It’s a mantra about teaching people and then expecting them to forget it. Doesn’t work. They’ll default to what they already know.
My freshman English teacher got married in October and I called her by her maiden name the entire year.
Like all programming mantras, it’s not universally true, but it’s annoyingly reliable. It reflects the shape of the human brain.
Elon Musk is African-American.
First learning is last learning.
Same reason we still do console.log("FUCK").
I still agree with most of what I’ve ever written online.
So either I was never a stupid asshole, or I’m still a stupid asshole.
Forums and blogs were not what people mean by “social media.” Lemmy is an evolution of forums.
Jason Scott: “You might not have a Facebook account, but Facebook has a you account.”
For many companies, profits have soared during the past decade as they found novel, compulsively designed ways of monetizing ardent fans in games like Candy Crush Saga and Genshin Impact, actively encouraging them to spend their money on in-game perks.
What a flowery description of greedy manipulation.
Nothing inside a video game should cost real money.
It is neither a product or a service. It’s a scam.
Would we say “new?”
Novelty-obsessed Nintendo must have glanced at the market circa 2015, and figured… “I bet we can just do the Game Boy again.”
If they’re even capable. Every department will insist your gaming handheld needs Recall and Copilot and Office loading at boot.
But the adults, they weren’t deceived in any way. Hoyo scammed them fair and square.
Ban the entire business model.
Literally the only time I respect Youtube’s autoplay.
For Javascript it’s () => { }. Lamba functions! Because at least it’s more readable than Perl.
Reading a tab as however many spaces is trivial, and the point of tabs.
Reading however many spaces as a tab is a gross hack that has to be dialed-in for whatever standard the document chose.
Just use tabs in the first place. God damn. That’s what they’re for.
That sounds like tabs with extra steps.
Tabs, not spaces.
I don’t give a shit if your arguments perfectly align to the function. It’s only semantic indication. Use the goddamn special character that has its own dedicated key.
What they had been charging was about what other stores have been charging.
When they have absolute monopoly.
Nintendo charges that much because only Nintendo provides Switch software.
Microsoft charges that much because only Microsoft provides Xbox software.
Sony charges that much because only Sony provides Playstation software.
Apple charges that much because only Apple provides iOS software… despite the EU’s best efforts.
Steam and Android act like they’re the only store that matters, for their platform. And it works. Because they are.
… and it still won’t dent Steam’s de-facto monopoly.
Honestly I hate how much I hold back, now. Too many communities fell for the cult of civility and think “here’s detailed proof that you’re a fucking liar” is worse behavior than “calm down, honey.” Sometimes it is right and good to call people names. Punishing that, but not even addressing why someone might do that, is acting as a force multiplier for trolls. You can be an absolute monster in polite words.
To all moderators, on all platforms, I ask - if you don’t stop people from being assholes, but you stop people from calling them assholes, who do you think benefits from that power structure?