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It is on a timeline, but not tech.
If you compare 1985 to 2005, holy shit. So many classics because of mind blowing advances.
2005 - 2025… Well, there’s still 2005 games that go hard with some mods. We really rely on gameplay and story to make a classic now.
saltesc@lemmy.worldtoHacker News@lemmy.bestiver.se•Why are we still so afraid of using the grumpy old period?English
4·20 days agoI’ve only seen this expressed in single statement messages, rarely emails or more complex message communication. Periods tend to only be useful for separating standalone statements with sentence complexity, so people may not use them when there is just one statement containing a small word count.
In fact, this is a grammatically consistent behaviour in formal English. As an example, the proper use of a period in bullet points is that they are not used unless the bullet point contained other punctuation marks earlier which increase their reading complexity to a more formal sentence rather than a quick statement. When we message people, we are often just speaking in an exchange of single bullet points due to the inefficiencies of soft keyboards.
If we go into further detail, periods come into play—though, some times we just switch to voice for a more robust and regular style of communication. Similarly, when we use physical keyboards, the speed and ease of them tends to have our spoken complexity go up and subsequently so does the requirement for periods to be used, and they are.
Placing other statement stoppers that are not periods are simply voluntary markers to underscore sentiment of that statement. They honestly have more place in such context as they’re providing actual purpose without the need to expand into multiple sentences or explanation on the slow soft key medium. In that sense, it is also not too dissimilar to and old timer complaining about telegrams using broken English.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Verizon is down, with many users seeing 'SOS' – here's everything we know about this outageEnglish
4·1 month agoI thought this wasn’t a legal requirement of US carriers, sharing their towers for emergencies. Maybe it’s a state thing.
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GOG@lemmy.world•GOG's new owner says Steam is winning due to ease of use, not quality, while criticizing the platform for releasing hundreds of games daily that are "not super high quality"English
19·1 month agoAnd they’ll enjoy the game or refund it, since both options are incredibly easy to do.
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RetroGaming@lemmy.world•How do you feel about the removal of tokens from arcades ?English
1·2 months agoIt’s easier for me if you just Google epidemiological and immunological reviews yourself.
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RetroGaming@lemmy.world•How do you feel about the removal of tokens from arcades ?English
11·2 months agoNo I didn’t realise that because I’ve never seen it before.
We literally know that people with germophobia ironically suffer infection much more because they shoot their immune system to hell. If someone’s paying attention to the ridges of a token, I can only imagine the levels of auto-immunity they self-inflict on their body.
But, no, the ridges in the token are the threat to their health /s
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Technology@lemmy.world•We own the hardware, but not the experience anymore — Big Tech keeps building smarter, more connected devices, but the user experience feels more intrusive, more confusing, and less humanEnglish
92·2 months agoThere’s kind of been an increase in things being more accessible and usable by the standard user where previously they would need to be quite savvy or know a language.
But, yeah, I can’t think of much else. Not user-based tech anyway. Just the usual insignificant increases and a bunch of bullshit no one asked for and actually ends up using, but has to pay for.
I think smartphones are an excellent example. Most people wouldn’t notice the differences between a second-hand $150 Samsung Galaxy from five years ago, and the latest flagship for 10× the price. The innovation is almost entirely unnoticeable.
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RetroGaming@lemmy.world•How do you feel about the removal of tokens from arcades ?English
103·2 months agoEverything you touch is “unsanitary as all hell”. Like, you think whatever’s on tokens stops there and isn’t on the machine you’re playing, the door handle you’re turning, the counter you’re touching? In the last hour you’ve handled shit way worse and you’ll handle much more of it before the day’s over.
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Technology@lemmy.world•NVIDIA Puts 100-Hour Monthly Limit on All GeForce NOW SubscriptionsEnglish
83·2 months agoHow good is hospital recovery?
Sure, there’s some cons, but you basically get a free card to game relentlessly, undisturbed, and guilt-free. Tragically, you eventually heal up and have to go back to being a normie.
