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by dismalaf 4mo ago
> tech website of note Does anyone care about "tech websites"? Like what, one of those weird websites that thinks they're a newspaper whose revenue collapsed 10 years ago so they only publish clickbait no one reads? Does
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by dismalaf 4mo ago
I've engaged with GingerBill enough on X and the Discord server and I have no idea what his political stances are; he literally never talks politics in public (he's also English and not American). So if he says there's a pol
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by dismalaf 4mo ago
They do have products you can buy, download and use... And plenty of people on YouTube have made videos reviewing or showing how to use their products.
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by dismalaf 4mo ago
NetBSD puts Lua in kernel space, is it a C competitor? Rust is an obvious competitor to C++, both are similarly featured. When people talk about "modern C competitors" they're almost always talking about more minimalist langu
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by dismalaf 4mo ago
Is C++ a game oriented language because most game engines and games are written in it?
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by dismalaf 4mo ago
The whole "C competitor" category is about minimalism so no one puts Rust or C++ in that category. Also Golang has a GC so most wouldn't even call it a systems language at all...
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by dismalaf 4mo ago
Zig is more popular. Name a second modern "C competitor" language that's more popular?
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by dismalaf 4mo ago
It's kind of niche but is getting bigger. The Discord server has 10k members, the biggest(?) Twitch programming streamer has been using it recently, JangaFX is big enough to be used by AAA game companies and a few large film studios,
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by dismalaf 4mo ago
True but in the physical world a landlord has a monopoly over the parcel of land. Valve has a ton of competitors that seemingly get no traction and Steam is beloved.
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by dismalaf 4mo ago
> capitalism finally sinks its claws Capitalism has nothing to do with short term greed. Some CEOs are just too arrogant and think that optimizing for the short term won't hurt goodwill. That's their own failure. Capitalism s
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by dismalaf 4mo ago
Valve is one of the most efficient (revenue/staff) corporations there is. Far more so than most tech companies even. If that's how you measure goodwill then it seems like it works.
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by dismalaf 4mo ago
> The gov can use it's buying power to sway things towards Intel, for example, over AMD. Well, Intel is actually important for national defense because of their foundries... Whereas AMD sold their foundries long ago so now they&#x27
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by dismalaf 4mo ago
It's in Valve's interest to have their own OS and not rely on a rival's platform. Especially a rival that has proven many times they WILL abuse their power.
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by dismalaf 4mo ago
Anyone can record anything in public in the US, for better or worse. Change the laws if you think it's a problem.
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by dismalaf 4mo ago
Who'd have thought a bus company would run buses for the various applications that buses are used for.
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by dismalaf 4mo ago
While I'm sympathetic to a lot of privacy concerns, how hard is it to simply not be an asshole and not pass school buses when they have their flashing lights out? Also, every car with a dashcam or built in cameras is basically already
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by dismalaf 4mo ago
The rest of the world has educated people willing to work for less. Wages are just supply/demand. I'm not saying either is right or wrong, it's just an observation.
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by dismalaf 4mo ago
US tech wages are insanely inflated compared to, well, everywhere.
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by dismalaf 4mo ago
The poverty rate in the US is 10%. https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2025/demo/p60-28...
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by dismalaf 4mo ago
Since 2000 the biggest economic change is software. While most workers doing physical jobs have only made themselves slightly more efficient (or maybe mass immigration has maybe even reduced efficiency in some sectors), some workers (tech
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by dismalaf 4mo ago
It's useless for preventing someone from slipping a pill into the drink. Works for preventing insects from flying in when sitting outside though.
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by dismalaf 4mo ago
Infield shift? Although they recently made rules against it...
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by dismalaf 4mo ago
True, forgot that difference. In cricket innings are a fixed amount of balls thrown (and fixed intervals for the bowler to be changed aka. overs).
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by dismalaf 4mo ago
It's easy to prove that you didn't get paid though. The company would lose in a second, assuming the claim is true. Defamation is only defamation if it isn't true. Surely they'd know that they didn't pay the emplo
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by dismalaf 4mo ago
If they actually didn't pay staff, do you really think they want to go to court?
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by dismalaf 4mo ago
The wickets are the physical sticks behind the batter. Someone is out when you "take their wicket". But yes, the player is then out of that inning. The jargon is annoying but it's a lot like baseball.
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by dismalaf 4mo ago
Nah, cricket is pretty analogous to baseball. Instead of 9 innings there's one inning, at least in ODI or T20 formats (best to watch anyway). Instead of 3 outs there's 10 outs (called wickets). An out is having a ball caught after
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by dismalaf 4mo ago
Deno went downhill as soon as they introduced Node compatibility. It promised a better way of doing things, then stooped back down to Node fuckery.
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by dismalaf 4mo ago
The previous comment only says pedophiles so I don't think I'm wrong in assuming they're just talking about pedophiles online.
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by dismalaf 4mo ago
Was it an EV with only 200 mile range?

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