Cute :)

Or people who don’t have a car, and there’s no public transit, so it’s ride share/ taxi or nothing.

2real4me

He got brown-pilled by the Castorisphere

When you’re in Paris, practically every plaza has some interesting historical event that happened there.

I was in Germany recently in a little town near Munich, and there was an alleyway where part of the concrete walls on either side had been cut away and there were old frescoes there, from like the 1500s (according to my dad who knows about art and German history), no plaque or anything explaining it, just some amazing art in a random alleyway.

It’s so true, which is funny when you remember that it was supposed to be a criticism of capitalism.

In the end, competition ends up being harmful because it is by definition a zero-sum proposition, and whether it’s a game or real life people stop cooperating once they think they are competing for something. It’s our animal brains screwing us by telling us that we need to ensure our own position first through dominance, when all of civilization and society is based on mutual cooperation.

The Libertarian Delusion, if you will.

The best way to ensure you have absolutely no interest in gambling is to go to Las Vegas, walk into a casino, turn $20 into quarters, and see how it disappears in literally 30 seconds into a slot machine, with absolutely no sense of gratification.

I have a suspicion that slot machines only worked because Boomers+ never had video games growing up to teach them what a serotonin response from a game is supposed to be like. Casinos have been dying for a while now, because young people can play a video game and not waste $1500 in a weekend (or if you’re really bad about it, an hour). Sports betting is the unfortunate new big avenue that casinos and other addiction-exploitation companies are leveraging.

That’s not to say there aren’t gambling addiction exploitation mechanisms in many video games, like loot boxes, but it’s not the singular purpose of video games, like casino games are.

This is what I mean when I say “politics isn’t ready for GenZ”

That’s not an uncommon thing, actually. One of the most famous mechanical keyboards, the Das Keyboard, was by default glyph-less.

Kerbal Space Puns

It’s a great idea, but I’m very skeptical about how ready it is for ‘production’, looking through their repo.

Every time I try a vim alternative, I get frustrated and just end up back with vim.

built from the ground up in Rust with a GPU-accelerated renderer

I don’t want GPU-accelerated rendering, I want a renderer that has a solid 5 second lag, to make it look to anyone around like I type faster than 20 wpm.

since there was no actual primary this year to use this format for, it’s been repurposed :P

Their reasoning for forking from the original Bosca Ceoil

It’s also using an outdated technology stack which makes it hard to impossible to run it on modern systems, namely macOS and web.

Ah yes, I forgot that Windows and Linux are “legacy” systems. And “web” isn’t an operating system, it’s just someone else’s Linux box.

We achieve this by reimplementing the entire application with a more modern set of tools, as a Godot engine project.

Okay, that’s pretty great. Always glad to see Godot getting used, especially in a cool new way.

I dream of a world where doing your homework when choosing software to learn is not so rare

But when it comes to most people out there, we’re not in that world right now, and popularity does matter, so boosting shitty devs’ products is harmful to the FOSS ecosystem. HTH

Which is unrelated to their point, which is that visible popularity of a piece of software (e.g. having many downloads in an app store) has a large impact on likelihood of people to trust it.

You feigning ignorance at this just discredits your own position. Their question was essentially rhetorical, and you chose to answer it incorrectly rather than concede their correct point:

If you encountered 2 identical pieces of software, you would trust the one that is more popular, thus proving that popularity is a meaningful benefit to a piece of software.

Given that what these people are being criticized for are not intrinsic traits, those people have the option to change their behavior in order to not be ostracized. I am certainty not under any obligation to give anyone my business.

“What if all the bad people lost their jobs?”

Well, that certainly might encourage them to rethink whether being bad is working out for them.

And yes, I’d say that route sounds to me like it will reduce harm in several ways.

Read it again…

I think that as long as there is a Lease Option written into the contract that legally forces the owner to sell (or if it’s a lease-purchase), and as long as there is some guarantee on the down payment amount if the seller breaks the contract, I’m mostly fine with Rent-to-Own. But R2O contracts are something you probably want a lawyer to double-check, because there are ways you can get screwed as the buyer (like if you lose your job prior to sale, and it’s a Lease Purchase, they might charge you a LOT of money to break the contract).