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Cake day: July 9th, 2023

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  • Xournal lets you paint on a document, which I guess isn’t what they need when they talk about legal stuff. Digitally signing a document is still one of the rare cases where I boot up my windows vm. It’s so annoying that there’s practically no way to do that in Linux as my company’s processes rely on it.










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    11 months ago

    I really like my two-and-a-half-tonnes death machine. It’s small, but can still haul enough that it works perfectly fine for when I need to dispose bodies that I just ran over. But also it’s definitely not fuel efficient in the way that I’d want it to be. I wish they made something that size but newer.


  • With mouse wheels and touch screens everywhere, I can’t even remember the last time I wanted to drag a scroll bar. Even worse, I have faint memories of infinitely scrolling websites that just hated it when you dragged the scroll bar. What do you need that interaction for? I’m not judging, I’m just curious about the use case.


  • Also sideloading has been around as a term for a long as smartphones have existed

    What? Where did you get that from?

    If you take the iPhone as the first smartphone, those weren’t even supposed to have natively installed apps by third parties but just use websites for everything. You could install third party apps before that on symbian. You could always install apps on android. So no, the term neither has been around as long as smartphones nor is it ubiquitous.

    “Sideloading” is only relevant to Apple devices as no other platform is as locked down as ios, so the word isn’t even used outside that context. For other devices, you simply “install” applications. That’s it.


  • I really don’t get the article. It’s not the compiler’s purpose to prevent logic errors nor does it do that properly. Trying to overcomplicate your types to the degree where they prevent a few of them at the cost of making your code less flexible concerning potential future issues doesn’t sound like a good idea either.

    What’s wrong with tests? Just write tests to see if your code does what it’s expected to do and leave the compiler for what it’s made for.







  • So, I got some games from the sale and slowly started playing them a little…

    Slay the Spire seems to be quite liked, but it’s not really my thing. Beat the game with three of the four characters I have access to and it still hasn’t really “clicked”. If somebody could explain to me what makes this game so (supposedly) great, maybe I’d be able to appreciate it a little better?

    I also got Redout 2, because I really enjoyed the first part and thought the second should be at least as good. So far I like it, seems like a graphics upgrade and some gameplay enhancements from the first part. However, with ai assist disabled, the difficulty curve seems to be brutally steep. Also, even though I have only played like 8 tutorials and 3 campaign tracks so far, I have already had some issues with clipping through the course after jumps, which might turn into a rather annoying trait if it remains an issue. Still, would recommend. It’s a beautiful antigravity racer with terrific “car” mechanics.

    Apart from that, I got the gog version of Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri running (although the videos don’t work). It’s kind of my comfort game which I keep returning to.