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New comment by hegstal in "I have officially retired from Emacs"

hegstal — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:45:53 +0000

On the other hand, given there is prior art in Elfeed, why wouldn't it rapidly converge on feature parity?

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

hegstal — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 12:36:42 +0000

One of the games they are also going after is Detroit: Become Human, and they have gone after things like GTA in the past. Just because they claim they are going after things for those reasons doesn't mean that's actually an accurate claim as to what they are trying to go after. Though it's good to point out who is actually (supposedly) responsible.

New comment by hegstal in "If you are useful, it doesn't mean you are valued"

hegstal — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 13:13:55 +0000

The anti-social 10x developer is more often than not the anti-social 1x developer that makes everyone else move at 0.1x or worse. Not that I directly blame them for it - there is far too much focus on the individual here. It's not so common they are bad people, but more that their own management doesn't provide them with the incentives to behave any other way. It's all about incentives. If the incentives are there, the parties involved will inevitably find a way to compromise in a way that works for them, but if the incentives are fundamentally misaligned, there is no way this gets resolved. The only option is to run.