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  • Lenovo.

    Years ago they ran a competition along with their "GoodWeird" campaign. I got high enough on the leaderboard of their little web game to win a (substantial) prize yet they refused to ever respond to me.

    I don't care if ThinkPads are good, fuck them. Especially fuck their marketing team.

  • Most of these make sense but the Applebee's one isn't really on your shitlist. From what you've said you just seem indifferent to it, much like you'd be indifferent to any other store you have no interest in.

  • Valve is currently a private company, which is likely why they've been able to avoid enshittification for so long. All we can do is hope that whoever eventually takes over when Gabe steps down also has his ideals at heart.

  • I quite like the term Software Alchemist.

    To me, the words "engineer" and "developer" both imply that a well thought out and structured plan is in place for them to do their job. Not so with "alchemist", which implies a fair amount of experimentation and uncertainty, both of which are very common in the software industry.

  • Ah I see. I don't think there's a way to do that yet.

    If you're so inclined, perhaps you could contribute to the discussion (or development) around tags on Lemmy here, since a feature like that would solve your issue.

  • Just block the community. It would have been faster than typing this comment.

  • Why?

    Jump
  • Supporting your position through things created in your brain is called "explaining yourself", or more specifically "explaining the rationale behind your position".

    Did you think you were being clever?

  • I have skipped through every single mandatory interactive training thing I've ever been assigned and passed the quiz at the end using basic common sense. Every time.

    I swear it only exists for the bottom 1% of the workforce who are, in this day and age, are somehow dumb enough to still fall for email scams that have been around for longer than I have.

  • To answer your question (and not just recommend another piece of software instead):

    Making a cylinder and deleting the cap faces makes what's known as a non-manifold mesh. To my knowledge this means you can see the backfaces without travelling through any existing faces (in your case, you can see them by looking through the holes you made when you deleted the cap faces).
    That cylinder has walls that are theoretically infinitely thin, so you should thicken them up before attempting to print it. You can do this with a Solidify modifier. You can also extrude and scale them if you like, it achieves the same effect.

    Given a manifold mesh, your slicer will treat the inside (as in, the direction the backfaces are pointing) as solid, and you can change the density and infill pattern to whatever you like.

    Make a few of these shapes, both manifold and non-manifold, and see how your slicer reacts when you tell it to slice them.

  • I get the advantage, and if I could change our schema with a click of my fingers I would, but it's not that easy. We do use the native date type in our schema, but the dates we store in there are in local time. It's bad, I know. It was originally written by a couple of people about 15 years ago, so software standards were a lot more lax back then.

    We already have many customers with lots of data that are currently using this product, so it's unfortunately non-trivial to fix all of their data with the current systems we have in place.

    We developers often want to fix so many things but we're often told what to do based on what the business cares more about, rather than what we actually want to fix. That's why we always end up building shit on top of shit, because the business doesn't want to pay us to rewrite 15-20 years worth of legacy code despite in doing so it would make the product an order of magnitude better in every conceivable way.

  • Even if it's a re-run, it's a dick move to give away the ending to any movie while in line to see it.

  • I think what they meant is requiring that only UTC time should be in the database. This prevents ambiguity when pulling dates/times out as with many poorly designed systems it's not possible to know whether a date represents UTC time or local time.

    At my work we store local time in our database and I hate it. We only serve customers in our country, which only has one time zone, so that's fine for now. But we've definitely made it harder for ourselves to expand if we ever wanted to.

  • From what I've read online that's a problem with Wayland not Discord.

  • I've been running Discord just fine on Linux. It's just a web wrapper, after all. What issues have you been having with it?

  • It's odd how poorly phrased the text on that first image is.

    Sign in with work, personal, or school account to access to devices and apps

    Surely it should be:

    Sign in with your work, personal, or school account to access your devices and apps

  • What a terrible day to have eyes.

  • Inko looks like it copied Rust's homework and changed it a little.

    I don't really see what it offers that I couldn't get from another lang. What's the USP?

  • The did not follow the hivemind of "Rust good, JS slow, C complex, PHP bad" which clearly means they are in the wrong /s

  • I took a look at Unison a short while ago when I saw it mentioned elsewhere on Lemmy and I'll say what I said before: Their Hello World example, and by extension the rest of the language, looks very weird and unwieldy to me. With the repeating identifiers and relatively alien syntax I'm having a hard time seeing this catch on.