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jimbob45 commented on Pro-democracy HK tycoon Jimmy Lai convicted in national security trial   bbc.com/news/articles/cp8... · Posted by u/onemoresoop
JumpCrisscross · 2 days ago
One of the dark consequences of America losing its city-upon-a-hill aspirations is we're less able to effectively call out evil abroad. Jimmy Lai should not have been allowed to this quietly.
jimbob45 · 2 days ago
Why is this evil? Most countries draw the line at aiding and abetting foreign harm to your own country, no matter how justified. I would expect no different if it happened in America or Europe.
jimbob45 commented on Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri   reuters.com/world/us/rubi... · Posted by u/italophil
WhyOhWhyQ · 7 days ago
Is Calibri actually more accessible? Every step of this story seems pointless and fake.
jimbob45 · 7 days ago
Anecdotal but the new default Office font Aptos seems much better than both TNR and Calibri.
jimbob45 commented on The power of proximity to coworkers [pdf]   pallais.scholars.harvard.... · Posted by u/yodon
defrost · 9 days ago
Unsuprisingly less experienced coders benefit from exposure to more experienced coders.

Interesting questions raised by this, for myself at least,

* how do hybrid schemes work out: some home, some office, less commute overall?

A HN submission yesterday on Australian studies showed remote work being mostly loved in AU, having little productivity impact either way for many, having significant benefits for for people with spectrum / social issues.

* has any tried junior coder meetups with experienced coders "out of office"?

Co working at one home or another, at public libraries, etc.

jimbob45 · 9 days ago
Hybrid vs in-person is a meaningless debate. Once you’re hybrid, you’ve restricted your candidate pool to an hour’s drive radius around the office. The damage has been done at that point.
jimbob45 commented on Unreal Tournament 2004 is back   old.reddit.com/r/unrealto... · Posted by u/keithoffer
jimbob45 · 13 days ago
Played this a few months back. In terms of value, it felt right up there with the Orange Box.

The one glaring problem the game has is double-tapping movement keys to dodge. Kills your fingers and you can’t ignore it because dodging seems to be the primary mode of skill expression beside weapon choice and aim.

jimbob45 commented on Valve reveals it’s the architect behind a push to bring Windows games to Arm   theverge.com/report/82065... · Posted by u/evolve2k
nialv7 · 14 days ago
Valve is estimated to make $16.2 billion from Steam alone in 2025 [0], and CS:GO loot boxes only netted them ~1bn in 2023 [1] (and CS:GO player count is only slightly higher now compared to 2023, so I expected the income number is similar).

Why don't they just take a 6% pay cut and make sure there is nothing to criticize them about :/

[0]: https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/pc-gaming/valve-mak...

[1]: https://csgocasetracker.com/blog/2023-Year-Review

jimbob45 · 14 days ago
To be fair, they may have just wrecked the CS lootbox economy permanently.
jimbob45 commented on Anthropic acquires Bun   bun.com/blog/bun-joins-an... · Posted by u/ryanvogel
Schnitz · 15 days ago
Anywhere where the correct Java version is installed correctly, important caveat
jimbob45 · 15 days ago
Java’s cardinal sin was not owning the OS like Microsoft’s C# to force end-users to update the framework. Oracle really didn’t understand what they were sitting on with their Ubuntu competitor Solaris.
jimbob45 commented on The 'S&P 493' reveals a different U.S. economy   msn.com/en-us/money/marke... · Posted by u/MilnerRoute
jimbob45 · 19 days ago
In previous years, I could have excused such shoddy journalism. In the age of LLMs that can do the work for you, it’s inexcusable that the author didn’t pick 3-5 sample strong economies from the past to judge today by.

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