folkrav

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[–] folkrav@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Really bigger updates obviously require a major version bump to signify to users that there is potential stability or breakage issues expected.

If your software is following semver, not necessarily. It only requires a major version bump if a change is breaking backwards compatibility. You can have very big minor releases and tiny major releases.

there was more time for people to run pre-release versions if they are adventurous and thus there is better testing

Again, by experience, this is assuming a lot.

[–] folkrav@lemmy.ca 8 points 7 months ago (3 children)

From experience shipping releases, "bigger updates" and "more tested" are more or less antithetical. The testing surface area tends to grow exponentially with the amount of features you ship with a given release, to the point I tend to see small, regular releases, as a better sign of stability.

[–] folkrav@lemmy.ca 3 points 7 months ago

Agreed. They're a solid power metal pick regardless as well

[–] folkrav@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 months ago

Sleep I get, but you'd be surprised at what constitutes "work music" for me then hehe

[–] folkrav@lemmy.ca 9 points 7 months ago

Your first hint that this is a naive take is that you're brushing off a societal issue to a single, external factor.

[–] folkrav@lemmy.ca 20 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Once the monopoly is in place, what's protecting said "reasonable cost for the consumer", exactly?

[–] folkrav@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Ah, you too! Furthest I got in BG3 is the goblin camp lol

[–] folkrav@lemmy.ca 3 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Funny, I just started it again a week ago. For the third time. I'm enjoying it a lot, like the last two times, but I have a lingering feeling this won't last lol

[–] folkrav@lemmy.ca 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I recently realized that many of the things I end up sticking with are those I didn't pick up on a whim, but that I planned to take a look at for a while and pushed back on. For example, I've owned Elite Dangerous for more than a year, I was barely touching it for the first six months, and played extremely occasionally otherwise. This lasted until last November, when something just... clicked, to the point my wife got together with my mother to buy me a HOTAS this Christmas.

Rest assured that your experience does sound extremely familiar. It's very difficult to stick to something. The dopamine rush I get from the very act of figuring out something new just doesn't last past the novelty phase.

[–] folkrav@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 months ago

I heard some interview with... I want to say Fleetwood, who said something along the lines of having had a bad streak where he kept shooting his driver right, a coach came in, told him "just aim left" and basically fixed his drive.

[–] folkrav@lemmy.ca 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Music (and other art forms) happen to trigger our brains to shoot the same happy/sad/etc chemicals other less abstract physical experiences do, for reasons we don't completely understand. I'm utterly confused why being aware of them, or having the curiosity of wanting to learn more about it, is "what's going wrong with society". If anything, curiosity is one of the main things that kickstarted us as a species, and brushing it off to some abstract "deeper layers of human existence" like it was some sorcery we shouldn't dare try to understand would be way more concerning about our state as a society. As for the completeness of this particular theory... I mean, we are on /c/showerthoughts after all.

[–] folkrav@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 months ago

Jazz has patterns and repetition, like any interesting music genre. If it didn't, it'd be called noise. They just aren't as in your face and predictable as the ones employed by pop genres.

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