SparroHawc

I think using the Syndicate name was something of a poison pill for the game. People who liked the original Syndicate and Syndicate Wars would be turned off by it being essentially completely unrelated; people who didn’t care about the original probably wouldn’t care about it using the same name. That, and at the time there was a glut of FPSes being released.

This is changing, to some extent, with Linux and WINE. Several old games that refuse to run in Windows 11 work just fine on my Deck.

Is the name of the service a reference to anything?

What happens if you run out of space because of too many uploads that are set to never expire?

(Also it’s neat! Thanks!)

Careening specifically implies having little control while going fast. Hauling ass doesn’t suggest lack of control.

For some reason, companies in the USA are deathly afraid of someone using sick time when they aren’t actually sick, so they restrict it as tightly as possible. Never mind that this means people are either coming in to work sick, or taking unpaid time off.

Productivity gains haven’t resulted in an increase in wages since the '70s, Bezos. Get your head out of the sand.

The only part of me that feels in my 40s is my knees

Hm. That’s a good point.

Better would be destroying the speakers. I can just look away from the screen showing ads, but it’s still annoying if they’re blaring in my ear.

The screen used for blaring ads is the same screen that you have to read to be able to use the pump.

Honestly it’s a great place to hang out when you can’t afford the alternative, too, even if it’s not by choice. There are some absolute gems from decades ago that still hold up to this day.

The RAM and SSD have gotten that much more expensive to source. Anyone who sells a product with similar components either raises their price, or takes a loss.

Even laggy crap DDR4 RAM is at almost $6/GB; DDR5 (like the Deck uses) is double that. The absolute cheapest appropriate-sized 512GB M.2 drive is $100, from a no-name brand. The whole market has gone down the tubes thanks to AI companies buying up absolutely everything.

Also, by virtue of the fact that the Deck and Steam Machine are de-facto PCs, if they made those products loss-leaders, they would get bought up to use for non-gaming purposes and reduce availability for their intended audience. The same thing happened to the PS3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_3_cluster

Corporate lobbyists. They’ve played a large part in the gradual destruction of the USA in the name of profit for their filthy-rich overlords.

Goto CAN be readable, it’s true.

The problem is that it’s easy to make code that is LESS readable; in order to prevent horrible unmaintainable spaghetti, it is forbidden nearly everywhere. A lot of coding ‘rules’ are really just ways to try to cut down on stupid coding practices by greenhorns and enforce code maintainability.

That’s because it’s not. It’s ignoring the meme format and just using the image without the context.

It’s pointing out the conflict between two coding ideals - first, reducing duplicate code so that you don’t have to reinvent the wheel and/or copy-paste code (which often means making calls to libraries) which is represented by the red penguin facing right, and second, wanting to reduce dependencies so that external variables are reduced (which would mean including code in your codebase that otherwise would be an external library call) which is represented by the blue penguin facing left.

The closer you get towards one ideal, the further away you get from the other.

IF and GOTO are the only flow control we need; everything else is for cowards.

If they’re only a couple meters wide, how the heck are they supposed to fit watercraft?

Took me a bit. I was staring at it for a while thinking ‘What part of this is socially awkward?’

The thing that annoys me is that I still need to be careful when clicking on links in emails to my work address, despite having my web browser locked down to the nines. I just wanted to see what the page looked like, security peeps! I’m not a risk! I knew what it was!

Still had to go through additional training, mutter grumble…