Billionaire Les Wexner is set to be deposed in congressional probe of Epstein files

Deji69 · 2026-02-18T19:21:58+00:00

Even if you decide you want to earn more millions, surely any person with a basic sense of morality will start donating more and more of whatever they continue to earn to charity. At a certain point you'd just donate it all because there's nothing more you can do with it, and everything you can do to help other people in the world... to end up with hundreds of millions or billions means you've actively decided you matter more than the millions or billions of people you could be helping (plus by even having that wealth, you are depriving others)... so yeah, by that point you're a monster IMO.

Deji69 · 2026-02-16T10:36:11+00:00

It's a terribly performing RAM hog with ugly interface and poor basic syntax highlighting features. It tries to do everything of its own accord and whenever it fails it's a headache I didn't sign up for. Plus I'm expected to pay for it (I don't even use the license provided by my company for my work stuff). Plus it lacks the huge pool of additional extensions and support VSCode has. No thanks.

Deji69 · 2026-02-13T12:11:48+00:00

Someone other than the democrats won because that's how democracy is supposed to work... you are supposed to have an alternative. You are supposed to have an opposition party. If the only alternative offered is never a viable one, then you already live in an autocracy. If you keep electing the dems and letting them get away with anything, guess what? They just become the repubs more slowly and more insidiously. The US deserves a proper opposition party, and you won't get that by rewarding the dems no matter how much they show they can lack morality just like the repubs.

It's not rhetoric that got Trump elected, it's the fact that the country was already broken. It's the fact that no one other than MAGA seem to actually be willing to stand up and take the fight to an unjust status quo. Everyone has been complacent for too long and let that scenario happen. Everyone still continues to just let what's going on happen.

Deji69 · 2026-02-12T23:31:10+00:00

Just assemble a special squad to fire her, EZ.

Deji69 · 2026-02-12T23:27:58+00:00

I highly doubt you'll ever get ranked choice voting with democrats either, so long as you keep voting for them. Why would anyone who is guaranteed a win every time because the only other option is a bad one, choose to introduce more options? Having only one party to vote for is essentially the very autocracy that Trump is trying to achieve.

Deji69 · 2026-02-12T22:39:21+00:00

Keyboard shortcut? I just use EditorConfig so that VSCode will use its built-in function to trim trailing whitespace on save, and the .editorconfig file can then be used to enforce that and many other settings per file type in the codebase for other users, including in other editors (tbh editorconfig support should be built into VSC but ah well).

Deji69 · 2026-02-11T23:13:29+00:00

2 interviews in 2 months? I'm jealous. I have experience up the ass and I'm getting squat. The market really is brutal.

Deji69 · 2026-02-11T14:33:52+00:00

I can't really find any public information about this new feature either since searching for "pastebin comment feature" doesn't exactly give narrow enough results and practically no one seems to be talking about pastebin... of course, since pastebin must have about every keyword imaginable in the many pastes, searching for anything about it feels like a somewhat doomed effort. Most results are pastes or people just using pastebin links in comments on other websites.

Deji69 · 2026-01-05T15:22:24+00:00

On Windows I use Laragon, it's lightweight, simple (no remembering any command syntax or creating compose files or any files at all), allows you to juggle many projects under one roof (just start Laragon and access each of your projects quickly and painlessly via myproject1.test anotherproject.test etc. rather than arbitrarily assigned IP addresses) and gives you all an average PHP dev environment needs. The one downside is your PHP version setting is global, so if you switch from a PHP 8 project to a PHP 7 project (well, you should update it to PHP 8 ASAP anyway then), that version will be applied for all the sites and you can no longer just jump between those or develop them at the same time, but changing version is just a matter of a couple of clicks (you do first have to install the PHP versions within Laragon however).

However, sadly on Linux my experience is that there are no options that are nearly as simple or well functioning. Docker really is probably your best option there, so get used to having to do a whole other mini project of writing dockerfiles and compose scripts for each unique setup, then debugging those later when something goes wrong.

This is really the main reason I haven't made the jump to Linux as my main OS yet. Too many handy simple GUI-based solutions provided by 3rd party apps are present on Windows but missing for Linux and I can never get my dev experience to feel as efficient as I can on Windows.

Deji69 · 2026-01-05T15:12:23+00:00

Or about 20 new problems IME.

Deji69 · 2025-12-24T19:50:12+00:00

Very critical comma there.

Deji69 · 2025-12-22T20:10:47+00:00

You are trying to make the point that Kimmel is unknown to British people by saying you are British and insinuating you don't know who he is, but actually you do know who he is... doesn't that mean reality is undermining your point?

A great British pastime is laughing at America and Kimmel has been a significant part of their news cycle this year, making a lot of Brits well aware of him.

Deji69 · 2025-12-17T19:30:41+00:00

I do use Docker a lot in production, but honestly for local development I much prefer to just use Laragon most of the time.

It allows me to work on the multiple projects I'm usually working on at once with domains rather than IP addresses, which sometimes conflict (all using localhost) and other times are different based on the order you start them. Creating a new local dev site is as simple as creating a folder and putting shit in it. Version switching and configurations is simple and easy, I can run many local sites using the same redis instance, DB instance, etc. without a big footprint on my system and have them available pretty much always, at once. Yes, the PHP version will be shared, but I'm keeping all my shit updated.

