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- Comment on FIGHT 2 weeks ago:
JWST?
- Comment on billions & billions 2 weeks ago:
I didn’t say anything about Mars, I only meant the Moon mission, which I assume would slightly push the record further.
- Comment on billions & billions 3 weeks ago:
If Musk guts NASA, then surely it would be in an attempt to benefit SpaceX and himself, e.g. by removing regulations or funneling more money to SpaceX, and with that accelerating his Moon landing program, not pushing it back.
- Comment on Hustle? In this gig economy? 3 weeks ago:
On the sexuality/gender thing. They are actually required to ask this in the UK. It would be illegal for them not to ask. This is because employers are required to report these statistics to the government to prove they are not influencing hiring decisions.
- Comment on Anon shares how they survive 3 weeks ago:
Do you consider yourself unemployed? I’d say you aren’t if you are already hired for the next job.
- Comment on Anon shares how they survive 3 weeks ago:
Correct, you can have PhD and be a NEET. What matters is that you are currently unemployed, and not studying/training either.
- Comment on Chrome’s New War: Killing Ad Blockers 3 weeks ago:
Brave is malware that should never be used. If you need a Chromium based browser, Vivaldi is a good choice. Otherwise Firefox.
- Comment on Palworld Developer Reveals The Pokémon Patents Nintendo Claims It's Violating 4 weeks ago:
People say “Pokemon with guns” as if the guns were some kind of core gameplay. You can play through the game without ever using them. It’s a small feature, that absolutely is there, but reducing the game to that is missing the forest for the trees.
- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, the environmental issues that are orders of magnitude less problematic than literally pumping the toxic chemicals into the atmosphere like with fossil fuels, vs comparatively miniscule amount of solid waste to store inert.
- Comment on Anon tries programming in Java 5 weeks ago:
Micronaut and Vert.X also work, and with Kotlin you unlock that ecosystem as well, for example Ktor. One could argue whether Spring is still a modern framework. It works very well, but there is a lot of “magic” and hard to understand annotations with Spring that make it harder to learn and debug than it could be.
Of course the reality in enterprise environments is that change is often very difficult and such changes are a hard sell when you already have millions of lines of Spring code.
But if you are not locked to Spring, there are better options. DI being build in is another negative to me. Spring does everything, and any project using it becomes a “Spring project”. Which robs you of any choice. If you use Ktor for example, it’s only a library, not a framework, and only does the web component. You choose your own DI library that works for you, you choose your own serialization, you choose your own persistence/database solutions, and you can replace with Ktor with something else 3 years down the line, if needed, without touching any of the other parts if the project.
- Comment on Anon tries programming in Java 5 weeks ago:
I use IntelliJ Idea. The free Community Edition is all you need.
- Comment on Anon tries programming in Java 5 weeks ago:
And GUI is even easier and faster with Compose.
- Comment on Anon tries programming in Java 5 weeks ago:
I thought I like Java until I tried Kotlin. It’s everything I liked about Java, but with everything wring with it fixed.
- Comment on Anon tries programming in Java 5 weeks ago:
And much of the confusion and frustration at “Java” is actually because of Spring, or the “enterprise” nonsense making everything unnecessarily complex. You can just… write Java without any of that.
You shouldn’t though, because Kotlin exists, which fixes everything that’s wrong with Java while still being 100% compatible, so even in legacy projects you can mix and match and write new code in Kotlin without needing to rewrite any of the existing Java.
- Comment on I first read Frankensteins mother 5 weeks ago:
Glad I’m not alone
- Comment on The Amish are onto smth 5 weeks ago:
It’s just a phone number on the website. It’s macOS/iOS that decides that clicking one should open FaceTime, and the restaurant has nothing to do with this.
- Comment on Why is Gen Z so Poor? 5 weeks ago:
Believe it or not, most of them don’t live in the US.
- Comment on Games to play with my late 40s brothers? 1 month ago:
Apparently I was the only one to read the title that way, but I thought your brothers died (late) in their 40s.
- Comment on you filthy casuals wouldn't understand 2 months ago:
Have you tried that fun fact? I know there was a meme claiming it, but I have never found any evidence of it actually being true, nor did I manage to replicate it on Amazon.
