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Re:StackOverflow now gets fewer than 1000 questions a month on Thursday October 29, 2026 @02:00PM (#50293284)
I didn't know this was a thing until now. This is so stupid
Re:Apple introduces the new 14-inch MacBook Pro with M6 on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @01:29PM (#50262637)
That is surprisingly cheap from Apple
Re:New iMac with M6 on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @01:22PM (#50262535)
The screen is great quality, but it's simply too small. My wife is a graphic designer currently working on an iMac, and she loves it, but the screen is so small she has to put the iMac in the middle of her desk...
Re:New iMac with M6 on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @01:18PM (#50262465)
I wish they would just upgrade the screen size, 24-inch is just too small. My wife is using an old iMac, but we will not buy a new one with this screen size. I don't understand why are there no options to upgrade that. (Although it would probably cost so much it wouldn't worth it at that point)
Thank you Epic for improving Steam! Appreciated
I am happy it works for you. I am always surprised how much this font is praised, then I try it, and just completely unreadable for me.

I tried it again, quickly set it up in my terminal the "Iosevka Term" version, switching from Jetbrains Mono, and just don't understand how can people read this.

Re:No Man's Sky Cosmos on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @12:50PM (#49629492)
I don't think anyone disagrees and I don't really see negative comments about the devs or the studio.

The problem is the game itself, gameplay wise. It's just boring for many (including me)

Re:No Man's Sky Cosmos on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @12:48PM (#49629456)
I don't really enjoy the game for more than 10-20 hours after picking it up (gets boring fast for me), and have problems with it, but kudos to the dev team. I agree, huge turnaround
Re:No Man's Sky Cosmos on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @12:46PM (#49629436)
Also the existing mechanics are overly simplified. Like space combat...
Re:No Man's Sky Cosmos on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @12:43PM (#49629377)
Not OP, but my main issue is that after visiting a few systems and a bunch of planets, you kinda saw everything the procedural generation has to offer, and visiting planets becomes boring quickly, at least for me. There are differences, and as someone mentioned there are some unique planets for sure, but for the most part they all look samey. Wildlife is also just walking/flying around doing nothing. This takes away the incentive to go and explore, which is supposed to be the main attraction to the game
Re:Tailwind Labs is joining Shopify on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @10:58AM (#49627722)
Only if you are using a framework like React, where you create generic Button and other components.

Try using Tailwind with server-side rendered frameworks like Rails or vanilla HTML, and you will find yourself repeating the same stuff over and over again. Basically anytime you want e.g. a <button>, you have to repeat all the inline css for it. (There are plugins for Rails that adds "components", but I found it very clunky)

Re:A walkable ASCII cyberpunk city in one HTML file [video] on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @08:09AM (#49520868)
There is a link in the video description.

You have to pay for the demo...

Re:Patreon laying off 20% of staff on Friday July 24, 2026 @10:27AM (#49036194)
I am pretty sure they opened their excel sheet, ordered the employees by salary, and got rid of the highest paid 10% of each department. Or the lowest performing 10% based on a score in the excel.

They are just numbers to them

Well I assume Musk will just say big things publicly and manipulate the stock back to all time high and above, like he did/does with Tesla.
Re:A Road to Lisp: Which Lisp on Friday July 17, 2026 @01:26PM (#48949923)
Thanks.

However, price for hobby user license at 750 USD is laughable.

Re:A Road to Lisp: Which Lisp on Friday July 17, 2026 @01:20PM (#48949830)
I am/was mainly interested in Common Lisp. I might give Vim another try, that would be the best if it worked. I really don't like vscode
Re:A Road to Lisp: Which Lisp on Friday July 17, 2026 @12:44PM (#48949388)
I just wish a good IDE existed so I don't have to use Emacs. That's what made me drop lisp in the past.

I would be happy with (neo)Vim setup as well, but that was way behind Emacs and broken when I tried.

Re:We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git on Friday April 10, 2026 @09:46AM (#47718107)
I looked at the demonstration video and closed it after a couple of minutes. I don't see how this tool will replace git.

Well, I think it won't

Not OP, but: "acceptable", that's the problem. Also I dislike Google more than Apple.
Re:Major AWS Outage Happening on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @12:10PM (#45657548)
Well, you put a lot of trust in the individuals in this case. A disgruntled employee can just let the bad guys in on purpose, saying "Yes they belong here".
Re:AWS Multiple Services Down in us-east-1 on Monday October 20, 2025 @11:55AM (#45645343)
Agreed, but you can put EC2 on that list as well
Wealthsimple Tax is free too, and pretty good for simple use cases.
This project is really cool, love it!

How would someone start learning and implementing something like this? Like, I don't even know what keyword to put into Google.

Are there any articles, blog posts, etc. that you used while researching?

This is simply not true. I've just checked
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025) on Monday June 30, 2025 @11:14AM (#44424357)
This is pretty cool! I am also interested in game engine programming, but I am in the very beginning of the journey.

Do you have any recommendation on voxel engine learning materials (e.g. books, courses, etc)

Re:Images of gamma-ray flare from supermassive black hole M87 on Monday December 16, 2024 @04:01PM (#42435394)
Wouldn't that ray destroy any life on any nearby planet?
How did you build your own data center? Is it in your house, or renting a place somewhere? How much did it cost?

I would be curious about any details you can share.

Re:Willow, Our Quantum Chip on Monday December 09, 2024 @12:40PM (#42368336)
How can I, a regular software engineer, learn about quantum computing without having to learn quantum theory?

> Worth spending a little time doing some long tail strategizing I’d say

any tips for starters?

I'm in similar shoes as OP, want to do something else. I think I'm burned out, and don't have the way to fix it (e.g. taking a year long sabbatical)

I was looking into a lot of these things you mention here, problem is the "golden handcuff" from software engineering. I could only start doing anything new by taking a HUGE pay cut for many years, and I simply can't do that in my current life situation.

Let me know if you have a solution to that :D

My 2 problems with these jobs are that first, they 99% not remote, and second, the pay is half of what I get in the "tech" field.

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