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.
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.
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".
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 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
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.
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.
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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 think macos inserts those automatically if you do three dashes.