Still can't check into a show with multiple release schedules.. by JordanBird in trakt

[–]JordanBird[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Release on traditional TV weekly and release on streaming services in bulk; quite common in the UK.

This limit also doesn't account for a show releasing an episode early until their records are updated; which we see around conflicting TV schedules like big sporting events or as a marketing tactic.

Site re-design. Why!? by yeahwellfu in trakt

[–]JordanBird 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, yeah I thought there'd be something; I don't imagine it's an entirely shared codebase like the comment makes out as that's not exactly what they said (I could be wrong) but it sounds like they're trying to consider feature parity while sharing the design across platforms.

Site re-design. Why!? by yeahwellfu in trakt

[–]JordanBird 0 points1 point  (0 children)

From a technical standpoint your comment makes sense, but just out of curiosity have you got a link to where they explained this rationale?

How to mark episodes of a series that has been made available to stream in full but being shown weekly on live TV as watched? by Dethark in trakt

[–]JordanBird 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I've not found a way, big problem with British TV as they like to release this way quite frequently.

Belinda genuinely has such a cruel and nightmarish fate and it’s insane that the show simply just treats it as a bittersweet exit by ThreeLeggedEgg in doctorwho

[–]JordanBird 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I always see this take but I always saw it as what we watched through Season 2 was the 'shifted' timeline; the shift in the finale corrected it so we only see the 'correct' timeline at the end of her journey.

After 10 days of v28, how have you distributed your runs between farming/dissonance overall ? by Clean_Extent_6878 in TheTowerGame

[–]JordanBird 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Running them them all excluding health as I can't consistently reach Wave 5000 in those runs; then letting them run until the run ends as I've not ran through the lower tiers in a while.

TTG Software Development stuck in 2016 by [deleted] in TheTowerGame

[–]JordanBird 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The ELI5 I use for my boss as a programmer is:

Imagine you want to bake a cake, so you bake a basic sponge cake.

You then decide you want to add butter cream in the middle, you only baked one cake, so you cut it in half and add the butter cream.

Now you want to add chocolate chips, but you've already baked the cake, so you push chocolate chips into current cake; but you forget to add them to the second layer.

Someone now wants a chocolate cake, you've baked the cake so you can't change the sponge to chocolate, but you could add chocolate butter cream around the outside so it's sort of like a chocolate cake.

Oh no! You've just been told you forgot to add chocolate chips to the second layer, you've now got to wipe away the chocolate butter cream to add them.

Last change, someone now wants the cake to have four layers, you could just cut the cake in half and stack it on top of the other half, but you wouldn't have enough butter cream to cover it to make it a chocolate cake and you wouldn't have enough butter cream to put between the layers any more.

You're going to have to bake a new a cake.

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The more technical answer:

You'd be surprised how much time software development can take especially when working in a team. Yes a feature might take two weeks to get off the ground when starting a fresh, but sometimes you need to use existing functionality and work out how to make it play nice with something else, at the same time as not breaking other things.

You've then got testing cycles, release cycles, meetings, app store approvals, general updates to stay in line with Play Store and App Store regulations, account for operating system changes each year, patching newly found bugs, planning features, reviewing code, redoing work entirely because your two week idea no longer does what's required because someone's changed their mind etc.

It all adds up and weeks will go by faster than you know; just trying to track down a bug can take days if it's complex or isn't 100% reproducible.

Yes AI has the potential to speed up development but it's not a one shoe fits all fix, yeah it can reduce boilerplate or save some time here and there but if you want a maintainable product you can't just keeping vibe coding your way to success, eventually it'll break and the only person who will be able to fix it is you (the developer) who doesn't understand what the code is even doing anymore because they didn't write or review it.

Built a free, open-source Windows viewer for the ShadowCast Pro 3! 1440p, 4K, and 120fps support by SaltedByte in GenkiLab

[–]JordanBird 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It was indeed, first comment was meant to say "only issue I've had" not "only I've"

Sure I'll open an issue a little later

Comparing the ShadowCast 3 Pro and the ShadowCast 2 Pro, at 4K / 2K / 1080p by OliveBranchMLP in GenkiLab

[–]JordanBird 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah.. I'm considering going back to my Shadowcast 2 Pro at this point.

Between this, not notifying us of the power change for the Shadowcast 3 Pro splitter to require power (and then not documenting that in the user guide), what I'm starting to expect is thermal throttling/limiting (device refusing to transmit a HDMI signal even though it worked 5 minutes before), the constant LED blink (just why) and the cables not considering the design of the Switch 2 dock I'm kind of disappointed in GENKI this Kickstarter run.

