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  • How is it that the general response to this debate is "Trump rambled nonsensically and told conflicting lies and wants to undermine democracy, but Biden was recovering from a cold, so he's unfit."

    Like in what world are these issues comparable?

  • Received dirt on the American Democrat party from the Russians and released it during the election to help Trump.

    He said he received stuff on the Republicans as well, but it was "not interesting" and didn't publish it. Didn't really support his stated goal of transparency.

  • This is exactly why I roll my eyes at the people who are rabidly angry at the sequel trilogy. We've seen all this happen before, and it turns out no matter how bad we think it is, there's still a group that gets something special out of it. It wasn't cool for me to take the prequels so seriously and hate on them while a whole new generation of Star Wars fans were just getting into it. At the time, the kids loved Jar-Jar!

    I'm not fond of the sequel trilogy. But I honestly think episode 8 was the best of the lot. And if there's people who like what these movies are, then that's a good thing for them

  • I have such bad things to say about recruiters. They generally don't have a clue about any of the skills related to the jobs I'm after, and they take a huge cut of the pay the entire time I'm working the job.

    On the other hand, the two best jobs (highest pay and best working environment) I've had in my career, I got through recruiters, so I acknowledge them as a useful business when it works out. The last one has led to the company buying my contract and hiring me directly for the past 12 years

  • I don't know, I think Thanos should have worn a suit

  • Right, that's really more of a Steam issue than a Bethesda issue. I get why Valve and Bethesda don't want to provide customer support for old versions, but they don't have to. People have been figuring out their own problems when using obsolete systems or software for a long time.

    I have no issue with Steam pushing the updates and encouraging you to take them, but giving no way to decline is a pretty poor user experience. Especially when we already know they keep old versions on their servers, as people have made guides on how to downgrade with Steam

  • The mods that weren't backwards compatible were primarily the ones that depended on the script extender. This was an unsupported executable that expanded on the commands available to the scripts in the mods.

    Not to say unsupported is bad, but everyone was well aware that if they depended on the script extender, they would break if the game updated at all. The biggest mods avoided that dependency for exactly this reason, and really didn't have any trouble. (Sim Settlements still worked the entire time, for example)

    And like usual, the community stepped up and updated their unsupported extension quickly, ready for this outcome.

    If you made a mod that depends on the script extender and then quit playing the game or supporting your mod, that was a choice you made as a modder. Meanwhile there's mods that haven't seen an update in 8 years that continue to work without issue.

  • The mods that updated for the first update were already updated within 24 hours of the next one.

    The only mods that are still broken now are mods that were made and maintained by people who have stopped playing the game some time ago.

    And even most of those still work, if they didn't rely on the script extender

  • Eh? I thought we had the date of this update a couple of weeks in advance. I don't think any more notice would have helped get the mods updated faster when many of the modders just don't play anymore

  • That's gonna depend on the station you were listening to

  • I couldn't imagine tying myself to a single category for my whole career.

    I've done front end, back end, database, web, Windows, and Linux development. If the job calls for learning something new, I'm on it. These days I'm making datacenter software for admins to use to manage their distributed applications. Before this, I was doing the same thing for factory automation at the edge.

    Specializing has its value, but the more flexible you can be, the more useful you will be when the landscape changes and your boss suddenly asks you to set up an AI system or something.

  • Yes, if you want to see Hackernews posts, get them from Hackernews yourself. Reposting to Lemmy just adds more posts with zero engagement that new users will see and be put off of the site for

    Several months ago we had three different instances with their own Hackernews communities and their own repost bots posting the exact same things, with zero discussion.

    Lemmy needs more actual discussion, and fewer bots adding noise to the feed.

  • My experience says a lot of these people bought into the "fake news" narrative, where they conveniently don't believe anything presented to them, no matter how digestible -- unless it reinforces things they already believe.

    My mother goes on about how "science" can be used to prove anything, and "science" gets it wrong so often, so she won't believe anything she reads. While turning around and saying she found out Planned Parenthood is harvesting and selling baby parts, which is why they want mass abortions across the US

  • A lot of people talk about the decentralization being a barrier of entry, but I don't think it is.

    Generally speaking, your average social media user won't care about that one way or the other. You tell them an instance to look at, they will check it out.

    Where I think it goes wrong is the general Lemmy attitude of curating your own feed. Your average Lemmy user will say the best part is that you just block the communities and instances that you don't want to see.

    Your average social media user on the other hand, doesn't want to spend an hour or a month blocking people and communities to make the site useable. Most folks will come in, see a feed full of tech bros, repost bots with zero discussion, 30 different fetish porn communities, Star Trek memes, and bottom of the barrel shitposts, and they'll just leave.

    The only way I see Lemmy overcoming this is for instance admins to heavily curate the default experience so the feed is friendlier to new users. This would likely require some more tools in place to allow for this, possibly even a default block list that users can customize after they are already drawn in

    Also the sorting could be better.

  • Ah right, the "how about we compromise and just have a little genocide" option

  • I don't understand how you got that from the image.

    Both monitors on the senior side of the image are showing coding environments

  • I say we lose the entire Crowder meme format. The "change my mind" bit was from one of his stunts, and this is just keeping it alive longer

    There's still many other meme formats that send the same message, we don't need to sully Calvin's image by associating it with a Crowder stunt

  • Not quite this, but I did have a validation team that didn't know when to quit.

    The project was a Windows service, and they would be constantly opening bugs saying "program crashes when we deleted xxxxx.dll"

    Like... Yeah. If you delete necessary libraries from the installation directory, the program won't run correctly.

  • While Calvin in a Crowder meme is better than Crowder in a Crowder meme, maybe we just don't use a Crowder meme at all?

    There are several others that convey basically the same message