I think you misunderstand. It was painful for Valve to cut the margin so thin, assuming they kept one at all.

According to Valve’s messaging at least the Deck launched at the lowest price they possibly could manage.

I’d like to see a link to a parts list that provides PS5 level performance for $300 in any form factor.

To your last point, back when the Steam Deck launched they described its price point at the time as “painful” but felt it was necessary. Turns out they made the right call and it was wildly successful, so hopefully they stay the course on “painful” pricing.

Hey. There could also be some Record<string, any>.

Everyone is clowning on the order, but clock faces also traditionally use IIII instead of IV.

I never understood the hate for Aloy. She was at worst bland with a pretty heavy helping of “I’m better at everything because I’m the main character”, but she’s hardly alone in that, and it doesn’t usually attract that much ire.

I really didn’t understand the complaints that she was unattractive or even outright ugly.

// these are unicode characters in four hex…

If your dev team needs a comment explaining this I have some serious concerns about their qualifications.

This is already pretty close to how many EVs are designed.

Butterscotch is far superior to ordinary caramel.

Needs a third option then. Swipe right for “would watch”, left for “wouldn’t watch”, but also swipe up for “I strongly endorse and believe you’d enjoy it if you give it a chance”.

Maybe also a fourth. Swipe down for “absolutely not, I know you really love this movie but I just can’t watch more Jason Statham.”

Ugh. Literally refactored multiple factories into straightforward functions in the most recent sprint where I work.

Someone saw a public factory method which was a factory for a reason and just cargo culted multiple private methods using the same pattern.

They’re all paying each other. That’s literally the point this image is trying to express.

What’s especially insane is that the companies that are actually providing the service to end users, i.e. Coreweave et al, are not the ones seeing massively inflated prices, contrary to your point about the monthly fees justifying the higher evaluation.

There a progress bar in an application I wrote that has a one in twenty chance of saying “Reticulating Splines” instead of its usual label.

I have a few hundred users so there are definitely people who have seen it, but so far no one has mentioned it.

Even if you don’t count desktop applications like VSCode or Discord or whatever that are written in primarily JavaScript due to those arguably just being packed inside their own little browser engine that they ship with, still yes.

Node.js is an extremely widely used JavaScript runtime environment that people are using to write server back ends and command line utilities and god knows what else in JavaScript.

I cannot express how pleased I am that the company I work for went all-in on remote work during the pandemic and allowed the lease to lapse on most of their office space while sub-letting the rest. RTO is a literal impossibility for us now. We simply don’t all fit in the remaining office space we have, and assuming new leases on more office space obviously looks terrible on quarterly reports.

There are many other ways that the company I work for is miserable, but I take the small victories where I can.

I would be ashamed of myself and be tempted to leave the industry in disgrace if setting up DDNS and allowing a single port through a firewall took me 45 minutes.

The place I work says they do this and will claim with a straight face that our sprints are budgeted to allow approximately 20% slack time.

This is of course not even remotely true in any practical sense. I have not received an explanation for how it’s even possible when sprint targets are intentionally set at slightly more than was done in the previous sprint, every sprint.

Xerox did that ages ago.

https://www.dkriesel.com/en/blog/2013/0802_xerox-workcentres_are_switching_written_numbers_when_scanning

Same. I use it very occasionally for parenthetical phrases because I just think it’s the most appealing way to do so.

Reddit had no monetary cost.

It’s much easier to stick to a boycott when it requires a layer of active acceptance and payment to acquiesce.

Reddit is just… there. A query on basically any search engine is going to serve you up reddit links, and clicking one of them costs you nothing.* Since you don’t have to commit to the decision there’s far less resistance to backsliding.

*Yes, I know, there is a privacy and personal content/traffic cost. We both know that’s not what I’m talking about.