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by ecshafer 7mo ago
Stardew Valley and Minecraft are probably the closest of any games I have seen that has universal mass appeal. But even they aren't really universal.
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by ecshafer 7mo ago
Animal Crossing would be another game that has a massive female audience from a AAA studio. > Despite the fact that there has been a huge industry push in the last 10-15 years to make a game that draws in tons of female players Ultimat
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by ecshafer 7mo ago
> Games are doomed by femininity. Across media, genres marketed toward women are deemed lesser than their masculine counterparts: romance novels are trashy, chick flicks are shallow, and pop idols are embarrassing This idea is trotted ou
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by ecshafer 7mo ago
When I worked in Finance our internal Date extension did actually have Workdays that took into account Stock Market and Bank Holidays.
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by ecshafer 7mo ago
> Android is for everyone. It’s built on a commitment to an open and safe platform. Users should feel confident installing apps, no matter where they get them from. This intro immediately tells me that whatever comes after will be horrib
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by ecshafer 7mo ago
IMO Computer Science doesn't have enough mathematics in the core curriculum. I think more CS students should be double majoring or minoring in Physics and/or Math. The skills you gain in analyzing problems and constructing mode
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by ecshafer 7mo ago
I like Java fine. I would probably prefer Ruby, Rust or LISP given the chance. But I can't disagree with anything you say. So many Java enterprise shops have absurd inheritance and "design pattern" abuse that makes it harder
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by ecshafer 7mo ago
I 100% agree. I have seen enterprise spring applications that throw away all of the speed through huge amounts of hot path object creation, nested loops, absurd amounts of factories, etc. After going through enough AbstractFactoryFactory ca
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by ecshafer 7mo ago
Corning NY has a Glass museum that is run by the Corning Glass Company (company that makes iPhone glass). Which is pretty cool, if you are ever in that area.
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by ecshafer 7mo ago
The EU is fundamentally flawed. There are no checks and balances, and its only democratic if you squint and look at it the right way. People need to directly elect the MPs, directly elect some kind of president. They have no accountability,
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by ecshafer 7mo ago
With Proton especially, which is WINE really optimized with all of the right options and a few other things, I play literally any game on linux and never worry about support. It hasn't steered me wrong yet in the last 3 or 4 years I th
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by ecshafer 7mo ago
Minecraft is kind of a perfect storm for longevity. It is a sandbox game, that has a lot of depth. But its also extremely easy to jump into casually (unlike idk Kenshi or Rimworld). Its also family friendly but not in a way that makes it of
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by ecshafer 7mo ago
Exactly. Steam an launch was some other program you had to have running on your machine, that was buggy, taking up resources when most people were barely running most games (people upgraded computers to play Half Life 2!), and had no point.
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by ecshafer 7mo ago
I do, React is a scourge in UI development. 100x code and dev time for worse performance. Have you ever built a website in HTMX?
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by ecshafer 7mo ago
Large scale failure of the status quo for the common man. Between free trade agreements, de-industrialization, recurring perpetual wars, and failed social policies that punish working class people. People no longer believed in the status qu
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by ecshafer 7mo ago
People weren't voting against their own interest. They are voting against a system which they do not believe worked for them. Saying people vote against their own interest is saying that they aught to just shut up and listen. If you pr
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Local Stack Archived their GitHub repo and requires an account to run(github.com)
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The US (with Canada and Mexico) is self-sufficient with fossil fuel energy.
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by ecshafer 7mo ago
Should I spend $70B on something no one wants? See what the AI says.
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In a recent episode of Dwarkesh the guest who is a semiconductor industry analyst predicted that an iPhone will increase in price by about $250 for the same stuff due to increased ram/chip costs from AI. Apple will not be able to affo
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by ecshafer 7mo ago
Degraded Performance is unavailable as far as I am concerned. If Github has "degraded performance" where it takes 5 minutes to load a PR then that is not good.
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by ecshafer 7mo ago
Why is there an expectation that it should not matter? Is it just childrens shows? In many countries you have to put a headshot on your resume, that seems very overt that attractiveness / looks does matter. In the west there is a large
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by ecshafer 7mo ago
IIRC CEOs have a very high average height, and height can account for a very large portion of the female vs male management disparity.
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by ecshafer 7mo ago
I don't think that is an important point.
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This mirrors my thoughts. A page of boiler play text with some check boxes, with some checked vs unchecked is going to be 99.8% similar between companies as well. A lot of audits are very much forms with boiler plate and fill in the blank.
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by ecshafer 7mo ago
Since the 1960s and the emergence of the New Left, and the introduction of the Frankfurt School and 60s post modernism into academia, there has been a widespread belief amongst a large segment of the population that everything traditional
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by ecshafer 7mo ago
Social Media Bans are never the answer says unbiased author Zark Muckerburg
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I agree with the cell phone bans (I would extend it to all electronic devices, schools should be pen and paper). But we just got our phones taken away in highschool.
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by ecshafer 7mo ago
It should only affect companies that have a presence in Europe, as in an office or some entity.
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UK fining an American company for this is absurd. 4Chan isn't breaking any laws. You can make it illegal for your own citizens but you can't regulate a foreign business. UK citizens should fight for the right to free speech though

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