mindbleach

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

Most soaps wish they could be as melodramatic as the rugby baby scene.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 hours ago

Is dubvee run by and for one guy? What little I've seen (and dealt with) feels like a level of pettiness antithetical to any level of organization. More than once, I've checked the site, and expected it to be like those self-hosted users... the vanity plate of the Fediverse.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago

Nothing inside a video game should cost real money.

The difference between this abusive horseshit and any cheaper example is quantitative - not qualitative.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

I'd argue Unity's implosion was wholly evitable. All they had to do was announce, going forward, there would be different licensing. Big new version six months from now? Hey guess what, we'll do things differently from then on, so make your preparations accordingly. But no - they fucked over existing projects. They tried to retroactively interfere with the business decisions of games that were years into development.

Oracle only gets away with that shit because they're an eight-ton gorilla. And people still desperately look for the exits every time Larry Ellison announces a relicensing scheme based on how many computers you can think of.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

Cutie.

Because that's how it's fucking spelled.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

"Why does YAML suck?" is a question. "Why YAML sucks" is an explanation.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

See also "ancient stone tool."

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Qt? They insist it's "cute," which, no.

Godot? Don't care.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (5 children)

No amount of precedent will get me to stop pronouncing it G'doh.

This isn't a Qt situation where the people who named it are objectively wrong about how those letters should get said. I just do not like any of the other options.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Gin and hubris tell me the leading defense will be other drones. Defense still has the range advantage: assholes come to you. You can easily make faster and lighter drones than whatever's targeting you, and if nothing else, punish attacks with loss of materiel. Which doesn't even require blowing up your zippy little drone, if the enemy's rotors can be fucked by anything more substantial than Silly String.

 

'Well it's only passing mv a list of--' yeah yeah yeah, I know, and that's why I'm calling bullshit. It should be massively harder to execute filenames. Even if 1970s decisions make that the eternal hideous default: the lack of any idiot-proof standard workaround is incomprehensible.

StackOverflow's full of competing one-liners and people pointing out how each one is considered harmful. The least-skeezy options use exec. That sentence should make anyone recoil in horror.

This is not a filename problem. This is a tool problem. If a single printable character is going to silently expand into a list of names, then for god's sake, having it put each name in quotes should be fucking trivial.

 

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