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Steam has now reached 38 million concurrent users
  • Maybe, maybe not. As equity holders get older they may be looking to cash out so they can fuel their retirements.

    I don't think that's something Gabe is interested in, but we're talking about what will happen when he dies.

  • Steam has now reached 38 million concurrent users
  • Never say never, but I don't think it's going to happen while Gabe is in charge

  • Stardew Valley 1.6 is Coming November 4th.
  • He did at one point. I think he's said that he likes being in full control of the project, so he took back over the porting process.

    It's really impressive that a single developer does as much as he does.

  • Palworld maker vows to fight Nintendo lawsuit on behalf of fans and indie developers
  • 20 years.

    But it isn't the original system. It's the implementation done is Legends Arceus.

  • Palworld maker vows to fight Nintendo lawsuit on behalf of fans and indie developers
  • Nope, my bad. Im far from an expert but know enough to differential between copyright and parent. I didn't know that prior art had that meaning.

  • Palworld maker vows to fight Nintendo lawsuit on behalf of fans and indie developers
  • Once again. Patents have nothing to do with art. And even if they had proof they worked on those mechanics before Nintendo patented them doesn't mean they have the right to use it. Yes, it's kinda a dumb system. But there is a lot of effort to get a patent, and once you have one you have a lot of protection because of it.

    Disregard. :) see comment below

  • Palworld maker vows to fight Nintendo lawsuit on behalf of fans and indie developers
  • It's a patent case. It has nothing to do with the creative design of the games.

    But yes. Every pokemon is copyrighted. Every pal is copyrighted. (In the US) All creative work is automatically copyrighted to the creator.

    You can't copyright "a standing lizard with a small flame on its tail" but you can copyright Charmander. If you copy enough elements that a lay person can't distinguish the original and the copy then it opens it up for a copyright claim.

    None of that is relevant in this case.

    A patent is to protect a specific invention from being copied. In this case, there is an innovative game mechanic that Nintendo patented has that Palworld copied. The speculation is with throwing an item that captures a character that fights other characters in a 3d space.

    The patent is dumb. Personally I don't think it is innovative or special enough to be patented. Patenting software or game mechanic are dumb anyway.

  • Connections #465 2024-09-18
  • As a native, today was still bad.

  • TIL what an Ortholinear Keyboard is
  • I use a planck as my daily driver. I wouldn't recommend it unless you have some good reasons to switch.

    It took about 2 weeks of use and practice before I could type at a reasonable rate with it. And then it took about 2 weeks before I could type on a normal keyboard again.

    I had a few reasons why I got one

    • I travel enough that having a small form factor was important
    • I have small hands, and was developing some wrist pain from stretching and moving my hand on larger keyboards. It did help a lot, but I think switching to a 60% would have been just as helpful.
    • I didn't type that fast anyway and have pretty bad form, I was hoping switching layouts would be a natural way to retrain my typing and type faster. I did improve for a bit, but I stopped practicing and am a pretty terrible typer again

    I do think it's pretty cool. It's a conversation starter when people walk by my desk. The planck is a 40%, so most people haven't seen a keyboard that small.

  • Does Lemmy have an active VPN community?
  • VPNs are super common for business reasons. A lot of business travelers are going to use a VPN to access files and services only available on their network.

    Using a big VPN might be risky; a self-hosted VPN should be less risky. I'd avoid torrenting though, even legal torrents.

    Can you ask your IT department their recommendations?

  • The Tippy Type makes typing with long nails less tedious
  • You can't have a solution if you ignore half of the problem statement. It's completely unhelpful.

    Problem: I want to be able to type better while having long nails.

    Your solution: Don't have long nails.

  • The Tippy Type makes typing with long nails less tedious
  • Someone didn't read the article. She addresses exactly this.

