@carnage4life maybe the resolution is an open-sourcing of all server code needed to run the game (and client updates to allow picking self-hosted servers) once the company decides hosting the online service stops making business sense.
What's your #editor / #IDE of choice, and why is it so? Do you use that for all tasks and #programming languages, or do you switch between editors depending on what you're working on?
I mostly use #IntelliJ / #Goland for large projects, and #VSCode for simpler ones. But tbh, I find myself increasingly using VS Code even for projects where I'd previously would reach for IntelliJ. And their poor story around language server integrations makes them feel less relevant today than they used to be.
Just checked in at the hotel in Paris. If you need me for anything, you’ll find me in the ✨ business corner ✨ where I will use the computer kindly provided by the hotel, and occasionally have something photocopied and/or faxed.
I regularly replace old links with archive.org links using my Waybackify tool. But if often fails because an error page got archived instead. Here's one of my favorites.
Has anyone written a tool that does a decent job of detecting when an archived page is actually an error page?
Please, I beg of you, note that I did not ask, "Do you have any suggestions on how one might write such a tool."
@jwz I believe Gwern goes into this topic in some depth on this article https://gwern.net/archiving but not sure if tooling is mentioned as it’s been a while since I read it.
anyways if anyone wants a hard worker (but not a 9-9 "hard" worker 🫠) with highly-scalable, event-driven backend experience with #TypeScript and #Clojure (as well as some AWS experience, iOS/macOS dev work, and a research scientist background) I am looking for work! Open to in-person/hybrid in downtown #miami and #miamibeach and remote roles as well. #getfedihired
Lots of talk about the Atlanta restaurant scene, and why service is so "bad." I'm here to tell you that the problem is me! And customers like me! Because we select for the types of restaurants that Atlanta has.🤷🏿♂️
I ate at Milk and Honey Atlanta 2 days ago. Took over an hour to get seated, and they forgot us twice. Took another 45 minutes for food to come out. And yet I will be back first chance I get!
Because I took the first bite of the biscuits and gravy appetizer, and wow.
@mekkaokereke your experience lines up with something I’ve been noodling on recently: basically, (western, maybe just US) society has optimized for experiencing as little inconvenience and wait as possible when engaging in consumption.
But I think “working” for something (even by just waiting in line, or “experiencing bad service”) enhances the experience! My pseudoscience is that something deep inside us needs that discomfort -> consumption cycle to really work correctly.
Like Microsoft, Google really needs to get a handle on criminals paying them to spread malware disguised as legit software. These paid results are so dangerous because they show up before any organic search results. e.g., woe to those who recently searched for KeePass.
Google-hosted malvertising leads to fake Keepass site that looks genuine
@briankrebs just yesterday, my mom googled $airline, clicked the first link, and called the number on the page. After giving them a bunch of info (thankfully nothing really sensitive) they asked her for her password at $airline!!! Thankfully her instincts kicked in and she hung up but sheesh
there’s a lot of handwringing but I’m kinda ok with getting my serious content from Mastodon and shitposting from Bluesky ¯_(ツ)_/¯
The HOA has won the war against fun but it has upsides too. I don’t need Dril content between arguments about OOP and the latest distro drama. #amorFati
@drewdevault I always thought it would be cool to do a different household language every day. Kids can pick them all up easily and parents would improve their fluency in the language through regular but spaced use
Future generations are going to look at this generation’s laxity with genetic data and privacy in the sane way we look back at smoking, Jim Crow laws and fossil fuels.
You can’t change your genetic data like you can a password and once it gets out it not only affects you both your relatives and your offspring.
You carry a gene for a chronic disease that’s inherited? Now insurance companies know that about you, your kids and grandkids.
Do you ever think about abandoned tech trees? Like how no one is working to design better drafting compasses or vellum? No one is perfecting vacuum tubes. No one is laser focused on methods to speed paint and accurate portrait by hand to send out for marriage proposals.
Technological leaps make entire areas of research pointless— but
What if just a bit further down the line on the old tech tree there was some bigger breakthrough we’ll never see? I think about this A LOT.
@futurebird I frequently follow a similar line of thinking when a company goes out of business. It's sad to think all that internal knowledge (business processes, planning documents, code, art, etc) just.... goes away.
