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Whenever a site puts a login wall in front of an article after a few clicks, I imagine some thirsty product guy salivating and begging you to register an account to pad his quarterly numbers.

I'm finding more often than not what gets me hurt in Half Life: Alyx is my sensors not picking up my controllers. The game is otherwise rather easy.

can't wait for Sunday Stonks in animal town

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christ, why is Animal Crossing's online mode so finnicky

Everything has so many "helpful" popovers and modal windows happening at the same time interrupting you, opening up new browser tabs for different parts of the same UX, inconsistent UI designs, stuff that just takes up WAY too much screenspace, ...

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Is it just me or have all the most popular websites on the Internet gotten decidedly worse to navigate and use in the last year?

Instacart delivery got to hear my impression of the G-man from Half-Life while I was taking the garbage out to my garage

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realm of the mad god, but player hosted servers for small groups

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All I can think about is how over the years of reading and writing Rust, I've learned more and more to relentlessly simplify things and stay practical. It's made me so much stronger as a programmer and software engineer.

Rust is the future of software.

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It's been almost 5 years since I first started working in Rust.

I can't believe it's been that long. Where did time go? It feels like it's been ages since mio was first conceived. async/await was just informal discussion. I was just starting to target the Nintendo 3DS for homebrew with it.

Doom Eternal 

I will push through on Nightmare. I will 100% it on my first pass. This game is too kick ass to give up on.

Neoliberals blaming millennials for the covid outbreak because we apparently are going out to bars and drinking in close contact too much.

Doom Eternal 

Doom Hunters boss really kicking my ass. I'm really getting the flow of the game now, though.

Hey Samsung, if the TV OS crashes while it's in standby, it shouldn't restart and turn on. This is basic UX stuff, c'mon.

Smart TVs were a mistake.

covid-19, self 

So, there is a high probability I was exposed to the coronavirus a week ago. Zero clinics nearby are able to run tests on the person this doctor thinks has covid, so I can't and nor can anyone else know for sure.

There is a serious problem in requiring that you have been exposed to someone who is confirmed to have it. Even if tests were available, this policy means most people who should be tested can't be, especially 2 or 3 degrees separated.

By custom handling acks, you get a lot more freedom to multiplex with varying degrees of ordering and reliability. This frees up your protocol to do things more concurrently and redundantly to counteract network unreliability.

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