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901.
by ljm 3y ago
Funny how the era started with pay to win (coin-op arcades where the games depend on you spending money on them and are completely unforgiving) and ended a generation or two later with pay to win (micro transactions, subscriptions, etc etc)
902.
by ljm 3y ago
That is the entire history of gaming though, no? It's the same churn you are working with now but you're not making games or fun, you're making productivity tools or better graphics or whatever, and other people are using tha
903.
by ljm 3y ago
BioWare had nothing to do with Makind Divided or Human Revolution.
904.
by ljm 3y ago
You could argue that Bazel, Nix and Guix solve that problem but they introduce a lot of complexity as a result because it's not a simple abstraction. Hell, you could probably pull it off somehow in Cmake if you placed no value on your
905.
by ljm 3y ago
The lockfile in this post actually seems a bit more like a manifest, or at least that it's trying to do both things at once. I'd expect you'd have human readable file to list your dependencies and versions in a simplistic way
906.
by ljm 3y ago
Something like this would be a welcome addition to Ruby/Rails where you have to pull in dependencies that patch the multiple independent loggers in the stack, some of which break messages onto multiple lines, not to mention the common
907.
by ljm 3y ago
The new Data class in Ruby 3.2 also does the job (although it's intended for immutable data) https://docs.ruby-lang.org/en/3.2/Data.html
908.
by ljm 3y ago
You’re taking a well-known system, criticising it, and burying the fact you’re from the US well inside of that. We’ve already solved this problem outside of America you know.
909.
by ljm 3y ago
Most banks in Spain require physical presence in the branch for 2fa
910.
by ljm 3y ago
Yeah your ID in Latvia has an electronic certificate for governments, banks, etc
911.
by ljm 3y ago
This is influenced by Haskell (where) and lisp (let) AFAIK. You’re setting the preconditions for the function, and with elixir you get an extra ‘else’ block to help.
912.
by ljm 3y ago
My main bank uses username + password + (random subset of ‘memorable word but actually unencrypted password’ driven by select boxes), then 2FA on top, and it literally feels like they just slapped a bunch of things together to add extra bar
913.
by ljm 3y ago
Disco Elysium has a tragic recent history worthy of a post of its own
914.
by ljm 3y ago
when you think you have a good story to tell you will make it work no matter what. Epic poems like The Iliad or Baghavad Ghita or the bible are not immaculately retold from scratch but depend heavily on repetition and context cues. Code is
915.
by ljm 3y ago
In the UK, for most bills, it is line rental + provider fee. Line rental is to pay for the copper wiring that is still used for landline phones and all of the infra for it (via local loop unbundling). It goes to OpenReach and every ISP rese
916.
by ljm 3y ago
It’s a testament to computer science that this has been so thoroughly abstracted over the years
917.
by ljm 3y ago
Have to say I have a lot of respect for Nightdive after finishing their System Shock remaster. It was faithful, but modernised, and none of the tension or horror was lost in the process. It remastered a 30 year old game but didn't make
918.
by ljm 3y ago
The author's enthusiasm is infectious and you can just feel how excited he is when the House of Leaves connections become more clear.
919.
by ljm 3y ago
My first thought is - what will the modders do. I watched some videos about MyHouse.wad (a Doom 2 level/mod that became popular with the indie horror crowd), and it's seriously impressive. I wonder what happens in the context of Q
920.
by ljm 3y ago
Tribes 2 and Unreal Tourney were childhood faves.. when I played something other than CS 1.6
921.
by ljm 3y ago
I find myself preferring macports for a lot of things, but homebrew has brought its own niceness to the table. It's just a bit of a nightmare as a software author because so much rework is done to repackage your stuff in n formats: o
922.
by ljm 3y ago
Assuming everyone's on a Mac, I'm actually surprised there isn't that much use of something like homebrew-bundle[1]. It's definitely nicer to have your tooling run natively rather than, say, trying to wrap everything in
923.
by ljm 3y ago
k3s, and nothing fancy except using a splash of helm to set some things up. The cluster has an auto-updater for unattended upgrades.
924.
by ljm 3y ago
Those ARM boxes are incredible for the price, I'm using them to document a hobby K8S cluster because the overall cost is low enough that it won't price a hobbyist out. You get a lot of bang for your buck out of them.
925.
by ljm 3y ago
Barcelona is a fantastic city but you could lay down this same criticism just by moving out to Castelldefels or Forum or La Floresta. Both are conurbations (of differing size) where you can find yourself wandering various little town centre
926.
by ljm 3y ago
If you want Pratchett and also Gaiman, then both Good Omens the book and Good Omens the TV version are fucking fantastic. The Pratchett/Gaiman collab is one of my absolute favourites, I like it a lot more than Gaiman and Moore on Watch
927.
by ljm 3y ago
I'm really enjoying getting to grips with Elixir, but I'm still really in two minds about Ecto having a macro-based SQL ORM. Like any ORM, the abstraction leaks, but it really throws you off course when you're trying to map t
928.
by ljm 3y ago
Adobe is basically a monopoly and it is well documented that they allowed piracy because it meant that the pirates would become dependent on their tools. Doesn’t matter how you edited a photo technically, it is still photoshopped.
929.
by ljm 3y ago
It was normal to pay up-front for software until about 10 years ago, just a few years after the 2008 crash where startups decided MRR/ARR was the metric for success Enter the subscription model, holding your tech hostage for periodic p
930.
by ljm 3y ago
Not really - the market tempts you with free to hook you in. You cannot honestly say that the market has asked for every abusive free product that existed.

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