    I can already hear the trolls making jokes about women being concerned about breaking a nail. If itā€™s so inconvenient, why not just have short nails? Well, Iā€™m not out here wearing long nails for fun. Being a reviewer often means acting as a part-time hand model for whatever gadget Iā€™m testing. The Internet Nail Police has repeatedly shown up in my comments over the years if my polish is chipped or, god forbid, thereā€™s a smudge of dirt under my natural nail.

  • Tim Walz Under Fire for Allegedly Inflating Bag Toss Score at Family BBQ in 1998
  • Now I finally understand the "both sides are the same" folks

  • What browser do yall use?
  • Oh cool, I'll have to switch. I've been using Arc for a few months now and really like it, but would rather move away from chromium. I'd been using Firefox for years before that

  • We have been played for fools
  • My favorite project was C++; it was big, it was complicated, there was a massive team working on it, I got to work with high level abstractions while occasionally dealing with really low level concerns.

    It was really hard, but now writing code in every other language I've worked in has been really easy.

  • God has a plan... and it's bad
  • Missionary for Mormon church enters the chat

  • I know Mormons can't have alcohol, but couldn't they just dip their tongue in a glass of beer and not move it?
  • The Word of Wisdom, which outlines the health guidelines of not drinking alcohol and using tobacco, as well as eating less meat, eating more grains; was originally just as the name suggests, words of wisdom.

    Joseph Smith drank wine, used tobacco, and drank coffee up to his death.

    It wasn't until the early 20th century when it started to be treated as a commandment. This is around the time when they started codifying a lot of doctrine, stopped practicing polygamy, and started to function more like a mainstream religion and less like a cult.

    Source: raised Mormon, went on mission, took religion classes at BYU-Provo on church history.

  • Just Switch Over
  • When does something become mainstream? The Steam Deck has sold millions of units.

  • What is something people you encounter at your job say that makes you want to scream? (Job, person & quote)
  • But guys, if we use agile then we don't need requirements! We just make something and then the customers tell us if we are on the right track, we just get to iTeRaTe

  • What book* had the most influence on how you manage?

    \*or other media; video, article, etc.

    The Phoenix Project (and The Unicorn Project) by Gene Kim really opened my eyes up as an engineer and made me feel like I could start fixing the problems I was seeing on my team, on my project, and in my organization.

    I started reading The Manager's Path by Camille Fournier and have really appreciated how straightforward and relevant it is.

    Help me fill my Amazon cart!

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    What we really mean

    IMHO, it's a horrible hack that is just broken. It's obscure and we need to rewrite it because it has a bad structure. XCquit[ESC][ESC]C

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    I am your Scrum Master!

    Help help! He's measuring my velocity!

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    Rock Star Developer

    Is that term even used anymore? Feels like it was everywhere a couple years ago.

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    What software and tools do you use?

    My company started using Lattice software for tracking 1 on 1s, reviews, etc. I don't really love it, but it's nice to have something that the entire company is standardizing with.

    I've been using Obsidian for my personal notes before I became a manager.

    And I use the M$ Suite as needed with SharePoint.

    Any other tools, software, processes, that you use for the people management side?

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    An incomplete list of skills senior engineers need, beyond coding [x-post]
    skamille.medium.com An incomplete list of skills senior engineers need, beyond coding

    For varying levels of seniority, from senior, to staff, and beyond.

    cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/144418

    > I generally don't like "listicles", especially ones that try to make you feel bad by suggesting that you "need" these skills as a senior engineer. > > However, I do find this list valuable because it serves as a self-reflection tool. > > Here are some areas I am pretty weak in: > > - How to write a design doc, take feedback, and drive it to resolution, in a reasonable period of time > - How to convince management that they need to invest in a non-trivial technical project > - How to repeat yourself enough that people start to listen > > Anything here resonate with y'all?

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    What are some examples of xkcd 2347?

    I've heard people mention curl and imagemagick. Any others that you know about?

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    it makes just as little sense to me

    I really do love the fun IDE colors.

    Does anyone else switch IDE themes depending on the project? Whenever I started a new project I would choose a new theme to go with it.

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