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by rimunroe 1y ago
> But it can be, that's my point. It can be! You have not explained how. You've just described ways you think we could incentivize longer-lasting products. Having incentives doesn't make materials science or engineering
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by rimunroe 1y ago
I was never arguing that we couldn’t make things more reliable, just that a fridge which lasts 40 years without any failures isn’t realistic
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by rimunroe 1y ago
If anyone's a fan of papercraft models and the game Homeworld, you might enjoy this collection of models from the games. I remember my sister put together several of these back in the early/mid 2000s. https://www.homewo
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by rimunroe 1y ago
> Well OK, but you starting out by discussing the B-52, so I responded in kind. ...because you used B-52s as an example in your argument that fridges could be made to run maintenance free for decades. > Unless the documentary I watche
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by rimunroe 1y ago
I was responding to you saying we could make fridges which could easily last 40-50 years without maintenance (and somehow not cost much more). > Yes but how old are the B-52s? And how much maintenance? They get heavy, months-long mainten
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by rimunroe 1y ago
> A generic example, fridges could easily last 40 to 50 years without maintenance. They wouldn't be all that more expensive either. Volvo, and the B-52 bomber program showed this, with Volvo having some models unchanged for 20 years
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by rimunroe 1y ago
Because when people get priced out of their existing homes they often find that they can't afford houses elsewhere either.
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by rimunroe 1y ago
I appreciate the response! I have no defense against the charge of pedantry. I do stand by my points, but I definitely didn’t need to argue it for so long
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by rimunroe 1y ago
It does mean that a majority or a large percentage of people believe it's one of the best of all time though. That Wikipedia article is a bad example for reasons I've explained in the sibling thread and which you haven't ye
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by rimunroe 1y ago
> Most of which you would have anyway. Data caps exist and also higher service reliability tiers cost more.
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by rimunroe 1y ago
Agreed. I'm glad that I at least get reimbursed for a portion of my home internet connection and for office equipment.
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by rimunroe 1y ago
> Again, you don't have to believe the people who are sharing their sincere opinion, but A LOT of people regard Hollow Knight as one of the best games ever made. Why do you think I don't believe that? It's undeniably popul
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by rimunroe 1y ago
> You must have missed the criteria for inclusion that list, which states that games are only eligible if they appear on "all time" best lists, e.g. not just "Best Game of 2017" or "Best PC Games". I, in fac
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by rimunroe 1y ago
> The combat in the original is really bad/way too easy, and the exploration is just okay Personally I find combat to be one of the less important aspects of Metroidvanias. I prefer the main source of difficulty coming from platform
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by rimunroe 1y ago
> I feel like you're being pedantic here and transforming the statement "X is one of the best of all time" into "X is one of the top N of all time", where N is a number you've arbitrarily picked to exclude X
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by rimunroe 1y ago
> There are 23 entries since 2015 on that page, Hollow Knight included. By definition, it's one of the best 23 games during that period, according to that specific list. Okay, but that's an argument that it's considered on
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by rimunroe 1y ago
> 100 games over 40 years is not a lot. You continue to miss my point, as your comment about concurrent player count indicates. I think when you ask people to come up with a list of what they'd consider the best of something, most w
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by rimunroe 1y ago
> I was just pointing to proof that it is widely regarded, by most (but not all ) people, as one of the best video games of all time, hence why the sequel got so much hype. My point is exactly that I don't think most people thi
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by rimunroe 1y ago
Not the person you're replying to, but I personally preferred Ori and the Blind Forest a lot, both in terms of movement and story, but also in terms of the satisfaction of the backtracking and world as a whole. I felt like Hollow Knigh
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by rimunroe 1y ago
> You are welcome to your opinion, but it is literally on a Wikipedia page called "List of video games considered the best."[0] There's no definitive list, of course, but broad consensus is it is one of the best of all tim
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by rimunroe 1y ago
npm ci should be much faster in CI as it can install the exact dependency versions directly from the lockfile rather than having to go through the whole dependency resolution algorithm. In CI environments you don't have to wait to de
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by rimunroe 1y ago
> Philosophically, checking that a field is required or not is data validation and doesn't have anything to do with serialization. My issue is that people seem to like to use protobuf to describe the shape of APIs rather than just s
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by rimunroe 1y ago
I'm just a frontend developer so most of my exposure is just as an API consumer and not someone working on the service side of things. That said: A few years ago I moved to a large company where protobufs were the standard way APIs wer
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by rimunroe 1y ago
I feel similarly. I appear to have put 30 hours into it at this point, but I don't have particularly strong memories of any part of it. It took me several tries to get into it initially. I've always felt like Ori and the Blind For
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by rimunroe 1y ago
> Much of Wikipedia is pop culture, I wouldn’t call that knowledge. Why?
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by rimunroe 1y ago
> Others will disagree, but personally I prefer to minimize my exposure to JS by decorating traditional HTML+CSS documents with vanilla JS as needed. If you don't mind my asking, what sort of applications have you worked on, how man
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by rimunroe 1y ago
Photo library permissions have been around since iOS 14. As long as you have an iPhone made in the last ten years you should be able to use it.
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by rimunroe 1y ago
Does the "<business logic>" part involve a bunch of irreducible boilerplate too or something? What's it like? If it doesn't, then I feel like even in the JavaScript world of 2015 you could write "app.put(&quot
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by rimunroe 1y ago
> To be more exact, 90% of the _code_ I write is mostly just different types of API glue I assumed you were only talking about the actual code. It still seems really odd. Why is there so much unavoidable boilerplate?
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by rimunroe 1y ago
> 90% of what the average (or median) coder does isn't in any way novel or innovative. It's just API Glue in one form or another. I hear this from people extolling the virtue of AI a lot, but I have a very hard time believing i

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