kurosawaa

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

That chess game even predates OS X, it was a tech demo that came with the NextStep OS and has barely changed since the mid nineties. At this point it would be said to see it go.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Reading books. There are some great books on programming out there. I would strongly recommend a A Players Guide to C#. It's structure, practice problems, and explainations of the basics were far better than any free guide to programming that I've seen online. There are a lot of other great books out there too.

It also doesn't matter too much about a book being outdated when you are only studying the fundamentals.

A lot of the stuff you read online has never been fact checked or edited for clarity. Some of it is great, but most of it is not.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Linux has decimated Windows in the server market. It would be unthinkable for a new project to use Windows server, even Azure assumes you want to use Linux.

There are lots of industrial applications where open source has dominated the market. As the end user you might not see it, but almost all software and digital infrastructure you use has open source components.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

The new Apple silicon in the Mac lineup is the most exciting thing they have done in the PC space in more than a decade.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Mao and most of the other early communist leadership were southerners. Most of the early KMT was made up of southerners too. I think westerners have this misconception that "Mandarin" is a northern language, but the standard Mandarin spoken in China is largely artificial, and has been a separate language for governance and education for centuries. No one in China back in 1949 would have thought of Standard Mandarin as representing "Northern" Chinese culture, even though it is based on an aristocratic dialect of Beijing Mandarin.

Some of the most endangered languages in China are natural forms of Mandarin in northern China, because it so similar to Standard Chinese and the government has no protections or cultural programs for them, unlike the southern languages like Wu, Minnan, and Cantonese.

China is a complicated country and it's sad to see these misconceptions repeated ad nauseum in English media.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (3 children)

There are way too many answers after you finish this quiz. You should recommend, at most, three options after the quiz. This doesn't help narrow down your options much at all.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Metal straws have gotten very popular in Taiwan, the home of bubble tea. It's not that inconvenient to take a metal straw or other reusable straw with you.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Have you used Java before? It's not a big leap from Java to C#, most of the concepts are the same. At least C# is a memory safe language, although I'm not sure if you're unfamiliar with the code base and languages if it really makes a difference which language you use here. Hopefully your coworkers can help hold your hand a bit here, this situation sucks.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Silent Hill 2 uses it unfortunately.

[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 year ago (23 children)

seriously,who has time to use a ping pong table at work? It's like a decoration to remind you you're not having fun.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Part of this may just be that Lemmy does not stream video through the app right? Also most Lemmy servers force very small image sizes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I don't think UX will be that big of a problem, in the past the unofficial reddit apps were all better than the official one. Major companies design by committee and the UX is meant too maximize profit and engagement statistics for advertising, rather than be "good". A lot of open source UIs are better than their paid counterparts. I think PopOS is far nicer than windows 11.

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