I clicked on this post looking for this comment. Otherwise, I would have made it.

The ******* joke and its premise never fails to make me smile.

Thank you for introducing me to suckerpinch.

A big hurdle with RCS was carrier adoption, at least in Asia.

I wonder about two things:

1. Would Graphene team’s implementation be usable on other devices that are less fortunate to be supported by the OS?
2. Would this be a drop-in replacement or would Graphene team need to work with carriers so that their implementation actually work?

On a tangential note, I would really like to read an in-depth analysis of how RCS had such a botched up implementation, which it has still to recover from almost a decade later.

The adoption is nowhere close to what it should have been, and instead it is now more associated with spam than actual communication. The Wikipedia entry does cover a lot of aspects, but it doesn’t explain how it went wrong.

I am tolerant of intolerance. But I am intolerant of intelorance.

Emacs with Vim’s modal editing.

A serious answer:

The “editor wars” are predominantly fought by people who work in IT (system admins, developers, etc.), which requires using the terminal frequently or is often the only tool at their disposal.

Some folks also use specific editors because of their text editing capabilities. Vim’s modal editing is very intuitive and fast, while Emacs’ Org Mode feature set can be a sole reason to put up with Emacs.

Thanks. This is one of the news articles I had in mind while writing my original comment.

No. They actually have an interview round where the candidate is given access to a coding agent and a problem to solve.

With AI, this assumption is proving false day by day. Critical resources have been let go by my employer in the hope of matching their contributions with junior/fresh engineers + AI. I have heard similar stories from friends too.

However, I am yet to hear a real life instance of a company walking back and rehiring - something that I keep reading in news.

So, fingering butts makes it a full circle.

Finished Hotline Miami a few days ango and currently in the tail end of the sequel: Wrong Number. The first instalment is pretty much a masterpiece, if one is okay to overlook the copious amounts of violence.

Played it on the Vita, so the controls were a bit tricky at first, but lost track of time once I got a hang of it.

Have my sights set on Heart of Darkness next. I played the demo more than 2 decades ago on a Windows 98 PC. I recently became aware that it has been ported to Vita.

your game is not on your disk! Your game is downloaded after you insert your disk.

I have seen this being mentioned a few times. I wonder what those games are, or whether people are exaggerating for hyperbole.

I own physical copies of PS5 exclusives that I play without signing in to PSN. Most recently, I played the director’s cut of Ghost of Tsushima this way. I used to do the same on my PS4 too.