One day, Valve will be under different ownership, and we will regret the time we fought for their monopoly.
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beefsack@lemmy.worldto
Linux@lemmy.ml•Ending support for Windows 10 could send 240 million computers to the landfill. Why not install Linux on them?
77·2 years agoPeople aren’t going to throw the PCs out. They are going to continue using Windows 10 for years without security updates.
I still saw XP installs a decade after support had ended.
beefsack@lemmy.worldto
Programming@programming.dev•What non-IDE tekst editor do you use?
2·2 years agoIt’s such a cool editor, but after decades of Vim motor memory I just can’t seem to wrap my head around the cursor / selection changes. I really wish there was an option to just make selection work like Vim.
beefsack@lemmy.worldto
Games@lemmy.world•Starfield player claims you can farm 100 levels in just 5 hours using this methodEnglish
18·2 years agoThat title is as clickbaity as a YouTube thumbnail.
beefsack@lemmy.worldto
Programming@programming.dev•I wish writing SQL queries was more popular than ORMs
421·2 years agoBetter than an ORM is to use a query builder. You get the expressiveness of SQL with the safety and convenience of an ORM.
Most developers that use ORMs create poorly performing monstrosities, and most developers who write raw SQL create brittle, unsafe and unmaintainable software. There is a happy medium here.
Swift only treats Apple OSes as first class citizens - even though technically you can use it on other platforms it’s a painful and limited experience.
beefsack@lemmy.worldto
Diablo@lemmy.world•Patchnotes 1.1.1 Build #43794 (All Platforms) - August 8, 2023English
2·2 years agoConsidering that the main fix for stuttering has been to turn down texture quality, this makes me hopeful that performance will improve a bit.
I’m having a blast with tornado Druid.
I played Sorc in first beta, Rogue in second, Necro in preseason and Druid for S1 and to be honest I’ve had a lot of fun with all of them. I’m looking forward to playing Barb in S2.
beefsack@lemmy.worldto
Formula 1@lemmy.world•[Medland] BREAKING: Otmar Szafnauer is leaving Alpine at the end of the Belgian Grand Prix
39·2 years agoAnd Piastri feeling like he dodged a bullet.
beefsack@lemmy.worldto
Games@lemmy.world•Starfield anime series drops out of nowhere, watch it all hereEnglish
3·2 years agoMorrowind scoring lower than Oblivion and Skyrim is a travesty.
beefsack@lemmy.worldto
Voyager@lemmy.world•Why do I need to go to a community before I can make a submission?English
3·2 years agoIt’s nicer to post this as a straightforward feature request, rather than post some passive aggressive question asking why it doesn’t already exist.
My original account @[email protected] was when the project was announced 4 years ago (was either HN or r/rust) but to be honest I’ve only been properly using Lemmy for a few weeks.
beefsack@lemmy.worldto
Formula 1@lemmy.world•Wolff: Verstappen makes F1 rivals look 'like a field of F2 cars'English
131·2 years agoWhat I would give to have Lewis and Max on the same team. Or even Max and Fernando.
The last time Max had a challenging teammate was Ricciardo but he’s definitely evolved since then.
beefsack@lemmy.worldto
Formula 1@lemmy.world•Wolff: Verstappen makes F1 rivals look 'like a field of F2 cars'English
13·2 years agodeleted by creator
Source is safely_endangered on IG. Original has an extra panel but I actually think this version is better.
beefsack@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•"X.com now points to https://twitter.com/"English
1·2 years agodeleted by creator
beefsack@lemmy.worldto
Programming@programming.dev•Unit testing isn't enough. You need static typing too.
56·2 years agoI remember my time doing Ruby was really informative about testing and languages in general.
The Ruby community was really great at doing automated testing and it’s actually where I really cut my teeth on testing, but if you go back and look at the tests you’ll find heaps of them are testing and checking types for functions. It almost felt like people were building static typing using automated tests.
Some people bang on about static typing getting in the way of agility, but the reality is that you either end up spending the time creating extra tests, or you end up cutting corners and creating unreliable software which you’ll spend a lot of time troubleshooting down the road. You end up paying a big price to save a marginal amount of time at the start of a project.


Rust, like the majority of modern languages, has an official formatter which everyone should be using. Formatters are good enough nowadays that everyone should be using them.