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New comment by bearmode in "When do we stop finding new music?"

bearmode — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 10:44:49 +0000

My musical tastes have changed a lot, I've found new bands and artists pretty much every year of my life. I listen to music from my teenage years now & then, but more often than not I'm listening to completely new music.

New comment by bearmode in "Amazon Cuts Jobs in Prime Video and MGM Studios"

bearmode — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 16:47:44 +0000

So Amazon-owned Twitch makes huge job cuts, they cut jobs in Prime video, introduce ads for prime video users, all within the last few weeks? Is something wrong with Amazon's financials that they're taking more drastic measures?

New comment by bearmode in "Veritasium: The SAT Question Everyone Got Wrong [video]"

bearmode — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 14:12:06 +0000

This is definitely the easier way to understand it. Imagine a point in the centre of the circle that is traveling. Draw the line that point takes, and then calculate using the new circle.

New comment by bearmode in "Sony announces a9 III: first full-frame global shutter camera"

bearmode — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 16:44:12 +0000

They're pretty essential for any situation where you can't just stop down the exposure in the camera. If you want a long exposure shot of some crashing waves on a bright day for instance, you might not be able to just increase the shutter speed or narrow the aperture without ruining the intended photo.

New comment by bearmode in "Designing content for people who struggle with numbers"

bearmode — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 14:33:30 +0000

>How do you write the time? Do you put seconds or minutes before hours? Why not?

No, because the seconds are rarely important.

>How do you write the year? Do you put decade before century?

No, because that's not how numbers work.

>How do you write numbers? Do you put the ones place before the tens?

Same answer.

>Toddmorey asked why units don’t go from small to large and I explained that it is inconsistent with how we write numbers.

Dates aren't numbers. There is a lot more context and meaning around dates that we need to consider when we verbalise and write them. But, for the purposes of e.g. data storage then absolutely - we can consider them no different from numbers. You have to understand that isn't the case with conversational English, though.

New comment by bearmode in "Designing content for people who struggle with numbers"

bearmode — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 09:00:18 +0000

Yeah, and that's great for storing things in databases. Not for everyday communication. We talk in terms of most relevant to least relevant - the day (or time) is typically most relevant, with the year being least.

New comment by bearmode in "Designing content for people who struggle with numbers"

bearmode — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 08:56:50 +0000

In everyday use, the year is the least important part. It makes perfect sense in many cases. It's in order of most relevant information to least.

YYYY/MM/DD HH:MM:SS has its place as well, but not here.

New comment by bearmode in "Carrefour puts ‘shrinkflation’ price warnings on food to shame brands"

bearmode — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 14:56:42 +0000

3 million people used them between last year and this year. About 4.5% of the population. That's a lot of people.

New comment by bearmode in "Want employees to return to the office? Then give each one an office"

bearmode — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 15:51:39 +0000

The problem is the commute, not the office. Mostly.

New comment by bearmode in "Turning my hobby into a business made me hate it"

bearmode — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 10:10:20 +0000

Yep. I have been told numerous times to start a bakery, or a photography business, or to open a restaurant, or start a music tuition business.

But none of the hobbies that sparked those comments would stay enjoyable if I did that.

So I'm a full-time programmer, and have tons more fun with those hobbies now than I ever would if I turned them into a career.

New comment by bearmode in "Turning my hobby into a business made me hate it"

bearmode — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 10:07:12 +0000

Turning something you do for fun into something you do to survive has always been a great way to sap the enjoyment out of it.

I've been told numerous times over the years to turn my photography into a business. Or my baking. Or my cooking. Or to start music tuition. I can't think of anything I'd hate more.

New comment by bearmode in "Louis Rossmann: Autodesk turns lifetime licenses into subscriptions [video]"

bearmode — Sat, 01 Jul 2023 11:38:26 +0000

Has there ever been an example of an industry standard tool losing out to FOSS alternatives? Ever? There are reasons for that.

New comment by bearmode in "Leveling up in job interviews for software engineers (2022)"

bearmode — Sat, 01 Jul 2023 11:36:13 +0000

Every tech interview I have had has, at some point, included interviewing with the person I'd be working under

New comment by bearmode in "The EU’s fight for user-replaceable smartphone batteries"

bearmode — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 15:30:04 +0000

>I think the next bottleneck is likely to be software longevity.

My girlfriend recently dropped (and broke) her iPhone X. She then bought a used Galaxy S9. The S9 is a few months older than the iPhone X.

Despite that, the app for our home alarm is not supported on her S9, because for some unknown reason it requires Android 11+, and the S9 only supports up to Android 10.

New comment by bearmode in "Mullvad Leta: A search engine used in the Mullvad Browser"

bearmode — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 13:35:26 +0000

>Mullvad was the darling of the Vpn world

Very much still are.

New comment by bearmode in "Fark redesign is now live (2007)"

bearmode — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 08:50:12 +0000

20 dollars a month for Reddit, oh man that's a good one

New comment by bearmode in "Google doesn’t want employees working remotely anymore"

bearmode — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 08:10:28 +0000

If I could walk 30 minutes to work I'd be overjoyed. I'd consider it if my walk took an hour, which is how long my commute often is.

New comment by bearmode in "Google doesn’t want employees working remotely anymore"

bearmode — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 08:08:09 +0000

The garden I crafted myself at home is better than any arboretum. For me. It's also nice and private.

New comment by bearmode in "Google doesn’t want employees working remotely anymore"

bearmode — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 08:04:48 +0000

Is that so bad? The other way of looking at it is that employers would be more likely to allow WFH, since they don't have to pay for your commute costs anymore

New comment by bearmode in "Google doesn’t want employees working remotely anymore"

bearmode — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 07:59:57 +0000

I don't want to go to an office, but I still am very social & go out all the time. This is the case for most people I know. In fact, if I didn't have to commute for 2 hours a day I'd have more time for social activities.

I'd also love to have some extra time to be able to go to the gym, but right now I'm getting home, cooking, eating, and suddenly it's past 9pm and I'm having to think about getting stuff ready for work the next day.