alex_lav

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by alex_lav 2y ago
> Not at the cost of harming people, What defines harm? Or more specifically, who?
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by alex_lav 2y ago
Shame I had to scroll this far to get to this comment. I have absolutely no idea why, in 2024, people still think we should let the government decide what is good/what we can see/what others can say.
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by alex_lav 2y ago
> I just restarted a personal project on rails because of its batteries included mentality - it means I can limit the number of dependencies https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/main/Gemfile.lock Just
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by alex_lav 2y ago
This post is so interesting because it highlights the people that don't know anything about the requirements or state of cheats/anticheat. What you're describing is 10 years out of date. Every modern cheat has a toggle, and (
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by alex_lav 2y ago
Unsure how true that is, but I certainly never did. Rider is better either way, but definitely better than alternatives on MacOS.
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by alex_lav 2y ago
Rider is by far the best C# IDE. Especially if you're not running Windows. It was a real lifesaver while working with Unity.
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by alex_lav 2y ago
So 0 real examples have been provided, either by a commenter or via the link. Exactly as expected.
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by alex_lav 2y ago
_yet_
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by alex_lav 2y ago
> Some games you have to pay to unlock gear or xp boosters to make it really playable. Again, can you provide an example? Also > Any multiplayer game is competitive to some degree Is just blatantly incorrect, unless you just mean &quo
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by alex_lav 2y ago
1. noncompetitive game 2. mobile game 3. mobile game 4. not actually pay to win. 5. noncompetitive game 6. mobile game You see where I'm going. You can't relate "has microtransactions" with "is pay to win". The
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by alex_lav 2y ago
> Seems like most multiplyer games have some sort of "pay to win" (or pay for an advantage) scheme in them Can you share an example of this outside of mobile games?
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by alex_lav 2y ago
> Twitter, before Elon's takeover, was a crypto-obsessed political echo chamber. Pretending a platform as large as twitter was/is "one thing" is silly. It may have been that for you, it was not that for many. > Pla
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by alex_lav 2y ago
You can either take the route of doing financial software, data science, ML and web dev _for a game company_, or you can start making games in your free time and then attempt a pivot. I think the first path is probably easier and more lucra
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by alex_lav 2y ago
A place where you don't complain every day about hating your job?
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by alex_lav 2y ago
> I don't believe they can actually do anything about it as this "culture" comes from the very top. The employee can do something about it by leaving.
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by alex_lav 2y ago
Having had lots of friends work there, the approach seems to be "Complain about working at Amazon for literal years but never really do anything about it", followed by "Get laid off"
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by alex_lav 2y ago
Can a more Apple-minded person help me understand if the Apple Watch SE counts as "Series 9"? I don't totally understand how "SE" relates to numerical versioning, but I am also not an Apple person. Apologies in adva
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by alex_lav 2y ago
I think it's two types of defensiveness. 1. Shovel salesman insisting all "real" gold miners use their shovels 2. Those that have already acquired shovels not wanting their purchase to be mocked/have been made in vain. N
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by alex_lav 2y ago
> I don't think I have any more bias than any other programmer. I do not agree at all, but to each their own!
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by alex_lav 2y ago
It's worth noting that you're a Java dev, working on OpenJDK at Oracle (per your profile here). Which is to say, your bias is....pretty extreme.
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by alex_lav 2y ago
> Raising rates didn't lower housing prices, I have not observed this statement to be true, both in my personal experience and that of those around me.
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by alex_lav 2y ago
"Simply tell the cops you're leaving" is a very out of touch suggestion to make. "Simply tell the cops you're leaving because The Law" even moreso.
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by alex_lav 2y ago
A company being too large to be competent is maybe not the excuse you think it is.
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by alex_lav 2y ago
Yet another ruling that will never be enforced!
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by alex_lav 2y ago
While I agree, a company making a post that is a subtle advertisement for their software is probably the least trustworthy source for pretty much any take.
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by alex_lav 2y ago
Extremely normal for VC backed companies.
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by alex_lav 2y ago
All time great Youtube video. Still heavily relevant today.
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by alex_lav 2y ago
> And ever-decreasing prices for consumers This is more of a hope than a reality. The trickle down economics logic. “We promise it’ll be good.”
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by alex_lav 2y ago
Curious if the doctors are actually just proxies for insurance providers in this case?
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by alex_lav 2y ago
This feels like a chatgpt blog post, kind of about nothing.

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