glitches_brew @ glitches_brew @lemmy.world

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I (don't really) like to imagine how if someone were to invent a star trek-esqe teleportation device that beams people from place to place, how the auto manufacturers, road infrastructure organizations, and a probably countless other industries would be up in arms about their "losses" without realizing how stupid and short sighted that stance would be.

It's like we're unable to outgrow anything as a society without toddler-tantrum-like backlash from those who have benefitted from us being beholden to the current status quo.

Can some one fact check my random knowledge dumpster of a brain?

I feel like at some point I heard or read that "third world" referred to countries who did not take a side during the cold war. Is this accurate?

Technically the term third world has nothing to do with the developmental status of a country, but it happened to take on this second meaning because lower GDP countries tended to stay out of the conflict? The West and their friends were "first world" and Soviets and their comrades were "second world"?

I always kind of felt like those voices began to be drowned out the more and more popular reddit became. You're correct about Lemmy's scale, but there is certainly a sweet spot. I'm happy knowing Lemmy hasn't yet reached its own, and reddit's is long gone. I'm happier here and it's likely only going to get better.

Yeah, but a rich fossil.

Here's the thing. You said a jackdaw is a crow...

exercism.io

It's Kata code challenges but highly tuned to specific tools of a language. There's an Elixir kata for GenServers for example.

You can also request one on one code reviews from a volunteer mentor. Really great community and they have grown way beyond just Elixir in the last few years.

Good. Fuck Epic. Epic bozo.

For those of you that don't play rocket league, it is a prime example of just how badly epic is willing to fuck up a game for a dollar. Literally Mr. Crabs.

This December 5th, they are removing player to player trading from RL. Why would they alienate such a core faction of their player base?

Fortnite.

Apparently, that game is getting a racing mode and they want you to be able to drive your rocket league car in Fortnite. Apparently, the only possible way to make this happen is to eliminate player trading.

Now, every single high value item like alpha boost ($5-7k) or a white hate ($???k) is worthless. Now, if there is a particular item you really want, you can wait for rng to drop it, or nrg for it to show up in the shop where you can expect to pay a minimum of x10 credit it would have cost you on the trading market.

I expect a class action lawsuit. They locked player to player trading behind a purchase of credits. They made hundreds of thousands of players pay for a feature and are now removing that feature in a blindly idiotic money grab.

FUCK EPIC GAMES.

It's not that my interest is n d2 waned. My Interest is the same, but I'm less and less willing to fork over large sums of money to continue to experience the same game.

Based on what you and others are eating about GT7, I'm not sure this will totally apply, but in my experience it seems like games will do things like this deter smurfs from making a fresh account and destroying low ranked players in MP. Not saying that is a good way to handle smurfs, or that these games are doing it for that specific reason, but might be something to consider.

Hey Blizzard, here's a class for ya:

Game Dev 101: 'How to not eliminate your entire player base'

I didn't know this was a thing until my ex started fully disregard our custody order. I cannot understand how this is acceptable.

💰 here ya go

Typically happens to me in the initial moments before I remember it's been a week since I've pulled master.

Gotta make sure the poo is smooth and even on each cheek before wiping.

I think Google is a great company. They make very high quality products that I use daily.

IMHO one of the hardest negative aspects of the company to argue against is their pattern of killing products and features with little to no notice regardless of previous statements. To their credit, my experience with the Stadia shutdown felt fair and reasonable, so it's not necessarily the end of the world when they do.

Probably something to keep in mind when reading about multi year support statements.

In my experience it varies a lot. Even in our own system certain emails are stored differently. There are a few "we legally have to deliver this email and might need to prove it later" notifications. We store a PDF of those in s3. For others we might just save the data, a sent timestamp, and a key for which email visual template was used.

I also thought of a counter argument to my point overnight. We don't store one super duper high volume email which is the email that only has an MFA code. We would also absolutely never ever dream about allowing a plaintext password in an email, so we're probably following different patterns in the first place.

As the designated email dev at my company I can confidently say this is not true.

Not saying that this specific email is persisted, but almost all that I work with are. It's a very common practice.

Kinda surprised safe mode has commendations.. Sounds like getting the gold curse just got a lot easier.