an EV. 2020 model and the infotainment reliably crashes if I have a Slack or Zoom call going because it tries to read the phone number off my phone over Bluetooth and doesn’t know how to handle a null phone number = the radio crashes.

It’s not fucking rocket science.

Yes

No, why would I? I’m a grown up, I don’t need mommy’s money.

Obligatory https://youtu.be/xDLvUqhwHZc

Postgres 16 and pict-rs 0.5.16, but neither are critical it’ll just miss features. Like if you use pict-rs 0.4.x then you can’t use the image proxy, but you shouldn’t anyway.

Indicates to me the decision to do ActivityPub was bolted on very late in the project’s lifecycle, probably rushed to try to take the users flocking away from Twitter.

Because a lot of those limitations makes zero sense.

Can’t you just… Install the Epic Store separately from Google Play, like we already do with F-Droid?

Installing a store through Google Play sounds pretty stupid when you can easily just install any store’s APK independently via the web browser.

They just need a way to let users grant that store the necessary permissions to install and manage apps, which currently requires root but is already doable. They just need to make a UI for it with plenty of warnings about the power this grants. F-Droid happily does its duties and updates my apps in the background and everything like it should, after flashing the privileged extension.

This seems intentionally done by Google to make it look more ridiculous than it needs to be. It doesn’t need Google’s involvement past adding a permission screen to Android, which is completely independent of Google Play. The ROM communities would get that done under a week most likely.

Stritcly speaking if you buy it and it comes with sources under the GPL then that is perfectly okay. The principle of freedom software isn’t that everything is free of charge, but rather that when you obtain software you should be free to access its source and customize it for your needs and share those modifications with other people.

That does make it hard for people to really have to pay for it, but it’s not like people don’t pirate proprietary software anyway. The presumption is if you’re honest and a good person you will pay the other for the software that you like and want to keep using.

It’s also not violating the GPL by having proprietary apps alongside GPL ones bundled together. SteamOS for example, comes with Steam and other proprietary Valve stuff.

But I would definitely expect it to not be popular and for most of the open-source and Linux communities to want nothing of it (paying for a programming language, what is this, 1995 when we pay for Delphi?).

Lemmy updates are a little touchy and buggy, can’t blame them for taking their time. It’s only been out for like a week. They have to load a backup on another server and test it out to see if there’s any issues with the upgrade and how long it’ll take. They have to plan downtime and set aside enough time to do it, handle any issues and a potential rollback.