I agree, but my point was that cost isn’t a sufficient explanation.

I think I particularly agree with @megopie@beehaw.org: one reason we see photo-realism instead of more stylised graphics is that it is more generic, and thus less dependent on a specific team.

The more artistic/creative your work, the less interchangeable your workers are.

But you could also make the same argument about graphical fidelity, which has been pushed further and further for decades, greatly swelling the cost of production

To be honest, I find my Emacs config important enough to live at the top level of my home directory.

As much as I hate FPTP at some point we have to admit that the majority of people don’t hate it (enough) or give a shit (enough) to change anything. We want this life.

We wanted Brexit (well 52% of people who voted in 2016 anyway…). And a lot of labour’s success is down to reform splitting the right-wing vote (nice to see it the other way around for a change). Labour only actually got ~34% of the popular vote. So whilst I don’t know if we chose this exactly, I agree that there is too much apathy towards the status quo.

I find myself constantly thinking about American vox pops, where a surprising number of people say they would vote for Trump or Bernie. A lot of people just want somebody that’ll shake things up. Farage is that for many people, but our left-wing options just aren’t seen that way.

You calling Kier Starmer a “far left ideologue”? I wish he had that much conviction.

I think the truth is a bit more boring. FPTP hugely favours the 2 established parties and, whilst their foundations are certainly eroding, it’ll take something seismic to actually bring a third party into power.

Labour seemingly want to be all things to all people. That’s all you need to explain the brexit doublethink IMO. I really want to believe they’d be popular with a more assertive stance that brexit, and the preceding decade of looting state assets austerity were terrible mistakes. However, the growing popularity of Reform and the tories’ ugly swing to the right make me sceptical

The Koru is a 416-foot masterpiece with three towering masts, each standing 230 feet tall, that harness kinetic energy to propel the vessel. The yacht is so massive that, for it to leave the shipyard after completion, a historic bridge in Rotterdam had to be dismantled. Bezos even offered to fund the dismantling and reconstruction of the 95-year-old De Hef bridge but later abandoned the plan amid public outcry. Eventually, Koru was towed away without her masts, which were later assembled.

The tone of this article is astonishing. “He even offered to pay to vandalise a historic building”, how selfless…

I use magit in Emacs in a similar sort of way. Bringing up the magit status page instantly presents a list of hunks I can browse and stage. When committing, there is also an option to “instant fixup” into an existing commit, which you can select interactively from the commit log.

Plus we could also get rid of the hacky risky vs safe dir-locals system that fills up custom.el with clutter

Green is my pepper… If you know what I mean… 😏

I do think that helping people get into the best job for them is a good goal, so here’s hoping the investment in job centres helps.

On the other hand, boy do I wish we could talk about redistribution and shifting the tax burden away from income and towards assets. But so much as hint at these policies and you’re tarred as a filthy communist.

For me it becomes an issue when I try to make decisions from my character’s perspective. If I try to lean into the RP part of RPG then I often feel like I have to leave a load of content behind because it just wouldn’t be a high priority.

I agree with the FO1 timer though. I ended up beelining to the necropolis and got trapped in an endgame bunker because I didn’t want that timer hanging over me.

Reading time 105 minutes…

And worth every second!

I decided to have another go at learning C++ given all the recent work that I had heard about regarding memory safety and support for functional programming. This gives me a lot less confidence that my efforts will be worth it in the long run.

Time to check out rust I guess 🤷.

But we could (and, given our history, should) be leaders. Even from a selfish perspective, there will be a huge demand for green technologies in the future, and we should be positioning ourselves to provide them.

Unless, you know, they enjoy doing that

To add some more context:

Eglot is part of Emacs now, so it comes preinstalled. It’s good at finding lsp servers, but won’t help you to install them. Definitely the option if you want to keep things simple and can live with the need to manually install servers. (Also a quick note, the hook you should use to auto activate eglot is eglot-ensure, rather than just eglot.

I can’t imagine that’s any more free than bitwarden?

The big downside is that, for backwards compatibility, the default must still be unsafe code. Ideally this could be toggled with a compiler flag, rather than having to wrap most code in “safe” blocks (like rust, but backwards).

One potential upside that people don’t seem to be discussing is that the safe subset could also be the place to finally start cutting down the bloat of C++. We could encourage most developers to write exclusively in the safe subset, and aim to make that the “much smaller and cleaner language” trying to get out of C++.

This is for trains… My guess is that it’s for 20-30 year olds that commute by rail

Obviously there’s a lot of caveats about how representative this survey (or any other survey) is of the broader population, but I think this is a good reminder of how weird we all are. Nobody on here claims to use Ubuntu or Manjaro, yet they are more popular than Fedora (and potentially even arch, when steam decks are discounted).

There’s nothing wrong with that, I love the weirdness of the Lemmy Linux community! I just always think it’s good to appreciate when opinions (like my love of ublue) aren’t as popular as you think they are.

I thought the route still hadn’t been finalised for the northern leg of HS2. Also high speed means you’re less flexible, as you need to go in a straighter line than normal rail.

I agree that it seems unlikely that the extra effort to complete the northern leg of HS2 would be greater than that of starting from scratch, but I’ve been surprised before.