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Cake day: September 1st, 2023
  • onlinepersona@programming.devtoOpensource@programming.dev•Logseq - A privacy-first, open-source knowledge base
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    2 months ago

    It has many upsides like every page being a markdown file, the interface is nice and easy to use, it supports embedding files images, videos, diagrams and PDFs, highlighting PDFs and referring to the highlights, saved searches (e.g all tasks about “life”, pages about science and " forum responses", …), and I’m probably forgetting a few. It even has a mobile app that’s works quite well.

    The downside however is that it’s all in some functional language transpiled into JavaScript to run in electron. There’s no CLI to take a directory and spit out HTML files to host your notes, “automation” means downloading and running the electron app, then interacting with an API that controls electron and simulates clicking. It’s amongst the worst solutions I’ve seen for automation and I’m not sure why they built the application this way. And because it’s an electron app, there are unnecessary difficulties on read-only system partitions / atomic operating systems. Finally, though opensource, they have a Contributor Licence Agreement (CLA).

    My fear is that there will be a rugpull at some point in the future and I’ll have to find an alternative solution, so right now I’m on the (passive) lookout for opensource alternatives with mobile apps. Found nothing yet and I don’t want to start developing one myself (no time).

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  • onlinepersona@programming.devtoPC Gaming@lemmy.ca•Study finds 21 percent of European devs laid off in past year
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    2 months ago

    There’s absolutely no need to call QAs, product owners, HR, finance personnel, or janitors “devs” because they work in or for a gaming company. They have roles and it’s completely fine for them not to be devs.

    Make random comparisons from other industries all you want

    I thought it would help with understanding and provide perspective, but it seems like the shutters are down and bolted. Understanding cannot penetrate the fortress of “everybody in a gaming company is a developer”.

    This ancient attitude is the same upper management position where cutting swathes of knowledgable established QA will bring short term profits only to later hire even more fresh QAs, often contractors or outsourced.

    What does this have anything to do with definition of developers? Diddly squat. Upper management will fire anybody with little to no understanding of their function because they consider everybody below them to be a number on a sheet; a replaceable cog in the machine.

    You think QA has never seen a line of code?

    What are you on about? Seeing a line of code doesn’t make you a developer. Reading memes about coding doesn’t make you a developer, shocker.

    What’s the imaginary line to being part of game dev to you?

    Being part of the game development process does not make you a developer. How many times do I have to repeat this? If you write the game, you’re a developer, otherwise you have another role on the team that is not game development. It’s that easy.

    You design a character? Not a developer. You test the game? Not a developer? You develop the story and draw the art? Not a developer. None of that is writing the game’s code.

    You can be both a developer and an artist, for sure, if you write the game’s code.

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  • onlinepersona@programming.devtoPC Gaming@lemmy.ca•Study finds 21 percent of European devs laid off in past year
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    2 months ago

    Bro, what? Being part of the development process doesn’t make you a developer. The hell? So you think somebody who has never even seen a line of code and manages a team of developers is a developer? You seriously want to tell me that the finance director of a construction company can call himself a builder because he manages the money needed to pay the builders? Jeff Bezos is a top paid developer at Amazon because he developed a strategy to R&D the fuck out everything and signed off on a product?

    Also, I thought it was obvious that my sentence about a “programme developer” not being a software developer would make it pretty obvious, that the presence or lack of “developer” in the title isn’t the defining attribute of the job.

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  • onlinepersona@programming.devtoPC Gaming@lemmy.ca•Intel might be too big to fail — Washington policymakers are already discussing potential solutions if the chipmaker cannot recover
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    2 months ago

    You do have to consider that Intel has a head start of multiple decades, should’ve had a war-chest the size of a nation (like Nintendo), and has a nigh monopoly position in the CPU market. Intel also has preferential treatment in the US (similar to Microsoft), so it’s not it isn’t already being funded by the US government.

    You don’t catch up on decades of research just by pumping in money. That’s like trying to have a baby faster by having more women.

    Trying to pretend Intel is the underdog in this scenario is not credible. Despite - or maybe exactly due to, their head start, pseudo-leaders who thought they could survive any boneheaded decision are giving that lead away. And yet again, tax payer money may have to be used to correct the decisions of a private company (yes publicly traded but the government doesn’t own Intel). Privatise profits, nationalise debt. Works every time!

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