jamesbelchamber

> My first thought is to lean towards small companies that are not looking to grow. They are hard to find, and usually have no time/energy to "train" me.

If they're not looking to grow themselves then why would they invest in growing you?

I rewrote it to make a bit more sense to more people :) this was written by a friend of mine, and I enjoyed it, so I thought I'd share it.

This is very frustrating, but I'm not sure it's a problem only with classic JRPGs - recently I sat down to play Bayonetta 3 and it had a similar problem (along with.. others).

FF7 really had this nailed - flashy, mysterious cut-scene to first battle in, what, 3 minutes?

I am determined to play this on Saturn at some point. I had the Playstation version as a kid and I didn't notice any of the flaws, it was just a brilliant game with a much more interesting and fun battle system than Final Fantasy. But now I see all the mismatched textures which have been ported right up to the modern HD "remasters".

Great to see that there's an English patch. Christmas is coming up..

Adding friction, reducing "accidents" and ticking the "we tried" box.

Yeh, for all Google's faults in this arena, YouTube Premium is such a good buy. I consume so much YouTube I think it would be unethical for me not to pay.

(I still use uBlock of course)

"Don't Repeat Yourself" is a great rule of thumb which, at least in writing Terraform configuration, became absolute tyranny. Strange webs of highly coupled code with layers of modules, all in an effort to be DRY - almost everywhere I've seen Terraform.

Trying to explain why a little duplication is preferable to bad abstractions, and specifically preferable to tightly coupling two unrelated systems together because they happened to sort-of interact with the same resource, was endless and tiring and - ultimately - often futile.

This is a refreshingly practical demonstration of an LLM adding value. More of this please.

We really need some legislation that outlaws this sort of control over devices we buy.

If someone wants to install an advert app on their fridge (I assume in exchange for money) then fair enough.

If I buy a tv I shouldn't just have to accept that, now or in the future, the manufacturer will sell advertising on it.

Buy those blu-rays while you still can (:

I'm disappointed that you call my motivations into question instead of engaging me in good faith. It's not possible to solve a problem without being honest about the pertinent facts, and I think you (and the person I responded to) are engaging in denialism.

My experiences are all in the UK but everything I've read and everyone I've spoken to (outside of tech circles) reinforces my belief that this is popular. If you disagree then fine but I don't think you can find any polling to support that.

If you can then be my guest - I genuinely would like to see it. I'm not happy with my conclusions.

I haven't come across a banking app in the UK that doesn't work with GrapheneOS. HSBC insists you use the AOSP or Google keyboards but otherwise no issues.

> What do you mean it's not unpopular? How many voters have ever expressed interest in this?

UK: https://yougov.co.uk/topics/society/survey-results/daily/202...

US: https://issueone.org/press/new-poll-finds-near-universal-pub...

Aus: https://au.yougov.com/politics/articles/51000-support-for-un...

So far as I know there's nothing confounding here - people from across the political spectrum just seem to think it's a good idea to introduce age checks and to restrict children from accessing adult content.

This strikes me as almost conspiratorial thinking, and it's reflected in the article. At one point they say KOSA is unpopular but.. it isn't? These laws (KOSA, OSA) enjoy broad, bipartisan popularity and politicians are jumping on the bandwagon because they want votes. It really is as simple as that.

There's absolutely no way to counter this, or at least to round off the censorship power-grab this is allowing, if we don't admit to ourselves that people have become suspicious of the tech sector (us) and are reaching to clip our wings - starting with access to their kids.

Don't anthropomorphise the lawnmower.

If we moron our way to large-scale nuclear and renewable energy rollout however..

I have an on-again-off-again relationship with macOS - the deep integration with Apple hardware is stellar and IMO the new MacBook Airs are tremendous value for money, but otherwise the OS seems to be suffering from some deep technical debt and MBA-brained decision-making.

I'm currently on the "meh hardware but solid OS" phase of the cycle - the battery life isn't as good and waking from suspend still (somehow) isn't as seamless, but my Linux of choice (Silverblue) is predictable and transparent - and ultimately if there's a problem it's in my gift to fix it, which is much more comforting to me.

I wonder what they'll do to woo me back next time..

Possibly copies of the document rather than the original URL?

There are a bunch of options out there (though I've never seen Movim - thanks, I'll check it out) but most communities seem either to be on Discord or Matrix (with a few still hanging on to IRC and a few others on Slack) - Discord being by far the best UX of the lot.

For those of you not closely following UK politics: the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) mistakenly published their Economic and Fiscal Outlook (EFO) document 40 minutes early, pre-empting the announcements by the Chancellor.

This is being treated as an incredibly big deal here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd74v35p77jo

There's not anything obviously wrong with using WordPress for publishing documents like this - they are meant to be public after all.

The problem was essentially that, through a misconfiguration, they published it early.

> The only thing that I don't really understand is the decision on data replication. If a user on server A joins a room on server B, recent room data is copied from server B to server A and then kept in sync on both servers.

The idea here is that rooms are abstracted from servers and sort-of exist ephemerally. This has the advantage/disadvantage of making it hard for the underlying infrastructure to exert control over the hosted communities, and seems to have become a distinguishing feature of federation.

My experience of Matrix as a possible replacement for Discord has led me to believe it's mostly a disadvantage since it leads to gross misalignments between the communities in top and the infrastructure providers underneath. I consider e.g. Discourse to be much healthier (although I would like to see an app for Discourse so that my Discourse communities behave more like Discord/Slack servers) and it's frustrating to me that there hasn't been a clear "Discourse for chat" emerge to replace Discord.

> There simply aren’t many people in the games industry who can claim equal mastery of engineering and business acumen

I don't have very strong opinions about Tim Sweeney but this article popping up in my feed reframed him after seeing the endless Epic vs Apple, Epic vs Steam, Epic vs..

Interesting read if nothing else.

Trade-offs in the default load-out, essentially - some of the things you want for games can bloat out the standard build, compromise the "license integrity" of the base repositories, make system instability more likely etc etc.

There is unlikely to be a time that "things stop moving" enough to make all these trade-offs go away, but you can pretty much just add all this stuff to the base distro yourself anyway if you want to (I still play games on vanilla Silverblue, for example).

That's a pretty strong link, nice work!

How did you connect this account back to the "real" account?

Was that not changed after feedback?

It's been eye-opening how far-reaching Imgur really is - for example, some of the images on the Core Devices (the new Pebble folks) website are actually on Imgur.

This simple block is relatively trivial to bypass - but if they disappear tomorrow, a lot of things break.

And backed by popular support.

The op in the thread is wrong, it's not blocked.

Source: am British, on phone.