He didn’t say over how many games—I just spent half that on a good 10 games

Even more odd is there being a Brit in charge of Amtrak

Isn’t there a single qualified American that cares about trains?

The internet has broken my brain.

scnr is a new one on me and in an attempt to figure it out, my brain did not land on the now rather obvious “sorry, could not resist” but “skibidi cap no rizz” as some kind of ironic initialism

I’m gonna go and find some grass now

*GDPArse

I’ll add to the other person who replied:

Most work in this industry is done in teams, if you can’t effectively communicate and get on with your team members, you’re gonna have a bad time.

It’s even baked into the hiring process everywhere I’ve worked, most of the time an organisation would prefer to take a lower skill candidate if they seem like they’d get on well with everyone Vs a highly skilled candidate that would rub people up the wrong way.

It’s a lot easier to fill gaps in engineering ability compared to coaching someone how to behave around people

I’m a software engineer

You’re not getting anywhere above entry level in this industry without social skills

I don’t know if this is a new meme format or not, but I’ve enjoyed seeing it on my feed today

Not a huge one yet, it’s mostly the already-gone daily mail brainworms lot that watch it.

But it has every intention (along with Murdoch’s talktv) of being as much of a tumour on our society as fox news is in the states.

I think we need another round of stopfundinghate

It’s not like they need to become experts

I mean if they would produce a better UI by using their expertise, how would not becoming an expert in the new thing be better? The reality is that the people paying the engineer are going to want the better UX over the benefits of not using electron in most cases.

But also that’s actually possible

Respectfully, no it’s not, not with software engineering unless you’re talking about learning a simple library or something.

If someone can genuinely master something in a day it wasn’t much of a skill to begin with.

I’ve been in this industry for about 20 years now, I would find it very hard to believe an engineer who says they’ve gone from no knowledge to expert in a new framework/language in any short period of time. I would either assume they’re trying to pull a fast one or more charitably just in the “naively confident” phase of learning:

especially with all the AI around.

AI can assist you if you more-or-less know what you’re doing, but a novice replacing proper learning with ChatGPT pairing is going to write some shitty code. I use AI in my role semi-regularly, and in my experience, no model has consistently produced me anything (non-boilerplate) longer than a couple of lines that didn’t need some kind of refactor for it to actually be up to our code quality standards. Sometimes you see them spit out some ancient way of doing things that have been outright replaced by a more modern approach, if you don’t have the experience, you’ll not know any better.

For most uses of electron I’d agree, but if some engineers are going to use it anyway, I’d prefer the approach I’ve described.

Programming is not that difficult.

Learning how to do something in a new language and framework isn’t that tough, I agree, but no one is going to become an expert in something overnight. I don’t reckon many desktop native engineers are choosing electron unless they actually need it, so if you imagine the case of an expert web engineer building a desktop UI, they’re going to do a much better job with their main skillset than something they have just learned.

You can still have separate processes and everything else with a shared runtime, you just save having all this wasted storage with every application bringing its own bundled runtime.

.net or Java applications work in a similar way, one Java app crashing won’t take out another just because they’re sharing the same runtime

That’s not even true is it? I’m pretty sure you can buy DLC for various steam games on places like humble bundle and they activate on steam

America could either tax its wealthy or defund the military a small amount and it would be looking at historically significant course changing windfall

Yet it does the opposite.

Of both.

Every

Single

Time

Like I know native apps are always better, but why doesn’t electron ship an installable runtime so we don’t have to have a shitload of inert chromium installs on one machine?

VPN at all times

Ah sorry my bad! Looks like I went in with an incorrect assumption of the use case. Given an iPad is typically used as a consumption device, I assumed watching video content would be the main use case—which honestly in my anecdotal experience I’ve not heard anyone using mega for in ages, but even so perhaps that’s just the people I talk to and I’ve just been oblivious though.

Anecdotally from people I’ve spoken to about this recently, it seems to be a mix of:

• Running your own Plex server (or a good friend letting you onto theirs)
• Real debrid
• Stremio
• Some random modded fire stick thing with a load of piracy services installed

Can’t say I remember anyone mentioning old school download or video streaming sites like that in ages.

Might just be the people I’ve spoken to though, it’s not a topic that comes up every day after all

Mega in 2024? I didn’t know anyone was still using it

I mean this is dystopian as hell, right?

Part of the payment for this insurance service is the policy holder’s privacy?

They’re having to preempt that people are going to be paranoid that they’re going to be flagged as some kind of ne’er-do-well

Never go full APL