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by xnorswap 2y ago
That's considered vandalism of fandom, and probably rightly so. Could you imagine if someone declared a successor to wikipedia and edited all the pages to redirect? Sometimes you just have to put the effort into making the new better,
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by xnorswap 2y ago
Seasoned Engineer: "He's going to come back in a week and ask for croissants, better focus on just making blue cookies now and worry about the future later".
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by xnorswap 2y ago
Yes, despite the poewiki migration being a fairly long time ago now, the fandom wiki still ranks frustratingly highly. The data on it is of course now very outdated and causes confusion for new players. I wonder how much the effect of lots
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by xnorswap 2y ago
https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2020/04/your-statement-is-10...
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by xnorswap 2y ago
Javascript is incredibly well optimised, I'm surprised if there's an order of magnitude difference between JS and WASM without a fundamental difference in algorithm chosen.
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by xnorswap 2y ago
While we're on the topic of "Terrible "quick start" documentation, checkout the Wix Toolset "Getting Started" docs: https://wixtoolset.org/docs/intro/ You learn how to install a tool,
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by xnorswap 2y ago
I'm not a lawyer, but there is the concept in English law of duress which can invalidate contracts that had undue pressure. My point was a broader one not a legal one, that the company is acting in a manner that is hostile to a good wo
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by xnorswap 2y ago
Being made to make that kind of decision in such a short time clearly isn't fair. In many jurisdictions it would be an unfair contract. To then say "Look at how many people didn't take up the offer so they clearly support us&
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by xnorswap 2y ago
It's also clear I got the tone of my original post wrong, I was always trying to make this point, not some point scoring "I'm better because I use X".
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by xnorswap 2y ago
I'm not saying people are dumb, I'm saying we've failed to provide good dev UX for debugging, so that people find it easier to reach for print debugging than leverage their debugger.
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by xnorswap 2y ago
Well indeed, I could have said, "this is why I enjoy working in a mature environment". .NET just happens to be my experience. The point I was trying to make is that you shouldn't be print debugging in 2024.
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by xnorswap 2y ago
This is why I enjoy writing C#/.Net, I don't need to deal with nonsense like print debugging. I don't think I'd be anywhere near as productive without: - Conditional breakpoints - Debugger.Launch - Debugger.B
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by xnorswap 2y ago
Where "10x less money" is still less than the cost of a single developer. If this needs any extra work then it's just been busy work and change for the sake of it. I'm all for monoliths and hosted solutions, but let&#x27
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by xnorswap 2y ago
Do aRPGs count? They can be as competitive or as casual as you like, are "soft-multiplayer", essentially single player inside a multiplayer economy, and the better ones are non-p2w.
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by xnorswap 2y ago
If you didn't already try "It Takes Two" then you owe it to yourselves to try, although I don't know off the top of my head if it's playable as shared-screen. It definitely ticks the "co-op story" game box
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by xnorswap 2y ago
You can buy gold in World of Warcraft. So you can essentially skip half your character's progression arc by entering a credit card number. Now, you can argue that the best gear is BOP (Bind on Pickup) so this isn't a huge factor,
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by xnorswap 2y ago
And while this rant is a classic, I always preferred Yegge's "Execution in the kingdom of Nouns": http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/03/execution-in-kingdom...
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by xnorswap 2y ago
Nothing says "Plus ca change" than a 20 year old rant being re-titled as a grudge against "Modern" software development. Original is still up at https://gwern.net/doc/cs/2005-09-30-smith-whyihat
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by xnorswap 2y ago
ADO has felt borderline abandoned since MS bought GitHub, and honestly good riddance, it feels terrible to use. For example having more than 1 user edit anything is almost unsupported, and pages will regularly do things such as telling you
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by xnorswap 2y ago
The second histogram looks more human than the "not bot" first one? Second user clearly takes a look before work, during their lunch-break and then after work?
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by xnorswap 2y ago
I do the same, but I recognise that being able to stand up and be recognised is a freedom and privilege not enjoyed by everyone.
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by xnorswap 2y ago
Thank for finding that, yes that's the one. It was incredibly accurate. I'm in two minds about the fact it's down. 1. It's probably a good thing that it isn't super-easy to quickly find everyone's alternate acc
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by xnorswap 2y ago
And music fingerprinting is probably incredibly accurate, because it can work similar to linguistic fingerprinting. There was a site posted to this place a year or so ago, which looked at work frequencies to find alt-accounts. I don't
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by xnorswap 2y ago
Then you'd get someone taking the trouble to correlate music and times, to capture someone moving across the city on the map. Then you'd get profiling to potentially pick out who in particular moved across the city and the exact t
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by xnorswap 2y ago
I hope you're supporting the VTT format rather than introducing yet another "standard" format. If the VTT format is lacking, then please work to get that format extended so we have a better format rather than fragmenting yet
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by xnorswap 2y ago
Legalising is fine, failing to regulate is not. I strongly believe it is better to have something legal and well regulated than illegal and left to illegal operators. This is true for a number of vices. With legalisation should come strong
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by xnorswap 2y ago
Please link to the "Randomly sampled comment", there's an ellipsis but no way to actually read the comment? I searched "apache" and the "randomly sampled comment" was a mystery: > I think the author has
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by xnorswap 2y ago
That's written by an oddly highly motivated individual. It often takes me 2 hours to focus and stop daydreaming. Perhaps that's a good signal that I'm not a natural "builder" and I should take the hint.
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by xnorswap 2y ago
It's not about sick leave, it's about knowing well ahead of time I'll be off on a regular schedule. Yes of course I can also disappear on short notice and there's no right for them to know beyond "medical", and
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by xnorswap 2y ago
Yes, of course. If I worked somewhere I didn't feel I could tell my employer, it would demonstrate a lack of trust and a toxic relationship. I wouldn't want to work there. I typically disclose it during interview, and disclose eve

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