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CombatWombat

@ CombatWombat @feddit.online

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In the fediverse since 2017. I mostly talk sports. If something on the internet doesn't spark joy, mute it.

Do not yell at me simply because I am in front of you and the people responsible for the problems are not. It is extremely unpleasant.

  • Whats a good alternative to Instagram?

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  • Vernissage

  • What does "playing politics" mean for software engineers?

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  • Just because it's true doesn't mean I don't hate it. Oftentimes, the team with the least political cover is the team who stands up for what's right, rather than playing politics and shipping what is most profitable regardless of the ethical implications, and my political machinations are an active hindrance

    If you’re making a technical decision that’s either going to require work from team A or team B, and neither team wants to do it, you should try to pick the team with the least political cover.

  • If you could create artistic works like the Mona Lisa(Gioconda) in better quality, should your work be considered superior to the original (ignoring its historical value)?

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  • Choosing the mona lisa is an interesting example because it's pretty unremarkable as a painting, and most of its fame comes from having been stolen, rather than its artistic merits. Certainly making it larger would be helpful practically, given how small and crowded the space they show it in is, but would miss the mark entirely on why people want to see it, since wouldn't be the actual object that was the subject of the heist. Most of why I go to art museums, though, is to understand the progression of the conversation about Art that takes place on canvas over the centuries, and having a "better quality" reproduction would hinder, rather than help me, as I want to know what Kandinsky and Mondrian had to say about space and rhythm more than I want to see some kind of idealized iteration on their most famous works.

  • Which soccer club in a 26 World Cup host country do you follow or support?

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  • It's a silly trophy the Charleston Battery and DC United have as part of their rivalry. It's passed back and forth to the club that won in their most recent meeting, which is usually the US Open Cup or the Carolina Challenge (a preseason tournament) since the Battery aren't in MLS. It's a coffee pot to celebrate the time y'all trashed Charleston's locker room after they beat you in USOC in '99. This looks like a pretty good history of the trophy.

  • In defense of not understanding your codebase

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  • I find this argument kind of facile. Sure, the codebase that you are working in is 10 million lines and you can't understand it, but your team owns a subset of that, hopefully with a well-defined interface, and it is reasonable to expect a team to fully understand their subsystem. Whether all submodules are broken out into separate repositories or stored in a big monorepo doesn't change my expectation that when I sit down in a meeting with the engineers from your team, I expect them to be able to readily answer questions about what the system does and how it does it, even if they had to implement something they would have preferred not to for legal reasons.

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    Do YOU consider this the same as fast food?

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  • I think this is probably true, though I'll have to poke at my dialect a bit to make sure, but when someone says we're getting fast food, I assume they mean fast food with a permanent location, and probably a drive thru. If you say this at an event we drove to with food trucks, I'll start walking to our car, not the food trucks.

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    Do YOU consider this the same as fast food?

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  • I'm not sure if that's the only thing for me? I would feel strange saying I got "fast food" if I got a falafel from the halal food truck, or papusas from the stall at the farmers' market, even though they are inexpensive and served quickly? I could imagine a fast food karage or tempura place, but a noodle soup can't easily be carried out and eats slow enough that it would be strange in my dialect to refer to as "fast food."

  • Which soccer club in a 26 World Cup host country do you follow or support?

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  • As opposed to you, who thought very carefully about the uslw and the account you were responding to before leaving this incredibly well-informed and nuanced response.

  • Didn't last for 4 days. Sad, really. Snowflakes have taken hold everywhere and everyone's offended. Good luck with your site!

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  • Complaining about the mods is so incredibly cringe when you can simply spin up a new community with the same name on a different instance.

  • ActivityPub Over ATProto

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  • What makes this approach superior to the bridgy approach? I don't know enough about either to really compare.

  • Reflex

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  • Which soccer club in a 26 World Cup host country do you follow or support?

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  • If you're interested in finding a club team, there's also a community for the Northern Super league !nsl@lemmy.ca . I haven't found one for the Canadian Premier League yet.

  • Which soccer club in a 26 World Cup host country do you follow or support?

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  • I don't think there's much unethical really happening at my local uslw club, but whatever helps you keep a clear conscience.

  • Which soccer club in a 26 World Cup host country do you follow or support?

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  • Which soccer club in a 26 World Cup host country do you follow or support?

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  • I wonder that too, and also why they keep replying with their men's world cup side.

  • Buy Actual Trash and Air from Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s Wedding

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  • The linked conceptual artist, New York City Garbage, sells trash from lots of NYC events, like the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest and the NY Liberty Championship Parade. I know I'm weird about Seattle in the Fediverse, but no-one is as weird about their city as a New Yorker.

  • Which soccer club in a 26 World Cup host country do you follow or support?

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  • Have you ever been to a game?

  • Elon Musk Is Charging Starlink Customers Gigantic Bogus Fees Because Its Network Is Being Crushed by “High Demand”

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  • No I mean the $1500 monthly demand surcharge that is the subject of the article you're commenting under:

    SpaceX is now charging some users so-called "demand surcharges" of up to $1,500

  • Elon Musk Is Charging Starlink Customers Gigantic Bogus Fees Because Its Network Is Being Crushed by “High Demand”

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  • I'm not sure I would characterize a $1500 access surcharge as "extremely competitive" but I agree we should run fiber to rural areas.