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Does this mean he does the mobile games himself now? I remember he had outsourced those for a while.

Think of it this way; he subcontracts, but he deals with the subcontractors himself.

Congrats! Making a Saas app is my dream. Never figured out a market/use case :(

Dont worry mate. Keep on working and building. Build in Public. Show your work on X. Let's connect on X I am @besharan_ on X

We should do what the moslems do. 2.5% wealth tax on everybody above a minimal wealth threshold!


That's just a manner of speaking in former British colonies, or at least the subcontinent. Much of formal speech like a bureaucrat wrote it because, well, the civil service ran India and that's who everyone emulated.


It’s still passive voice, the kind used when trying to avoid blame or responsibility. So pretty much fits in bureaucratic places.

That’s just…mistakes were made.


This pattern of writing goes back to the Spanish conquistadors at the very least. They frequently described their actions in a passive voice when doing something they knew was horrible, only to switch to aggrandizing active voice when writing about their successes. It’s a standard way to blur responsibility and present violence as an almost natural “fact” rather than a deliberate action by identifiable agents.

It didn’t escape everyone’s attention though. Bartolomé de las Casas definitely noticed it.


> That's just a manner of speaking in former British colonies, or at least the subcontinent.

Which is still a good example of when you shouldn't use passive voice.

Clarifying where “optimising language to evade a responsibility” evolved does nothing to justify it, which you imply with “that’s just”.


Wow, tell me you're doing 996 without saying you're doing 996.


My workplace has a very similar culture and nobody works 996.


Anyone know if you could run vs code on one of these beasts?


You can install 'code-server' with termux's pkg and access it from a browser.

$ pkg install tur-repo $ pkg install code-server


it’s Android so you’d need to use the VS code web app. Maybe remote desktop?


You can run full VS Code on android https://dev.to/junaid_dev/setup-official-vs-code-on-android-...

Theres even a paid native android app on the play store for it


Isn't Opus much slower than Sonnet? I haven't been using Opus for that reason


What is up with that T rex's arms?


What was the time/format of this course?


I was under the impression that elementary had stopped being as good since the pandemic because of the founder leaving. Is that not true?


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