alex_lav

Not at the cost of harming people,

What defines harm? Or more specifically, who?

Shame I had to scroll this far to get to this comment. I have absolutely no idea why, in 2024, people still think we should let the government decide what is good/what we can see/what others can say.

I just restarted a personal project on rails because of its batteries included mentality - it means I can limit the number of dependencies

https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/main/Gemfile.lock

Just a playful comment - not challenging your experience

This post is so interesting because it highlights the people that don't know anything about the requirements or state of cheats/anticheat. What you're describing is 10 years out of date. Every modern cheat has a toggle, and (almost) every modern cheater masks augmented behavior with misses/native behavior.

Unsure how true that is, but I certainly never did.

Rider is better either way, but definitely better than alternatives on MacOS.

Rider is by far the best C# IDE. Especially if you're not running Windows. It was a real lifesaver while working with Unity.

So 0 real examples have been provided, either by a commenter or via the link.

Exactly as expected.

_yet_

Some games you have to pay to unlock gear or xp boosters to make it really playable.

Again, can you provide an example? Also

Any multiplayer game is competitive to some degree

Is just blatantly incorrect, unless you just mean "One player is further in the game than the other", in which case literally all games are "competitive", including single player.

1. noncompetitive game

2. mobile game

3. mobile game

4. not actually pay to win.

5. noncompetitive game

6. mobile game

You see where I'm going. You can't relate "has microtransactions" with "is pay to win". They're different.

Seems like most multiplyer games have some sort of "pay to win" (or pay for an advantage) scheme in them

Can you share an example of this outside of mobile games?

Twitter, before Elon's takeover, was a crypto-obsessed political echo chamber.

Pretending a platform as large as twitter was/is "one thing" is silly. It may have been that for you, it was not that for many.

Platforms like Mastodon are great, as long as you don't rely on likes and reposts for dopamine.

As long as you're willing to post to no one, sure.

You can either take the route of doing financial software, data science, ML and web dev _for a game company_, or you can start making games in your free time and then attempt a pivot.

I think the first path is probably easier and more lucrative, but will have a much longer time difference in terms of getting you where you want to go.

A place where you don't complain every day about hating your job?

I don't believe they can actually do anything about it as this "culture" comes from the very top.

The employee can do something about it by leaving.

Having had lots of friends work there, the approach seems to be "Complain about working at Amazon for literal years but never really do anything about it", followed by "Get laid off"

Can a more Apple-minded person help me understand if the Apple Watch SE counts as "Series 9"? I don't totally understand how "SE" relates to numerical versioning, but I am also not an Apple person.

Apologies in advance if this question is somehow obvious to others.

I think it's two types of defensiveness.

1. Shovel salesman insisting all "real" gold miners use their shovels

2. Those that have already acquired shovels not wanting their purchase to be mocked/have been made in vain.

Neither are grounded in reality. Why people believe their tiny applications require the same tech that Google invented to help manage their (massive) scale is beyond me.

I don't think I have any more bias than any other programmer.

I do not agree at all, but to each their own!

It's worth noting that you're a Java dev, working on OpenJDK at Oracle (per your profile here). Which is to say, your bias is....pretty extreme.

Raising rates didn't lower housing prices,

I have not observed this statement to be true, both in my personal experience and that of those around me.

"Simply tell the cops you're leaving" is a very out of touch suggestion to make.

"Simply tell the cops you're leaving because The Law" even moreso.

A company being too large to be competent is maybe not the excuse you think it is.

Yet another ruling that will never be enforced!

While I agree, a company making a post that is a subtle advertisement for their software is probably the least trustworthy source for pretty much any take.

Extremely normal for VC backed companies.

All time great Youtube video. Still heavily relevant today.

And ever-decreasing prices for consumers

This is more of a hope than a reality. The trickle down economics logic. “We promise it’ll be good.”

Curious if the doctors are actually just proxies for insurance providers in this case?

This feels like a chatgpt blog post, kind of about nothing.