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[–] 12 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Interesting. Thanks for the quick response.

Really the only thing that really annoys me over text is yes/no to not yes/no questions.

Me: I've had a long day so was going to just pick up dinner on way home, do you want pizza or burgers?

Partner: yes

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    • How helpful in c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works
    [–] 19 points 1 month ago (9 children)

    Honest question, if I have to ask for 3 pieces of information, would it help if I sent it in 3 messages?

    Message 1: how many people are coming to dinner?

    Message 2: are any vegetarian?

    Message 3: what time are they arriving?

    Personally I would prefer the 1 message with 3 questions vs the 3 messages with 1 question each(many messages in short time make me think something is wrong and urgent), what's your preference?

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    • Who is Al and why is he going to kill us all? in c/shittyasklemmy@lemmy.ml
    [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    I could maybe see something like him being an over the top evil villain. Like sending a jet to NY to buy pizza while he's in LA. Driving down a highway in a garbage truck with the back open just littering all the garbage around the road. Throughout the video his costume gets less and less till he's barely in underwear as he complains about the heat and the ending is his final outfit bursts into flames(obviously cgi) as the worlds temperature hits critical levels.

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    • What's the most unique/different book you ever read? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
    [–] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    To give you a slight idea of what you're getting into the "Ai agents" are always "alive", when not controlling a character in game they are stuck in a pool with the other unused Ai agents, when they are in use they must act within how the character they are controlling would act. If they are an early enemy they must make mistakes and will likely "die". That's the point of early bosses, give the player a sense of power but if the Ai is conscience and sentient is it morally acceptable to kill them repeatedly? The player may grind an area repeatedly for either experience or specific loot. If the loot has a 2% drop rate, is it morally right to repeatedly run that dungeon for days/weeks killing that Ai over and over looking for that drop? What about the other Ais watching you repeatedly kill their friend? They have thoughts and feelings but their only future is to repeatedly be shoved into the embodiment of some character and likely suffer from injuries and likely death only to be returned to their pool to observe their friends suffering the same way untill they are forced to repeat the experience.

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    • More restaurants, clinics in Japan offering system of paying for priority entry in c/world@lemmy.world
    [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    For example let's take highways in Texas. In many cases you have 3 sets which all go to the same place and typically you can see the other ones. The first is the free but you have stop lights at intersections, more traffic, lower speed limits(30-45mph). Next up is the toll way, small fee, no stops(on/off ramps for the first road for intersections), higher speed limit (typically 60 mph). Finally there's express roads, high fees, less traffic and higher speeds(70 mph typically). The second and third set have fees based on total traffic, oh this will save you 20 minutes the price is 15 dollars now. It's kinda a rip off because if you're not careful it can be very expensive, but it could also be nice if you got stuck at work but really need to get home for your anniversary dinner... 20 dollars is worth not being late.

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    Question on your feelings about accounts (programming.dev)
     

    So I've been working a program, exact details don't matter, which stores information in a database(either locally hosted or privately hosted by user). Basically it's to store a history of seizures and medication, so you can give it to a doctor and see something like "well most seizures occur in morning so let's give medication at 6am instead of 8am" or something like that. To do that requires two "accounts" one for caregiver and one for patient(idea is for parents of a child with medical issues). It requires accounts to see like "dad gave medicine at 7pm" or "mom saw child 1 have a seizure at 230pm". These are basically just names stored in the local/private database, I will not no them or track them.

    I don't want to deal with hippa or be responsible for medical data so I specifically don't want to host the data. Assuming you had a use for this and the ability host the database would you be turned off by the requirements of "accounts" even if you completely controlled them?

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    What are some of the worst code you have seen in a production environment? (programming.dev)
     

    I'll give an example. At my previous company there was a program where you basically select a start date, select an end date, select the system and press a button and it reaches out to a database and pulls all the data following that matches those parameters. The horrors of this were 1. The queries were hard coded.

    1. They were stored in a configuration file, in xml format.

    2. The queries were not 1 entry. It was 4, a start, the part between start date and end date, the part between end date and system and then the end part. All of these were then concatenated in the program intermixed with variables.

    3. This was then sent to the server as pure sql, no orm.

    4. Here's my favorite part. You obviously don't want anyone modifying the configuration file so they encrypted it. Now I know what you're thinking at some point you probably will need to modify or add to the configuration so you store an unencrypted version in a secure location. Nope! The program had the ability to encrypt and decrypt but there were no visible buttons to access those functions. The program was written in winforms. You had to open the program in visual studio, manually expand the size of the window(locked size in regular use) and that shows the buttons. Now run the program in debug. Press the decrypt button. DO NOT EXIT THE PROGRAM! Edit the file in a text editor. Save file. Press the encrypt button. Copy the encrypted file to any other location on your computer. Close the program. Manually email the encrypted file to anybody using the file.

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