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Cake day: January 27th, 2024

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  • Oh sure. They could do this. But they don’t.

    But there is absolutely no way to verify what they are doing, no fear of getting caught and thus there is no incentive to behave with integrity.

    At least my state of knowledge is that this: https://reproducible-builds.org/ isn’t fully functional and even if it were what HP does on their machines is closed source stuff.

    And even if there were companies or organizations that are big enough to enforce transparency, like a big multinational or a government, there will be plenty of cases where smaller companies with sensitive data can’t, like doctors offices or independent lawyers.

    It is way easier to charge for a “data privacy” subscription tier and then still just not honoring the wording of that, than to actually put in the effort.


  • Also, I’m not sure how much this applies to helldivers specifically, but from what I’ve seen, teams didn’t really teamwork. Because they didn’t have to.

    This can be very bad because if it follows these steps:

    1. game is easy, no teamwork required, players learn to play the game without teamwork
    2. game gets harder, but some people can still manage solo, complain about “newbs” and tell them to “git gud”
    3. game gets even harder, now it’s impossible to play “quasi solo” but the environment is no longer fit to learn teamwork in the context of this game. “How” to work together effectively.

    Then people will complain, justly, that they don’t have the tools and methods to beat the challenge. Which is correct. They don’t. But you can’t just tell people to “go play easy mode and learn the game”, when they are “max level” and put 40-100 hours into the game.

    Of course the synergy tools still have to exist and I’m not knowledgeable about helldivers whether they do.

    There is no good choice to “encourage” teamplay, except via creating “natural” funnels that people will “end up at” “organically”, and putting a challenge in front of them that they can only work with teamwork. But that means the challenge has to beat them, until they get it. And that may never happen.


    One game I have found exceptional as a case study for what is “overpowered” and what isn’t, and why, is magic the gathering. All the “code” is public. The complaints are public. The bans are public, and explained. So if anyone here wants to nerd out about balance and doesn’t know mtg yet, there is a rabbit hole for you.




  • peak_dunning_krueger@feddit.detoProgrammer Humor@lemmy.mlAnd don't forget RTFM
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    8 months ago

    If this is not a meme…

    You know how you have to look up… errors when you don’t know what they mean?

    That.

    Figuring out how to do something specific, like UI, works just like that. All the time. It’s “looking up how it works”, then “messing around with it until it does” all the way down.

    If you are just starting out, coding something in HTML and javascript might be intuitive, because you can see and run it right away. Otherwise you will have to figure out how to use some kind of UI framework in the language you’re using. Because they’re all different. Yeeeaaah…

    I think it’s harder for compiled languages and easier for interpreted ones.






  • Eh. Seems alright. Definitely not going to a cinema to see it. Gearbox milked the franchise to death, I really only liked Borderlands 2. Looks like Krieg is in this, which isn’t canonical. But fun. He also says nothing in the trailer?

    My hate for what they did with tiny tina is unmeasurable. The character does not work when she is not a child. If they had put an actual child actor in their shoes and THEN made them blow up a lot of people, with gore, that would be the level tina is at. Like, if Borderlands had realistic graphics, it would be as PG 18 as Doom (2016) +. For understandable reasons. She is a traumatised child that got ate up by pandora and lived. On a revenge quest. All other characters +1 or +2 Tina gets a -20.

    Not hating on the actor, lots of things can go wrong for the “magic” to not happen, most aren’t on them.

    I actually don’t care for the prequel or BL1 backstory part. I’m not hooked by the premise.

    Expectation is “mid”. If an opportunity to watch it falls right into my lap I might, but realistically I will probably forget it exists when the ad campaign is through.



  • Please take care that modern design practices and the latest materials are used in construction of the house, as I want it to be a showplace for the most up-to-date ideas and methods. Be alerted, however, that kitchen should be designed to accommodate, among other things, my 1952 Gibson refrigerator.

    That’s actually too easy, because electrical systems have been standardized for a long time.

    Should be something like “15 highpowered electrical stoves, but keep the total power consumption below 15 Watts.”

    Or, homeautomation and integration with google/alexa, but using the old fridge.