It’s a great starting point. Live it, customize it to your needs, internalize it, then discard it like training wheels

When I finish a task, I get up and walk. When I get frustrated, I get up and walk. When I think I’ve found the answer, I get up and walk. When I realize I’m on the wrong path, I get up and walk

Over learning does nothing but bore me, sometimes a task is so easy I plow through the next one, sometimes a task is too big or I reach a good stopping point and walk to recollect myself. I don’t need to think about it anymore

I don’t need a timer anymore, my body is a variable timer - time is subjective after all. But I used pompdoro to instill the habit, then I grew beyond it - my version might not work for you, maybe you’ll even need the timer - but it’s a great technique, so use it, take the good and discard the useless, and adapt it to you over time

Fair, but I think our understandings of mob rule differ

To me, mob rule isn’t just mobs with pitchforks, it’s when people get so upset by injustice, they turn to violence. Humans are naturally very averse to killing, even in war, with their lives on the line, most people struggle to kill (hence the psychological techniques like dehumanization and tearing people down until they can follow orders without thinking much)

Imagine a feudal lord who works his people to death. To me, a knife in the back or poison in the wine is mob rule, assuming it’s organic and/or the people tacitly support it by closing ranks around the assassin

It’s anarchy, which is not the absence of rules, but the absence of explicit laws. Is the natural human state - we don’t need laws from the state or from sky daddy to get along.

Laws create clear lines (theoretically), which say “if you’re on this side you’re safe”

Mob rule means “if you piss people off so bad they turn on you, you suffer the consequences”. You don’t get clear lines to exploit, you don’t get to hide behind bureaucracy…you’re just responsible for your actions in a very organic way

I’m going to go out on a limb and say fedora silverblue or bazzite

Basic user? Use flat packs and enjoy easy graphics support, as well as all of the windows compatibility for gaming

Advanced user? Learn to do things in pods/containers or distrobox, it’s easy even if the quick start docs aren’t great (I can find my cheat sheets if anyone is going down that road)

Pro: most stuff just works, and it’s harder to config yourself into a corner you have to research your way out of

Cons: normal Linux install guides need to be modified a bit, it’s not hard but you do have to learn how to do it

We’ve been saying that about new devs since there became a second generation of devs

Except when I was a new dev, it was blindly copying stuff from stack overflow

I like to say I’m ambidextrous, because I write equally badly with each hand. I can write like 3x faster with my dominant hand though, it just all looks terrible… My typing is good though, weirdly, so is my calligraphy

I remember my friend helping me find my dominant foot though, it was similar… He threw down a board and told me to jump on. I’m actually a switch with my feet though, the “right” way changes moment to moment but I can switch without relearning from scratch

Ironically, Jewish history contains several occurrences where the default of right handedness was used to great effect

Happened in the US too. I had teachers who were forced to use their right hand… With “mixed” results. And by mixed, I mean they switched to their dominant hand the moment it was acceptable, if not sooner

2024 was kind of a break. It wasn’t that bad (comparatively), a few things happened that brought us hope, a lot of things happened that suggest things are going to get much worse

Might be the best year of the decade, honestly

The way I see it, this was just another shooting. Except, instead of targeting innocents or literal children, it was someone who actually played some part in making them so desperate

And in the first 48 hours, the adjuster did more to shake the health insurance racket than decades of the public demanding change.

They say we need the rule of law, otherwise we just have mob rule… But maybe it’s worth wondering if mob rule isn’t as bad as it’s cracked up to be

Probably my #1 use case currently. I love passing in code and saying “parse all these values and build an error message if they’re empty” and such. It’s things good to have, but I can rarely be bothered to write out line by line - it’s easy but horribly tedious

I wouldn’t worry to much about pelicans. Fun fact - pelicans try to eat people sometimes. They basically try to eat every animal, because they have no sense of scale for their food they can swallow. And they don’t risk much by trying - most large animals have the same incredulous reaction we do

They are not very bright birds nor very quick ones. They are also not very agile. And as a bird, they have hollow bones and you could kill them with a solid fist to the chest… I once saw the aftermath of two shin high dogs tearing one apart. On a small balcony. There was blood everywhere… The dogs were covered in it, completely uninjured and very pleased with themselves

I wouldn’t worry, even if they have the sharp bits that could injure you, they lack the instincts to use them properly

I have a tower defense game on my phone I exclusively play when watching movies or shows socially. It gives me a puzzle to work on, but also time to watch the screen since there’s waiting involved

FWIW, I respect you for going this far, and doing so intelligently. It might just be a little thing, but it’s fighting for your rights. Every inch matters, because they’ll take them all from us if they can

Smart…well damn, if they’re that blasé about it I’d consider it a public service to escalate. You could contact Microsoft’s legal department, they might take it more seriously

You could also reach out to an organization like the ACLU in your country, they may or may not do anything with it, but they’ll probably make note of it at least. It could push them to take action in the future

If you go on twitch now, I’m guessing minecraft, COD, and WOW are all in the top 10, if not top 5, for gaming streams. All owned by Microsoft, among many more

Would it hurt Microsoft game sales? Definitely. Microsoft has the leverage, and they’ve been fucking around for a while and haven’t found out yet. It would be a stupid thing for them to do, but I wouldn’t put it past them

Twitch is also not doing amazing. Streaming is expensive, and they’re trying hard to get their revenue up…they’re not on solid footing with Amazon right now

I think you’re going about this wrong. You need to represent this as a potential legal issue so they pass it off to the legal department, who will then do things to cover their ass

You don’t want to threaten, just make it legalese enough to make customer support get nervous. Something like citing GDPR sections and expressing your concerns that they have not properly complied with your legally mandated request, then officially requesting all data they still have on you and citing that section of law

This seems really dumb. Yes, reuse your assets in the next game, but also make new ones. Then I get more variety, plus I get some of the nostalgia from the last game

That’s the thing though - bg3 isn’t praised because it’s good relative to the state of the industry. It’s a game that did everything right, not just comparatively but in general

Microsoft seems to be trying to transition away from consoles to become a distribution platform and publisher. They’re heavily entrenched in the business ecosystem so the os is pretty safe (for now), but they want to leverage consumer pc dominance to kickstart their gaming division transition

I think there’s a point to be made with harm reduction too- valve makes their drm easy to use and seems to be on the less invasive side