No

Absolutely. It’s from the time when families used to share a single phone! That they glued to the wall!!

Omg! Thank you!

Turns out it was this one: https://www.lemon64.com/game/microdeal-shuttle

Been gaming since 1984 or some such.

By number of hours played: Factorio

By number of hours I can monologue about a game at you: also Factorio

By how much I think it affected gaming industry and culture: Doom

Man made. Caused by the person cutting the plank doing a shit job.

Haha, that’s the attitude :)

I did say, in a nice way, that “they are your competitors either way”.

And yeah, companies treating interviews as a one-way evaluation is a red flag.

There was this book that was hype around 2010, called “Are you smart enough to work at Google?”. It was full of interview questions and brainteasers that I strongly suspected I’d find interesting, but I couldn’t get over the title. I wanted to scream “Fuck you, book! Is Google smart enough to hire ME?!”

We are, as a profession, systematically manipulated via these interview processes to feel stupid and inferior to drive down wages. I’d rather come off as slightly too arrogant now and then, rather than submit to that.

there are people who make me feel good because they give me various benefits. is that what you mean?

No, but it is a good point to bring up, because it illustrates the attitude you bring to human interactions. It reduces people to transactions, and it shines through. This creates a very strong wall/barrier to forming connections.

Start liking people. Practice finding things you like with people around you. Things that make you feel they are a good person.

React positively to other people when they say or do things.

Show interest in what occupies other people.

(And of course don’t do stupid shit like lash out or insult people to feel better.)

Real conversation, not exaggerated. Actually slightly toned down:

“We offer a competitive salary! It’s $number!”

“I have 2 offers 10% higher, from a shipping company and a finance company, in the same city”

“We don’t compete with the finance and shipping sectors”

“And 15% higher in one of the consultancies”

“We don’t compete with consultancies either”

(I think I’m going to put Reigninh Monarch of Norway on my CV. I just don’t compete with King Harald.)

Fleetwood Man

Scooner

Guts 'n Roses

The Olsen Brothels

The Fillers

The music is stored in compressed form 7z, which as far as I can tell contains a few notes, a folder A that says “1000 x notes”, a folder B that says “1000 x A”, a folder C that says “1000 x B” etc in a long LONG string.

Except they made funnier folder names.

It’s either a scam or a hellscape.

I’m a software developer, and understand the technicalities and options available to me. I am capable of forking Firefox and make myself a custom build with anything I don’t like stripped out. (Capable of, not wanting to.)

They removed “We don’t sell your data and we never will” from their FAQ and they added “We may sell your data” to the ToS.

I am unhappy about this change. It is a clear sign that the people in charge of Firefox want to sell user data, and that the irrecoverable enshittification path has been chosen. It means that at some point in the next few years, I can’t trust Firefox’ with my privacy. And they sure as fuck don’t have anything else going for them: The browser eats memory and freezes my camera during video conferencing, and is plain not supported in some of the software I use at work.

The rationale is probably something entirely reasonable, like “While we do not intend to sell user data, the phrasing was too vague and not helpful. What is selling, and what is user data, really?” An organization with strong privacy values would be so far from anything “bad” that the phrasing as it was would not be a problem for them.

It’s irrelevant that right now privacy settings and xyz and telmentry is clear and opt in etc. Because the point is that they are gearing up to change that. The settings will be less clear, user data will be separated into shit like “operability assistance”, “personal information”, “experience improvement metrics” with some of it enabled by default because, etc.

If you express your viewpoint in a kind way, that’s genuinely the most “winning” you can possibly achieve.

Convincing people in one go is not achievable by just finding the right words.

People may disagree. They may downvote you to hell. They may thank you. They may agree. They may misunderstand.

But as long as you write kindly, people will read what you say and give it thought. Maybe it plants a seed for them to change their mind another time.

Go for it! Let your enemies learn that you can come for them any time!

1 minute, 60 seconds, 60 thousand milliseconds. I work with computer systems that monitor themselves to make sure they don’t take more than 10 milliseconds. At 50 milliseconds, they would raise alarms.

It takes 100 milliseconds to blink.

So, we’d notice pretty much immediately :)

And then all networked computers that assume a response within 30 seconds would go bonkers and maybe need to be restarted.

I’d react by assuming IT misconfigured the Network Time Protocol service that keeps machine clocks synced and inform them.

https://godotengine.org/

There’s no need for Unity anymore. Godot is excellent for at least 2D games the same way Unity used to be. Unreal is easy to pick up for 3D. GameMaker Studio is going strong.

I think it’s “learned helplessness”, sadly. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_helplessness

Like much of math, people are often eager to talk about the cool stuff and make it sound hard because they are proud they understood it. For a newcomer, this is just a brick in the face.

Not in a good way. You’d have to make the news and get in trouble. (Btw without murder)

Mostly because Pluto was called a planet for a while, and reclassifying it upset so many people that they couldn’t just go “it’s just an asteroid sorry”.