herrvogel

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[–] herrvogel 38 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This. Everyone knows that windows is a perfectly safe and secure environment with no exploits and vulnerabilities whatsoever.

[–] herrvogel 2 points 8 months ago

Old reddit is unusable on mobile because it has practically no responsiveness. You have to zoom in a million percent to press any links or buttons.

[–] herrvogel 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Floating point errors are a product of how floating points work as a mathematical concept. So they're independent of the programming language and can happen everywhere.

In this case though, I doubt it's a critical issue. So the player "died" when they actually had 0.000000000027 hp left or whatever. Who cares? Do you need to be that precise?

[–] herrvogel 10 points 8 months ago

Not mine. I want to work 18 hours a day on difficult and high stress job that I literally cannot quit, getting paid in company scrip, only to spend my retirement (if I ever have such a thing) in an environment that's hopefully been made somewhat hospitable.

[–] herrvogel 2 points 8 months ago

but the US is about twice as large as Europe

Excuse me? When did that happen?

The US is about twice as large as the EU. Europe is not the EU.

[–] herrvogel 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

They are baffling and ridiculous but they are consistent in that. Once you learn one baffling and ridiculous rule, you can successfully apply that rule to correctly pronounce almost any new word you've never encountered before. Eaux is a stupid fucking way of writing "o" to be sure, but at least you will always immediately know how to pronounce it without ever having to guess, or hear it from someone else. Meanwhile in English you write "read" but you pronounce it "read".

There are of course exceptions, but show me one language in the world that has none.

[–] herrvogel 70 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Ad blockers don't protect you against dumbass frontend devs who serve 5mb png files to be stuffed into 600x400 boxes.

[–] herrvogel 6 points 8 months ago

Was he though? He mostly looked like a captain who wasn't thrilled with the idea of a large group of non-navy civilians starting fires onboard his ship and having their animals shit everywhere.

[–] herrvogel 5 points 8 months ago

It never reset the setting for me either, but it definitely doesn't always respect your wishes. It just goes ahead and opens certain links in edge despite the setting.

[–] herrvogel 2 points 8 months ago

It also doesn't look like an small furry rodent but nobody's talking about that.

[–] herrvogel 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

We also compensated with a VASTLY more customizable software environment. With your Nokia you could maybe install a new icon pack and play with the theming and that was about it most of the time. A modern smartphone lets you turn it into a completely different thing than what came out of the box. Most people don't give a shit and don't delve too deep into customization because on a modern phone there are much more interesting things to do than change your ring tone for the 17th time that week.

[–] herrvogel 35 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I just genuinely dislike such inexplicably, impossibly smart "genius kid" characters who also seem to possess inexplicably, impossibly vast amounts of knowledge and experience that simply cannot have been acquired in however many years they have been alive.

To be fair the show did try to address that a few times. The episode where he's given his first team, for example, showed him needing real advice from real professionals with real experience. But such episodes were rare. Mostly he was just a general-purpose wunderkind who could solve any problem. An acne ridden teenager who came up with very advanced technical solutions where much more experienced experts drew blanks. Not the most fun trope.

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