« The problem with grabbing small snippets of code is a lot of context is lost.» does not mean that a lot of additional code is required to understand the context, additionally, simple code may require you to read a bit of code to understand it.

Simplicity does not mean small scale, nor that it must be understood at a glance.

Rich Hickey got a great presentation where he discuss simplicity vs complexity. It’s worth a watch if you want to better understand the concepts.

https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy/

Simple != few lines of code, nothing incompatible about those two statements

You should probably watch the video before criticising the tech

Disabling JS via ublock works for this specific site

From the second sentence on the page:

It is different from loss leader marketing and product sample marketing, which do not depend on complementary products or services.

So the Razor and blades model would probably be the more accurate term for what people thought the new steam hardwate would be, yeah.

Though steam won’t lock you to their services.

A product sold at a loss/very attractive price to attract customers. The idea is that they customers will come due to the cheap price of a desirable product and buy additional other stuff at the store, which should hopefully make up for the loss.

E.g. a restaurant advertise cheap burgers to attract customers, and then make the profit on alcoholic beverages that customers buy alongside the cheap burger.

Though to be fair, I think the study would yield similar results to pretty much every country.

How can it be profitable? Surely the energy cost would surpass that value of a single search?

How is Go safer?

Influencers/streamers show people the actual game. Youtubers/twitch streamers that review games would still fall into the “influencer” category.

Traditional game review media like IGN have been a joke for ages, so most people don’t seem to trust them.

First paragraphs in the article

Writing a package manager is not one of the most common programming tasks. After all, there are many out-of-the-box ones available. Yet, somehow I’ve found myself in exactly this situation.

How so?

I’m a big fan of SQLite and its extensions. Given the large number of such extensions in the wild, I wanted a structured approach to managing them. Which usually involves, well, a package manager. Except there is none for SQLite. So I decided to build one!

Streamers, news articles that are shared on reddit/SoMe and “leaks”

Defending them from what? You haven’t brought up any real arguments for why Steam is relevant in this scenario. You’re just lashing out for no reason.

I didn’t know valve sells you hardware that locks you to steam

First segment: https://youtube.com/watch?v=tWlnVVbtNwc

Digital foundry did a segment on it, certain issues will occur regardless of hardware. You might be lucky and not as sensitive to stutter and frame time fluctuations, but I refuse to believe you got the game running perfectly without showing a frame time graph to back it up.

I’ve seen someone playing games at a highly inconsistent 20fps without really noticing the issued, so please excuse my skepticism when you say you got it running perfectly. I’m glad you’re happy with it though.

apparently everyone has decided to hate on this game because of “reasons”?

It’s performance is atrocious, it clearly needed more months to get out of alpha stage.

I rarely play games nowadays and even more rarely new games. Baldur’s Gate 3 is the first one that comes to mind in recent years.

You’re missing out on some great experiences that indies simply can’t produce in that case