Jamie

joined 2 years ago
[–] Jamie@jamie.moe 5 points 2 years ago

I just have Spotify and, if it counts, YT Premium. Spotify is on the family plan where my dad has his own account tied to mine, and he can just pull up basically any music he feels like listening to instead of asking me to find it for him.

As for YT, I'm just too lazy to set up blocking the ads on my TV.

[–] Jamie@jamie.moe 2 points 2 years ago

Imagine if Microsoft did the same thing with Windows? Allowing software companies to just suddenly change the rules like that could be a terrible precedent. They would probably get hit with antitrust for like the 50th time since they opened their doors.

[–] Jamie@jamie.moe 3 points 2 years ago

I wouldn't be that surprised if that look became a meme face

[–] Jamie@jamie.moe 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Rule 1: You are playing The Game.

You, along with everyone else in the world, always is, always has been, and always will be playing The Game. Neither awareness nor consent is required to play.

Rule 2: Every time you think about The Game, you lose.

Loss is temporary; as soon as you forget about The Game you stop losing. The objective of The Game is to forget that it exists. Good luck.

Rule 3: Loss of The Game must be announced.

Every time you think about The Game, and hence lose, you must say so. This is the only rule that can be broken, but do you really need to cheat..?

Congratulations, you are now playing The Game, and you just lost.

[–] Jamie@jamie.moe 29 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This guy shits

[–] Jamie@jamie.moe 9 points 2 years ago

This site has a bunch of samples in various programming languages for an X11 Hello World, including Assembly.

[–] Jamie@jamie.moe 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I always thought there should be a minimum hold time. Somewhere between 1-5 years after they leave their position.

It encourages them to think long term instead of just the next quarter, and they really have to leave the company in a better place than they found it.

[–] Jamie@jamie.moe 1 points 2 years ago

benefactor tends to be the Republican party who has members, like Trump himself, who are in the pocket of these foreign nations.

Generally, the benefactors are most rich people in general. If everybody's getting angry at each other about pronouns and medical treatment for a fraction of a percentile of people, they're not paying attention to the rich who get richer from everyone else getting poorer.

You can replace trans rights with whatever overblown topic you choose, I'm just using it as an example because it's topical. But the amount of legislative cost being dedicated to putting down maybe 0.2% of the overall population is ridiculous. That same energy could be spent doing literally anything else productive.

[–] Jamie@jamie.moe 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

In my Pokemon Red I used the Master Ball to catch a Polywhirl because I really liked Polywhirl, and underestimated how hard the legendaries would be to catch. Also I was like 8, so long term planning skills weren't all that developed yet.

[–] Jamie@jamie.moe 5 points 2 years ago

I don't carry a calculator in my pocket, just a device that has access to the sum of all human knowledge.

And a calculator.

[–] Jamie@jamie.moe 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think at a certain point, you should be able to drop math as a subject and take programming instead. There's no shortage of math concepts in programming that still require understanding of underlying concepts, but I can easily say if I had that option in school, I'd have learned way more in a programming class than I ever did in math.

[–] Jamie@jamie.moe 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I had a history teacher in school that liked me even though I barely paid attention in class. I was bored in the class itself, but loved history and would spend the entire period just reading the textbook because I found it interesting. So even though I didn't pay attention I would still ace assignments like nobody else in there.

I was usually a couple chapters past the class at any given time.

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