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But it’s not only toxic to the greedy corporations but all the others as well, hence

Isn’t that literally what the comment you replied to was saying?

That is horrible but robbing a liquor store dressed as a clown is pretty funny (in my head probably not irl)

Consequently 99% of software written is to make it easier to buy stuff (at least in web dev).

They say the internet is for porn but it’s really to sell/buy stuff

Edit: even with LLMs the “killer” application is to make it easier to buy things xD

He does look a lot better than his American counterpart

Crazy how obscure episodes of world history land randomly on the front page - how does it even happen?

I grew up in Germany but I don’t think we covered this in history class - maybe I forgot about it, the whole medieval period is mostly a blur for me now

I don’t know, like who even remembers Meian and Ragn0r, who created the original Dota before icefrog took over? I think icefrog benefited a lot from creating Dota and is widely credited - I mean it landed him a great job at valve after blizzard decided to ignore the great potential in their custom map community. The other devs that worked on it are basically unknown.

I think it’s pretty subjective at that point what is good and what isn’t.

Totally agree on the dark patterns though.

Out of interest what is a game you consider excellent that maybe wasn’t marketed as well?

Personally I really like dungeon keeper 1 (& 2 as well somewhat) - but Bullfrog was very unsuccessful as a company and went under. I don’t know exactly why, should look into that history

No it’s very polished in gameplay and balancing. I haven’t played it myself but I watched some others play it. Also looks great etc, so it’s obvious to me that it’s high quality

Sure the genre and many of its archetypes were invented in the WC3 fun/custom map scene but LoL is more than a Dota clone. I haven’t really played it (my moba time ended with HoN) but it’s obviously very well made

Yea but that’s a fad - people are already fed up with the obvious slop. I don’t think it’s something we will see a lot in ~1-2 years. Marketers will continue to hop on the next big trend just like they always did and all the current slop will become a different flavour slop.

Fall from what exactly?

As someone living here it’s still one of the most carefree and comfy countries I’ve lived in.

Only the enlightened tech elite should have access to such sophisticated technology - we can’t expect the uneducated masses to not misuse them

/s

Germany also has some product lines that have similar brutalist design

Yea I don’t get the GP/OP sentiment at all.

Some of the best food I ate in places that looked like complete design wrecks. And yes now these places use a lot of really badly made ai art.

The food is still delicious.

What the hell are you talking about? What pros use typewriters for what (to write code?)?

I get reluctance about being dependent from the US but your reason seems a bit off

Ok that makes sense to me, so you do this once or twice per year?

I used to buy a lot of olive oil in canisters in Italy when on vacation. Just can’t match the quality with what you get on the open market here.

The reality is that it’s not as clear cut like “X is bad/Y is good” as laypeople in this thread assume

As someone who finds ordering groceries obscene what kind of heavy stuff do you get that you need to order in?

Completely inverse to my lived experience.

I have always used this method and my managers love me because they know I get important shit done without much supervision or needing dozens of planning meetings. It doesn’t even feel like there is any leash at all.

Of course the company i work at isn’t extremely disfunctional and a growing startup, so once we move into enterprise territory it might change the culture and it’s more about saving your ass and less about doing actual work.

People take horse dewormer against COVID so yes they will do all kinds of irrational things

Every authentication system i ever implemented (and I worked on many) needed some way to invalidate sessions regardless whether it’s self service for the user or not.

And once you do you need some state and then JWTs don’t make much sense anymore. There are of course many valid use cases for JWT so “JWT bad” is a very reductive take

Fwiw the pocketbook has the same kind of feature.

The question is I guess if you trust pocketbook or Amazon more. I tend towards the former since that is their main business and not one of 1000 things they do.

My last Pocketbook lasted for 12+ years until something heavy fell on the screen one day. But I hear that kindles are similarly robust until amzn decides to brick them.

Doesn't it kind of work itself out?

If it’s unsustainable population growth there will eventually be some catastrophic environmental effects and the population will be reduced to a sustainable level. Of course living during that reduction could be a rather unpleasant experience but it probably also won’t last too long.

If it’s already sustainable everything is fine.

Can highly recommend the pocketbook. If you just want to read i think it’s the best option and a fraction of the price of pinenote

I recently was in the market for a new e-reader and steered away from Kobo and Kindle because of their non-free ecosystem. I don’t know how exactly it would negatively impact me but I didn’t want to find out.

Got a refurbished pocketbook in the end and very happy with it, it reads all imaginable file formats and I can just send books to it via email or cable.

Her books are mostly about genius caring people being held back from their plan of helping humanity into a golden age by more stupid evil people and regulation and so on.

It’s based on a retelling of the story that isn’t as black and white and more based around the idea that technology and progress are good.

I haven’t read it but the premise is quite cool. Of course having Thiel as a fan kinda ruins it but I still wanted to read it sometime.

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

That’s a good way to frame it.

It might be different for US Americans themselves and a lot of other countries as well; but for a large part of the west this was/is true

This kind of sums up my sentiment.

All throughout my adult life the US (for all its apparent faults) was to me a shining example of progress and humanity. It was the best large scale implementation of human rights, laws, and democracy. Sure it was far from perfect but “as good as it gets, for now”

Became very disillusioned with that image of the US in the last couple of years. Maybe it’s always been like that - but the recent cronyism, the blatant openly displayed corruption and complete disregard for all the values it used to champion really destroyed the good image I had of the US.

In years to come they will realise what this loss of image (or “aura” as the kids would say) really means in a very practical and blunt sense.