They are quite stabby and I hate them.

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My wife never returned to work, we had kids and she has stayed at home with them. As such the ad has stayed up. Last I checked though it is bringing in something like $36 a month despite traffic being higher than ever. I get a payout from Google every couple months.

I'm considering taking it down just because the payoff is so low. It's honestly barely breaking even with the added expense of complicating my taxes.

Itanium was the heir apparent but importantly basically vaporware. How do you develop software NOW and more importantly sell and ship software NOW that'll work on a CPU you don't have access to and for which good compilers don't really exist yet? I remind you in the days where online updates were a luxury at best.

Processor agnostic CIL/JIT code was the prescribed solution at the time. Java had lit the way, and it was the only "clear" path forward for better or worse.

Little did we know Itanium would implode, and x86-64 would rise and give 20+ more years of binary compatibility.

I once pondered why Apple wouldn't distribute their iPhone updates peer-to-peer and got multiple network engineers far more knowledgeable than me discussing why that would be a bad idea.

It was fun and genuinely social. My following on what is now X has halved in number after the Musk acquisition, but cut far deeper in reality. When I do find myself compelled to post on X, I have two former colleagues that heart and occasionally reply. This is the extent of the interactions I have on the platform.

I created an account on Bluesky account but in my several years of largely shadowing my X posts on Bluesky I've amassed all of twenty followers.

Talking to a friend about it, I was basically told I was doing social media wrong. No one cares about "dude wonders about tech" posts anymore. Fine I guess. I never really sought a following, it just kind of happened.

X in particular I find only really boosts big creators, whatever Twitters discovery algorithm was where I would find interesting posts by people with a couple followers is long gone.

Instagram and Facebook, once places I'd reserved for friends are now just ghost towns trying to fake life with AI slop.

I miss social media, I miss having genuinely deep discussions with people I did not know over shared interests. None of the current providers seem interested in providing an outlet for this.

I feel I suspect a similar grief over not being perceived as the author, but it wasn't really of my choosing.

Free Chocolate? Sure.

13¢ chocolate? I've gotta try to make change? An awkward amount no less. 3 pennies? They are getting hard to come by. I didn't even want a chocolate. I don't have any cash on me. Do you take card?

For instance, when I'm buying something off Facebook marketplace, if the items not a multiple of $20 bills and $50 bills, the denominations I can get from the ATM, I'm far less likely to buy it because I have to stop somewhere else on my way to the seller and try and make change. It's a pain in the butt.

I have literally overpaid for things from marketplace by a dollar or two to avoid making change.

But if my only options are 1¢ chocolate versus 13¢ chocolate, those are on way closer footing because either way I have to dig my wallet out.

I'd still take the Hershey kiss though because it tastes better.

I am not a lawyer, but site stability seems like a GDPR "Legitimate Interest" in my book anyway.

They'd promised a webcam driver, but that never materialized and instead just gave instructions on using OBS to use the video stream window as a camera.

https://www.epilogue.co/product/gb-operator

https://www.epilogue.co/support/playing-games/gb-camera-webc...

My dad on the other hand, who worked for Control Data in the 1980s regularly installs some of the scummiest apps imaginable, and they're all from the Play Store proper.

Launchers that don't actually launch things and serve ads. Apps that launch full screen ads while you're doing things saying your device is infected. Absolute trash.

Like maybe just maybe put some energy into going after the stuff in the Play Store first. As the Play Store exists now, it is unsafe.

I kid a little, I worked with some very good PMs when we did client work who made my life much easier. Working on a SaaS though, I find them generally less than useful.

I worked with a QA team for the last fifteen years until last year when they laid them all off.

QA is a discrete skill in and of itself. I have never met a dev truly qualified to do QA. If you don't think this you have never worked with a good QA person. A good QA persons super power is finding weird broken interactions between features and layers where they meet. Things you would never think of in a million years. Any dingbat can test input validation, but it takes a truly talented person to ask "what if I did X in one tab, Y in another, and then Z, all with this exact timing so events overlap". I have been truly stunned at some of the issues QA has found in the past.

As for time, they saved us so much time! Unless your goal is to not test at all and push slop, they are taking so much work off your plate!

Beyond feature testing, when a customer defect would come in they would use their expertise to validate it, reproduce it, document the parameters and boundaries of the issue before it ever got passed on to dev. Now all that work is on us.

Demonstrated here (animated):

https://www.haiku-os.org/docs/userguide/en/images/gui-images...

I guess I don't understand why not just merge at that point? The point of rebadge is to destroy history...