Agreed. Looking at https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_video_g... only 2 of the top 10 (GTA V and PUBG) have what I would call a realistic aesthetic. Even looking at the entire list, games with a more stylized look are far more prevalent.
The thing that gets me is remembering the slightly different rules for the various regex engines. Like which ones support which operators, which operators need to be escaped, etc.
> it is easier to contribute code than convince an artist to contribute art tailored to a very specific style
I sometimes wonder if modding scenes draw most of the volunteer artistic talent that might otherwise be available to open-source projects. There have been some pretty impressive assets created for Skyrim or GTA V mods, for instance.
For email, I have found that just turning off automatic message fetching helps. For some reason the small amount of friction of having to manually trigger it and then wait a few seconds keeps me from doing it compulsively.
I think it's more the opposite, no? You go to the store for something you need, but then on your way out you pick up a bag of chips or a chocolate bar or whatever. I suspect that's why they often put them on display in the check-out line.
This makes me wonder what did cause Python's / Ruby's rise in popularity if there weren't any huge changes to the languages themselves in that time. I guess maybe the emergence of Rails in Ruby's case? And for Python, I don't know, Django? Numpy?
I just checked /r/linux, which I browse on occasion, and the three sponsored posts I saw on the front page were for Intel vPro, Adobe Creative Cloud, and Google Chromebooks. Those all seem at least reasonably relevant.
Couldn't you look yourself up and adjust your playstyle accordingly? Like "oh, these guys will be expecting me to do X, but now I'm going to do Y instead to throw them off".
Not owning a car in a car in the US / Canada, your taxes are probably disproportionately going toward maintaining car-oriented infrastructure as opposed to public transit (depending to some extent on where exactly you live, I guess). So you're kinda screwing yourself in a sense.
Would having to curb CO2 emissions stunt Indian / African economic development more than the effects of climate change will? Those two areas are particularly vulnerable to the worst of the impacts as I understand it (extreme heat, food supply disruption, etc.)
Good essay by Orwell that touches on this sort of thing https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwel... I used to be guilty of writing this way and one of my high school English teachers recommended I read it. I've tried to take the message to heart ever since.
This is a helpful tip, but I feel like it kinda reinforces the broader point about emacs's lack of discoverability. I've been using it for years and wasn't aware of this feature until today.
I don't know, wine kinda just barely works as it is. Introducing another layer of complexity through sandboxing would be opening a can of worms. Like I know Chromium's GPU sandbox has caused weird bugs in the past because it prevented the graphics driver from doing something it needed to do.
A missing brace or parenthesis still often leads to pretty confusing error messages, I find. I don't know much about parsers, though, maybe that's just a really hard thing to deal with.
I don't know, I've installed installed arch many times and I still occasionally will forget some step or make a typo or something. Then I have to boot the installation image again, remount everything, fix the issue... it's annoying. GUI installers don't really have this problem.