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A very real impact was that modders got hired for their work. So there are less around from that generation that made literally free games for fun.

Yeah I dabbled with the “competitive” play in 1.6 back in the day when it was finding matches on irc but most of my fun came from the communities I played with consistently. Maybe you can find these in some form but it’s not what most people are talking about these days if they say they “play counter strike”. I don’t really like the seriousness of ranked play so I never got back into it.

OP is just ragebait for nerds. How many articles have been published in the last 20 years about the issues with passwords? Now we're saying that the small chance some user ends up on bad-minecraft.com with a login form is actually worse than using "L3tmein!" as a password everywhere? Please find something more worthy to spend your time thinking about.

I agree that following the exercise too closely would dissuade many people from careers they would do fine in. Every job has toil.

That being said it has some value but perhaps not much more than just a little critical thinking.

Greystar is a notoriously bad landlord and your personal anecdote does not change the data.

How about the speed of going from a powered off console to playing the actual game? Sleep mode helps with resuming on console, but god forbid you’re on a pc with a game that has anti cheat, or comped menus. You will sit there, sometimes for a full minute waiting. I absolutely cannot stand these games.

Yeah, I switched a while ago and it’s has 0 impact on my browsing.

Sounds like you're close, well done! I can relate to no longer being fulfilled gaming. Satisfaction feels a lot more elusive for me these days, and gaming presents it so easily. I think that's why it's way harder now for me to be satisfied with slow burn hobbies.

Thank you for sharing your experience. I think I am reaching a better understanding of my relationship with WoW and gaming in general with my free time. I think now I regard it as not addiction (since I'm really not forgoing anything 'important' to play) and more of just a "default" activity, developed long ago in my suburban childhood when my agency was far more limited than now. It served me well in those days which were chaotic, gave me something of my own that was well understood and I could control.

Now it feels like more of a crutch to fill free time, and not serving me well for the person I'd like to be. However, I do think there's a place for it, specifically with the world of vanilla. Just being in it for a bit fulfills some deeper need to connect with my past.

I just wish I could find something that engages me as much as it used to.

I'm between jobs (burnout) and have found MMOs (Classic WoW) to be the only thing that makes sense anymore. What did you do to replace this and move on?

The EU knows exactly how the administration feels about them with regards to military support. The Signal thread makes all involved look extremely incompetent. I’m not seeing the advantage if this was planned.

Bravo honestly

Terms of Service

This is hitting us today as well, and we gave up on Twilio to help us long ago. Our spend with them for 'personalized support' vs what we receive is almost infinite.

Twilio is not in our future plans.

Interesting that the stickied post on https://startrek.website mentions they have a Patreon setup to help with hosting costs.

> We’ve started a Patreon here: Patreon.com/treksite. There’s only one plan and it’s just $4. If our growth continues like it has, we’re going to need to upgrade our hosting very soon.

$4 is not outside of the realm of what it might have cost a regular user to continue paying for one of these 3rd party Reddit Apps on the new pricing [1]. There are clear benefits to paying your own way: owning your data, stronger community identity; when boiling down to money alone I found it an interesting comparison, since that's what this whole situation started about. However it is certainly no longer just about the money at this point after public comments made by Reddit Corp.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/31/23743993/reddit-apollo-cl...

Tend to agree with your final thought. The web is so different than it was in 2010, yes there are some promising newcomers but our expectations of a service are radically different in 2023. Also want to note there seems to be a general sentiment of fatigue regarding Reddit and social media in general.

But I do want to selfishly drop this gem from the founder of digg on the eve of their destruction, which mirrors so closely the quote from this memo https://twitter.com/kevinrose/status/22543843421

Just curious which state was that where they had to give severance? I'm in a US state that does not require anything after termination.

Something to consider which no one has mentioned yet is the remote aspect of your work. Remote work is not going to provide the socialization you may be in dire need of if your hobbies are weed, tv and video games. Office life has many cons but it does have a built in social scene and especially in your late 20s it's a great time to meet people.

Also like many other people are saying, drop the weed, it's just burying the real issues. Keep a clear head, and find a therapist.

I would say no, not really. If you build something and then never need to touch it again, well then it must be working perfectly and so there's no debt to pay off. However that is almost never the case.

If you continuously work on the code, it will accumulate debt over time in the form of bugs, or design flaws when taking shortcuts implementing new behavior. The more people you have working in the same area, the likelier this is to occur.

The long term solution like one of the posters in another thread said, is to pay down your tech debt strategically over time. Good habits for preparing to deal with it are keeping tests updated, and commenting in sections that get particularly gnarly.

Fun Monday

> The tool should have been designed (IMO) as a consumer tool, either a kiosk at CVS/Walgreens/pharmacies to assist with OTC med selection or possibly as a website with ads/referrals.

Sure but... would you really need any clinical data to make this valuable? A pharmacy could just make a decision tree with some common symptoms and do the same thing based on their own recommendations. Including data from studies is a neat enhancement but not necessary IMO.

I think perhaps there's greater value in the platform or methodology the author built for doing this type of meta analysis for medication. Could it be applied to other research fields I wonder. Could the software be licensed?

I wonder who this is about

Impressive stuff, congrats to these three

We also use LastPass and it sucks so hard. Terrible UI, bad UX decisions, frequently breaks.

Why would they eat us rather than say enslave us or farm us for resources.

For anyone interested in the CarTalk collab, I found a video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GywCgivT_no

This article lacks substance and is painfully anecdotal. I was expecting something more from SA.

Facebook's IPO was also off to a rather rough start[1], so I am not putting much stock into what happens in a single day.

I have not purchased or plan to purchase any Uber stock, I just think it's important to have perspective on this event.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initial_public_offering_of_Fac...

He talks directly about the effects that anti-trust action would have on Google and Amazon near the end of the article.

This is a piece about Facebook specifically. You shouldn't expect that he address every monopoly that should be broken up.