ursakhiin @ ursakhiin @beehaw.org

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If the only difference between two classes or structs is hard coded config, rewrite to be a single implementation and pass the configs in.

If it's more in depth than that it may not be worth refactoring but future copies should be designed more generically.

I also try not to be the one explaining the game because if I forget something my wife accuses me if cheating during the practice round. 😂

She's very competitive.

I think Golang had the potential to take over just because it's so easy to pick up and start contributing.

My last position was Golang focused and our hiring was never focused on experience with the language because we knew that if you understood programming concepts you would succeed in Golang.

Today, I'm working on Rust and while I enjoy it for what I'm using it for (Systems level instead of Web Services) I'd be hesitant to suggest it for most backend application just due to the ramp up time for new developers.

tl;Dr Golang will have an easier time hiring for because no language specific experience is required.

The main problem is that then everybody needs to read the rules separately.

The person explaining the game is trying to simplify things, so the intention is pure. They seldom take into account that they themselves may have played with misunderstood rules or that many people have the problem described in the comic.

It's usually best to give everybody an opportunity to read as much as they care to and just play a practice game first.

It's simple. They see the writing on the wall and are going to act like it was what they wanted all along.

One of my senators in on this list. His replies when a constituent disagrees with him are always a dismissal. The other senator who isn't on there is Ted Cruz...

I didn't even realize it was close to release. Now I'm torn because I'm in the middle of BG3 and I know I'll be playing Starfield after that.

Dark mode everything. No special styles needed.

I usually leave the lights off and light modes are way too bright.

I like the niche communities for hobbies. Reddit was a good place to get an introduction to a new hobby or activity one upon a time. You could go to a community and their wikis had a getting started section.

I hope we get there at some point. I do think the worst thing we took from Reddit is the over active meme pages, though.

Marketing is a big portion of it. There's also less obvious versions. Microsoft was busy making deals behind the scenes with OEMs for a long while with the intention of getting Windows to be the default OS in stores. Early OEMs didn't just wake up and start building for Windows. Bill Gates showed up at there office and convinced them to.

Apple donated a bunch of computers to schools. Many people just believed that it was because they cared about education but really it is an attempt to get kids hooked into the Apple ecosystem early.

Building brand loyalty isn't just about advertising and it's not even about making the best product. Early and repetitive access is more important. Advertising and product placement are more about awareness than loyalty. Loyalty is generally exploiting people's fear of change.

My point wasn't that they spend money on quality. Much of what they spend on is perception and awareness.

This is one that we can't just solve by putting computers on the shelf.

Some people have tools that don't work on Linux natively. If somebody is using and is familiar with Microsoft Excel, there isn't a straightforward way to install it and FOSS options aren't the same. The same can be said of Adobe.

Linux as a desktop environment will have to be for enthusiasts for a while longer. Hopefully, somebody gets more feature parity with the existing suites and the transition can just work out of the box.

But Linux when compared to Windows and Mac is a case study of capitalism vs FOSS. We (Linux users) generally think Linux is better and maybe it is, but Microsoft and Apple spent tons of money to make theirs what they are today and we didn't.

Anybody who hasn't seen Steel Battalion should go watch a video of a first play through.

They really assume the player is going to read (have) the manual for that game and have a series dig at you if you don't.

There's a bunch of ways to allocate resources but ideas like money have an advantage of allowing people to choose how they live.

A good example would be that not every person would be satisfied living in an apartment in the city. Some prefer living more rural for any number of reasons. Some want to be inside playing video games and others outside biking on a mountain. Some want to be able to do both. Giving them the ability to choose small apartment in the city or bigger house in the woods is important for happiness.

The biggest issue is the discrepancy of resource allocation between individuals not the method that allocation is done on paper.

To answer your question, while you didn't say it outright, your response makes a likely inference to be that you believe COVID reporting was overblown to generate revenue.

That is the far-right taking point they are most likely referring to.

The number of hospitalizations and deaths is a statistic that was tracked and the far-right lead a campaign to discredit those statistics. Later, the far-right lead a campaign to say that vaccination should have resulted in full immunity, which it was never reported to do, in an effort to discredit scientists and make their followers feel validated in their decision to not vaccinate.

It's forked from Ubuntu, so it gets all the benefits Ubuntu has but it's also generally more stable.

Adobe is always the best example of something professionals can't replace.

Artistic rarely mixes with capable programmer so there is a severe limit to the number of people contributing to FOSS art suites.

It's not good that the games are broken and they are relying on modders to fix them. It would be totally fine if they released a fully functioning thematic sandbox for modders to play in though.

The thing about Bethesda games is that their modding tools are far and away from any other game, making serious improvements much more accessible. That's one of the major draws of them.

I just wish every game didn't have an unofficial patch requirement to keep it from crashing too often.

As a child free adult, I don't mind that kids are on planes. I mind if the parents aren't making sure they behave.

Too many times I've had a kid scream at me for my attention and their parents just ignore it.

While this won't work completely, with a Mac you have access to a POSIX-like (zsh) terminal. Doing stuff in terminal will help with learning Linux to the side. As long as you treat the differences as a learning opportunity rather than an irritant, you'll be better able to switch between them.