jamesbelchamber

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by jamesbelchamber 10mo ago
People moved on from Mastodon to Bluesky because it was more responsive to user needs. I encouraged people to move to Mastodon but then watched them move on. It is what it is - but it's worth being clear-eyed about what it is.
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by jamesbelchamber 10mo ago
> My first thought is to lean towards small companies that are not looking to grow. They are hard to find, and usually have no time/energy to "train" me. If they're not looking to grow themselves then why would they i
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by jamesbelchamber 10mo ago
I rewrote it to make a bit more sense to more people :) this was written by a friend of mine, and I enjoyed it, so I thought I'd share it.
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by jamesbelchamber 10mo ago
This is very frustrating, but I'm not sure it's a problem only with classic JRPGs - recently I sat down to play Bayonetta 3 and it had a similar problem (along with.. others). FF7 really had this nailed - flashy, mysterious cut-sc
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Solving a two year old Advent of Code problem too many times(richclubb.github.io)
2 points by jamesbelchamber 10mo ago|2 comments
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by jamesbelchamber 10mo ago
I am determined to play this on Saturn at some point. I had the Playstation version as a kid and I didn't notice any of the flaws, it was just a brilliant game with a much more interesting and fun battle system than Final Fantasy. But
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by jamesbelchamber 10mo ago
Adding friction, reducing "accidents" and ticking the "we tried" box.
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by jamesbelchamber 10mo ago
Yeh, for all Google's faults in this arena, YouTube Premium is such a good buy. I consume so much YouTube I think it would be unethical for me not to pay. (I still use uBlock of course)
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by jamesbelchamber 10mo ago
"Don't Repeat Yourself" is a great rule of thumb which, at least in writing Terraform configuration, became absolute tyranny. Strange webs of highly coupled code with layers of modules, all in an effort to be DRY - almost eve
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by jamesbelchamber 10mo ago
This is a refreshingly practical demonstration of an LLM adding value. More of this please.
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by jamesbelchamber 10mo ago
We really need some legislation that outlaws this sort of control over devices we buy. If someone wants to install an advert app on their fridge (I assume in exchange for money) then fair enough. If I buy a tv I shouldn't just have to
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by jamesbelchamber 10mo ago
Buy those blu-rays while you still can (:
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by jamesbelchamber 10mo ago
I'm disappointed that you call my motivations into question instead of engaging me in good faith. It's not possible to solve a problem without being honest about the pertinent facts, and I think you (and the person I responded to)
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by jamesbelchamber 11mo ago
I haven't come across a banking app in the UK that doesn't work with GrapheneOS. HSBC insists you use the AOSP or Google keyboards but otherwise no issues.
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by jamesbelchamber 11mo ago
> What do you mean it's not unpopular? How many voters have ever expressed interest in this? UK: https://yougov.co.uk/topics/society/survey-results/daily/202... US: https://issueone.or
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by jamesbelchamber 11mo ago
This strikes me as almost conspiratorial thinking, and it's reflected in the article. At one point they say KOSA is unpopular but.. it isn't? These laws (KOSA, OSA) enjoy broad, bipartisan popularity and politicians are jumping on
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by jamesbelchamber 11mo ago
Don't anthropomorphise the lawnmower.
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by jamesbelchamber 11mo ago
If we moron our way to large-scale nuclear and renewable energy rollout however..
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by jamesbelchamber 11mo ago
I have an on-again-off-again relationship with macOS - the deep integration with Apple hardware is stellar and IMO the new MacBook Airs are tremendous value for money, but otherwise the OS seems to be suffering from some deep technical debt
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by jamesbelchamber 11mo ago
Possibly copies of the document rather than the original URL?
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by jamesbelchamber 11mo ago
There are a bunch of options out there (though I've never seen Movim - thanks, I'll check it out) but most communities seem either to be on Discord or Matrix (with a few still hanging on to IRC and a few others on Slack) - Discord
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by jamesbelchamber 11mo ago
For those of you not closely following UK politics: the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) mistakenly published their Economic and Fiscal Outlook (EFO) document 40 minutes early, pre-empting the announcements by the Chancellor. This is
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by jamesbelchamber 11mo ago
There's not anything obviously wrong with using WordPress for publishing documents like this - they are meant to be public after all. The problem was essentially that, through a misconfiguration, they published it early.
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by jamesbelchamber 11mo ago
> The only thing that I don't really understand is the decision on data replication. If a user on server A joins a room on server B, recent room data is copied from server B to server A and then kept in sync on both servers. The ide
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by jamesbelchamber 11mo ago
> There simply aren’t many people in the games industry who can claim equal mastery of engineering and business acumen I don't have very strong opinions about Tim Sweeney but this article popping up in my feed reframed him after see
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Revisiting Jill of the Jungle, the last game Tim Sweeney designed(arstechnica.com)
3 points by jamesbelchamber 11mo ago|1 comments
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by jamesbelchamber 11mo ago
Trade-offs in the default load-out, essentially - some of the things you want for games can bloat out the standard build, compromise the "license integrity" of the base repositories, make system instability more likely etc etc. Th
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by jamesbelchamber 11mo ago
That's a pretty strong link, nice work!
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by jamesbelchamber 11mo ago
How did you connect this account back to the "real" account?
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by jamesbelchamber 11mo ago
Was that not changed after feedback?

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