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New comment by burnhamup in "Subway Builder: A realistic subway simulation game"

burnhamup — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 20:06:45 +0000

In practice it means Steam reviews the key requests you make for third party bundles and sales. If they decide the deal is too generous, they may deny the key requests until you've offered the game for a comparable price on Steam.

New comment by burnhamup in "Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to delist certain adult games"

burnhamup — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 15:46:45 +0000

> Here is a fun tip: Just transfer or deposited money in small amounts, whenever you feel like it. Avoids the questioning like your some kind of criminal.

Breaking up deposits into smaller amounts is a crime called structuring.

I wouldn't recommend doing this as an alternative to dealing with the reports and scrutiny on larger transactions.

New comment by burnhamup in "Should I Use a Carousel? (2013)"

burnhamup — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 01:59:15 +0000

Point taken. It was really annoying to try to read one of the slides of the carousel because it kept moving.

New comment by burnhamup in "A Minecraft server written in COBOL"

burnhamup — Thu, 26 Dec 2024 16:00:16 +0000

I think options are limited from the switch. You can't connect to arbitrary servers from the console version - just some curated public servers or by paying for Realms. You can hack around this with a DNS server that redirects the curated servers, but starts to get sketchy.

You also need the paid switch online for any sort of network play.

New comment by burnhamup in "The Lego Great Ball Contraption"

burnhamup — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 02:36:10 +0000

Brickfest is more of a traveling attraction. The local convention was Bricks by the Bay - they had the GBC in 2023, but the convention is on an indefinite hiatus. I wish it were easier to see where upcoming GBC's would be,

New comment by burnhamup in "Compression efficiency with shared dictionaries in Chrome"

burnhamup — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 03:46:13 +0000

The patch system I worked with generated signatures of each build. The signature had the hash of each block of the build. The client has the signature for their version (1.0) and they download the signature of the new version (1.2) and diff the two. Then they download each block that has changed.

I think it was the `electron-updater` for my electron app, but I don't quite remember now.

New comment by burnhamup in "CNET is deleting old articles to try to improve its Google Search ranking"

burnhamup — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 22:37:05 +0000

The theory I've heard is related to 'crawl budget'. Google is only going to devote a finite amount of time to indexing your site. If the number of articles on your site exceeds that time, some portion of your site won't be indexed. So by 'pruning' undesirable pages, you might boost attention on the articles you want indexed. No clue how this ends up working in practice.

Google's suggestion isn't to delete pages, but maybe mark some pages with a no index header.

https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/...

New comment by burnhamup in "Newsom just signed California pay transparency bill"

burnhamup — Wed, 28 Sep 2022 18:48:13 +0000

I saw the Colorado excluded in job postings in the immediate aftermath.

I'm starting to see more and more companies listings a Colorado salary range in recent listings.

New comment by burnhamup in "Apple countersues Epic, seeks punitive damages"

burnhamup — Wed, 09 Sep 2020 05:14:38 +0000

I'm not so sure that's true. They might have come to the Google Play store as part of their plan to sue Google. Their Google lawsuit has complaints about Google interfering with their third party deals with phone manufacturers.