@Lensflare I know, it’s crazy. Some people will define an interfqce for dependency injection for no good reason at ALL. Like, they won’t write unit tests for it, nothing at all. Just inject a concrete type and be done! Jeez.

@Liebranca yeah it seems like Trump has caused major confusion on the topic, what an asshole.

The difference between the west having nukes and the Middle East having nukes is the last time the US fell was in 1776.

Then again, the US is also the only country to have ever used nukes in war so who fucking knows.

@Liebranca Yeah turns out Trump was just being a fucking cunt again and simply lying. The deal was struck between Trump and Netanyahu. Seems like the two allies cannot alone agree on a ceasefire, while leaving out the other party??

Quote: "Israelis, who fell asleep to the news that a ceasefire had been agreed to, woke up to four consecutive missile warnings, heading back and forth to the shelters as a missile hit a residential building in Be’er Sheva, killing three, according to the Israel fire and rescue centre."

@Liebranca not a problem to me, in the same way that the significantly more unstable continent of Africa isn't a problem to me either.

More accurate, those are problems waiting to happen.

@12bitfloat well, good news, it turned into "nothing ever happens" with same-day shipping. Now I get to sit and patiently wait for the middle east to become a problem again.

I'll probably delete the rant in a few days because it's just moot now.

Weird to see someone on the other side. Do you think Russia was right for attacking Ukraine and why?

@12bitfloat Unclear right now. I guess we'll have to see what kind of support Russia will actually provide. Then, we can start to guess.

@12bitfloat Ukraine has had 182 billion dollars of support from the US, depending on who you ask. The US has had a large, indirect involvement in that war.

Striking Iran is significantly different because we're not just paying for the bombs, we're dropping them from our own planes. Russia has condemned the move and pledged support on Iran's side. The extent of the support is unknown, and I don't think they had any strong ties before the conflict.

@12bitfloat Iran definitely couldn't hold a candle to the US, especially the mainland. Russia backing them is what's got my neck feeling prickly. We're backing out from the veil of proxy wars a la Ukraine and directly throwing punches again. Could be a global disaster.

@12bitfloat The world is in a much different state from Trump's first term.

While Iran definitely needs to get their ass kicked for continually developing nuclear weapons despite intense diplomacy trying to stop them, direct US involvement here is especially risky, essentially turning another "middle eastern boxing match" into a world stage event.

@12bitfloat True, but it's not that simple. The US isn't just sticking it's nose in another muslim country because "muh terrorism" this time.

The US is joining an escalating war motivated by nuclear weaponry development. Russia backing them suggests they're interested in having yet another nuclear partner to keep the West at bay.

Your company does code reviews? Fancy.

@12bitfloat I can only hope, but the middle east isn't exactly known for its stability and rational decision making. The US under Trump is not afraid to be aggressive to seek US interests. It could either "nothing ever happens" or "it's so over" and I'm not confident it's going to be another "nothing ever happens"

@rootshell @dfox hasn't been active in about 5 years, maybe more. Last update to the app or website was even longer ago. I think image posting has been broken since 2024. The site is over.

@iiii I'm still drafting age!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

As an American, it's weird to hear someone that doesn't know how to dive.

Imagine that. One second you’re closing a hatch. The next? You’re finding out if there’s an afterlife.

@AalbatrossGuy yeah honestly unsure of what idiot thought that “glass”, a material specifically designed to be seen THROUGH for all of human history, should be placed as the top-level UI background effect. They didn’t even start with frosted glass or whatever it’s just this liquid glass bullshit that I can’t fucking stand!

@D-4got10-01 funny you should mention clutter. The tightly tiled windows phone design (I had both 8 and 10 winphones) really made me feel claustrophobic and the non beveled edges made it seem like they were all connected in a mosaic instead of individual units on a panel.

Android was pretty rough looking at the time. I still assert that iPhone really looked the best, even if the early versions of their flat design fell a little…

A little… fla-

@D-4got10-01 the original isomorphic design was pretty nice for the time. The flat icons were really nice in my opinion, and when they started adding that glassy material I did really love it.

But making everything out of glass is so tacky and difficult to read. Oh well.

You pee your tool?!?!?!

Skimmed the rant because it's sort of schizo

But as a photographer, Japan means lenses to me! Over 99% of cameras and lenses come from Japan because during WWII they developed a global lead in optics.

3 bytes to write the value 0b01011011 to the serial port at address 0x7ffe5367e044.

390.7999 million bytes to upload your entire hard drive to every known advertisement agency on the planet.

3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17

Carrier phone - bad

Finding the love of your life first try - great

Sprite from McDonalds - the best sprite there is

VSCode integrated terminal - honestly very good

What's your point?

Pour one out for another victim of this abandonware

@wojtek322 aliases are dead common in ETL, less common but still commonplace in regular application use. It’s a code smell, well-built applications might have none at all.

The only stat that doesn’t completely knock me on my ass is the 11 joins. The rest are absolutely unbelievable.

I think @Linuxxx attended one somewhere around 2018

Real answer: it's a design pattern. Separation of concerns. Back in the days of classic PHP and ASP, logic inside/ alongside the UI code turned into the ugliest code of all time. It was degrading to maintain. Inhumane.

REAL answer: do you mix your steak and beer together when you have dinner? Sure, they end up in the same place eventually, but you wouldn't want to eat beer-soaked steak or drink steaky beer.