TheSaneWriter @ TheSaneWriter @lemmy.thesanewriter.com

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What's misleading about it?

They do the job but they are clunkier to use and use significantly more memory and processing power than the primitive data types. Use them if you need them, but don't use them when a primitive would do the job just as well.

How nice of Iron Man to make this friendly offer. I'm sure Captain America appreciated it.

One million billion?

One million billion?

At least refactoring the code can make the bug easier to find. What I hate is when I spend hours looking for a bug because I missed a single line in some documentation and misunderstood how something in the project worked, that always hurts.

These are terrifying graphs and I don't like looking at them. Academically, I'm fully aware of the horror and threat that climate change poses, but these graphs and the massive fires really make it feel more real.

To be fair (and understand I hate corporations and am speaking through clenched teeth), Costco loses money on those glizzies. They make the majority of their money on their memberships, and have made the bet that they gain more customers than they lose money on cheap hotdogs.

This is really cool, I may steal this idea for my own instance. Great work!

Google makes a massive amount of profit from operating the ad platform and serving those ads on Google search, as search engines are extremely efficient both at serving ads and running. So I think my statement still somewhat stands, but you're still correct. On Google's part, this is just an attempt to edge out the competition and maintain its share in the oligopoly of major tech companies.

From what I can tell yes. There's no established connection, the data is sort of just broadcasted.

Edit: I was operating under a misunderstanding, please refer to andrew's response.

It's difficult to moderate. Advertising isn't always clear, and while overt advertising is almost always removed and banned there are more subtle forms of it that are indistinguishable from any other post of someone using a product. For that kind of advertising it just has to be user discretion, don't buy products just because you saw them in a Lemmy post.

This is a really good way of explaining the difference.

I don’t think I’m alone in this, but what I’m really wondering is if this is a result of getting older? Or is it because the gaming space itself has changed?

Both. When you're older you don't have as much time to play video games so you want that time to be more meaningful and for the games you play to be more concise. In addition, a lot of games have added "hundreds" of hours of content by large and relatively empty open worlds that are full of worthless autogenerated side quests and collectible trinkets, which is undoubtedly a worse gameplay experience.

Ultimately, this is a clear indication to me that the advertising standard for the Internet is unsustainable. The profit margins with the model were always thin, but at this point, there's barely any profit left. I think that the internet needs to move to a new model of revenue, but I'm not sure exactly how or what that model should be.

Yeah, I just profoundly don't like being on fire and this summer hasn't been the greatest for that. May winter come soon.

Ah. I love it when cats get in boxes, they always look so comfy.

I've heard that. I wonder why they removed native functionality for tab groups, was there some problem with them?

That's unfortunate but understandable.

Technically instances do actually duplicate the communities. Right now I'm responding to a comment cached on the database of lemmy.thesanewriter.com, and I would retain that ability even if your instance defederated from mine or went down forever.