Reading that really makes me want to give it a go. If swift’s package management is anything like Rust or Go, I could see myself enjoying it

The thing it can do best is bewilder developers with it’s strange choices

Integer underflow

It’s a decent language I guess. My main criticism is that the constructor paradigm just isn’t well suited for RAII. I always find myself retrofitting Rust’s style of object creation into my C++ code.

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I can hear this gif

Where is the piped bot when you need it

How do they work?

And buying the movie probably won’t give you a file, but instead just the right to stream it from their servers. At some point they’ll pull the plug on that and you’ll loose access.

I don’t think this is a huge problem with a correctly set up text editor and the right techniques to limit code nesting. Doesn’t change my dislike of python tho.

As a kid I cracked the main circuit board in mine after dropping it once. Repair was impossible. Those five hours of playtime I got in were nice tho.

A double can represent numbers up to ± 1.79769313486231570x10^308, or roughly 18 with 307 zeroes behind it. You can’t fit that into a long, or even 128 bits. Even though rounding huge doubles is pointless, since only the first dozen digits or so are saved, using any kind of Integer would lead to inconsistencies, and thus potentially bugs.

Makes sense, cause double can represent way bigger numbers than integers.

It’s shit like this that keeps me from building any kind of trust in MS-owned open source projects.

It’s just a new picture format that is arguably better than jpeg in many scenarios. It has been around for many years. Windows just refuses to do file associations correctly, so people hate it for no reason.

I don’t really care about this specific problem. I care about Steam being a bad experience in general. Look, I get that people are downvoting me because it seems like i am whining about something minor. But the thing is… if Lutris and Heroic Games Launcher work flawlessly, and Steam has always been wonky, why would I put my money there? Seems like Valve can’t keep up. Unless they can deliver a good experience, they won’t get my money.

Doesn’t really apply to me since I’m on fedora and had it installed through RPM Fusion. And even if it would work again, it wouldn’t get me to reinstall it, since it doesn’t fix the underlying problem of the launcher being simply bad and restrictive.

It’s just so much nicer to not be bound to that software. I want to own the files on my disk, and not be forced to tiptoe around them through a restrictive UI. The issue I had was really just the straw that broke the camel’s back.

You are absolutely correct. Lemmy’s federated nature basically guarantees that free / affordable API access will always be available to app developers.

CEOs will happily restrict your freedoms for just a bit of profit, and destroy any competitors who threaten their monopoly. I don’t get how anyone can defend this system in good faith.