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Finding crappy jobs is easy. Finding a decent job is proving challenging. Crappy I don't mean only job in bad companies, but sometimes job in good companies but a bad situation or …

Location: Porto, Portugal Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Lua, C, C++, GameDev, Python, know some embedded and some cloud stuff. Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.…

Today I saw that post about AI destroying the future of West software. I remembered I am having a similar struggle with my jobs. Right now my life is like this: some company lost t…

I am from Brazil, and there is a famous politician there that has the non-official slogan of "Steals but Does". He is Paulo Maluf. "Everyone" knows he is corrupt. But people vote f…

I worked on a project where having code formatting used was massively useful. The project had 10k source files, many of them having several thousand lines, everything was C++ and g…

Yes that is the name. But bafflingly to me, almost zero of my coworkers seemed to be aware of it. They would just get the seemly weird orders from above and would execute them, wit…

I worked on BMW infotainment for a time. My opinions are my own obviously, I don't even work at BMW anymore. So, when I was working, I found the decisions regarding the infotainmen…

I am in Portugal right now. You know something we don’t have often here? Garages. For example in my neighborhood most cars are parallel parked, people are living in centuries old h…

This only means you didn't interacted enough with IOT or junky viral games market...

All other games from the same studio have the same features. In fact, the whole point of their games is that they are coop games where is easy to accidentally kill your allies in h…

Location: Porto, Portugal Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Lua, C, C++, GameDev, Python, know some embedded and some cloud stuff. Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.…

I used to manage the Google Ads account of a business I had in the past. Google Support would call me all the time, and then first thing they would do is ask me to open the interfa…

There are some effects that notoriously work only on rather specific combinations of screens AND cables. Those look horrible on emulators. Usually it is effects involving transpare…

I had a music teacher that insisted analog recordings were different. One day she said there is a simple way to prove it. Certain stringed instruments have the string move on their…

I got very sad when my CRT monitor died. I was using a Radeon RX 380X, part of the reason is that it was one of the few cards to still have analog output. Then I went and played lo…

Technology made driving f1 cars less brutal on the body. To start of in the first seasons a lot of stuff was unknown, for example some drivers wanted oxygen bottle so they wouldn't…

So when I got forced to use Win11 I went to look for a script that disable telemetry. Then I see the script offers the feature of using old behavior for right click menu... I immed…

I don't think MS considered any of this. For example there were situations were they had a meeting giving green light one day, and cancelled the next. Seemly what happened is that …

The fact you still only got bothered by studio acquisitions show you don't even noticed the studio closures... MS fired thousands of gamedevs in the last few weeks, cancelled a lot…

Not op but I saw this happen kinda maliciously... Company was founded by "visionary" CEO that is an sculptor and doesn't understand tech. Most crucial employee is young guy hired r…

If you consider all US "friends", that is NOT the case. And not a Trump thing either, or even a Republican thing. USA is quite happy in screwing with "friends", if it will benefit …

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An interesting article I saw today in Portuguese language, is speculating that the real reason USA is threatening to tariff Brazil in 50% is because the invention of "Pix Parcelado…

For those thinking is only related to chargebacks and fraud, it is not. VISA and Mastercard have been banning a lot of content that is not porn but has political values that are di…