Don’t connect that machine to the internet. (Not that you had plans to.)

C# is a better language anyway.

I expect the future is in Rust and C#.

This is a computer. Time (in this aspect) isn’t an issue.

I think they wanted something more like $10k/year, which seems pretty cheap when you compare it to the price of one employee.

To be fair, I’m sure this is a lone developer at Microsoft, not Microsoft as a company. A lot of this still absolutely applies, but it’s not Microsoft as a company making an official decision to go ask the FFMEPG guys for free shit.

It’d be nice if the guy had an avenue to go to leadership, tell them about the issue, and just ask them to actually fund the guys to work on it.

Obviously they had to censor it a bit for modern audiences, or it wouldn’t be legal in Texas.

If your OO experience is from Java, the problem is with Java culture, not OO in general.

Putting functions and properties into classes is good and helpful. Whyever the fuck Java people want to implement the factory pattern three times in every application they make is convoluted and asinine.

If you teach them factories in tyool 2024, I swear I will find you and I will take away every color compiler and runtime you have outside of Radio Shack Level 1 BASIC (TRS 80).

It’s a problem on every niche community on Lemmy. Enough people are used to just trying the subReddit that if you create the subreddit there, people just show up.

We don’t have that on Lemmy. You’ve basically gotta get 2-3 people to keep posting content and hope a few more find it on top > last X hours. But it generally takes weeks of throwing content into a void to get there.

It’s why the meme communities are doing better. It’s a hell of a lot easier to throw two dozen memes into an empty void than it is to throw higher effort posts into the void. (It’s not an actual void. Maybe one in ten posts will get real interaction. That just feels a lot like a void when you’re putting in the effort.)

Star Trek has a federation of Humans, Vulcans, and many other races. Their ships are still separate, but they work together.

The Fediverse has a federation of Startrek.Website, Lemmy.World, Sh.itjustwo.rks, etc.

Email has a federation of gmail.com, yahoo.com, microsoft.com, aol.com, every corporate.com, spectrum.net, tons and tons of small servers. This is probably the biggest federation. Many servers will choose to only federate with specific instances, or may explicitly defederate with a list of instances. If I stand up a private, home email on my own domain, there’s no guarantee that your work will accept my emails.

Maybe, just maybe the actor is more invested in their particular character than the writer. Or maybe the line suits the actor better.

It’s disrespectful for the writers to expect actors to play their characters without putting anything of themselves into the act.

It should absolutely be a collaboration, and not one side dictating to the other, with no feedback allowed.

But I’m not going to downvote a contribution to the conversation just because I disagree.

Sonoff over Skyconnect?

I also stopped around the same time.

The Foundation series might be my favorite of all time, but the show is crap. First of all it misses the entire point of the books. Psychohistory is explicitly NOT magic, and not limited to a few special people. And it’s not a drama about the emperor.

It’s a larger scale that means more than an interpersonal drama. If you can’t do that on the screen (and maybe it can’t be done), then the series shouldn’t have been created.

Whatever this show is, it’s not Foundation. All it takes from the books is character names and jargon. It has effectively none of the plot or intent or meaning of the books.