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prior to this, bandcamp was owned by Epic and lord only knows why they bought them or what their bigger plan was. i also have no idea how much they staffed up under epic rule since…

Let's be real, fiat currencies are essentially backed by Uranium 235 and defense industry engineering capabilities. (both as it relates to turning the U235 into large amounts of en…

I know you're not posting in good faith but I do want to underline two things, in case anyone else is reading this who is similarly dismissive as OP: - they did kill her - she was …

I've posted something to this effect before but I'll post it again. I'm terrified someone is going to enshittify bandcamp. I used to be a huge what fan, primarily for discovery. Ne…

VC can be a great way to break into markets that just have inherently large moats or barriers to entry. Stripe is an example: you can code all you like but you literally can't move…

KSP1 was made by a bunch of scrappy lovable indie devs making their first game (iirc Squad's team was a marketing company prior to this?) in a LCOL area funded by dreams and whatev…

OpenOffice is a zombie living on the old name alone. LibreOffice is the "new" (it's like over a decade old i think) current one and e.g. ships preinstalled on big ubuntu images, fo…

OSRS also moved to oldschool.runescape.wiki and AIUI jagex pays for their hosting and provides some kind of content access to make updating/syncing easier. Plus they have RuneLite …

KSP2 isn't an enshittification play, imo. It's literally just bad project management. I'll list their sins from my armchair: - remaking a beloved, established game that has a prodi…

Look at the reviews for KSP2. This is not even one of the larger problems with the game. They released into EA with terrible, nearly unplayable performance... on an RTX 4090! a $16…

On the days you don't commute, you could plug your foreman grill into a wall socket and sit in a chair staring at the wall for the same length of time to simulate the same effect.

>I didn't say it schedules platform threads, but JVM has many other performance issues with its GC/object identity/lock monitoring model, which makes it harder choice for ultra-hig…

>Also, my belief is that JVM itself adds lots of overhead. The JVM has ~nothing to do with the scheduling of platform threads >and there any benchmarks saying it is couple hundred …

I think the best argument you could make to say steam is a monopoly is to say that their plan is roughly: 1. Make a platform gamers love to use so much that they will still use it …

Excellent! With virtual threads, all the blocking code I wrote is efficient now :) Less-joking: I'm so excited for this to start getting adoption. For a pre-release/preview feature…

>> So maybe building greenfield projects also makes you better at maintaining existing projects? Only to an extent, i think. > I've had a lot of problems with people who (seemingly…

I wrote a TUI before for work, entirely of my own volition and for my own near-exclusive consumption (it was theoretically for anyone, but I'm the only person who would've had a re…

I felt like it was okay-ish given he immediately qualified his own, nearby hometown with the same descriptor. I think it changed the effect from discriminatory to almost a term of …

A big problem with computing in space is the radiation environment. To be quite frank, it's absurdly hostile. IIRC the voyagers have very little computing power (so, few things tha…

Sure - I think there's a hair to be split here where we could argue that weaponizing anti-circumvention logic in GPLv2 is generally in the spirit of the GPL as a whole, but then al…

RMS even describes the GPL's weaponizing of copyright against itself as a "judo throw" in his writings. The intent there is very explicit.

I've used ubuntu server for over a decade. I moved servers to debian and enjoyed it. My laptops have always been Arch.

Yeah this was the comment I was coming to look for. I saw a couple sentences that made me go "hmm" but the one that I copied into my clipboard to post about was: "Arrays, however, …

If this inflation is the price of liberty for Ukrainians and the price of independence from a dictator for Western Europe, then I am willing to pay that, personally. I just don't t…