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by ngcazz 3y ago
This is phenomenal!
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by ngcazz 3y ago
Actually not finding any references in his planfiles to Hall, but check this out on "the august quakeworld logs" aug 8: Romero is now gone from id. There will be no more grandiose statements about our future projects.
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by ngcazz 3y ago
I don't get the feeling from Carmack's logs that he was exactly agreeable to work with. (Esp. if you were Romero, Tom Hall, American McGee...)
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by ngcazz 3y ago
I think that's safe to assume, since income is contingent on employment and occupation at any given point - keep those services affordable to reduce the risk of citizens losing access to them
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by ngcazz 3y ago
Great moment to plug Climate Town's video from a couple years back on precisely this https://youtu.be/EIezuL_doYw
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by ngcazz 3y ago
First time a cookie modal actually enhanced my browsing experience. The background blur hid the retro design, making for a very nice surprise when I dismissed it!
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by ngcazz 3y ago
To piggyback on this suggestion, I'd also recommend This Machine Kills
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by ngcazz 3y ago
> Let's keep in mind that most people don't have access to basic hygiene and food safety. Agree, whole thing comes across as notionally adjacent to shit like "effective altruism" and disguising a greedy disregard for
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by ngcazz 3y ago
Mate, what are you talking about? it's a conspiracy theory and a racist dog whistle
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by ngcazz 3y ago
It's basically class warfare
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by ngcazz 3y ago
If China was politically and culturally organized like a western democracy this would be a worthwhile analysis. China does continuity not plurality, because its government scopes out centuries, not decades. And the Chinese understand this -
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by ngcazz 3y ago
It's not, because dialectically the article furthers the framing of TikTok and China as uniquely perverse which is wrong (cf. the abundance of examples posted elsewhere in this thread) and plays into American imperialist/hegemonic
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by ngcazz 3y ago
It's absolutely a Microsoft problem that they don't take a moral stand on bribing.
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by ngcazz 4y ago
What do you make of the AIBO line, the Net Yaroze and the PS2 Linux kit then? (Just really curious about your assertion they have no interest in the hobbyist and education markets, since those are some admittedly outdated examples)
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by ngcazz 4y ago
the great recession of 2008
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by ngcazz 4y ago
The thing that really shifted my software development mindset was learning about lean product development (and the application to software)
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by ngcazz 4y ago
That's a simple and yet super poignant point that I wish I'd made when I picked up and left that role :)
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by ngcazz 4y ago
Unless you're already getting paid for delivering a Big Design Up Front, by a customer who thinks they know what the software needs to do. In that case there's zero incentive to place yourself in your user's shoes and work to
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by ngcazz 4y ago
I liked the first advert. The world hunger one though really rubbed me the wrong way.
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by ngcazz 4y ago
Plus... they're going to use it.
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by ngcazz 4y ago
Hearing a lot about top performers getting laid off too
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by ngcazz 4y ago
That'd be entirely a StackOverflow answer.
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Upgrading a 2011 MacBook Pro with NVMe and EGPU Support(youtube.com)
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by ngcazz 4y ago
Love it, but the latency with a Bluetooth headset is a sore point. Probably an inevitability of iOS...
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by ngcazz 4y ago
Well, I for one want to see if I can enable a god mode for Returnal. 25 hours in I still haven't made it past the third boss!
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by ngcazz 4y ago
Perestroika?
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by ngcazz 4y ago
Absolutely, and low wage growth is endemic in Portugal due to cultural factors - business owners are famously greedy, small-minded, and given to mistreat workers, including by paying them miserably. Tech businesses thankfully have been lead
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by ngcazz 4y ago
The problem is not the odd elderly tenant, the problem is at most lack of capital to renew privately-owned derelict property in urban areas
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by ngcazz 4y ago
How is that possibly the issue here?
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by ngcazz 4y ago
Folks are less lazy this side of the pond ;)

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