Do the other ones have forums? I don’t remember even seeing them.

Is the steam forum supposed to be moderated by valve or the developer? I always assumed the developer.

I did some webdriver stuff for reasons I don’t remember anymore.

I also made a simple Django app to track job applications.

Unsolicited advice:

• use type annotations. You’ll thank yourself later when your IDE tells you “hey this can be None are you sure you want to call .some_func() on it?”
• use an ide. Don’t just raw dog it in notepad. You should have syntax highlighting, red squiggles for errors, the ability to go to definition.
• learn to use a debugger. Pdb is built in and fine.
• don’t write mega functions that do a thousand things. Split things up into smaller steps.
• avoid side effects. You don’t want your “say_hello” function to also turn on the lights

I can see the appeal but I wouldn’t trust it.

Related thought: I despise how much stuff is made into video when a few paragraphs, maybe with a gif, would do just fine.

The other contenders mostly are bad.

Drm-free still exists.

They provide a lot of value without charging the end user very much.

Microsoft could have done this except they’re run by idiots and assholes. Nothing technical stopped them from launching a good store platform. They just didn’t want to.

You probably need to also measure what you’re getting for those taxes for this to be meaningful. I’d happily pay a lot of taxes for health care, education, mass transit, etc.

Why would someone want a page summarized?

If it’s short, just read it.

If it’s long, the LLM will probably fuck it up.

They’re really going after the illiterate and lazy segment.

Yep. Infrastructure shouldn’t be privately owned.

Yes that is the legal justification. I am not interested in the legal justification. Laws are not inherently good. They were clearly paid less than their worth if there’s six figure payouts to be had here.

This is the fundamental injustice of capitalism. The owner pays you a small amount and keeps all the profits. A child would recognize that as unfair.

This matches my intuition. I extremely rarely do any city driving (I don’t even own a car anymore) but like… You’re not going to go that much faster. You’re probably not driving very far. The total amount of time can’t be that big.

I didn’t personally find it difficult, but I have thousands of hours in video games.

This feels like theft. Maybe not technically legally but the people who did the chatting aren’t getting the money. Capitalist hellscape

There’s also the class of comments that explain strange business decisions.

# Product guy said to return January 1st if the user doesn't have a birthday on record

Kind of arbitrary but someone with decision making power decreed it.

It’s because leadership is a heady cocktail of stupid and selfish.

I really want to stress stupid. That means they draw bad conclusions from facts.

Sometimes selfish is a factor. They have an obscure reason like “my share value goes up because we get a kickback from the city for staffing an office here”. They don’t care if it’s bad for everyone else or the company long term. They’ll get their money and then leave.

Pop!_os has been fine for me. I’m not a tinkerer. It’s a machine for a web browser and video games.

Microsoft is probably salivating at the idea of being the only legal OS provider.

I recently knew two people who came to the US recently.

One was from India, and he came for the money. He has a low six figure job as a “product manager” and the CEO’s toady. He’s quite ignorant of US politics and history, so he’s not really concerned.

The other came from canada, but also has EU residency (or citizenship? unclear). He said he makes more money here. He’s making mid six figures as a software engineer at a startup, with poor work/life balance. He can always leave, since his parents own a house in germany.

Neither were coming here like an old timey tale of immigrants trying to find a better life.

The people who really want racist/sexist/etc comics are free to make their own instance or community. This is the fediverse. There’s no government with guns or CEO to lock it down.

If that stuff makes for a better community, it will do just fine. I expect it won’t.

One of the things right-wingers push for is the idea that they’re normal and healthy, and everyone else is deficient. Like everything else from the right, it’s projection.

I had a really good DND group during the pandemic. Probably the best game I ever ran. But it was online, and when the pandemic called down they all just drifted away. Very sad about it, honestly.

My cat hasn’t done hairballs during intimate times lately, but he has done “HIGH SPEED LAPS” that include jumping onto the bed as part of his circuit.

I remember when the internet was new, I’d make friends with random people I’d “meet”. Like, I’d play Diablo with some rando on battle.net and then we’d stay in touch. Now it seems more ephemeral. Maybe it’s just because I’m older.