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by majewsky 3y ago
The reason for that is the same reason why TFA advocates for skippable tutorials: the average gamer today has less time on their hands than 20 or 30 years ago. When I was a child, I would only be able to get a new game every 4-6 months, and
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by majewsky 3y ago
> If the mechanics need such a long explanation, they’re probably bad. Or you're not part of the target audience. For a AAA title, I agree. But I wouldn't blame, say, Crusader Kings for having complex mechanics because that&#x2
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by majewsky 3y ago
> Error establishing a database connection Should've focused on KPIs for your site availability instead.
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by majewsky 3y ago
What makes you think that a machine specifically designed to generate outputs based on previously observed patterns will produce "quality movies that don't follow predictable / mainstream cliches"?
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by majewsky 3y ago
Counter-hypotheses: - Consumers optimize for what looks nicest in the store, and it's easy for the store to bury the nonreplacability of the battery under a thick layer of tech mumbojumbo. - Most consumers (at least here in Germany) ge
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I can't remember seeing Greenspun's Tenth Rule invoked so literally.
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by majewsky 3y ago
The framing in the last two lines only makes sense if you consider the amount of total bugs as a prior. In practice, the more realistic prior is something that's more observable, e.g. the number or rate of published CVEs or of security
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by majewsky 3y ago
I see your point, but if you're going to consider all code that runs on the dev machine as a source of supply chain attacks, that's going to include all LOC for the Linux kernel. And the LOC for dev's web browser that they us
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by majewsky 3y ago
Different people are online at different times. Maybe the submitter didn't see the first submission because it had already dropped off the frontpage when they came online.
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> Users being mad at mods that think that they own communities that aren't theirs? This is one of these places where the concept of "ownership" falls apart, at least in the monolithic ownership. A community consists of use
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> I do believe that there are many people who would like to learn how to use a firearms [...] and get military skills in courses that span over multiple weekends. The people that this makes me think of the most are also the ones that I l
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If entering a new market requires obtaining a bunch of safety certifications, I wouldn't be surprised if a decent amount of engineers' time would be involved in that.
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Yes, and this is how things were supposed to go before PRs. Whenever PR requirements are added, it's always because the described process does not work in reality and mainline ends up filling with crap as developers under pressure try
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by majewsky 3y ago
Well, not in the direct sense of the word "use", but other than that...
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by majewsky 3y ago
I remember hearing a news report about a study where they found that the critical limit for public transit schedules is 6 minutes. Once trains or buses come more often than that, people stop looking at timetables and just go to the platform
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by majewsky 3y ago
If you are the only one to own a car, where do you get gas? Or replacement parts?
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by majewsky 3y ago
Where do you draw the line between config file format and data serialization format? The first paragraph of the TOML spec says: > TOML is designed to map unambiguously to a hash table. Sounds like a data serialization format to me. Besid
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by majewsky 3y ago
> AFK right now, but files opened with os.Open will be automatically closed once all its references have been collected. No, they're not. The idiomatic usage is to defer a Close() call after checking that Open succeeded, like so:
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by majewsky 3y ago
I can understand it. Where would a want for work come from? Either the prospect of increased prosperity (which is becoming ever more difficult to achieve unless you start out prosperous through inheritance, or are able to make it in one of
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by majewsky 3y ago
Is anyone even still using non-random UUIDs? Every application I've ever seen them use is using v4.
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by majewsky 3y ago
Yes. In fact Youtube Premium views are much more valuable to the creator than an ad-supported view.
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by majewsky 3y ago
> All a robots.txt is is a polite request to please follow the rules in it At least in my country (Germany), respecting robots.txt is a legal requirement for data mining. See German Copyright Code, section 44b: https://www.ges
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by majewsky 3y ago
> It probably won't help for paying large bills like rent and mortgage For what it's worth, where I live (in Germany), it's usually just plain impossible to pay rent or mortgages in cash. The landlord or mortgage provider
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by majewsky 3y ago
Not to take away from your argument, but for what it's worth, there is a lint for this [1] which is available in golangci-lint [2]. If there is any Go developer reading this who does not know about golangci-lint, I wholeheartedly recom
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by majewsky 4y ago
Correct. It's nearly as bad as trying to get user support from Google.
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by majewsky 4y ago
The main concern of the luddites was not "technology = bad" like most popular caricatures of them, but that their livelihood was obliterated by the first wave of factory owners taking all the profits that were previously shared wi
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by majewsky 4y ago
Maybe the real lesson here is that the meaning of life is always a product of its time.
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No, it's the reverse. Posts like this are a dime a dozen, so they are probably over-represented in GPT's training set.
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by majewsky 4y ago
Another datapoint: I'm streaming and watching on Twitch multiple times a week, all from Linux and using Firefox. Never had any problems with login. (Though, somewhat related, I have a funny bug for nearly a year now where Ctrl-V does n
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by majewsky 4y ago
> Genuinely when was the last time Rust actually added new syntax to the language? let-else and GAT were introduced in 1.65 (November 2022).

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