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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨hard to argue with⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In fact I strive to do as little as possible. I only work to pay the bills. If I could luck upon a comfortable enough nest egg I would quit working immediately and just play games the rest of my life (video & board, solo and with friends/family).

  Hell, I may end up contributing more to society that way since I enjoy dabbling in video game design but don’t have enough time to actually work towards anything I could release. If I had time, maybe I’d actually create something for a wider audience rather than whatever minor contribution I have at work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google tests a feature that calls businesses on your behalf and holds until an agent is available | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Dear Sir/Madam, I am writing to inform you of a fire that has broken out at the promises of…”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Air Canada's chatbot gave a B.C. man the wrong information. Now, the airline has to pay for the mistake⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Seriously, this guy should have been awarded the refund, all legal fees, and at least a couple thousand on top of that for damages. Anyone who’s been on the receiving end of corporate bullshit and tried to fight back knows the extreme stress that can put you under.

  Obligatory: Fuck you, Comcast, you dirty thief.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It would be simpler⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s no way around that unless we start spelling things a lot more differently around the English-speaking world. We have enough trouble with the relatively minor spelling differences between UK and US English as it is, increasing that confusion is far worse than having spelling decoupled from pronunciation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A round of applause for Mike Drucker.⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not even “vote Democrat,” she just urged people to vote period. And linked to Vote.org encouraging people to research what would be on their ballot. The fact that the right takes this as an attack on them isn’t surprising to anyone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GM Reverses All-In EV Strategy to Bring Back Plug-In Hybrids⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Officially they’re on hiatus. They originally said they were retiring the line, but then changed their tune and stated that the Bolt line will return after they can implement their new EV battery tech in them. I believe the statements have been imprecise about when that will be, but potentially sometime in 2025 (meaning the 2026 model). That’s assuming no delays or changes to the plan.

  If you want a new Bolt without waiting for the revived line, I’d think about acting soon. They’re moving really quickly in my area. I’m really happy with the EUV so far, but I’m still only at like 250 miles. I didn’t go for the Premier since I don’t care about adaptive cruise control or their “Super Cruise” self driving thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Infinite Craft, an endless crafting game, is out.⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m stuck in an infinite loop of combining water, fire, wind, and earth with everything haven’t even done any combos that don’t involve one of those except by accident.

  Send help.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GM Reverses All-In EV Strategy to Bring Back Plug-In Hybrids⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m about 3 weeks into my Bolt EUV option. Literally never considered any of their other EVs based on price alone. Really happy with my Bolt EUV so far, and really glad I snagged one before they stopped making them. For all their talk of limited demand, there was a lot of competition in my area to get one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Trump and Biden both died today, what would happen?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, overreaction there. Like the other commenter said I wasn’t correcting grammar, BSG 2004 is set in the past not the future.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Trump and Biden both died today, what would happen?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Past*

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IT support work be like⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I also keep the Keepass password in my Bitwarden, so if I can access it via other means (like biometrics on my phone), then I can recover.

  My wife and I also keep our Keepass passwords in each other’s Bitwarden vaults.

  So to lose access we’d both have to simultaneously forget our Bitwarden passwords AND be locked out of any biometric login. I consider that sufficiently unlikely.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IT support work be like⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I doubt that would affect Wi-Fi, but what does affect it (at least 2.4 GHz frequencies) is microwaves. They operate at the same frequency and interfere with the router’s output waves.

  My wife refused to believe me until I had her run a speed test and watch the signal drop when I started up the microwave, then rise again when I turned it off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IT support work be like⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ease of syncing across devices has me using an internet-based password manager (Bitwarden), but I keep a second local-only password manager (Keepass) that only stores my Bitwarden password. Just in case.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'll just be a quick 3h⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Basically scripts you can run on the fly to pull calculated data. You can (mostly) treat them like tables themselves if you create them on the server.

  So if you have repeat requests, you can save the view with maybe some broader parameters and then just SELECT * FROM [View_Schema.My_View] WHERE [Year] = 2023 or whatever.

  It can really slow things down if your views start calling other views in since they’re not actually tables. If you’ve got a view that you find you want to be calling in a lot of other views, you can try to extract as much of it as you can that isn’t updated live into a calculated table that’s updated by a stored procedure. Then set the store procedure to run at a frequency that best captures the changes (usually daily). It can make a huge difference in runtime at the cost of storage space.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yeah, but...⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was born in 1993 and I did that with my neighborhood friends too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google app being flagged as a virus by Huawei phones⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Hands down the worst phone I’ve had was the Nexus 6P. The battery issues were incredibly bad, to the point there was a successful class action lawsuit about it.

  Since that was a Google phone manufactured by Huawei, I have no idea how that contributes to this conversation but it seemed relevant. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Academic Writing Mood Meter⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m 30 and this sounds like strangers/teenagers. I don’t even understand what some of these mean. “Fuck it we ball”???

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chinese programmer ordered to pay 1m yuan for using virtual private network⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You forgot to summon them: tankie, tankie, tankie

  There, that should get them to chime in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How many?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Ours is the only Solar System, named after our star Sol. Others are generically called star systems or stellar systems.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Developers fight back against Unity’s new pricing model⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a pipe dream of slowly developing a game of my own, but even if I think I could eventually figure out my own homebrew engine, the whole thing is operating on my free time so that’s even more unrealistic of a goal that’s either gonna lead nowhere or to massive headache down the line.

  So I looked around and liked a few things about Unity:

  • 2D game support
  • Easy publishing to consoles
  • Free to develop in while I test the waters
  • Plethora of training material available

  I’ve sunk a decent amount of time into training materials already, and was starting to feel good about the whole process when this news hit. Not even gonna question it, I’m looking elsewhere. Godot looking mighty tempting to avoid any shenanigans like this. Ultimately if my dream ever realizes I’d like to be able to publish to console, but there are routes available for that with Godot and maybe the options would improve by the time I reach that point.