xanu

@xanu@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What games popularized certain mechanics?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not 100% sure if factorio was the first, but the devs at Wube certainly perfected the idea and now there’s a whole market for the “factory game” genre.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  youtu.be/FS52QdHNTh8?si=Cr5PW-7FQJimgHbI your post reminded me of this amazing documentary called “The Brainwashing of my Dad” in which the documentarian talks about how Rush Limbaugh and the greater right wing fox news propaganda machine turned a man he once respected and looked up to for his strong character and morals into a barely functioning hatemonger.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yet more examples of how copyright destroys culture rather than driving it⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Libraries are safe spaces for minorities and the LGBTQ+ community. Books in general spread awareness and raise empathy and can also help struggling young people understand that they are not alone.

  That quote isn’t saying people of these communities read or use a public library more than those who aren’t; it’s pointing out that the erasure of public safe spaces and resources affects groups that benefit from their existence more.

  All of that doesn’t even mention the content that was likely present in those 500,000 books.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Judge finds ‘reasonable evidence’ Tesla knew self-driving tech was defective⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  but it’s MUCH cheaper, so keeping with every other shitty idea he’s ever had, Musk was REALLY banking on Tesla engineers to make a crazy breakthrough so he could reap billions in reward.

  It worked at SpaceX because of a perfect concoction of all the best rocket scientists and engineers wanting to work at SpaceX, since it was one of the only space programs not owned by a government and could push the boundaries, the technology being possible and wildly practical to implement, and massive government subsidies.

  Tesla is in the car market, which is notoriously competitive and, while they do have massive government subsidies, they don’t have the best engineers and musk’s insistence that they “figure out” how to shove autonomous driving into a medium that simply doesn’t provide enough information drives even the better engineers away.

  I really wish my government would stop funding his ego and let his fantasy projects die already.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which is which though?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Illogical!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How I got robbed of my first kernel contribution⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, wasn’t the vim codebase entirely committed by a single person? He did that with everyone and, while I don’t agree with that at all, it reads less like elitism / stolen credit than this particular story.

  I may be wrong about that, so feel free to correct me 😊 either way, people should be credited for the work they do! and preferably not in the footnotes of a commit authored by someone else that didn’t fix the bug

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Docker compose questions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  docs.docker.com/…/set-environment-variables/

  I really like using .env files, but you can hard code env vars in the compose file itself if you want.