The extraverts had the tables turned on them in 2020 and have been itchy for a captive audience ever since. It’s a drug fix for these people, nothing more. I’ve skipped every cross country in-person team building gibberish since 2020 and will continue to do so.

Key seems valid. I’ll check all the integers for you to see how accurate it is.

This genuinely spiked my blood pressure. I hope you’re fucking happy

Top tech talent could suddenly apply to any job instead of the few nearby companies, exploding their options. If anything, even remote companies should send Korean BBQ to each employee’s house.

Trapped in an “open collaborative space”, yes.

Because the best performing employees will leave for more money in other remote roles, dumping a ton of work on the remaining workers who are either a) mediocre, or b) incompetent extroverts who can’t wait to spend all day talking about fantasy football with a captive audience.

I expect they will be unless they’re small enough to fly under the radar

Yup fair point I didn’t know that. Unity presumably does this with dlls that a technical user can easily swap out. In principle an asset store script could do this, but it would be very difficult to verify and enforce so I can see why they’d just ban the license outright as a CYA thing.

Maybe the answer is to distribute a vlc dll separately and only ship a linking/driving script via the asset store.

LGPL requires distributing the license with any code. I imagine unity does that with the core code, but it would be difficult to enforce that for assets distributed in their store, which they would be liable for legally. I imagine this will be resolved, but I no longer use Unity so idfc

As opposed to all those domestic exports

Buying land in rural California to potentially incorporate a new town is not remotely comparable to seceding from the United States.

Some fun absurdities:

• The article repeatedly refers to the plan as “secretive” while also discussing “packed town hall meetings”, official statements, lawsuits, etc
• there is a link to a supposed lawsuit, which actually links to an obituary.
• the term “network zone” is defined as some kind of physical dystopian neighborhood with a billionaire ruling as king, but the linked definition describes the term as having to do with online forums.
• the article defines secession as “paying people in gold or crypto” and attending private school.

It’s a wild ride.

Half the time another dev asks me a question they either a) haven’t even googled the error message, or b) are trying to offload their work while keeping any credit.

Definitely help your coworkers when reasonable, but set limits and don’t let yourself be taken advantage of.

I’d love to see the course list for a 4 year degree in social justice

If Linus knew he wasn’t going to recommend anyone buy the waterblock no matter how it performed, but also didn’t want to show it off as a niche ‘supercar’ of waterblocks, then why agree to review it at all? Was he maybe not in the loop at all until shooting the video?

Seems like there was no good way for this to turn out for Billet which is a real shame since they seemed to just want to show off something cool and maybe get some publicity for their startup.

And auctioning off their handmade prototype, even accidentally and for charity, is a collosal fuck up that really can’t be solved with money alone.

+1 also for a lot of these “niche” communities I really don’t want to open them and see 1 page worth of content while blocking them. Blocking directly from the feed would be ideal.

This is interesting. Naively I’d expect that each number in a shuffled array of length n has a 1/n chance of ending up in the correct position, so there ought to be on average 1 correctly placed number regardless of the array length. I might be neglecting a correlation here, where each incorrectly placed number decreases the odds for the remaining numbers. Assuming the above though, the whole problem becomes recursive, since we’d be left with an unsorted array of length n-1 on average. The expected number of sorts would then just be n. For the time complexity, we’d have O(n) for the original shuffle, plus O(n-1) for the next, and so on, yielding O(n^2) overall.

Adding this option to the 3 dot menu under each post in the feed would be ideal for me. I don’t want to have to open a community just to block it, especially for the myriad niche fetish stuff that somehow make it into hot.

Also instance-level blocking, while not yet a Lemmy feature, could be implemented purely within wefwef as a post-filtering step using a locally stored list of instance names. This could be a killer feature to differentiate wefwef from other apps. The first app to let me block every single fansocial sports team community in one fell swoop will be my go-to forever.

+1 I get burned by this behavior at least once every time I use wefwef. There’s obviously no real use-case for closing the feed with an image still open so it must just be an oversight. An open image should be functionally equivalent to an open post, with a left swipe just closing it.

Every app I’ve tried has required me to visit a community before blocking it. “Block community”, and ideally “block instance” once Lemmy supports it, should be available via the 3 dot menu on each post.