• AFAB = assigned female at birth; basically because they happened to have a vagina at birth, so they were supposed to like pink and dolls and a lower paycheck and whatever else society has decided the female experience should be like.
• AMAB = assigned male at birth
• NB = non-binary; a person that identifies neither as male nor as female. They might be something in the middle, or they might be something completely different.
• femme = basically the way women have traditionally looked or behaved (long hair, pink etc.)
• fundie = fundamentalist Christian; basically very conservative, very eccentric people with world views they claim to be traditionally Christian
• bussy = boy pussy; the anus of a man, or it may also be used to describe the vagina of a transmasc person
• transmasc = transmasculine; a person who was assigned female at birth, but who rather identifies with masculinity and may have taken measures to be perceived as such (clothing, hormones, surgery etc.)

Uh, you sure, you’re not somehow allergic or something? I glug pureed tomatoes like there’s no tomorrow and I’ve never had heartburn or indigestion from them.

There’s two alternatives currently in development, inZOI from the PUBG devs, and Paralives from a smaller indie studio.

Big difference to the Wikimedia Foundation is how much money they need. The Mozilla Corporation (which develops Firefox) has around 750 employees.

Optimistically, only 500 of those are devs and work on Firefox. If you pay those a wage of 100,000 USD, that makes 50 million USD of costs just for wages.

Firefox has less than 200 million monthly active users, so everyone using it would need to donate $0.25, or alternatively 1% of users would need to donate $25, yearly.

That’s a lot of money to hope people donate, and this is a very optimistic ballpark estimate.

Yeah, the amount of money they get from donations is so tiny compared to what they need for developing Firefox, that they don’t even divert it for Firefox.
They use it for activism, community work and in the past, they’ve also passed it on to other open-source projects, which are also important for the web but don’t have the infrastructure or public awareness to get donations directly.

The other guy phrased it humorously, but yeah, that’s Reddit culture. Particularly, lemmy.world took in lots of people from there and unfortunately, they never recovered. I’ve considered just blocking that whole instance for that reason.

I mean, if we’re talking about all those problems, the no-type-annotations issue is rather specific for Python, JS/TS and Ruby.

But in general, I feel like there’s somewhat of an old world vs. new world divide, which happened when package registries started accepting libraries from everyone and their cat.

In C, for example, most libraries you’ll use will be quite well-documented, but you’ll also never hear of the library that Greg’s cat started writing for the niche thing that you’re trying to do.

Unfortunately, Greg’s cat got distracted by a ball of yarn rolling by and then that was more fun than writing documentation.
That’s the tradeoff, you get access to more libraries, but you just can’t expect all of them to be extremely high-quality…

As a musician, this is how I feel when talking to percussionists. Pretty much anything that makes a sound can be used for percussion and plenty of them have been given specific names: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_percussion_instruments

At best, the default-installed desktop environment and applications won’t have a ton of customizability. You can replace those, if you’re not happy with them.

Everything underneath is a normal Linux, with all the freedom you could ever ask for.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satanic_nightjar

Yeah, same. The game where that screenshot is from (DCSS) also has an ASCII mode, where that skeleton dragon would probably look like this: D

The text log would say that a skeleton dragon appeared, and I could even imagine a skeleton dragon by itself quite easily, but when it comes to a whole room full of monsters, then it’s just a lot of info to keep track of. The small textures are almost like icons, in that they’re a compact way of telling me where which monster is.

Yeah, man, I’ve got this chronic fatigue thingamabob and if you’re asking me when I’m most energetic, the answer is never…

I’ve been telling all the juniors we have, that they’re free to use a GUI tool, but they do not get around learning the CLI. If you fuck up or Git breaks, you’ll need to look up how to unfuck it and that’s where the only help you find is for the CLI.

In particular, it’s also been my experience that you rapidly come into a situation where suddenly you’re the Git expert and need to help others. If you only know one specific GUI, you can only help others who use that GUI. If you know the CLI, you can help anyone.

It also happens that you need to interact with Git repos on a server where you simply won’t have a GUI.

And yeah, given that whole opinion, personally I seriously do not care to learn a GUI in addition to the CLI.

Yeah, Wikipedia says 70°C hot water kills them practically instantly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legionella#Legionella_control_and_biomonitoring

So, I guess, if you heat it up beyond 70°C and leave it running for a minute before you step under the shower, that would presumably be safe, but I’m not an expert either…

But that’s what I mentioned regarding Java there. Java calls them “exceptions”, but generally forces the caller to either handle them or explicitly bubble them upwards…

As I see it, the difference is that we now have capable game engines freely available. Indie studios can, for the most part, offer the same quality of gameplay. AAA studios can only really differentiate themselves by how much content they shove into a game.

In particular, this also somewhat limits creativity of AAA games. In order to shove tons of content into there, the player character has to be a human, the gameplay has to involve an open world, there has to be a quest system etc…

KDE’s Dolphin runs on Windows and has that integrated. I don’t know for sure, though, that FTP support works on Windows…

On the flipside, you give real intelligence 32 pixels and it infers photorealistic images:

(The textures are 32x32 pixels. Yes, that’s technically 1024 pixels, but shhh. 🙃)

The guy keeps on picking on Go, which is infamous for having terrible error handling, and then he has the nerve to even pick on the UNIX process return convention, which was designed in the 70s.
The few times he mentions Rust, for whatever reason he keeps on assuming that .unwrap() is the only choice, which’s use is decidedly discouraged in production code.

I do think there is room for debate here. But error handling is a hellishly complex topic, with different needs between among others:

• short- vs. long-running processes
• API vs. user-facing
• small vs. big codebase
• library vs. application code
• prototyping vs. production phase

And even if you pick out a specific field, the two concepts are not clearly separated.
Error values in Rust usually have backtraces these days, for example (unless you’re doing embedded where this isn’t possible).
Or Java makes you list exceptions in your function signature (except for unchecked exceptions), so you actually can’t just start throwing new exceptions in your little corner without the rest of the codebase knowing.
I find it quite difficult to properly define the differences between the two.

Breath of the Wild took a somewhat novel approach to open-world in that it filled the game world with lots of interesting landmarks, then gave you lots of movement options and just let you explore on your own.

In particular, because Nintendo took a risk and introduced this novel concept into an established series, it had a big audience and enough budget to really show off that this concept works.

That’s why lots of gamedevs took inspiration and steered their open-world games into similar directions.