True, that is surprising and makes everything worse. It’s probably controlled by a setting that none of those engineers knows how to change, based on the lack of knowledge described here.

Or write a tool that can do all these steps for you, reliably!

This sounds 100% credible, based on the outcomes we can see

Sounds like classic junior engineer shit. “Let’s do a big rewrite!” Followed by everything going to shit because they don’t how to create good maintainable software architecture and for whatever reason there weren’t enough senior engineers around to show them the way.

Seriously, it doesn’t sound great, but it sounds about what you might expect wiring up a new UI widget in WPF or whatever the latest thing for native Windows is. Sounds like what would happen if you started developing a Windows app using the Microsoft scaffolding and never applied any kind of software architecture beyond that and it just grew and grew into a big ball of mud. Exactly what I would expect given the quality of so many of their frameworks, and I say that as a professional dotnet software engineer.

I’ve been there. It’s great!

Disagree, but regardless it’s so much worse now

For those who didn’t read the article, he doesn’t mean the actual cultural elite: billionaires like himself. He means journalists and TV anchors. He wants news reporting to be uncritical of him and his fellow elites.

Panera fell hard too

!!

Optimus Prime was a real shock for sure. For me it’s any animal death.

• Artax from The Neverending Story
• The dogs from Where the Red Fern Grows
• There’s a scene in the Sci-fi novel Armor where a puppy falls in a well and its owner, a child, unable to rescue it ,has to kill it by dropping stones on it to spare it drowning. I read that a long time ago, probably in the 80s, and it still haunts me.

Sturm Brightblade, in the second book _Dragons of Winter Night _

Oh good, FREE SLOP FOR ALL!

It is and I love it. I bind the fifth action to L3 (stick click)

I’m so confused by this whole thread because I built a brand new computer with cutting edge parts just this year and installed Mint and everything just worked except the GPU, which I had to add a PPA for. Well, that and my HDR monitor isn’t supported, but AFAICT that’s pretty much true across all distorts.

I used to be an index fingers only guy, until Returnal. You really need fingers directly on like 5 actions at all times to keep up with the action sometimes. So now I use index and middle when the game calls for it.

FWIW Brave search lets you disable AI summaries

A true hot take, one that I don’t share but take my upvote for your candor

Lots of good lines in that show.

Xathras have hard life. Probably have hard death. But at least that way, there’s symmetry.

Once the avalanche has started, it is too late for the pebbles to vote.

Wow, that comic really fails to entertain in any way!