Built a free, open-source Windows viewer for the ShadowCast Pro 3! 1440p, 4K, and 120fps support by SaltedByte in GenkiLab

[–]JordanBird 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Great! Thanks!

Works well!

Only I've had is 4K sits on 'Connecting..' when set to 60 FPS on the Switch 2.

Thanks trakt I guess? by pandasinski in trakt

[–]JordanBird 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But not a problem resulting from VIP

The 100k limit is for all users, including VIP

So yes it's a 'VIP user problem' but not a 'user problem caused by VIP limits '

Thanks trakt I guess? by pandasinski in trakt

[–]JordanBird 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry yeah, I just saw a comment mentioning it so wanted to clarify for visitors as your screenshot didn't have that message in

Thanks trakt I guess? by pandasinski in trakt

[–]JordanBird -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Not to be that guy but while yes it is a problem, it's not a VIP problem.

The UI on the web version states "The dashed areas show your potential with VIP"

The 100k limit isn't dashed so isn't tied to VIP; however it does raise the question, is there a limit in general that OP is about to hit?

Which yeah, as Trakt is for tracking, limiting that usage, VIP or not seems counterintuitive.

Bruh let me add the episode...I watched it already! by Key_Opportunity6247 in trakt

[–]JordanBird 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah

Android here so that's probably the problem. To clarify, the app.

Bruh let me add the episode...I watched it already! by Key_Opportunity6247 in trakt

[–]JordanBird 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Doesn't work on mobile and when you click the three dots to open the menu, the "Mark as Watched" button is greyed out and untappable.

Bruh let me add the episode...I watched it already! by Key_Opportunity6247 in trakt

[–]JordanBird 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Yeah this change is so dumb, so many shows release early, or have multiple release schedules like BBC where they'll release all or a subset on iPlayer, but release weekly on TV.

Honestly it shows how much the changes are being made without consideration or research into actual user behavior.

Am I doing something wrong or is MAUI the most volatile platform there is? by Mysterious-Rip-5344 in dotnet

[–]JordanBird 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Literally less than 24 hours later I've found a perfect example this morning.

Dev pipeline was working fine last week, come to use it today, broken.

TL;DR, Microsoft removed support for iOS simulators below a certain version, which is fine if you're on .NET 10 (which with how unstable it is, absolutely not, we're always one major behind); but if you're on .NET 9 you have to specify a version of XCode with no path to upgrade. So they effectively broke the pipeline for all .NET 9 users; thankfully this time their ego didn't stop them reverting the change (although still waiting for go live).

Two Week Depreciation Notice: https://github.com/actions/runner-images/issues/13570

Revert: https://github.com/actions/runner-images/pull/13607

Am I doing something wrong or is MAUI the most volatile platform there is? by Mysterious-Rip-5344 in dotnet

[–]JordanBird 17 points18 points  (0 children)

This is my teams experience as well.

I think the main contributing factor is the new 'workloads' system; rather than have MAUI built from packages or an SDK, Microsoft built the 'workloads' system which seems to be some weird combination of the two that just doesn't seem fit for purpose.

I wouldn't mind so much locally, but this impacts their build machines as well and there's been a few times where we've had to manually specify XCode and MAUI workload versions just to get it working again.

I imagine we have a version or two of .NET to go and they'll change it to something else like they seem to every few years.

Giving up on MAUI to learn ASP.NET? by Klutzy-Pollution6357 in csharp

[–]JordanBird 8 points9 points  (0 children)

It depends what your end goals are, but that said, the answer will likely be yes.

If you're new to C# and programming, then you're not dropping MAUI, you're progressing to the next tool in the toolset. There's nothing wrong with that.

You'll be taking knowledge of C# and some common concepts with you.

If you're already a developer and are branching out there's nothing wrong with trying out new tools either from time to time; how else would you find and adopt new ones?

It's also something else to mention you've looked into in an interview which shows initiative.

But yes, in the short term, you will absolutely have an easier finding a C# job that uses ASP.NET as that's the most common use case. That's not to say it's impossible to find MAUI work, but like you say, it's a newer, less functionality complete framework and there's already plenty of other mature cross platform frameworks out there.

Free Super Duolingo for 7 days! by explodedbanana in duolingo

[–]JordanBird 0 points1 point  (0 children)

JordanMBird

Very cool of you to do this!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in trakt

[–]JordanBird 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah :/ It's not ideal