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Super cool. Hopefully they offer a great bonus for the rest of the team that worked on this.

By “labor related” you mean gutting labor power at the behest of the Koch brothers who sponsor his charity, than yes.

Hes sponsored by the Koch brothers, and is famous for pushing “safety third,” i.e safety after profits.

This is his personal “deepthroat the boot” sweat pledge from 2014. He of course has never worked a real job outside of tv:

Im only happy when it rains…

Thats not 100% correct. This didnt use to be an option, nor is pdf the default printing “format” used by printers. Thats more PCL.

“Print to pdf” was added to Windows at some point after PDF became a common file format.

This is as much linguistic tomfoolery for humans as it is a con for computers.

I dont know the history, but the most likely case is some microsoft engineer implemented the “print as pdf” option to get around an adobe restriction in the far past, and now we have this weird convention where you can “print” to only 1 filetype to “save” it.

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Youre just as likely to get a hacked version of Ciscos IOS as Apples IOS.

Switches and phones about to get funky.

Absolutle bullshit. Ideas cost nothing. Implementing something well and marjeting it and building a viable, substainable buisness around it is still insanely hard. Vibe coding just lets you get an MVP THAT YOU DONT UNDERSTAND to market. It doesnt do any of the actual work of the above.

Its new to me, but “not being nix while doing nix things” seems like the appeal.

Its a compelling one to those of us curious about nix, but baffled by the herky jerky documentation and community.

Was the beet from a can? They often carry over a metallic taste that is not good.

Non canned Beets are delicious. Very earthy and savory, with a hidden sweetness. They are great in salads, but really sing in soup. We make a vegetarian bousch with beets, potato, onion, carrot and serrano that I could literally eat every day.

What happened next?

Putting him in prison didnt stop him. It clearly was not enough.

Teaching kids to protest is about the best thing we can do for them.

Right? Also absolutely believable.

The author, qntm, got their start writting SCP stories i think, so they really know how to lean in on the existential horror.

I think the harder versions add a lot of variabilty to the fight. The “default” Scylla fight is almost an afterthought after your first dozen times, but the harder version is immensly more complicated. Same goes for prometheous + spoiler, etc.

I think with a hundred more runs, these would also get old hat, but thats true with hades 1 as well. If you run the bosses 112 times there, the occasional “surprise” boss isnt really that intersting, especially if you’ve seen them 35 times. Seeing ol’ “muurrder…” occasionally was novel, but only to a point.

The story beats and quips kept things fresh for me in hades 2, to be honestly. The sheer amount of dialogue and charector building kept pulling me along as much as the mechanics of the gameplay.

Depends on the type of immortaility. Lena style? Maybe not.

Demis unite!

The pirate bay guys tried to spin up somthing called flattr a decade or two back. You put in a fixed amount per month, then when you engage with media you like you click a “flattr” button and that media gets a slice. You could also setup different people to always get a cut. Say you put in $10/month and flattr 100 things? Everyone gets 10 cents. $100/month? $1 each.

It didnt catch on, likely due to processing fees, but I always liked that idea. Signing up for dozens or hundreds of patrons/ghosts/etc is just too hard to manage and fund, but if I and several million other people could hand out pennies a month, it might really matter to small artists/journalists.

Maybe now with some countries that allow payments with no fees, it might work.

Hades 2 lets you amp up the difficulty to vary the bosses. By the 1000th attempt, you would likely be playing with them on their hardest and most intersting mode.

Yes and no. Up to 2 years ago my company was still manually requesting criminal background checks. A 3rd party company did them, but HR had to open a case each time. Now that is automatic, but tons of processss at tons of companies are still antiquated for various reasons.

Its entirely possible vetting is minimium because of cost and labor involved.