SparkBomb

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by SparkBomb 11mo ago
> why is it surprising that people feel like showing their own politics with stickers when the government they live under currently deports random people, blows up boats based on vague accusations, tries to reform the country with Projec
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by SparkBomb 11mo ago
Nope. You asked the question, I gave you a pretty clear and polite answer, which in retrospect you didn't deserve. It is fine if you don't agree, being a dick about it isn't. If you aren't interested in my (or anyone els
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by SparkBomb 11mo ago
Ok I will be a Rhombus instead.
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by SparkBomb 11mo ago
The problem is that it isn't just stickers on a piece of equipment. A lot of these laptop stickers are either tech stacks (which are usually a form of advertising for a corporation), quasi-political messaging or outward political messa
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by SparkBomb 11mo ago
If someone's idea "fun" is putting a sticker on your laptop, then they really need to get out of the house more often.
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by SparkBomb 11mo ago
Go on then, What are they? Since you can read my mind.
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by SparkBomb 11mo ago
It has nothing to do with that. A good portion of these stickers are to do with things that are political or quasi political. What tends to happen is that a lot if times people have been burned in someway for supporting an idea or a cause.
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by SparkBomb 11mo ago
Political messaging I am completely fed up with and I am sure I am not the only person fed up with it. I go out of my way now to make sure that I see almost none of it. When I see overt political messaging outside of someone that works for
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by SparkBomb 11mo ago
> As a JS developer, I once had a sticker in the npm font, but it said "left-pad". I liked that one. I wouldn't even put this in the "somewhat amusing" category. This is really in the 16 pieces of allowed flair c
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by SparkBomb 11mo ago
They don't have any influence about what I think of Debian. What happens though is people outside will associate their (unbearably cringe in this case) behaviour with you, whether you like it or not.
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by SparkBomb 11mo ago
They are slowly removing branches in the UK. Opening hours are only a few hours a week in certain places. You have to use the app to verify online purchases in my case. There is no workaround. I basically firewall stuff like the bank apps a
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by SparkBomb 11mo ago
Are they really that funny though? While I appreciate that it is subjective, they are often only vaguely funny. More often or not a lot of the supposed humour is a thin veneer over some sort of political or quasi-political messaging. You ca
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by SparkBomb 11mo ago
> Eeeeeeh...it's not quite roses and rainbows on the Rider side either, and that's coming from a Jetbrains fanboy Obviously. IME it is better than Visual Studio. > But yeah, the coding/refactoring support (Resharper et
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by SparkBomb 11mo ago
The problem is that a lot of that has been ruined by corporate cringe and "weird funny stuff" is no longer weird and funny, especially when you have a bunch of influencers trying to either monetise it, sanitise it and/or atta
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by SparkBomb 11mo ago
I used to put stickers on my desktop PC and laptop when I was in my early 20s. Then I realised my laptop was kinda free advertising for whatever companies product I had stuck on the back. Now it seems have come very "corporate cringe&q
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by SparkBomb 11mo ago
> Why would they insist on using Visual Studio? They don't even know Rider exists a lot of the time. It is also quite different visually compared to Visual Studio code. A lot of places have never used Linux at all and if they have t
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by SparkBomb 11mo ago
I've used Rider for several years now on and off. Generally I would put these at the top of the list. - Integrated ReSharper. - Far better performance (it isn't even close) - Doesn't take 30GB of disc space up. Visual Studi
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by SparkBomb 11mo ago
Yep. You see this play out not only in war, but in business and software as well. e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better
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by SparkBomb 11mo ago
It really depends where you are. In the UK half the places seem to use .NET in some form or another. I am pretty language agnostic and I am reasonably competent programming in C# (I worked with C# and VB.NET for about 15 years), Go, Python,
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by SparkBomb 11mo ago
Actually "good enough" is often actually superior to "best-in-class" and "fully capable" because they are simpler to make and as a result you can make more of them . It is often better to have 1000 things th