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by ljm 3y ago
The full context of that quote, which everyone conveniently omits, is ”for subscriptions to take off” . As in, gaming subscription services like Xbox’s GamePass won’t succeed if gamers prefer to buy games over paying a monthly sub.
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by ljm 3y ago
They were all physical buttons before touchscreens became the norm, so the slippery slope argument you’re making doesn’t really carry much weight.
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by ljm 3y ago
It sort of looks like Caelid in Elden Ring.
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by ljm 3y ago
Getting your PlayStation chipped in the UK was like a working class rite of passage. You’d hand it over to some bloke and get it back a few days later, along with a printed spreadsheet of pirated games you could get. Once PCs with writable
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by ljm 3y ago
What’s worse is that the stuff that does get indexed will usually describe your exact issue, but then you’ll see it’s closed with a message like “this issue is stale because no one answered in 20 minutes,” or “this isn’t a bug, ask it on
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by ljm 3y ago
It was all about SCART, which is probably the only port worse than USB for having to rotate the connector several times before getting the correct orientation to insert it
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by ljm 3y ago
Not really. Regulation serves the interest of the consumer, rather than the kind of deregulation that serves the interest of the shareholder. In the US you build your app and everything is in English. You can launch that across all of the s
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by ljm 3y ago
I imagine there has to be some kind of security implication here, the same reason why the US is restricting the export of AI chipsets to china. It's not ideal if US megacorps are heavily investing in or buying out EU AI startups.
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by ljm 3y ago
The cloud is so expensive for most companies that I think that a solution architect's insistence on setting up in the cloud by default is actually a corporate welfare program where VC funds are redirected to Amazon and Google. That sai
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by ljm 3y ago
This is rookie-level shittifying. What it needs to do is insert `with` blocks at random, with various levels of nesting, so you completely lose track of the scope of any object property.
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by ljm 3y ago
In the grand scheme of things, it would be difficult to come up with something worse than having both null and undefined in JS, while also being able to define variables as undefined.
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by ljm 3y ago
> You make money as an American and you are like a God to these Europeans, their luxuries are trifles. Actually, you would just be seen as arrogant. At best.
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by ljm 3y ago
Working around the corner in Clerkenwell was great. I rarely head that way any more but still enjoy the odd walk up Upper Street to Highbury.
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by ljm 3y ago
I content that magit, while not a GUI, pretty much transcends git’s CLI. GUIs will only ever tackle a subset of git’s functionality since if you’re already a power user you’ll be comfortable with the command line.
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by ljm 3y ago
I see it fairly often when doing code review, because sometimes a line of code or a function stands out that just doesn’t seem in line with the rest of the PR. So I add a comment like “what is this doing exactly?” because it’s usually somet
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by ljm 3y ago
I got moved into a 'growth' department in one job and that was enough for me to put my feelers out and tender my resignation. All the work in the pipeline was about pulling the rug under from customers, increasing prices, and not
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by ljm 3y ago
Certain, as in those that are likely to sell, not all. These days the hardware is basically commodity and the time of innovating on CPU arch and hardware is over (remember the PS3 Cell CPU and the PS2 Emotion Engine?). You're getting c
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by ljm 3y ago
I would genuinely hate to be an engineer working on the edge team. It feels like building a decent browser comes entirely secondary to moving the needle on marketing and growth targets. Not the only situation where it seems your Windows-run
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by ljm 3y ago
I find it useful to handle things like creating diagrams and describing architecture, since I have some trouble converting what’s in my head to diagrams on paper. I can verify if the output matches my description of the requirements and mak
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by ljm 3y ago
Protesilius has changed the game on theming, to the extent that modus-operandi and modus-vivendi are now baked into emacs. They are fucking incredible and you only need to look at their readme to see the the intense duty of care. It’s not j
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by ljm 3y ago
Ironically, Google has come full circle on Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. Chrome was the antidote to IE6 back in the day, packing more performance than Firefox could muster at the time. Now it is Chrome that has adopted MS's position, es
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by ljm 3y ago
Google, Meta and Slack have all had their hand in EEE'ing XMPP, which for a long time was the standard for open messaging. Slack and Discord have gone a level above and locked IRC behind their walled gardens, despite their very exist
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by ljm 3y ago
A bit dramatic. This is simply pushing back against the consolidation of markets into the hands of a small number of mega corporations that are more interested in acquiring the tech to use for other purposes. It’s hardly a good thing that M
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by ljm 3y ago
It's not really any different to, say, lisp (which is lauded for its intuitive support of macros) and smalltalk (which is what ruby was directly influenced by). As a dynamic language, Ruby gives you a lot of tools to create fully expre
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by ljm 3y ago
Every time I end up opening a gitlab page I wonder how they’ve redesigned their nav again. Seems to be a new design every 6 months.
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by ljm 3y ago
I was the same and eventually went back to the Apple Watch because the alternatives I tried were nice as watches but came up short in the ‘smart’ department. I’m not as bothered by the charging since it gets enough of a boost while I’m in t
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by ljm 3y ago
This press release could not be more passive aggressive. Barely a sentence goes by without a petulant remark about gasp being regulated by a system of governance that doesn't pander to big business.
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by ljm 3y ago
I remember when Riccitiello announced per-install pricing for Unity last year and it, quite literally, cost him his job
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by ljm 3y ago
just throw in a kafka cluster so you can pipe each step through an event bus and you'll have an enterprise-grade deployment setup
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by ljm 3y ago
Security questions often require you to share other bits of PII and they aren’t hashed or encrypted either. Why do I have to tell a stranger over the phone my mother’s maiden name to confirm I own the account? That’s not my info to share, i

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