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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

So you're taking the best aspects of any fork you can find? Trust in the developers is an essential part of the question.

If a piece of software passes every audit in the whole world, but is developed and maintained by the NSA, you'd be stupid to leave your data with it.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Let me save you a lot of time and effort:

  • No, it isn't.

Your findings will either be an incredibly lengthy wording of that, or they will simply be wrong. It's not a complex question.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Always gonna note too that Google Chrome (and chromium + derivatives to a lesser extent) kneecaps adblock plugins so that up to 50% fewer ad domains are blocked, blocklists are out of date, many in-page ads can't be caught, it's slower, and invisible trackers can bypass it.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 5 months ago

It's already been proven that piracy is a causal factor in more sales. Any self-interested dev should be promoting piracy of their game.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

In Europe, these blocks are typically just IP bans, so secure DNS no helpy. You need a VPN or other proxy.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

Automated tests are cool, but they definitely aren't a panacea in place of humans

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Websites worked fine before ads, and they would work well again without them. Doubly so now that crowdfunding is a common method to support things people actually want.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

FWIW, if you're in Europe, you have guaranteed rights to refund online purchases within a timeframe. I'm assuming they've factored that in, but worth knowing if not.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

In fairness, I did quite like the suggestion to just remove division and subtraction! One that should be taken to heart :)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (5 children)

A fair criticism. Though I think the hating on PEDMAS (or BODMAS as I was taught) is pretty harsh, as it very much does represent parts of the standard of reading mathematical notation when taught correctly. At least I personally was taught its true form was a vertical format:

B

O

DM

AS

I'd also say it's problematic to rely on calculators to implement or demonstrate standards, they do have their own issues.

But overall, hey, it's cool. The world needs more passionate criticisms of ambiguous communication turning into a massive interpration A vs interpretation B argument rather than admitting "maybe it's just ambiguous".

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

Forward three hours, me using thesaurus.com to try fit the whole gist of my change into the first line.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

And does anything require Python v2 anymore? I work almost exclusively in Python and haven't run into that in many years.

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