you don’t actually know that you would have continued playing that game
yes, that’s kind of my point. With this feature it’d be more likely that I would. I don’t play games for the boss fights, but even story-driven ones have them at times. They’re more of a nuisance to me.
Idk, I’ve left some games behind, which I could have played many more hours, just because I didn’t have the patience to get past a level/battle/boss, whatever. Not so much as a teenager, but definitely as an adult.
getting a stack overflow trying to expand GNU
if you use this often, you can add a keyword search (firefox-based browsers) or a custom site search (chromium-based) with this URL
https://icon-sets.iconify.design/?query=%25s
(use %s after equals; some lemmy front-ends seem to be rendering it wrong)
and a shortcut e.g. icon
so everytime you enter e.g. icon person in a new tab, it’ll run the search for you
I miss start menu ads, intrusive bing searches, copilot upselling, MSN news, and uninstallable things I’ll never use on my PC like Xbox.
the main reason I started installing more “-bin” variants of packages
it’s fine to prefer less colors, but man, that (2025) blog post is all over the place…
Sometimes it gets so bad one can’t see the base text color: everything is highlighted. What’s the base text color here?
why does the base color matter at all? What is “base” anyway when every word has a syntactic meaning?
Here’s a quick test. Try to find the function definition here:
It’s funny to see how this test backfired depending on the person in hacker news, lobster, and lemmy threads. Clearly a personal preference phrased as absolute truth.
But the crux of why the post doesn’t make sense is assuming this would matter at all:
Here’s another test. Close your eyes (not yet! Finish this sentence first) and try to remember what color your color theme uses for class names?
Can you?
If the answer for both questions is “no”, then your color theme is not functional.
No, it doesn’t. And it boggles my mind why someone would think that failing to recall colors-to-syntax pairs would mean the theme has failed you. Visualizing colors, more often than not, is not even a conscious effort. Colors are a subtle aid to guide your attention to the parts that matter.
Can you see it? I misspelled return for retunr and its color switched from red to purple.
This would/should be better caught by a static checker anyway.
But the best part is that the post contradicts itself: the suggested minimal theme doesn’t even address that typo use case mentioned above, because it doesn’t feature a distinct color for special keywords. So if one were to follow the post’s advice, return and retunr would look exactly the same, making it worse than the colorful theme it criticizes.
you know, using a better encoding is better for your dial-up internet too
Every time I read something like this it comes to mind that we’re more likely to remember the good bits of the past than the struggles. People use containers because the “works on my machine” problem was a constant pain.
You can still ship code into production quickly if you pair program and commit to trunk to bypass the code review process, and have a CI/CD pipeline set up to automatically build and publish the package.
And I’d much rather have a cloud env pull my code and automatically deploy something than manually transfer files over FTP.
lmao
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tbh if I couldn’t install Linux as a software dev, I’d consider a different job
neither are macs
0/3 overall
Design patterns? Data structures? Shit, just pass in a list or an assoc array, and maybe a function here and there
After trying to be relaxed about data structures in python, I can say that, IMO, this is more harmful than beneficial. Good types and structures lead to good code designs.
default values is one of my pet-peeves after using Python regularly. I wish more languages would let you just do something like def do_thing(arg=default_value) without hoops like builder pattern, function overloading, or whatnot
also better to type with one hand
i like my memes open source and well maintained
it just means they’ll be a passive node, but still able to seed if the other node connects to them. It’s the setup I have and I manage to keep an overall ratio >1, especially if the torrent is popular.