No one answered it in the comments but is this saying the dog is 45? Like in human years?

Sweet! This is really cool and inspired me to try something.

I don’t know about you but content has gotten better for me.

Ranma 1/2, Squid Games, Super Mario Bros Movie, new season of Arcane. I felt like every 1-2 months, there was always something interesting.

Also note that I don’t pay for Netflix. I do own stock.

BUY MORE NETFLIX SUBSCRIPTIONS…

Oh man same!

2000s, with permission from the HS computer teacher, I was installing Red Hat on a few computers. It was ROUGH. Like, yeah we got it to show a desktop, but it was a nightmare to use anything but the basic applications. Windows just worked and after a few months, went back to that.

Only during the pandemic did I finally go Linux. Started with ElementaryOS (highly recommend for old people) and went through a dozen other flavors. What really pushed me to expert level was setting up Linux servers.

I no longer code on a Windows machine (unless I have to), and absolutely would recommend Linux to any end user. And now with Steam Deck/SteamOS, it’s only getting better. My gaming computer is still Windows, but I’m going to let it sunset. I barely use it except to play high-spec games that aren’t on Steam Deck. But that’s getting rarer and rarer.

Yes. It’s officially a real name that they’re infringing and could cause confusion.

It’s so dumb. ID has historically been pretty lax with what modders do. You can literally name your mod anything but something copyrighted. And the modders decided to do that.

That was their biggest struggle.

I don’t think it matters for Big N. I got a cease and desist a long time ago for using a video game trademark in my website URI as a teen. I mean I could have fought it but it was enough to kill my spirit.

Going to guess the creators aren’t seeing this as their bread and butter and enough of a threat of a lawsuit can pretty quickly slow down/shut down a project.

Yeah seriously.

Also are we not at a stage where most games have been dumped perfectly already?

Government keeps trying.

One side keeps saying no.

https://theintercept.com/2024/03/21/house-republicans-ban-universal-school-lunches/

Can confirm: am expert at experting.

Ah a brand new cycle in the Matrix simulation. I hope in the next one, we catch Jeffrey Dahmer. and the James Cameron Avatar films doesn’t suck.

Yeah here you go!

Average YouTube influencer for me.

It’s gotten even worse in the past year. Most of them sound like they’re parroting AI summaries of blog posts and sprinkling stupid ass cutaway gags to memes. Like rather than actually consuming the entire body of context around a subject and having an informed take, they’re just giving shallow thoughts and trying to monetize.

Any YouTuber whose whole angle is to spicy commentary on current events in tech/programming is definitely part of the trash heap.

Probably because all of today’s shooters do much of their shooting indoors like in schools/movie theaters.

I’ve been calling this out for years.

And every time, some commenter goes, “Nu uh, look at their website bro! It’s super private!”

Working in open-source, frequent issues do end up being future feature requests.

I took it as software engineers tend to build for scalability. And yep, IT often isn’t prepared for that or sees it as wasted resources.

Which isn’t a bad thing. IT isnt seeing the demands the manager/customer wants.

I’m glad you’ve done both because yeah, it’s a seesaw.

If IT provisions just enough hardware, we’ll hit bottlenecks and crashes when there’s a surprise influx of customers. If software teams don’t build for scale, same scenario, but worse.

From the engineer perspective, it’s always better to scale with physical hardware. Where IT is screaming, “We dont have the funds!”

Accurate!

Developers are frequently excited by the next hot thing or how some billionaire tech companies operate.

I’m guilty of seeing something that was last updated in 2019 and having a look of disgust.

This is like saying before you can be a writer, you need to understand latin and the history of language.

. I think to be a good software developer it helps to know what’s happening under the hood when you take an action.

There’s so many layers of abstractions that it becomes impossible to know everything.

Years ago, I dedicated a lot of time understanding how bytes travel from a server into your router into your computer. Very low-level mastery.

That education is now trivia, because cloud servers, cloudflare, region points, edge-servers, company firewalls… All other barriers that add more and more layers of complexity that I don’t have direct access to but can affect the applications I build. And it continues to grow.

Add this to the pile of updates to computer languages, new design patterns to learn, operating system and environment updates…

This is why engineers live alone on a farm after they burn out.

It’s not feasible to understand everything under the hood anymore. What’s under the hood grows faster than you can pick it up.