1950s American recipes are indeed horrifying. I’ve got an excellent vintage Good Housekeeping cookbook (none of the recipes are the best but it gives a wide gamut of basics to refer to, if needed). There is a section including aspics, which is just awful.

Is karma even a thing on Lemmy? Anyone? No? Yes? Ok, it doesn’t matter, I’ll take the hit if I have to

No, it is not. Upvotes and downvotes mainly just impact post and comment sorting. Karma on platforms like Reddit was good in theory but, was heavily gamed by bad actors to fake perceived authenticity.

By design. Karma on Reddit, while good in theory, did not hold up against bad actors.

I (potentially) got you.

Edit: Might be this one https://knoxgelatine.com/ColdSoupsandSalads/CSS2.htm

Then they shouldn’t have taken a federal judge seat. It’s like sitting in the exit row of an aircraft; if you’re not willing to carry out your responsibility when shit gets hard, you shouldn’t be taking the position in the first place.

it’s ok for people to profit off of their IP

Absolutely. I just have trust issues with closed source software and platforms. Burned too many times.

When your education revolves around dehumanizing people and turning them into abstract numbers, it’s not that far of a leap, unfortunately.

Now there’s more than one and they’re running mental gymnastics to claim that pro-social behavior is simping for corpos. Special kind of entitled faux-leftism there.

Maybe I’m just high and should go stare out a window.

You’ve unironically provided verbal support for a guy wanting to use lethal force against someone causing no property damage while attempting to bring attention to anti-social behavior.

Yes, you should probably reflect some on why you believe that murdering someone over a magnet is appropriate (brandishing a firearm is assault with a deadly weapon, and in some places attempted murder for a reason).

Those who produce MBAs at it again.

Modifying software that might not be within the scope of the company that I work for, much less my team, on systems that I explicitly do not have authorization to make such changes on? No, I would not be doing that.

An important thing to remember is that going all-in on a given tool is going to result in a bad time. You suggestion of SQL, for example, excels in querying and modifying data that lives in a database and follows the expected structures in said database. Most data is not in databases, nor is it structured in a compatible manner, if at all. The workarounds needed to coax SQL into performing such tasks would result in syntax both more arcane and more verbose than the regex necessary to transform it into something compatible.

Use the right tool for the right job. For transforming semi-structured and unstructured data into something useful in a practical amount of time, regex is frequently the right tool.

Fair enough. That’s long enough of ownership that resale would likely be impacted. Getting into debt at this juncture would indeed not be recommended.

Also the the goals of accelerationism, though it claims that such is a precursor to revolution and utopia.

How long ago did you buy? Still enough Musk fanboys that either don’t care that he is a Nazi or support it. Likely able to sell it and buy an objectively better vehicle, if it is an actual concern.

political protest.

You say potato, I say “not visually signaling support for a guy who gives nazi salutes, provides monetary aid to literal nazis, and is currently engaged in an active attempt to permanently end democracy in the US”.

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I get that when you spending 100m+ on game development, but a game needs to have actual value to the consumer, it has to be entertainment, and entertainment is art.

A side point on this: maybe some accounting transparency would help too. We know that that $100M+ isn’t going to the developers as they are some of the most underpaid tech workers. How much of a given game’s budget is actually going to compensate those directly contributing to it vs administration/execs?

Most investors are going to care about what kind of return they’re making. It’s the capital they provide that pays the paychecks.

Maybe that’s the problem. Valve did pretty well for themselves, even before steam, without putting investors in charge of their direction.

If you want to do volunteer work on video games – I have – then that’s not an issue.

I have indeed worked on my own and others projects without financial gain but that’s orthogonal to my point.

But typically games are made by paid workers, and those workers won’t work without their paychecks.

The games industry is full of chronically under-compensated workers. Again, nowhere did I advocate for people to work for free for commercial enterprises or anything of the like.

So they’re going to need to attract investors.

That’s a pretty good example of the False Dichotomy fallacy. There are numerous alternatives that don’t involve prioritizing profit over the product or service that a business produces.

… If he wants to be a hedge fund exec, he should just go do that. The point of a business, contrary to the Chicago School MBA nonsense, is not to generate profit. It is to make a good or service that would otherwise be impractical for an individual, in a financially sustainable manner.

Why would I use SQL to to reformat a poorly structured log file for programs whose source I have no input in during a live debug with a customer on system that I don’t own and can’t install anything on? Or to extract and format things like hosts from a similar file?

That’s stuff that’s quickly and easily done in vim (which is generally part of the base install) with regex. There’s a lot of use cases that have no overlap with SQL.