zalgotext

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[–] zalgotext 3 points 6 days ago

Ok that's understandable, I didn't realize VSCode used to delete untracked files as well as a result of clicking through that dialogue.

[–] zalgotext 0 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I'm not claiming that "discard" is a git action. I'm claiming a git user should understand what's meant by the phrase "discard changes". Run git status in a repo that has changes in the working directory. In the resulting output, there's a message:

Changes not staged for commit:
    (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed) 
    (use "git restore <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)
        ...

The phrase "discard changes" is used consistently in git's output.

[–] zalgotext 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yeah that would be the logical thing to do, lol. In my time experiencing and working in the software development world though, rarely are high-level decisions like that made based on how logical they are. Usually they're made based on how much short-term cash flow they may generate.

[–] zalgotext 4 points 6 days ago

Right, yeah that's sort of the conclusion I've reached - sort of a "correlation may not imply causation" type situation.

I drink one 300g cup of coffee a day, except on very rare instances where I'll have like two or three cups in a day. My average daily caffeine intake is probably around ~100mg, which is well under any demonstrably dangerous limits that I've seen.

[–] zalgotext -5 points 6 days ago (5 children)

If you use git and understand that VSC's source control stuff is just a thin wrapper around git, you should understand what "discard all changes" means

[–] zalgotext -2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Maybe there's a middle ground, where instead of just letting a flood of people all download your game on day one, the publisher like pre-downloads it onto some sort of physical media, and then sell copies of that physical media. That way people could get into the game immediately when they receive their copy without having to wait on the same 6 hour download that a million other people are also waiting on, that download activity doesn't interfere with the bandwidth of people trying to play the game, and the physical availability puts a sort of temporary artificial limit on how many people can play at once.

[–] zalgotext 14 points 6 days ago (3 children)

I totally get the irony of how Amazon's own MMO struggled with server capacity issues, but that probably has way more to do with how the game was actually written/implemented, and less to do with Amazon's scalability features.

[–] zalgotext 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I think it's supposed to be a commentary on how painkillers are widely available and overused to cover up larger health issues, which snowballs into larger and larger health issues

[–] zalgotext 4 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Every accusation is a confession

[–] zalgotext 6 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Could you be more specific about the negligible health benefits of coffee and the downsides of caffeine? As a regular coffee drinker, I've done some searching to try and gauge the long-term risks of consuming ~100-200mg of caffeine per day, and couldn't really find anything. The medical sources I've seen basically say the long term risk is practically non-existent unless you have a specific sensitivity to caffeine, but I'm curious if you've seen something different.

[–] zalgotext 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Nothing says "serious" like mixing upper and lower case letters yet keeping them all the same height, so it looks like a third grader wrote it

[–] zalgotext 9 points 1 week ago

Beans can absolutely be a treat if you cook them right. I'm sorry you've never been able to experience tasty beans.

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