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I mean the whole concept of the fediverse is inherently going to attract the more paranoid of people who don't want to have big tech down their throat 24/7. The people most aware of this are those that work in/adjacent to big tech, and have enough understanding to be genuinely concerned about the state of the internet. Not that you have to be in tech to use/enjoy the Fediverse, but Lemmy is inherently inconvenient and less content rich than Reddit so it's going to create more niche/less diverse communities who have common interests.

Tech also has a very large trans demographic compared to the general population, and you can see that reflected on Lemmy too. The whole platform is largely going to reflect tech demographics until it is well known by the general public.

I'm just glad most people here are nice and willing to have open discussions. I've seen more threads of people disagreeing and reaching common ground than anywhere else.

I feel the exact same way, except that id recommend it for many of the things you've criticized it for. The gameplay loop is pretty unique, and the build up to cooking every night implements a level of strategy to the preparations you have to make leading up to it including what fish to catch and how you invest your money.

The game feels all over the place, but in a really good way. It's not just a repetitive, "fish, cook, repeat". There's a million random ass things that get thrown into the mix which is a complete 180 compared to most games made now. It's good because it doesn't really follow the traditional rogue-lite formula that we've come to know. It gives off the feel that the developers created the core game, (fish, cook, repeat) and then along the way took a bunch of, "wouldn't it be cool if we did x" idea they had and threw it in there to mix the game up. It's a super nice game to play while relaxing as the stakes are low, the story doesn't require immense focus to follow, and you're ultimately just fucking around under water as on overweight diver named Dave.

It feels a lot like a game made for those that don't play many games, and I think that's why it's doing so well.

A low end laptop, maybe, but anything you need power to do would be rough given the thermal limitations and comparatively weaker processor in the iPhone. I do agree that most could get away with a docked phone instead of a desktop if the implementation was good enough.

Hilariously enough, even at the theater, you'd get a better experience pirating the movie. Y'know, cause you'd ACTUALLY GET TO WATCH THE MOVIE AT ALL. Proving yet again piracy is a service problem.

From what I've seen one dude is salty and everyone else (including myself) is happy to have your contributions! I don't necessarily agree with you on everything you post, but you're respectful and actually back up what you say. I respect that a hell of a lot more than someone who I'm in complete agreement with, but plugs their ears at the first sign of pushback.

Just because you're not writing high performance software doesn't mean it shouldn't be a consideration. Sure, I'm not gonna micro-optimize memory when I'm writing an API in Python, but that doesn't mean I'm not going to write it efficiently.

If I have to store and then do lookups on some structured data I'm gonna use a hash table to store it instead of an array. If I need to contact a DB multiple times I'm only gonna close my connection after the last query. None of this is particularly difficult, but knowing when to use certain DSA principles efficiently falls pretty firmly into the computer science realm.

If you need someone to hyper-optimize some computations then a mathematician might be a better bet, but even those problems are rarely mathematician level difficult. Generally software engineers have taken multivariate calculus/differential equations/linear algebra, so we're decently well versed in math. Doesn't mean we don't hate the one time a year we have to pull out some gradients or matrices though.

The Flying Squid is someone who contributes to Lemmy comment sections a ton. They're super friendly and also add a lot of discussion. Given the nature of Lemmy being so small though they stand out because they're often leading discussions. Pretty much just a really good discussion contributor who is super recognizable.

It's not that we didn't think it wouldn't affect us, it's that Amazon pays unfathomable, life changing amounts of money to their engineers. Don't get me wrong there are absolutely insufferable people there, but I'd wager most people are there for the money alone.

I was an intern at AWS, and my return offer for full time was $220k per year fresh out of college to do 40 hours work weeks with a 24/7 one-week on call once every two months. My sign on bonus (lump sum on first paycheck) was $60k, or almost the average yearly pay of a US citizen. Unless you came from money, you'd take that offer in a heartbeat. I grew up middle class so money like that was impossible to say no to. I knew what I was getting into, and I tried to get a comparable offer right up until my start date, but few companies will dump over $200k per year on a new grad software engineer.

I got out a few months ago, and it has been the best thing for my mental health. My anxiety is much more manageable, I don't have week long 24/7 on call shifts, I'm full remote, and my pay is only 10% less. With that said, I wouldn't change a thing if I went back in time. I have financial stability I didn't even know was possible, and it gave me a massive headstart in life.

100%. This isn't a dig at all. I just noticed how often I've seen their comments and now I can't not notice it.

The thing that I hate the most about it is it's the same fucking price at the grocery store, but somehow that equates to a 40% more expensive burger. Meat is ungodly expensive nowadays such that my partner and I opt for meat substitutes because it's often cheaper and we prefer them anyway.

I understand economies of scale, and that they're buying less of it so they're gonna be paying a little more, but $3 per 8oz burger is absurd. Burger places have lost their goddamn minds when there's often way better ramen noodles next door for half the price.

That's peak hoodie and jeans weather. Literally perfect.