- Comment on Pay us, or let us sell your info to 1200 partners 2 months ago:
Purchase a subscription to not get personalised ads? So even when you pay, you still get ads, they are just not personalised.
- Comment on Star Citizen Developer Cloud Imperium Games Imposes 7-Day Work Week Ahead of Citizencon 2 months ago:
Since the 2014 release date.
- Comment on What happened to the turn based RPG and RTS genres? 2 months ago:
I looked at the latest and most “recent” heroes games… they’re all rated/reviewed SO harshly.
Many of the negative reviews are (and rightly so) because of Ubisoft forcing you to use their crappy launcher, adding DRM, and otherwise making the customer experience horrible, and not because there is anything wrong with the genre.
- Comment on Something... 2 months ago:
What’s a realistic reply to “oh my God, I’m so sorry!” if you are pretending you got that out of the blue without any context?
I’d assume someone close to me died and I don’t know about it.
- Comment on unwatchable!! 3 months ago:
May point is that it might be a mistake of the character, intended by the writers, not a mistake by the writers.
- Comment on unwatchable!! 3 months ago:
It’s a common mistake, so isn’t a character in a movie making it realistic? Wouldn’t it be out of character for many characters to have perfect English?
- Comment on An artist says Nerf’s Destiny 2 hand cannon is a ripoff of their work 3 months ago:
Presumably because letting the cops know you are defenseless is not what they want to message.
- Comment on Youtube deletes and strikes Linus Tech Tips video for teaching people how to live without Google. Ft. Louis Rossman 3 months ago:
Great summary! Here is the other side of the debate:
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The backpack is overengineered and spares no expense in materials and durability, making it expensive. It is not overpriced. It may be unreasonably costly and not worth the purchase. The reason being it costs a lot to manufacture, not because it’s overpriced.
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Linus was stupid in his “no warranty needed” claim, as most people won’t (and shouldn’t) take his word for it. Nevertheless, it is true his store always replaced items without issue and continues to do so, warranty or not. The customer experience is generally much better than the average store, where you may have to fight for your warranty claim only for it to be refused anyway. This is what he meant. If stores are not honoring warranties, and his store is accepting returns without a warranty anyway, then what’s the piece of paper worth anyway? But people like the piece of mind it provides, they learned the lesson and are providing it now. Of course the warranty never mattered either way.
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I did buy the backpack. Months later I received a replacement set of zippers. There is nothing wrong with the original zippers, they just felt these ones are better and people who bought the backpack before the change should get them too. This has never happened to me with another purchase in my life, where the store decided to upgrade it for free and ship it to another continent for free, without me asking.
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Months later they discovered the material used for the backpack floor isn’t what they wanted. So they offered me (and all purchasers) a full refund and additional store credit. Nobody noticed the issue, nobody asked for refunds. They discovered it and offered refunds proactively, even though it’s a non-issue. Again never happen in my life with another purchase.
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Shitty for the employee to shit on GN. Commendable for Linus to stand by his employee publicly instead of blaming him.
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You are correct they had lot of quality issues. It is also worth mentioning their overhaul that happened after that, improved processed, slowed down upload cadence, and the formation of volunteer “beta tester” viewers who watch videos pre-release to find errors not found internally. Good for them to try to improve.
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Auctioning off the prototype cooler was quite egregious! As usual Linus took the heat on himself and never named the responsible employee who misallocated the cooler in their inventory.
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A third party investigation found the sexual harassment allegations unfounded. Due to the nature of this we might never know the details though.
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Linus invited Naomi to meet him in the meeting rooms of his hotel’s lobby, which exist specifically for business meetings. She later untruthfully misrepresented it as an invite to his hotel room.
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I agree with these of your points I didn’t address.
Hope this provides both sides for readers, and thanks again.
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- Comment on Anon comes out to his religious parents 3 months ago:
I’d say the intent is important here. If he did it to help the kid, I’d say you are right. If he did it to scam some people out of money for playing Xbox, then it’s not an excuse. What was the intent, I didn’t know. (Nor does anyone as this is a made up story)
- Comment on Anon comes out to his religious parents 3 months ago:
Both are deserving of compensation. Both shouldn’t get to decide who’s money they take in secret as a means of getting it.
- Comment on Anon comes out to his religious parents 3 months ago:
That’s why I put “real” in quotes