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Are ‘super-clickbaity’ articles a thing of the past? The signs point to yes!

Can you give me the TL:DR?

I genuinely feel like that was a coordinated campaign to erode voter trust and motivation with some trolling thrown in on top.

Catch any single lib and ask them straight up; “Do you think both sides are the same?”

Some liberals.

Honestly, if they got the PC a full featured implementation, that seems like a lovely headset.

I use a specialised hammer-and-anvil system that produces an audible notification whenever someone use it.

Pfft. Amateur. I have a grandfathered license from back when it was $100 one-time payment.

Let’s me install on up to 5 machines at the same time

Jailbreaks when?

Ah, but you see the AI let us reduce headcount for full time employees. Reducing the budget for full time salaries.

Now we just spend twice as much on contractors and consultants, but that’s a different budget, so it’s not my problem.

The site doesn’t define what a code smell is, though. It’s just a list of Don’t Do’s.

That’s kind of the nuance I would be hoping for.

Something like:

Code Smells are clues that something is amiss. They are not things that always must be ‘fixed’. You as an engineer will, through experience in your own codebase and reading of others, develop a sense of the harm imparted by and the cost of fixing Code Smells. It is up to you and your team to decide what is best for your codebase and project.

(The rule of 3 formatting was intentional, given the community we’re in)

I think to present rules like this as hard rules, with little explanation and no nuance is harmful to less experienced engineers.

A prime example here is the Duplicated Code one. Which takes an absolute approach to code duplication, even when the book that is referenced highlights the Rule of Three:

The Rule of Three
Here’s a guideline Don Roberts gave me: The first time you do something,
you just do it. The second time you do something similar, you wince at the
duplication, but you do the duplicate thing anyway. The third time you do
something similar, you refactor.
Or for those who like baseball: Three strikes, then you refactor.

I’ve seen more junior devs bend over backwards, make their code worse and take twice as long to adhere to some rules that are really more what you’d call guidelines than actual rules.

Sure, try to avoid code duplication, but sometimes duplicating code is better than the wrangling you’d need to do to remove it.

Making extra changes also leaves extra room for bugs to creep in. So now you need to test the place you were working, and anywhere else you touched because of the refactoring.

Like all things programming; It Depends.

Fancy pants. The only time I got online to check my emails was when the travelling bitwarden came around, usually in the spring. Unless the winter was hard and the pass was blocked.

To maintain the status quo.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2257010/Creeper_World_IXE/

I blasted through the campaign. If it’s anything like 4 I’m expecting 4000 good community levels.

IXE. It’s new and fun

I was looking for 3 months each time. I have like 15 years exp!

The article (as far as I read) fails to mention the that layoffs have hit then entire tech sector. Not just games.

I lost my job (iOS dev and actually a games dev job) twice in ‘24. I don’t think it is necessarily a reflection of the games industry.

There are some really nice games this year, if you know where to look. I’m playing Uncle Chop’s Rocket Repair and it’s awesome. So fun, so inventive, great visuals, mechanics and soundtrack.

Deadlock has also gotten a fair chunk of my time. I scratches the same itch as DOTA and a little bit of CS too.

Creeper World got a new instalment, too. Different from the 4 mainline games, it’s new and fresh and fun.

What?!

Wicked is a story about how propaganda and political manipulation can make someone who is trying to do good look like the bad guy.

It’s about not trusting what you are told just because of who is telling you.

Elphaba never actually (intentionally) does harm to anyone.

Compare that with Darth V. How many thousands of lives has he intentionally taken by the end of his life?

Many tvs have microphones built into them or their remotes.

Some are even sending screenshots of what they are displaying to their backend servers.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2449198-smart-tvs-take-snapshots-of-what-you-watch-multiple-times-per-second/