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by troad 2y ago
Again, respectfully, I don't think that follows (or makes much sense). There is not a set amount of complexity for all software that gets apportioned between the build system and the business logic, so that an increase in one necessari
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by troad 2y ago
I hate this cycle. 1) Media - you won't believe this legal loophole! 2) Politicians - what loophole? that's the law working as intended. 3) Media - watch our corrupt politicians defend the evil loophole that costs us millions !
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by troad 2y ago
> I think that's true up to a point, but it misses the distinction between accidental and essential complexity. Very respectfully, I think you may be missing the author's point. When you fail to make a home for necessary comple
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by troad 2y ago
Could that run Pac the Man X? The fact that the guide you link suggests optimisations like disabling the 3D dock makes me think it would struggle mightily with a game. Afaik UTM doesn't support any GPU emulation or virtualisation at al
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by troad 2y ago
You paid a great opportunity cost. You could have been using something good for a year, rather than something designed to prey on your mind. Every time you made a mistake, you lost a heart. Every time you lost your hearts, you were forced t
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by troad 2y ago
Duolingo is a gambling company masquerading as a learning resource. (Buy gems! Buy lingots! Increase your chance of loot drops!) Their entire business model is preying on addictive dark patterns. (Loot drop animations - so much colour and m
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by troad 2y ago
>> Complexity has to live somewhere . If you are lucky, it lives in well-defined places. In code where you decided a bit of complexity should go, in documentation that supports the code, in training sessions for your engineers. You g
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by troad 2y ago
> Well, no; it would have to be more like: Do we really want someone who answers "yes" when a racist asks "do white lives matter?" to be coaching the high schoool football team? Uh huh, this is definitely a distinctio
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by troad 2y ago
You're back to the false dichotomy. In effect, you're saying one can either hate the genre or love NMS. But those aren't the only possible positions. One can love the genre while thinking NMS is a bad example of it, and this
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by troad 2y ago
I'm very excited for Jank, I wish the creator well. If I could make one tiny plea, it would be to focus on tooling too, and ensuring the experience for someone trying Jank out is as smooth as possible. Don't assume everyone is alr
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by troad 2y ago
So if a man with a shaved head and a swastika tattoo told you that it is his human right to live free of 'parasites', you would - what - agree? Because you require 'zero context behind whether a group of humans deserve human
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by troad 2y ago
> Or you could just say, "Yes, white lives matter" and move on. Which people will interpret as a support for the far-right. You may not intend that, but that's how people will interpret it, and your intentions are neither
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by troad 2y ago
This is a false dichotomy, plus you're implying that anyone who disagrees must bear a grudge, which is not at all the case. Games that promise the things NMS promises are games for me. NMS just doesn't deliver. Years of free updat
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by troad 2y ago
> When ChatGPT first came out I got a kick out of asking it whether people deserve to be free, whether Germans deserve to be free, and whether Palestinians deserve to be free. The answers were roughly "of course!" and "of
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by troad 2y ago
"For the following heist, please turn your game disc over to side B."
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by troad 2y ago
> Sure, if you stop after "nobody's vocal coords make noises above 4khz in normal conversation" Huh? What? That's not even remotely true. If you read your comment out loud, the very first sound you'd make would h
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by troad 2y ago
This is really neat! It's a real shame there's nothing like Wine for the late PPC/early Intel era of OS X. That entire galaxy of apps basically just no longer have anything to run on. I would love to fire up a game of Pac the
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by troad 2y ago
I respectfully disagree. Interests come from positive experiences. When people say they have no interest in - oh - Mongolian throat warbling, they generally mean they have absolutely no experience of it, and presume - based on that lack of
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by troad 2y ago
Shared interests are a key way to build social connections. You say you're frustrated, but then you say "it is what it is" about the most obvious way to make friends. Your frustration sounds like the result of self imposed li
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by troad 2y ago
You're the first person to correctly recognise the nick as anything other than T + Road. Great answer! I appreciate it.
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by troad 2y ago
Justine - thanks so much for all these amazing projects. You're an inspiration. One thing I saw you write recently is that chasing the newest fads is a distraction. That makes sense, but if you don't mind me asking, what do you th
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by troad 2y ago
Agreed, but that's not quite my point. In Europe, you're asked for a lot more personal information than you and I may be used to, and it's actually verified a lot more than you may expect. You don't generally need to h
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by troad 2y ago
SSG != WordPress. The value proposition of WordPress is that grandma can run her knitting blog. Not quite as straight forward to teach nana Markdown, jekyll, the command line, SFTP... It's true that anyone who can roll their website wi
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by troad 2y ago
In my experience, people tend to grossly overestimate the scale of publicly known organisations; the more publicly known, the vaster and more faceless people imagine it to be.
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by troad 2y ago
Interesting, good to know.
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by troad 2y ago
Nonsense. Europe has more rules around the sharing of personal information, but that's because literally everyone in Europe demands your personal information. I've never been asked for more personal information than when living
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by troad 2y ago
Agreed. And for a less contrived example, people may have photos of political protests that they attended (and the faces of others present), screenshots that include sensitive messages, subversive acts, etc. It's worth noting though th
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by troad 2y ago
My own experience of migrating my calendars and contacts from iCloud to Fastmail went seamlessly. What's more, the user experience on my iPhone went pretty much unchanged, including in Apple's own Calendar and Contacts apps, which
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by troad 2y ago
Didn't WPE release some of the most popular WP plugins of all time? Advanced Form Fields etc? How is that not contributing to the ecosystem? I'm not sure it's logically consistent to attack the phrase "rent seeeking&quot
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by troad 2y ago
I hear you! You had a great device through some of the best years of OS X. I wasn't as lucky, but that was a big impetus for eventually pushing me to Linux, where I'm very content with my combo of a Mac-ish DE and actually being i

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