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Dejected Warp Core

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  • Electron apps

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  • Same here. At first, I thought I was going to get a better Discord experience with the dedicated 'app'. Nope. Another web app crammed into Electron, multiplying the overall browser footprint on my system. It now happily lives on in a normal browser tab where my ad blockers and user-scripts claw back local control of things.

  • Programmers are no longer needed!

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  • Hey, kudos for finding multiple anti-patterns all in one place like that. I didn't even think about "underpowered desktop as company server" as another pattern, but here we are.

    Sorry you didn't get the contract, but that sounds like a blessing in disguise to be honest.

  • functions

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  • It was best as a silly toy language in the 1990's...

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  • The amount of work I have completed with Tampermonkey in situations like this should have made that same IT department quite anxious.

  • Multithreading

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  • I mean, it's a pretty good illustration of a deadlock. Most traffic intersections, especially 4-way stops are basically mutexes anyway.

    Jamming a circle though... that's like deadlocking a ring buffer message queue with threaded consumers. Or something. It's just a spectacular way to break stuff any way you slice it.

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  • That environment was wild though. At the time, you basically needed to be an electrical engineer and/or a licensed HAM operator, just to have your head wrapped around how it all worked. Familiarity with the very electronics of the thing, even modifying the hardware directly when needed, was crucial to operating that old tech.

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  • Fellow tech-trash-disposal-engineer here. I've made a killing on replacing corporate anti-patterns. My career features such hits and old-time classics like:

    • email as workflow
    • email as version control
    • email as project management
    • email as literally anything other than email
    • excel as an relational database
    • excel as project management
    • help, our wiki is out of control
    • U-drive as a multi-user collaboration solution
    • The CEO's nephew wrote this 8 years ago and we can't get rid of it

    In all of these cases, there were always better answers that maybe just cost a little bit more. AI will absolutely cause some players to train-wreck their business, all to save a buck, and we'll all be there to help clean up. Count on it.

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  • Forgive me father, for I have sinned.

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  • There's a hidden advantage here apart from moving away from Microsoft, or having 1st party controller support.

    Game devs will have a precise target to optimize for.

    If enough steam machines and steam decks are out there, it simplifies porting software since you have a handful of fixed targets to hit. A studio could easily buy a few of these appliances for testing and development, and know for certain the product will run as intended. It's a luxury currently enjoyed by consoles, and it really does help their dominance in their respective niches.

    This also helps smaller studios since the bare minimum means targeting a known steam platform, rather than pulling machine specs out of thin air and taking their best shot. It's a much easier problem to solve and takes a lot less time and money.

    I think there will always be room for high-end gaming, but as long as you're "steam machine 2025 compatible" or whatever, you know what you're going to get.

  • Who's feeling bold?

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  • << The Monkey's Paw Curls >>

    2026 marks the first year in American history where a completely home-grown pandemic forces borders to close, and air-traffic to be redirected as to avoid receiving American passengers. The EU, Arab League, and countless other countries congratulate themselves on rapidly orchestrating the containment of the disease to the USA; truly a landmark moment for international relations. Meanwhile, a Georgetown-based super-PAC "La di libertine" gains untold amounts of influence in government, following an uncannily well-timed short-sale of AI-based stocks. When asked about speculations as to their ties to Italian crime syndicates and fascist hardliners, they declined to comment.

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  • Narrator: And that's when the Fire Nation attacked.

  • Cats have a way...

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  • It really can be like night and day. My cat was so incredibly stressed out when we brought her home that she kept "fawning" all over us for the first two weeks. Lots of excessive side rubs and a general clingyness to every interaction. She needed constant touch.

    After that she began to settle in and became much more herself: playful, independent, and only sometimes in the mood for a lap or a cuddle.

  • What are your favorite fake video games?

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  • NGL, I was hesitating on building a MAME cabinet, but having one with the art and build of a legendary fake game? Sounds perfect.

  • What are your favorite fake video games?

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  • A couple of extra things about this.

    The episode was co-authored by William Gibson of all people. The fact that one of the key authors that gave us cyberpunk as a genre, went on to write a painfully mediocre TV episode about virtual reality, still leaves me kind of stunned.

    WRT to "live-action standing-in for VR", it can be done artfully. Avalon does a great job of using practical effects and creative set locations to portray cyberspace. Also: there's a lot of run-and-gun here, and nobody stands around. Which is to say: they really whiffed hard on the x-files episode, as there's clearly a better way to do this.

  • IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending trillions on AI data centers will pay off at today's infrastructure costs

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  • In a small, anecdotal way, I can say with confidence that the level of fiber trenching that happened (in a major metro area) from late 1999 through 2002 was on a whole other level.

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  • I predict a whole "Weekend at Bernie's" DeathGate scandal where a whole bunch of executive actions and auto-pen shenanigans happen posthumously under his name, even though Vance is right there. Why? Because it's exactly the same kind of greedy and stupid this administration has demonstrated so far.

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  • I already learned my lesson here.

    Last time I said something like that was November of 2019.

  • How progressives are taking over swing states – and driving fear into Democratic elites

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  • It’s been more about disliking the opposing candidates.

    This describes GOP/right-wing politics too. Nobody has the representation they actually want., before or after any election. It's a mess.

  • Empath

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  • There has to be a better name for that.