FourPacketsOfPeanuts @ FourPacketsOfPeanuts @lemmy.world

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I think also because it's become impossible for a major game to be someone's passion project. They're designed by committee out of necessity. The level of organising required creates processes and structure and stultifyies individual flair.

Gamers are responsible for this too. The amount of moaning and pouting if things aren't perfect...

Great! Stop poorly integrating every single thing you can lay your hands on and maybe tend to some of the feature fix requests on idea exchange with hundreds of thousands of votes...

This is just portable stenography, right?

I'd been there one way or another since 2005.

Sometime in 2024 was asked to explain a Bible passage -> did so -> site wide ban for anti-semitism. Passage in question was Ezekiel criticising the behaviour of Jews in the 6th century BC

Reddit is a disaster. Unless you're generating bland, safe, family friendly slop that'll rake in ad impressions they don't want to know.

Just let it die and move on

Patient: poops self

AI Nurse: "would you like to hear a poem?"

To my recollection, this feeling happens every January. I've seen posts like this for years and years. January is known as the most depressing month. Many people fast from alcohol, maybe fast from media til 1st Feb? I don't know if it'll make you feel good. It might make you feel less bad?

By "the cloud" people are generally referring to all the services and storage that you are connected to across the internet. This exists on other computers owned by companies or other individuals. Yes there are lots of storage services available from Apple iCloud to Google Drive to OneDrive (Microsoft) to lots and lots of others. They tend to work in slightly different ways. Some just "backup" your device and you can't really use them as a replacement for browsing photos for example. Others do exactly this. Most have a small amount of free space available after which you pay. If you are looking to free up space on your SSD I would make sure the one you go with is a well known, reliable one, as they will be the only ones with a copy of your data- you want to make sure they look after it properly!

Manipulative headline? In the technology community?? Que devient ce monde..

South Korea + US better elevate their threat model of the NK army to "now thoroughly trained by someone who once shot themselves in the leg"

For sure. Askhistorians is still good, as are some niche technology ones and regional ones. But the rest are trash compared to 10-15 years ago

It's all bullshit. Reddit is an increasingly low quality magazine for 'B grade students with a superiority complex'. AITA is just the very-obviously-made-up agony aunt section..

There's a thin line between being entertained and being informed. The latter requires more energy to repel BS. Often a community is started by genuine people who want to share high quality articles. The reputation attracts a larger crowd who are 'entertained' by this, and while valuing the integrity of the content, do not themselves exert the same effort. At some point the 'entertained' crowd start contributing content themselves, of lower quality, but which is popular for its entertainment rather than truth value. Times this progression by ten if the platform owners are monitising attention. 'casuals' and the pursuit of profit drive enshitification.

"one blink for everything's ok, two blinks for nothing's wrong.."

Good. They should stop frantically adding new features and tidy up some of the crap we have to use day to day.

It's simpler code to re-download the file than retrieve what cached version may or may not exist in memory

This seems incredible

There would already have to be a data layer that serves the main web page renderer. That layer would already have to handle looking in the cache or making an http request in event of a cache miss. It would seem almost trivial for a UI operation like 'save to disk' to simply call that layer in the same way

For a few hundred K image file I can understand why some might not bother, but I've seen this behaviour where a browser already has an MP4 cached (such that it can replay any part of it without subsequent http traffic) and yet it still makes a new request when saving. It's weird to be honest..

Have often wondered this myself, would love to know the answer

I watched a lot more Star Trek as a kid but it's always the Star Wars universe that I feel drawn to. I can't really quantify it, I think it's just an aesthetic thing. I suppose Star Wars feels more 'wild west'.

Old school sci-fi: am re-reading the Asimov robot stories again. Always something new to reflect on.

They are probably unsure of your motives; are you analysing the business or analysing them? Software problems are extremely hard to estimate unless there is almost complete disclosure and discovery. It's like asking people how long a crossword is going to take without seeing the clues. Or asking how long they're going to spend on a chess move in 3 turn's time. They are possibly cagey because you are asking questions that betray the fact you are seeing this as a management problem rather than listening to what they're telling you about their craft.

Or possibly your manner of communicating is attuned to more socially intuitive people. Try presenting what you need as a problem for them to solve with a clear start and end. That way you're collaborating, and they know when their obligation to interact with you is "done".

Instead of open questions like "can you tell me how X is currently working?" try specific problem setting questions like "I'd like to see if we can make X process be 10% faster, what would that look like?" or "what would you say are the top two things that affect the time process Y takes?"

They may not want to offend you, because many of the answers might be "obvious" and, also, if they're honest workers, as many are, there may not be any clear way to improve certain things as they're already trying their hardest, and your investigation feels more like an inquisition.

Again, it may be that you're asking someone "how can I get you to get this crossword done faster?". It's sort of the wrong question. Unless you're willing to listen to their bugbears which might be the actual things affecting how efficiently things run but might not be the kind of answers project management want to hear.

I can relate. I wrote an insanely good optimiser for the loading of data to the trading platform for a major fund management company and there are like.. 2.. people in the world who know and appreciate

Are you really trying to tell me that Germany exploiting African countries because of “national greatness” is ideologically different to claiming Islam is the bane of Germany’s existence?

no, I'm claiming that shoehorning people with serious reservations over conservative islam into a racial narrative is itself part of the problem

How come Germans are okay with immigrants and refugees coming into Germany to work and support their retirement

they aren't. the article itself mentions that such immigrants faced discrimiation and resentment. the necessity of immigration is an economic one arising from a class conflict between global capitalists who seek profitability at any cost and the working class who resent the local changes made to accomodate this while their ongoing struggle is ignored

the same old racist views that religion is the problem and if only we could get the “good immigrants” and not the “bad ones” nationalistic (nazi) groups would accept them with open arms.

nazis are a minority. they end up attracting the previous moderates when those people feel deserted by the political elite. shaming any discussion of preferring ones own cultural values (oftentimes just a placeholder for "human rights") to those espoused in large degrees by immigrant populations is the beginning of this. in fact we're far past it. any talk of needing discerement over immigration on basis of a persons views or religious convictions is hardly possible without someone overreacting and crying "racism".

muslim communities have significant portions who i) do not support homosexuality being legal (82% with 52% oppose, 30% unsure) ii) think gay teachers should be fired (47%) iii) feel women should always be subservient to their husband (39%) iv) will not condemn violence as a response to insulting the prophet muhammad (32%) v) would not report someone to the police if they expressed a desire to engage in terrorism abroad (66%) vi) support the replacement of national law with Sharia Law (23%) vii) either support or are indiffernet to stoning people for adultery (21%) viii) support polygamy (31%) (https://www.channel4.com/press/news/c4-survey-and-documentary-reveals-what-british-muslims-really-think)

and this is amongst settled muslim communities in Britain (I am more familiar with UK research, but I don't think it unfair to consider UK and German muslim immigants broadly similar) immigrants are typically far more conservative (see: your BAMF report)

pretending that having some objection to this is "racism" is only fueling the current problems seen across Europe as populations find the only parties sharing any of their concerns over this are lunatic far right groups

working versions of your links:

https://www.dw.com/en/germany-needs-288000-foreign-workers-annually-until-2040-study/a-70885279

https://www.bamf.de/SharedDocs/Anlagen/DE/Forschung/Forschungsberichte/Kurzberichte/fb38-muslimisches-leben-kurzfassung.pdf?__blob=publicationFile&v=15