samc

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vomit-inducing article about Jeff Bezos’s obscene wealth⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The Koru is a 416-foot masterpiece with three towering masts, each standing 230 feet tall, that harness kinetic energy to propel the vessel. The yacht is so massive that, for it to leave the shipyard after completion, a historic bridge in Rotterdam had to be dismantled. Bezos even offered to fund the dismantling and reconstruction of the 95-year-old De Hef bridge but later abandoned the plan amid public outcry. Eventually, Koru was towed away without her masts, which were later assembled.

  The tone of this article is astonishing. “He even offered to pay to vandalise a historic building”, how selfless…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The world is ending but here's a side quest - will RPGs ever solve their urgency problem?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For me it becomes an issue when I try to make decisions from my character’s perspective. If I try to lean into the RP part of RPG then I often feel like I have to leave a load of content behind because it just wouldn’t be a high priority.

  I agree with the FO1 timer though. I ended up beelining to the necropolis and got trapped in an endgame bunker because I didn’t want that timer hanging over me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On "Safe" C++ • Izzy Muerte⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Reading time 105 minutes…

  And worth every second!

  I decided to have another go at learning C++ given all the recent work that I had heard about regarding memory safety and support for functional programming. This gives me a lot less confidence that my efforts will be worth it in the long run.

  Time to check out rust I guess 🤷.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ambulances called to Amazon’s UK warehouses 1,400 times in five years⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks, for computing some useful statistics! As much as I believe the implied hypothesis that working at Amazon is bad for one’s health, I think the guardian intentionally tried to present the largest number possible with no context.

  Frankly, “Amazon warehouse employees 10x more likely to need an ambulance” is a more impactful headline anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon workers narrowly reject union in historic vote⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We have bad/corrupt governments sometimes, that doesn’t mean we should get rid of governments. (Though maybe the libertarian Fraser institute might disagree with me there.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Carnival of Self-Harm⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I suppose a complete history of Tory government was out of scope for what’s already a dissertation-length essay.

  Actually, at the end the author begins to slightly contradict himself by arguing that (neo-)Thatcherism is the long-term objective of the conservatives. I suppose the consistent narrative is that the Tories have a long-term commitment to policies that can only ever yield short-term gains.

  This does lead to the rather dire conclusion that British politics is stuck in a cycle where Labour slowly rebuilds the British state, only for the Tories to sack it the instant our fickle support for progressive government waivers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Carnival of Self-Harm⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not that I saw. A nag screen maybe, but it was dismissible

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I always right that people using searx etc over duckduckgo were just gluttons for punishment. Having gone an entire morning without search, maybe now is the time to dive down that rabbit hole…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beeper is now available, no waitlist!⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks, fixed! (TIL you need the https:// bit on Lemmy)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beeper is now available, no waitlist!⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There is, they just don’t publicise it. Actually one of my favourite features of the service tbf. Just load up a web page and all my messages are there, regardless of where they came from.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Phil Spencer, long cast as Xbox’s saviour, may be remembered as the man who killed it⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a common thread between a lot of the missteps listed here and Embeacer group’s recent troubles. The idea that you could fund 230 Spiderman 2’s for the same price as buying 1 Activision-Blizzard-King really drove the point home to me.

  The problem (in my obviously uneducated opinion) is that when you spend so much money in acquisition, especially of established companies, you’re neither funding nor rewarding innovation. You spend $70B on ABK and some randos in suits get a huge payout that they invest in oil or crypto or whatever. Spend $70B on talent and early career devs and you could unleash a tidal wave of creativity and experimentation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exanima - Dev Diary - Physics Improvements⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is this the one that was planning to be a full open world RPG originally? (Sui Generis IIRC) I’m guessing that’s unlikely to happen by this point. Exanima still looks fun though

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A 2024 Plea for Lean Software (with running code)⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is that an issue if you need to login first?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BMW, Subaru and Porsche drivers ‘more likely to cause a crash’, study finds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Well it’s 400,000 accidents, so there’s probably every kind of circumstance you can imagine in there.

  The point is that owning a BMW shouldn’t affect the chance of you finding yourself in dangerous circumstances, other than ones you create by your own actions. (Unless everyone in the UK is secretly hoping to ram BMW drivers off the road).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨While you were sleeping, #windEnergy reached 59% of the National Grid's electricity demand⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It is fascinating tbh. Moreover, it’s currently (as of writing) at 42%. Considering 13:30 is hardly “off-peak”, I’d say that’s pretty damn impressive.