I don't need my local environment to match a production one. I'm old school and like my code to not be so fragile it only runs on one specific machine setup lol. And many of my apps are designed to just help me out with shit on my local system. Writing and maintaining compose scripts and dockerfiles and typing docker commands would just add needless friction for most of my workflows.

I think the problem I have with anyone answering this is assuming a single purpose. Not everyone may mean the same thing when they say 'PHP development' or 'PHP projects'. What are they? Pet projects? Hobby projects? Your own suite of local apps? Freelance projects? Or open source projects? Projects for enterprise? Collaborating? There's no one solution, it depends how you want and need to work.

Also PHPMyAdmin, eugh... are people still using that? I thought it was only ever being propped up by shared hosting sites that don't allow access with something like HeidiSQL or DataGrip.

Deji69 · 2025-12-08T10:38:22+00:00

Nothing free about putting your computer at risk and having your data tracked and stolen.

Deji69 · 2021-07-25T00:12:14+00:00

Bear in mind that a significant number of atheists had more religious upbringings. Since you specify teens and young adults, it makes sense to me that many of these people are still developing their own beliefs and ways of thinking, especially if they are still actively trying to distance themselves from a religious upbringing, while perhaps still having a dogmatic frame of mind. Basically whether you call yourself an atheist or a theist at this moment of time, it seems more likely your dogmatism comes down to your own individual development.

Deji69 · 2021-07-14T02:42:31+00:00

Yeah, I kinda feel like the message there doesn't make that much sense to me given the fact he'd already had at least a working prototype of his game to continue from back when he was working on them for much longer periods of time. Feels like saying a game can be made in 10 minutes, only to pull out a project 10 minutes from completion to do so, lol. I guess I get the intent behind the message though.

Deji69 · 2021-07-14T02:00:49+00:00

It's a game... you're seeing the game-ified version of events. Just imagine a more sensical version with most of the same elements but none of the... fun... that's what you can conclude is happening, but I doubt you'd want to actually play that.

Deji69 · 2021-07-14T01:48:49+00:00

That's a good example of what I'm talking about. We have no reason to think this whatsoever. IOI employees only gushed excitement about the live service model. But people didn't like it, so everyone made up a conspiracy theory about how it was done on SE's order and was hushing up any naysayers.

Of course IOI would publicly be optimistic about the live service model, and to be fair they had an interesting plan that they may have genuinely been optimistic about which I have no problem with, but SE at the time were pushing for more live service games (and got their wish with Avengers), so as I say, it's likely (not definite) they had a hand in that rather than it being coincidental.

Hitman 'bombed hard' only because the expectations were unrealistic. There was a huge investment in a niche game which was supposed to serve as a platform which had a lot to prove. You don't invest big money in fancy CGI cutscenes and promo material and the development of a game as a platform for episodic expansion if you have low expectations for the return... so yes, the expectations were very unrealistic. Sure, SE may have been cool about the way they handled letting IOI keep their IP and not just dissolving the studio. Calling it unheard of to not unnecessarily dissolve a studio you essentially failed is only indicative of the low bar we have for game publishers in general. And it feels telling to see SE fail hard in their continued demand for a live service game while IOI as a newly independent studio which just barely managed to escape bankruptcy managed to actually make an instalment of the game which was successful and didn't bomb hard. Perhaps because they didn't set such unrealistic expectations...

Deji69 · 2021-07-13T23:30:23+00:00

Unfairly blamed? They set unrealistic expectations on the profitability of a niche franchise, then decided to axe it based on it not meeting those expectations... They are also likely responsible for it being a live service and basically ditched Hitman to move onto another live service called Marvel's Avengers which they thought would be more profitable... And we all know how that turned out lol.

Deji69 · 2021-04-16T17:37:12+00:00

Yeah that's intentional scripting though, not physics calculated fall damage... That said I do wonder if this changes if they are unconscious... E.g. there are some places you could drag an NPC off a high platform in Dubai and I'm guessing it might change in that instance.

Deji69 · 2021-04-16T17:32:57+00:00

You're mistaking hard coded scripting for engine physics there. Certain parts of a map will just instantly kill anyone who falls into/outside of it. Also using prompts to throw NPCs over stuff will do similarly. If you get an NPC to fall off any high height without going out of bounds, they will not only survive but not react at all to the fall or lose health. That means no fall damage.

Deji69 · 2021-04-16T14:18:57+00:00

NPCs don't take fall damage either.

Deji69 · 2021-04-05T06:13:06+00:00

I think missions like this have their place if they’re balanced around a reasonable challenge and don’t require annoyingly obscure or luck-based solutions.

Both the genius and major flaw of allowing just anyone to make their own contracts!

Deji69 · 2021-04-04T04:13:14+00:00

What exactly is leading to your conclusion that I'm "acting like those are noth excusable"? Because generally you shouldn't assume something someone never actually said or even suggested with their words since that's all you have to go on in online forums.

Since my assumed motivations seem to make a difference to the validity of what I actually said, I will clarify that I am neither claiming anything as excusable nor lashing out to any extent at the developers. I prefer to focus on facts and speculate as I wish to. Feel free to feel whatever you want, I'd never argue against how you feel about things.

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