JustAnotherRando

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[–] JustAnotherRando@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Kidney stones fucking suck too. Note that there are more than just the calcium oxalate kidney stones, but for those ones in particular, other things high in oxalates that you might be eating that are high in oxalates: spinach, chocolate, tea, nuts, sweet potatoes.
So if you're trying to eat healthier, don't fully adjust to eating (breakfast) an oatmeal bake with nuts, peanut butter, and chocolate; (lunch) wraps using a spinach wrap and/or spinach instead of lettuce for the greens in it; and tea instead sodas... Unless you like the idea of Tylenol sized kidney stones.

[–] JustAnotherRando@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

It absolutely should not have been named zeroth() because the reasoning for that is purely pedantic and ignores WHY arrays are 0 indexed. It's not like the people in the early days of writing programming languages were saying "the zeroth item in the array" - they would refer to it using human language because they are humans, not machines. Arrays are 0 indexed because it's more efficient for address location. To get the location in memory of an array item, it's startingAddress + (objectSize * index). If they were 1 indexed, the machine would have to reverse the offset.
Function/Method names, on the other hand, should be written so as to make the most sense to the humans reading and writing the code, because the humans are the only ones that care what the name is. When you have an array or list, it's intuitive to think "I want the first thing in the array" or "I want the last thing in the array)," so it makes sense to use first and last. That also makes them intuitive counterparts (what would be the intuitive counterpart to "zeroth"?).

[–] JustAnotherRando@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I think it could serve that purpose (and honestly has to some degree), but the big thing that I didn't consider when I was young was that a lot of people just want to hate (or to convince others to be focused on hate), and will find spaces to spread and amplify that hate. I underestimated the capacity and drive of those that would spread fear and anger.

[–] JustAnotherRando@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

If it makes you feel any better, when I was young, I thought the Internet would bring the world together since you could sit and have a conversation with people all over the world with different perspectives, and befriending those from different walks of life would help break us out of small-town small-mindedness where everyone "not like us" is scary...

Yeah, I might have been a bit too optimistic with that one.

[–] JustAnotherRando@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

I'm kinda torn because of this. I like for good games to get recognition and be successful. Part of me wants to buy the game and give it a shot because it's been well received and I'm happy to support an indie dev... But I really do not want to help establish a trend of indies sleeping on advertising/spreading word, then crying "woe is me" after a single week when barely anybody was aware of it, as a way of guerilla marketing their game. I also need to watch a bit more gameplay to see if it's even in my wheelhouse before I decide to spend $20 on it.

[–] JustAnotherRando@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Bopl Battle is a hilarious party game for up to 4 people. The rounds go really quick so it's a great game to play with friends when you have a limited amount of time, but the fun doesn't wear out fast either.

[–] JustAnotherRando@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Dude I loved that game back in the day. So many great mods for it too

[–] JustAnotherRando@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And C) continue in the pursuit of wealth rather than fucking off and just enjoying life with your fortune.

[–] JustAnotherRando@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

If you like nice shirts with no design or logo, Kohl's has some really comfortable shirts in several colors and no logo at all. They're some of my favorite shirts right now.

[–] JustAnotherRando@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Pretty sure people have been shitting on AI pretty heavily as well, partly for those reasons (but also for several others).

[–] JustAnotherRando@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Can't go wrong with a slice of pepper jack either. Then again, I'll eat pepper jack cheese on just about anything.

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