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  • The thing I never understood about PowerShell is that it’s partially more verbose than C#, which is one of the most verbose programming languages in existence. It just feels like you might as well go for a full-fledged programming language at that point.

    The appeal of Bash et al is that the scripting is almost the same as the interactive usage, which you already know. But because PowerShell is so verbose, I’m really not sure people do use it interactively.

    I guess, that code snippet in the article makes somewhat of a difference, in that PowerShell offers better features for interop between processes. But man, that still feels like it could’ve been a library instead…


  • That’s kind of why I never feel great about buying video games. The price is pretty much entirely arbitrary.
    Like yeah, they did an investment, it is fair that they recuperate that. But the actual price they need to ask of each customer entirely depends on how many customers there are.

    And so, they will always start out asking more than what they expect to need to ask of each customer, which just feels like I’m paying too much.
    But even when they do put it on sale, there’s likely going to be sales in the future where they sell it for even less. It’s not like they need to empty out a warehouse or such, where they put up uniquely low prices. So, even when I could get a game on a sale, I’ll feel like I could also just wait longer…







  • To me, a big part of it is that I’m tired of commodity art. I don’t care about your pretty pixel soup. I’ve seen other pixel soups before that were similarly pretty.

    And I’ve been tired for many years, long before every middle-manager under the sun could cook up their own pretty pixel soup.
    Back then, it was humans trying to make a living off of their passion and then settling for commodity art to make ends meet. I was cheering them on, because they were passionate humans.

    Now that generative AI has destroyed that branch of humanity, there’s no one to cheer on anymore.
    Even if generative AI never existed in the first place, I’d like to see commodity art being relegated to the sidelines and expressive art coming into the limelight instead.

    Tell me a story with your art. About your struggles or a brainfart you had, or really anything. This comic is great, for example. There’s emotions there and I can see the human through the art. I would’ve chosen a very different illustration for whatever, for example, which tells me a lot about the artist, but also about myself.
    I have never had that kind of introspection with pretty pixel soups.






  • Ephera@lemmy.mltomemes@lemmy.worldSomething about incentives
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    Oh man, my workplace switched to an external IT support company, InfoSys, which pulls basically the same scam.

    When you open a ticket, they immediately write something underneath – typically a question that’s already answered in the ticket – because it shows up in their statistics as low response times.

    Then they’ll do shit like split up your ticket into three new tickets for no good reason.

    And if you happen to be on holiday for a few days and therefore don’t respond, they’ll close your tickets due to inactivity.

    Then you have to open a new ticket and link to the old ticket, if you can still access it, and then re-answer the same braindead questions again.

    Basically, if it’s something you can solve yourself, you should, because it will take more time to communicate back and forth with InfoSys.