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Technology@lemmy.world•The dominoes are falling: motherboard sales down 50% as PC enthusiasts are put off by stinking memory pricesEnglish
111·2 months agoYeah but it’s like the gearbox. While everything’s pulled apart, you may as well swap out the clutch, bearing, and flywheel too because they’ll need replacing again first. Especially if better versions of them are now supported.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft Edge Pushes an "All in One Browser" Message on Chrome’s Download PageEnglish
6·2 months agoThere’s just a lot of thought put in for the user. Excellent UI and productivity features, so much customisability. It’s super fast and light. Then there’s built in blockers, VPN, all the usual. To top it all off, it’s made by a small group of Norwegians that hate corporate control and love an open and free internet. They even have their own fediverse instances.
After I had spent an hour going down the rabbit hole of tweaking every UI element so the browser was now my browser, I was hooked. I still have to use Firefox at work, but I now find it intrusive, sluggish, and crude. I also hate having to restart it for updates lol.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft Edge Pushes an "All in One Browser" Message on Chrome’s Download PageEnglish
122·2 months agoI prefer Edge over Chrome, and if I had to choose one, Edge is definitely better. But gladly I don’t have to choose one and never will. Been with Vivaldi for years after switching off FF.
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Technology@lemmy.world•It Only Takes A Handful Of Samples To Poison Any Size LLM, Anthropic FindsEnglish
32·2 months agoYeah but they don’t have the money to introduce quality governance into this. So the brain trust of Reddit it is. Which explains why LLMs have gotten all weirdly socially combative too; like two neckbeards having at it—Google skill vs Google skill—is a rich source of A+++ knowledge and social behaviour.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies insteadEnglish
5·2 months agoI’m a follower and just go with Corsair Vengeance. Hasn’t ever let me down.
I think all my SSDs are Samsung. Nvme are Kingston and so I like to think they have thick Jamaican accents, mon. No issues with any of it and some of that storage is getting real old.
Thing with PC parts is it’s worth paying a bit more for quality. Ends up being much cheaper in the long term.
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Programmer Humor@programming.dev•Lucky enough, I am C++ Developer
253·3 months agoSQL enjoyer?
Every time I use it I feels like I’m going back to the 90s. No variables, no functions; Oh but you can do a CTE or subquery…👍
UNION ALL, UNION ALL, UNION ALL… “There’s got to be a better way, surely…”
looks up better way
“Oh, what the fuck?!.. Nope, this will just be quicker…” UNION ALL, UNION ALL, UNION ALL…
Join in a table sharing column names… Everything breaks. You gotta put the new prefixes in front of all the headers you called in now. In every select, in every where, etc… Which is weird because that kinda works like a variable and it’s fine…
“When you see this little piece of text, it means all this, got it?”
“Okay. Yep. Easy.”
“So why can’t you do that with expressions?”
SQL SCREAMS MANICALLY
“Okay, okay, okay!.. Jesus…”
And then you try put a MAX in a where and it won’t let you because you gotta pull all the maxes out in their own query, make a table, join them in, and use them like a filter…
I hate it. It has speed, when you can finally run the script, but everything up to that is so…ugh.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Passkeys Explained: The End of PasswordsEnglish
1·3 months agoThe article is only referring to per device keys and passkeys that lock them on that device. In other words, someone would need to be able to get your device’s key, decrypt it or brute your passkey, spoof or steal your device somehow, and send the key under it’s identity. I’m sorry, but I don’t think the few people that could do that would be wasting their time to do it to little old you. For most people, their insignificance is the best security they have.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Passkeys Explained: The End of PasswordsEnglish
131·3 months ago- Built-In Two-Factor Security – Passkey logins use your private key stored on your device and your face or your fingerprint or your PIN. Unlike password, these cannot be easily replicated by a scammer.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Another European agency shifts off American Tech, as digital sovereignty movement gains steamEnglish
10·4 months agoIs there some beautiful autistic mind keeping infographical track of this stuff? My mere lesser brain only just entertained the idea of how interesting that’d be ro see.
This guy’s friends should keep him away from computers and just give him an iPad to play with.