How about if valve has an agreement with developers where if they release a game in early access, and then abandon it, it switches to free-to-play?

Developers don’t have to pay for the servers, and the source code isn’t released. Gamers get to still play it, if it had any redeeming qualities, or for nostalgia. And valve gets…uhh… community goodwill? Honestly the lack of benefits for valve is probably why this will never happen.

I definitely agree that rent should be much more controlled and affordable. And yeah banks definitely don’t need more money. But a majority of Americans have fixed mortgage rates under 4%, which makes a lot of them keep their old house when they move, and just rent it out. Which just makes it harder for people to break into the housing market. And houses are an investment that renters don’t have access to, and that’s just one of tons of things that keeps poor people poor.

100% agree. It’s crazy that we have 30 year fixed rate loans with basically no penalty to refinance. Don’t get me wrong, it’s working for me, but I wish it was different because it’s so unfair.

B(id)eth

Also, it’s bespoke. That should add another zero.

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I think he know Trump is going to help Russia in every way possible, so he might as well let Ukraine get since more serious hits in now while they can

shrugs in Firefox

We definitely are seeing things faster than 24 Hz, or we wouldn’t be able to tell a difference in refresh rates above that.

Edit: I don’t think we have a digital, on-off refresh rate of our vision, so fps doesn’t exactly apply. Our brain does turn the ongoing stream of sensory data from our eyes into our vision “video”, but compared to digital screen refresh rates, we can definitely tell a difference between 24 and say 60 fps.

Smart developer: let’s make the label an 8 inch square so it won’t fit in any mug.

I dunno, they amended to allow ex-prisoners to regain the right to vote after they finish their prison sentences, and the asshats managed to cock that all up. They might be able to do the same here, somehow.

I’d like to go ahead and preemptively express my concerns that this technology could be used to create convincing videos of a person dropping multiple mini doughnuts on the floor, at which point they start crying, sit down, and then start eating the doughnuts off the floor. If such a video ever surfaces of me, we’ll know my fears were well founded.

If you’ll excuse me, I need to finish off these doug-…this paperwork.

Man, it sure is nice that Texas doesn’t have any other issues it needs to deal with, like it’s power grid or anything. Suuuuure must be nice to be elected and get to spend all your time doing zany bullshit that helps no one.

They’re like “we should address the fact that this product sounds exactly like a bleak dystopian future”

3rd parties aren’t bad, but our system punishes people for supporting them. It would be best if we could say “I’d like the 3rd party to be in charge, but if not them, then at least Biden.” In that case, I would totally support 3rd party candidates.

But if we ever want ranked choice voting, it’s going to be implemented by democrats, not republicans.

Misery

A view is a saved query that pretends it’s a table. It doesn’t actually store any data. So if you need to query 10 different tables, joining them together and filtering the results specific ways, a view would just be that saved query, so instead of “SELECT * FROM (a big mess of tables)” you can do “SELECT * FROM HandyView”

Somebody tell this dude about views.

"There’s people on the street

Getting diseases from monkeys

Yeah, that’s what I said

They’re getting diseases from monkeys

Now, there’s junkies with monkey disease

Who’s touching these monkeys?

Please, leave these poor sick monkeys alone

They’ve got problems enough as it is"

Wasn’t there a study that found if you tell people you’re working on something, you get the same brain reward chemicals as if you actually did it and told everyone? So if you tell people before you’re done, you might just go “meh, I’m good, the rest sounds hard”. Or something like that.