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  • That’s fucking terrible.

    Unfortunately in my roughly a decade in IT, I’ve only seen a vendor failing to deliver a core feature tank a contract once. It’s completely fucking absurd how many systems/softwares/products are in use because contracts were signed based off specific feature promises, that then were never completed.

    Does this shit happen in other industries? I have a hard time imagining some company signing a contract for delivery trucks that for instance, ran on diesel, the truck manufacturer saying they didn’t have those yet but would by time of delivery, delivering gas trucks anyway, and the company that ordered them going “Well I guess we’ll just suck it up. No need to have legal get a chunk of our money back. No need to stop doing business with that truck manufacturer. We’ll just make the fleet mechanics retrofit them with no extra budget, time, or headcount. Let’s go do lines in the executive bathroom.”

    But that’s what seems to happen with software products all the fucking time.





  • I would want to hear ‘no’ by this point because that would give me the release to pursue others.

    If they haven’t locked you down, you owe them nothing. Be direct.

    If they were worth waiting for, they would give you a straight answer.

    “I’m interested in you, but you’ve been lukewarm about this whole thing. Whenever you make up your mind, you know where to find me, but I can’t spend my life waiting for you to make a move.”


  • The full list really isn’t as bad as I expected.

    BBC is up there, apnews, the guardian.

    As another comment has said, NPR is audio content, and nearly all of their podcasts are available through podcast apps directly. And PBS isn’t a news site, so of course it doesn’t show up.

    Also worth remembering that CNN was pretty widely considered to be balanced until around a decade ago. I’m sure there’s a bunch of older people still operating from that.










  • But the assumption with PC games usually would be xbox controller. Switch controllers don’t have native USB support, so any PC usage is using the xbox controller protocol. So A is on the bottom, unless the game dev found some special way to check and detect for a swich controller specifically. The overwhelming majority don’t.

    Same thing with playstation controllers, although slightly more devs have found ways to check for them specifically.