Valve did have a staff economist, but he left to become finance minister for Greece. (He didn’t last very long in either position.)

Pixel 6 here, no issues.

That sounds like hybrid sleep, or low battery, or something.

Laptops still exist

Is. OP is the one selling them.

10% off is barely any discount anyway.

I don’t even hate Google ads. It’s all the other flashy deceptive animated video bullshit.

And Office 365

Looks like meat is back on the menu, boys!

Seriously, though, this is really cool. But maybe some biologist can fill me in, what are the side-effects of this? Would it also reduce the useful stores of cholesterol? Or are we just fixing a mutation that causes heart problems?

I read this as “Amazon knowingly profits from selling ads for counterfeit products”.

Sure, that just sounds like sleep mode, which PCs have had for decades.

The important thing is for the OEM to actually implement it properly.

Some people care more about having fancy tools than actually doing work with them.

On reddit, I used to subscribe to the VS Code subreddit. A lot of posts were just about themes, people asking “what theme is this” or posting their latest minor recolor. Meanwhile, I’m there for posts about actually using the damn thing.

Because otherwise they couldn’t justify their continued work on things nobody asked for.

Also, those letter combinations are called ligatures, and are generally a bad idea in monospace fonts. The point of them is to make it very clear where one character ends and the next one begins.

Why did they release it in the first place if it wasn’t up to their standards?

You say it’s far from reality, but I’m speaking from experience. I was responsible for maritime life safety systems. When those systems were implemented, they were tested and qualified for use. It didn’t matter how many updates came out, if they weren’t qualified, they didn’t get deployed. If I had deployed an update that hadn’t been qualified, it would have put lives at risk, such as by causing issues with ship detection or man overboard alerts not going off.

If you want to get really into it, like the systems that run aircraft and nuclear reactors, look up formal verification.

No. If you’re working with life-critical systems, you only apply patches that are relevant to you. For example, an implantable insulin pump with Bluetooth capability. If there’s a patch that changes the Bluetooth functionality, but you don’t use that functionality, there’s no point in applying the patch.

Does a “warning, cert issued by a government agency” count as additional validation?

Or maybe everyone is going to use cert pinning now. Or Firefox is going to stop trusting all CAs and make you verify each CA yourself. Which is a terrible idea for the average user.

It’s been running stuff like ATMs for years. And probably still will.

Simple solution: don’t do that until you’ve decided to keep it

In theory, you see the job needs to be done, you do it for the good of the community.

Fine, I’ll do it myself.

https://lemmy.world/c/tech_news

It’s about time I start subscribing to some RSS feeds since I left reddit anyway. I’ll start posting some stuff, everyone else feel free. I’ll probably add mods at some point.

Fun fact, that concept is used in computer security exploits: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOP_slide

For choosing an article, it would be better to just pick a new random number.

Although there are probably more efficient ways to pick a random record out of a database. For example, by periodically reindexing, or by sorting extant records by random (if supported by the database).

Off-putting? Sort of a “fellow kids” thing?

I’d say all of Microsoft, not just Windows.

Some drives do, but it doesn’t affect lifespan either way. Writing 10GB of encrypted data is the same as 10GB unencrypted.

Yes, that’s what happens when there’s no hardware acceleration and it fails back to software.

Yeah that shouldn’t be possible on a platform like LInkedin or Facebook. If it’s a site you control, though, it’s still easy. I can’t do it here (at least I hope I can’t) but here’s an example of it: https://jsfiddle.net/z2pLaxto/1/

I would if I could.

If the above methods do not resolve your issue, please contact your local customer service centre.

https://www.nintendo.com/my/support/qa/detail/33800

Even if they do, they’d still need a Rosetta-like translator. I don’t see that happening any time soon.

And they’re also rolling back all those changes, right?

*formerly

But since he’s known as Prince again, what you wrote is technically correct.

Someone should gift them all copies of Baldur’s Gate 3 so that they too can experience the premier sound design in the latest installment from Wizards of the Coast® Dungeons & Dragons™.

For cold work, you need a hammer and some hard object. That’s it. Anvil, swage block, piece of rail, random scrap steel, or even a hard rock. That’s it. It’s really not expensive at all, unless you’re buying a whole bunch of brand new unnecessary stuff.

I started out with a rail-anvil I bought for $67, a few hammers and peens for $40, tongs for $20, and a forge for $140. That was more than enough to get started. If you live somewhere that that’s a lot of money, you probably also have a guy in the area who does similar work and has extra tools, and your biggest expense will be fuel for hot work.

Honestly, blacksmithing isn’t that hard. And the video in the article looks like it was cold sheet steel work over a form and a few rivets, so a few hours’ work for a beginner. Even basic forge work is something you can learn in an afternoon.

I like not having space wasted. A smaller, lighter laptop is easier to carry around and fit into bags, so the more space that is used for the screen, the better.

Yeah. I’ve definitely gotten refunds past those limits. But I’ve had a Steam account for like 16 years at this point, lots of games, and I’ve requested a refund maybe twice.

Hype

They’re pretty lenient with refunds past two hours’ playtime, if it’s not that much more and you don’t have a history of requesting refunds. I’ve been refunded for games after like four hours, but I’ve also only done maybe two refunds tops.

If the automatic refund was rejected, you can ask for a manual review.

But if you’ve really started that many runs, and put in enough hours to get that far, don’t be surprised if they deny a refund. You’ve already experienced most of the game. It’s like going to a restaurant, tasting your meal, saying it’s horrible, then continuing to eat it.