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Ladybird is in the process of switching over to Swift, and has been for a little over a year now.

Not linking to the pedophilic nazi-site, and as Nitter is dead-ish, here is the full-text announcement archived on tildes: https://tildes.net/~comp/1j7m/ladybird_chooses_swift_as_its_...


Still logging in on occasion in Midnight Sun, I am on the younger side (breaching my thirties soon) and my mother played introduced me at a very young age to play alongside her and to help guide and teach the game (and spelling, and critical thinking, and the digital world) that she had played years before I was born. Many of her longest friends that she still talks with daily she met through MS2 and the various other MUDs such as Aardwolf.

MUDs are truly wonderful, and I hope they have a resurgence in some form soon.

https://midnightsun2.org/


MS2 has a great Mudlet UI too, one of the best early ones!

They are definitely going to call the next Windows version "Windows Copilot" or just.... Microsoft Copilot, just to make everything more confusing.

Zed is basically the new Sublime.

Sublime is the new Sublime. It's still just as great as it ever was.

Did this article just slyly try to say that COVID-19 was a hoax and tie it to "communism coercion tactics" (which was more a thing designed by the US as a tactic against Americans campaigning for equal rights, during the cold war than anything).

Immediately lost any interest in the narrative.


Oil. It's always oil.


To be fair, without the HL3 memes, would Valve ever become as massive as they are now without them constantly teasing and playing into it?

(answer: probably, but I would like to believe that this is one of the greatest unintended marketing tactics of the 21st century).


Valve had near-total dominance over PC gaming distribution before HL3 even became a meme.


half life releases were tied to new platforms, such as HL2 and its physics engine, or HL Alex and VR kits.

it's like Nintendo having a Mario game for their new hardware, e.g. Mario 64, etc.

there weren't that many teases, nor is it great marketing; CS:GO competitive e-sports is better marketed and probably made Valve more money than any HL wink-wink-nudge-nudge ever would.


I'll take a small panic and unwind any day over a total burnout crash. Matters in code and life.


That they don't support a nationalistic paramilitary organization that requires its members to be masked and never known by the public so they cant be held accountable? A nationalized KKK is not something to ever support.


I don't care about ICE one way or another, but calling people "monkeys" and "losers" because they're not building a product to your exact specifications is extremely childish.

It seems to me that the real "losers" are the ones spending so much time bitching and moaning about a software platform they don't like.


They aren't "bitching and moaning" they are moving communities and platforms. GitHub is user hostile run by a company with a pattern for that. Alternatives to GitHub exist and supporting them is not "bitching and moaning", it's building and creating. The fact you can't or won't recognize that is telling.


> I don't care about ICE one way or another,

Which is itself a political position, a privileged one at that


The oppositie is also true. "Caring" about ICE and wanting to flood the US with illegal immigrants is also a political position, a privileged one at that. It's a luxury belief: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxury_belief


What an incredibly arrogant statement. Not everyone is American for starters.


Not being an American is a privileged position regarding an issue that negatively affects Americans. It's no different than if I, an American, fail to care about, say, Hungary's slide into autocracy. I am privileged to be able to not care about it.


By that definition, "privileged" looses all meaning, as there is an infinite number of injustices in the universe, and no one is affected by all of them.


It doesn't lose all meaning and your argument doesn't support your assertion.


It’s still a political position to take to not care about things that happen in other countries. (I’m not American either, not that it should matter.)


> so much time bitching and moaning

They are doing more than that.


And one of the fun things about how unwrap() does that automatically, is that if you are working with an orchestrator with retry logic, you won't need to (re-re-re-re-re-)write your own for the entire program - the orchestrator will see the error, log its output, and try again in high volume workloads, or move on to the next request - this is incredible and nice to use especially when a failure in one request doesn't need to fail the entire application for all requests.

I shy away from unwrap() in almost all cases (as should anyone!) but if you are running a modular system, then unwrap when placed strategically can be incredibly useful.


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