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So, I've had a pretty shit time with Microsoft products over the last ten years, but it wasn't quite as bad 5-7 years ago. Our disagreement on that might be that I'm only in my lat…

Yeah based on your comment and the others, it seems he did an initial purge in 2014. QA doesn't get enough love :(

Thank you for the correction! I think I was conflating the two (having heard about the one from 2014, and then also hearing about the more recent rounds, and not recognizing they w…

Oh thanks for the correction/supplemental information. The gutting you're referring to might be the huge lay offs that I'm thinking of. Possibly conflating the recent AI driven lay…

The bad part is that Microsoft (generally) used to have some of the best QA in the industry, and that was somewhat extended to Xbox. But they laid off their QA team a year or two a…

Yeah at the time it was bad. Now, it's a pretty nice codebase

Bedrock does have better performance but it is also hella buggy and unstable.

In Microsoft's defense at the time the java code base had a ton of technical debt and overtime they've essentially done a full rewrite of everything. That said, I'm convinced that …

Thank you for the recommendation! I opened it out of curiosity and I'm already a chapter deep :)

Correct.

I've never been more thoroughly convinced that I would like ruby more than from this article. I'm currently stuck reaching for python a lot of the time (absolutely love it tbc), bu…

Hi, out of curiosity is there a way to persistently set the `--native-tls` flag? UV always fails without it because of Zscalar configurations at my day job. Also, is there any plan…

For what it's worth, anytime I have written a macro it's usually not because it's needed, but just because I think it'll be fun :)

Lmao it's blocked on my corporate wifi

I'm sorry, what exactly is the issue with typst?

https://web.archive.org/web/20260413164025/https://aphyr.com...

I think there's a difference in the want of a game dev. 100r, IMHO, is about code as art rather than using code to make art.

For me this is a plus. All the games I've made are small and hobby stuff, and I much prefer writing code to playing around with a UI.

Wait really? I looked into tic80 a while ago and I know it had native support for moon script, but I had to play with it to get fennel to work

Fennel is really cool! And you can write games in it :) https://fennel-lang.org/

I've always assumed that there is some technical reason for Lua being 1 indexed, rather than it being a design choice. Either way, I think it's a nitpick to complain about. I've wr…

I've never worked with a recruiter before. Any advice for finding one?

Despite the lack of encouragement, I'm thankful for your comment. I won't take any salary, but I'm willing to take a bit of a paycut. Do you have any advice, outside of working a s…

I'm self taught with an engineering background currently working as a QA Engineer in the US. Any advice on finding work in the UK or Ireland? Has anyone done something similar?

I've tried nushell and other shell replacements and it just feels like I'm learning a new programming language for no good reason