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Well, „classic“ barcodes have the advantage that they can span the entire product length. That makes it easier for me at Self-checkout counters. Hard to do with QR codes :)

That makes a lot of sense, thanks for clarifying!

What I'm wondering for a while now: How do the game streaming services run the Denuvo titles? Do they get special builds? They will not run on bare metal hardware but in some kind of VM right? Wouldn't Denuvo detect that and stop working?

Battery life is a weird way to compare these technologies. It does not matter if you dispatch your draw calls or the retained mode framework does it for you - if you have new data to draw every frame then _somebody_ has to do it.

I do ship an IM GUI application to a small group of users and they will not know or care, as long as it does the job it needs to do. What made me choose this approach: I do not need another language/technology for my UI. Composition of the UI is done like I compose code: using functions/objects. I could see this approach failing on bigger projects or when you would have a dedicated designer doing the UI/UX stuff. As long as only programmers are working on the project I think it's fine and quite easy to understand for others what's going on in the 'UI code'.

Well, AnyDesk allows screen sharing from i-Devices, not sure about remote control though.

My wife and I wanted to travel around Europe on a tight budget for a month. As we didn’t care for the order we’d visit each location I built a multi-stop-with-some-constraint flight optimizer based on scraped google flights data. I could enter the airport names and min/max days to stay there. Worked great, we payed like 200€ for all our travels!

Sure, if you’re replacing functionality/processes then you’re right.

I was thinking of adding/integrating new processes. That’s imho the harder task because you usually have less data to work with.

That’s what I was trying to say. It’s our job to read what they need instead of trying to do exactly as they say

This. Well, minus point 3 or include the user feedback in your goals. Also keep in mind that most people cannot articulate what they really want but most of the time they will complain about a bad solution.

Also try to mimic the other applications your clients are using regularly - even when the UX is bad. It’s easier for them to remember one broken workflow than multiple.

What’s more important, your job or your family?

Family? Quit/Pause your job. At least for half a year. You’re trying to rush a relationship, that’s just not possible. Go traveling, stay at least two weeks in one place. If you like it stay longer. Meet people in parks, bars, at the beach.

This was how I met my wife. We would have almost nothing in common if we wrote a dating profile but when we talk to each other and are close to each other none of this matters. And it’s difficult because we’re from different countries, speaking different languages, have a vastly different culture. We fought A LOT about language, it’s still difficult to have a more in depth conversation but none of that matters.

Kids: any. If we cannot get our own, we’ll adopt. Who cares if the kid is your own?

Apparently you’ve been in a LTR and let it slip because you need your kids to be based on your DNA. That’s your decision, for us this fact is basically irrelevant.

Not quite useless but more like a one shot use: I spent some days building a flight/train route optimizer for traveling to N cities, staying at least M days while minimizing travel costs for a single journey in 2018. Was fun to build and we payed like 200 € for one month of traveling in Europe :)

Thanks, I see many contributions dangeling on the wrong repo now, which is sad :(

Won't this fail when the file is not gzipped but, for example, zstd compressed?