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  • i think macos inserts those automatically if you do three dashes.

  • But most of the key points he raised were sensationalized but not actually wrong if you look at things from a developer perspective.

    they were also not really relevant to the campaign, which was the biggest problem with his comments. there was no expectation that studios do extra work to keep servers up, or make offline clients. the expected legislation was to have publishers allow external use of the relevant source code of the product when the publisher deems the work no longer profitable, to spare people the effort of reverse-engineering protocols and building their own servers. a knock-on effect of that would be that future services would have to be built with eventual shutdown procedures in mind, which, let's face it, they should already have been doing.

    thor was saying "this isn't feasible because it's a bunch of extra work for the developers", completely missing the point that this is not on the developers. it's on the company sitting on the IP. they can publish source trees no problem, no developer involvement necessary. and the legislation would have made sure of that fact.

  • that was sort of the point though. a big case with a narrow focus can later be used as a fulcrum for a wider scope, given that the original case has the right spin. it's also easier than going after the anti-repair people.

  • linkedin is like designed for envy but only used for pride.

  • thor is a tech youtuber. it's just his actual name.

  • yeah my opinion on piratesoftware was really cemented by his inability to do a charitable reading of the petition.

  • nah, he's live and reloaded

  • me and a few friends have a dumb chatbot we've been fiddling with for 15 years. started out on irc, moved platforms multiple times, and i'm currently porting it to matrix. it can do poetry, markov chains, tell you when the weekend starts, pull youtube videos, create email aliases, etc.

  • i think weston is the reference implementation, but i don't know if it's usable

  • i used to have an mp3-player with only an audio jack, and a USB-to-TRRS cable for charging and data transfer.

    i think it had 64MB of storage?

    point is, it's been a thing

    Edit:

    also my keyboard! the two halves are connected together via audio jack.

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    he's bad

    he rides across the nation
    a thoroughbred of sin
    he got the application
    that you just sent in

    we're focusing our business
    and hiring from within
    there's currently no vacancies
    within our evil agency

    bad horse
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    he's bad

    the evil league of evil
    is downsizing you see
    although we are still interested
    in your CV

    so please keep it updated
    and keep your schedule free

    you'll be the first
    to know of course
    we'll keep in contact!
    signed bad horse

  • is it really "insisting" when there is no alternative for your use case?

  • the problem now is that while kde and gnome do have most of those things on wayland, it's all bespoke. there are no universal wayland remote desktop systems or accessibility pushes, just "the gnome one" and "the kde one".

    it's fragmenting the desktop.

  • god i feel this so much. like trying to push through mud to get thoughts to complete sometimes.

  • i love the new headcanon duke that the internet has developed after the games. he's still a rabid womanizer, but he's wizened with age and become a supportive womanizer. "nobody messes with our chicks and lives" applies to all women. trans women are women because hey, more chicks is always good. and trans men? hell yeah, who wouldn't want to be like duke?

  • i played the shit out of that. still have the deluxe "saga" edition complete in box.

  • i think we're talking about different things. you use enforce to mean "validate", i used it to mean "coerce". one of the cases was a command line argument parser that consisted of a single decorator, so you could write

     python
        
    
    @command
    def foo(bar: int, baz: float):
        print(baz * 2 + bar * 3)
    
      

    and call it with $ myfile.py foo --bar 3 --baz 2.2 and it would print 13.4

    another was about creating working protocol buffers from an excel sheet, nested types and enums and oneofs and everything. we used it to parameterize tests of our bluetooth protocol.

  • meanwhile in the b2b world...

    engineer: we have had an experienced technical writer on the team for a year and involved them in every user-facing process, we did six rounds of A/B testing for all documentation and operation, and we've produced a manual which basically qualifies for a pullitzer.

    later...

    it's broken
    is it showing an error?
    idk it's just broken
    what did you do?
    nothing! it just broke
    how did it break?
    we needed it to go faster so we connected it to the 480V line and then it just broke
    it's a 12V device...
    yeah it's an even multiple right?

    i have been on both sides of this exchange.