acwern

joined 1 year ago
 

Hey, I'm in the UK and have been getting bombarded by a somewhat-aggressive campaign by YouFibre for their broadband. The actual claims they make are pretty impressive and their Trustpilot score is good, but it's a little too good and a lot of the reviews feel a bit off so I'm skeptical. Looking on sites other than Trustpilot they seem a little worse, particularly a lack of decent support. Does anyone have experience with them?

Also feels strange that Netomnia would have full fibre set up for my postcode before Openreach or Virgin...

[–] acwern@sh.itjust.works 27 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Probably not "angry" downvotes. OP provided a link where it's explained exactly why the switch was made. Even if you don't care for Rust it's pretty clear that this was done with more purpose than just "Ooo let's make it in Rust for fun"

[–] acwern@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago

Tribunal added the ability to see specific quest entries iirc

[–] acwern@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Florisboard is the keyboard app that stopped me jumping between keyboard apps

[–] acwern@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Hey, watch out for damp under there. Without proper airflow those sorts of beds can be a nightmare for trapping moisture when you sleep. Looks like the slats are a bit discoloured already, given enough time the mattress can go mouldy

[–] acwern@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

I used LeftWM for a while, it's a window manager built in rust. One of the cool things about it was its themes functionality. You put all your dot files in a particular directory for things like your bar, and then you can save and switch multiple themes with a short command. Had some interesting community ones too like one based on the Star Trek TNG computer terminals. Ended up moving away from it after a while because it just didn't quite feel polished enough for a daily deiver yet and I got a little tired of the constant tweaking

[–] acwern@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Aye there's some reet proper creatures on British news shows. Scarily sometimes they don't get made to look quite as daft as that

[–] acwern@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The stupidest thing about it is that the name is based on some imagery from the film for The Wall by Pink Floyd which very much made the point of "Fascism bad"

[–] acwern@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

About average. I have a master's in maths, and am pretty competent at tech stuff. Also do a lot of music. Those are just interests though, really. It's easy to get caught up on the idea that being good at the skills society deems as "valuable" or "smart" means you're in some way objectively smarter than other people. I've just found that isn't remotely the case though. People have different interests, I've heard "dumb" people passionately talk about things they love, going into complex inner-workings that I would have to also spend hundreds of hours trying to wrap my head around. Also, a lot of the "smartest" people I know are utterly clueless at anything social. Sure they may end up as maths researchers but they can't pick up on nuances of social interaction.

Some people would argue that the metric for smartness is a little more set in stone, usually the same people who think that IQ is anything more than an ego-trip to justify MENSA charging people money for a shitty magazine and "proof" that they're smart. It's never felt that simple to me though, there are so mant facets of life to be understood and everyone has different understandings of them

[–] acwern@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sadly don't think Bevy's going to benefit too much from this drama. Most people from Unity will want a more complete toolset and probably won't be wanting to learn a whole new language. Can see a lot of indie devs making the switch over to Godot though

[–] acwern@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Well that's daft, they're both perfectly good books. I finished my gcse's in 2016 so must've narrowly missed it

[–] acwern@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Not sure about that last bit, Of Mice and Men is a pretty standard GCSE text and it's written by an American

[–] acwern@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

Docs can only really help you if your problem is "I have used X from the library Y, yet I do not understand the baseline definition of X sufficiently and this is causing issues". A lot of problems in practice are much more fundamental than that

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