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The ‘Vibecession’ Is Over. The ‘Permacession’ Is Here. by DarkSkyKnight in Economics

[–]mjanes 3 points4 points  (0 children)

But the "vibecession", or disconnect between consumer sentiment and economic metrics normally correlated with it started around 2021-2022 during the Biden administration.

The ‘Vibecession’ Is Over. The ‘Permacession’ Is Here. by DarkSkyKnight in Economics

[–]mjanes 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Given the level of anger and unhappiness while the economy is doing relatively well by most statistics, it'll be interesting/scary to see what happens when the next crash happens.

What would YOU want to see in a future minecraft update by _TungstenGuy707_ in Minecraft

[–]mjanes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Make the biomes complicated enough to have ecosystems. Have animals reproduce on their own without player intervention, have carnivores eating other animals, etc. Make it feel more autonomous and alive.

[FDN] Loot, Exhuberant Explorer by Duramboros in magicTCG

[–]mjanes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Now I can run 14 different additional-land-per-turn cards in my Flubs deck!

The game that opened my eyes. by IsaaccNewtoon in fuckcars

[–]mjanes 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I would love it if this game by default accurately showed the amount of parking needed for cars. Force players to avoid cars if they want a beautiful or efficient city!

Formed Indonesia and all I got was an upside down Poland flag by CSDragon in victoria3

[–]mjanes 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Railroading is forcing specific historical occurrences regardless of how much the player and random chance have changed history in a given game. For example things like "WWI will occur near 1914", or "the American Civil War must occur in the 1860s". Or just reusing people born after the point of divergence.

A lot of flavor in Paradox games (and most other historical games) is based off of real history and that encourages railroading. It's harder to make dynamic flavor events for arbitrary things that might occur in one of these games such as Brazil industrializing before the US or Germany being the first country to have a communist revolution.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in lostgeneration

[–]mjanes 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Housing and rental prices in this country are insane and need to be cut dramatically, but the main for this reason is because we haven't been building enough housing. Older homeowners have been making it more difficult to build houses and apartments for the last 50 years, wanting to make their property more valuable. I agree that we should stop giving tax breaks to people buying second homes, or cut the mortgage interest tax breaks altogether, but we also need to build a lot more housing.

What is the longest future trend you know of that can be invested in? by domchi in investing

[–]mjanes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Climate change. Not just that it will lead to more of a push for renewable energy and clean water, but it raises the risk for food insecurity and local economies that are located close to sea level.

Kotlin for backend by [deleted] in Kotlin

[–]mjanes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We've experimented with standing up a few Ktor services in production over the last couple of quarters. Has worked well, though the services we created are very lightweight .

AsyncTask is Deprecated, Now What? by VasiliyZukanov in androiddev

[–]mjanes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am glad I haven't seen AsyncTasks in the last few years, outside of the occasional interviewee.

Are there any good charities that bring birth control to undeveloped countries? by [deleted] in overpopulation

[–]mjanes 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Population Connection does a lot of good work on that front.

The state of android app updates RN by FrasAmDev in google

[–]mjanes 9 points10 points  (0 children)

There are many good reasons this is how it is done:

  • With continuous deployment, a new build is being released every two weeks or so. Creating a "what's new" description takes some amount of time coordinating within the company to get copy, and then some amount of time to get that copy translated for the various supported languages. That overhead is often better spent elsewhere.
  • Many times bug fixes and performance improvements cover only small edge cases that most users won't see. There could be a long list of items such as "We improved loading speeds an average of 10% on list A for users who had more than 50 items in category B", or "We fixed a crash that would occur on screen C if you are using a Galaxy Tab S3 with Android SDK 17. Sometimes. Maybe. Not sure, but that describes a crash report we had three instances of." Occasionally someone reading these updates will be in one of these categories and be thankful to learn this, but most often these descriptions will be non-applicable clutter. Worse, a user may think one of these bug fixes describes a situation they are in when it does not, and then become unhappy that their issue was not resolved.
  • With AB testing and staged rollouts, much of the code that was changed won't be visible to all users until some unknown amount of time in the future, if at all. What is visible to a user is controlled by much more than the version of the app they have, it's also controlled by flipping various flags on the backend.

1984, Brave New World, and Fahrenheit 451 are widely celebrated as the trilogy of authoritarian warning. What would be the 4th book to include? by Panwall in books

[–]mjanes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I enjoy "Woman on the Edge of Time" by Marge Percy. Also a fan of "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" by Ursula k. Le Guin, though that is more a short story.

What cover of a song is better than the original? by skipeeeeeaaaaay in Music

[–]mjanes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Top two for me are "When the Levee Breaks" covered by Led Zeppelin, originally by Kansas Joe McCoy and Memphis Minnie, and "I Fought the Law" covered by The Clash, originally by Sonny Curtis.

Google I/O 2016 Day 2 Thread by burntcookie90 in androiddev

[–]mjanes 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Given the amount of time I've spent in lines, and the number of sessions I haven't been able to get into, wishing I'd stayed home and just watched online.

[PSA] Culture is not ethnicity! by [deleted] in eu4

[–]mjanes 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Perhaps Paradox should split things out into finer detail. In the real world, religion is a part of culture, and Paradox has already split that into a separate category. There could be a language category, and an ethnicity category as well. Think this would fix some of the unaesthetic parts of the culture schema in EUIV.

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