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Master_Odin

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About Master_Odin

https://mpeveler.com https://github.com/MasterOdin

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    Comment #47953571

    They saw how Google providing absolutely terrible customer service for a very long time has done nothing to hurt their bottom line and decided to copy.

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    Comment #47443839

    The site puts the MIT and GPLv3 front and center with a nice quick informative blurb on them. How are they pushing MIT over GPL?

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    Comment #46141715

    Given how good Proton is, I don't think it's useful to target Linux for most indie devs unless it's a one click build for multiple platforms. Even then, I've definitely had more is…

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    Comment #46126093

    The OP directly says: > that the Bun Claude bot created a PR for about 3 weeks ago The PR with bad code that's also been ignored was made by the bot that Bun made, and brags about …

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    Comment #45538525

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Nobel_Peace_Prize provides a good overview of why he got the award and the surrounding controversy.

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    Comment #45373193

    I'm a strong believer that PRs should be merged via a "squash and merge" strategy, with the singular commit being descriptive of the overall change and having a link back to the PR…

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    Comment #45326762

    And also https://github.com/notify-hub-co/gitcoin.com .

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    Comment #45193841

    In terms of changing loot box contents, that has been going on for at least the past like 7+ years through "randomizers", though I think mostly used by speed runners.

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    Comment #43138391

    The Republican plan for the federal government for decades has been to try to kneecap various agencies and departments so fully that they can't function well, go "look how poorly t…

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    Comment #43055567

    I think that they've been fine with it so long as the stock price has continued to climb. If it starts to meaningfully fall, I'd except sentiment to more meaningfully change on him…

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    Comment #39692941

    I'm happy to buy games, but once there's literally no legal way to get a game (or movie or show), then piracy is the only solution to keep that piece of media alive.

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    Comment #38892533

    While I agree tooling could be better, while in grad school I found that a lot of academics / grad students don't know that any of the tooling even exists and never bothered to lea…

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    Comment #38758260

    Do you have a source for saying the monetary outlook is good? As far as I'm aware, advertising dollars has always been the lion's share of revenue, and he's tanked that and the val…

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    Comment #38612898

    Epic already does that and has a number of exclusives to their store, like Alan Wake 2. They also will pay devs to have it exclusive to their store for a year.

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    Comment #37831943

    Private equity firms are already an absolute blight even before Musk's handling of Twitter. I've seen plenty of companies get purchased, completely gutted and then they try to extr…

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    Comment #37708941

    Decisions like this have definitely ended up harming the movement more than helped ultimately. Him refusing to have gcc support that ended up pushing a lot of people to other compi…

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    Comment #37708877

    When I TAed a CS1 course for a handful of years, I'd definitely say easily like 1/4 of the class would also end up needing a general primer of basic computer usage. Ultimately, som…

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    Comment #37672371

    There's also the issue that some number of people tossed into jail are there on suspect evidence and later exonerated, and then in the meantime, they lose their job, miss payments …

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    Comment #37649321

    The move to python 3 helped shake loose a number of text processing bugs with library I work on, that was never caught in python 2 with its loose goosy text type handling.

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    Comment #37550175

    Though in this case the moderators actively engage and promote such toxicity.