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pelya, in Why are Some Apps Updated Daily?

Because someone in the dev team had the time to hook up their continuous integration scripts with Play Store publishing API, to the despair and jealosity of dev teams of all other apps.

This is how software should be managed. You make a change to your software, push one extra button, and in one hour all your users receive it.

Non-technical explanation: because they can.

JustSomePerson,

Financial explanation: Because it's cheaper to have all your users as involuntary testers, than to actually ensure app quality in-house.

pelya,

In case of open-source projects like Fairemail, your budget is very likely zero or in negatives. Very often it’s one or few developers who make the app basically for their own daily use, and publish it on a ‘use at your own risk’ basis for everyone else. So yeah, if you use any open-source software, please do some testing work if you want it to improve.

magic_lobster_party,

Continuous deployment pipelines usually have lots of automatic testing ensuring nothing breaks for the user.

key,
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“usually” is very generous. Automated testing takes effort to develop and maintain, a lot more than the rest of the CICD pipeline combined. And it’s only one piece of a complete qa strategy, if it’s all you have you’re still using users as testers.

Restaldt, (edited )

QA is not a capitalizable expense or something anyways that’s why we havent given you a decent raise since you got promoted

Now get back to working your 3 jobs you software engineering qa testing devops piece of … valued member of the team

211, (edited ) in What is the best modern song for a door bell?

Ayreon - Two Gates

About 2:00-2:20

www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWm0lmmLjNs&t=2m

Tibert, in Why are Some Apps Updated Daily?

What would be best? Dealing with a bug for 1 month waiting a monthly update, or dealing with a bug 2 days waiting a daily update?

NeoNachtwaechter,

That depends only on your ratio of:

Fixed bugs / New bugs

:-)

kibiz0r,

If you’re doing a daily release with a net increase of bugs, you’re gonna stop doing daily releases real soon.

surewhynotlem,

You clearly don’t work for Microsoft

JustSomePerson,

How about bugfixes every day if there are any, new features every month when they have been tested and QAd.

kuneho, in What is an obscure piece of media or videogame that you think nobody else here has heard of?
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SkaveRat, in What is the best modern song for a door bell?

this sounds dreadfully annoying to have

captain_aggravated, in What is Something Scientific that you just don't believe in at all?
@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works avatar

In my head, “dark matter” and “dark energy” are the names we’ve given to the limits of our understanding. At some point in the future the news is going to break that an Einstein or a Feynman or a Hawking will publish a paper titled “So we figured out what’s causing the thing we’ve been calling dark matter this whole time.”

brain_in_a_box,

That’s literally what dark energy and dark matter are though, place holder names for phenomena we don’t fully understand yet. I’m not sure how you weren’t aware of that.

Chetzemoka,

But that’s literally true and fully acknowledged by the physics and astronomy fields. It’s why those things received the names “dark.” Because currently we can’t see what’s causing those effects. And there are currently physicists and astronomers who spend their time researching these effects in hopes of publishing that exact “Hey! I figured out what it is” paper. Then we’ll praise that person, add their name to the pantheon and fail to acknowledge the hoards of other people who contributed to the foundational research that allowed them to finally figure it out.

Same as it ever was.

foggianism,

Yes, I completely agree. Dark matter and dark energy are supposed to make up over 90% of the universe, yet we failed to detect them yet? No way! Those are just fill-ins, because our formulas are obviously not working that great on a grander scale.

michaelmrose,

This suggests the question why do most of the highly educated people who have spent their lives studying the question think differently? Why is the universe obligated to be made of something easy to measure and understand?

foggianism,

The universe isn’t obligated to us for anything, but we want to understand it and be able to make predictions. Right now we seem not to be able to do that.

brain_in_a_box,

Other way around, we propose them becuse we do detect them.

foggianism,

Nope. Dark matter or dark energy have not been detected, as of yet.

brain_in_a_box,

What would count as detection to you?

foggianism,

I would count as detection if scientists would say “we detected it”.

brain_in_a_box,

Well scientists have definitely detected it, and said as much

foggianism,

Link?

Tar_alcaran, in What is the best modern song for a door bell?

“Uncle fucker” from South Park.

7of9, in What is an obscure piece of media or videogame that you think nobody else here has heard of?
@7of9@startrek.website avatar

OK, I’ll go all-in on this:

2000 AD Comics’ Nexus, The computer game.

Made for the Commodore C128 computer (which oddly ran Microsoft Basic), it was a simple single-screen platform shooter with the twist that you could pile up the bodies of your enemies and use them as platforms.

LordOfTheChia, (edited ) in What is the best modern song for a door bell?
DessertStorms,
@DessertStorms@kbin.social avatar

I would unironically have "what what in the butt" as my doorbell and lmao if anyone ever rang it (I don't get a lot of visitors, and if I do they don't ring the bell, so it would, at the very least, reduce some anxiety of a stranger ringing the bell as I hide and wait for them to leave 😂)

themoonisacheese, in What is an obscure piece of media or videogame that you think nobody else here has heard of?
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I’ve never seen a video on this, but surely someone else has heard of it.

Back in the late 2000s, early 2010s, I got a CD in a cereal box with a PC game on it. the game was I think some kind of gamified flight sim, and the interesting part is that there was a decal of a plane on top of the CD surface. On the other side of the CD, there was another game (maybe a racing game?) And it had a corresponding decal, so the CD had decals on both sides and could be inserted both ways in your player to play each game. I’ve never seen that anywhere else (2 -sided CD or CD readable surface with decals) and I remember the game actually being somewhat fun, but promotional games of the era are very often lost media.

Synthead,

I did a little digging and found that Nestle added CDs to their cereals! There were quite a few different titles with different labels. Maybe these links well help you find your games?

There’s a bunch more content here:

themoonisacheese,
@themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works avatar

It was this one archive.org/details/nestle_game

But in french instead of Portuguese. Thanks for the throwback!

original2, in Is there an artist so horrible that no matter how hard you try that you cannot separate their art from them?

Marilyn Manson

moodwrench,

What did Marilyn Manson do?

M137,
@M137@lemmy.world avatar

Really? It’s been widely covered for years now. He’s an absolute piece of shit.

JJROKCZ,

Not OP but, Alleged sexual assault, think the cases are still ongoing or he paid them to nda, didn’t follow it much. Man was always creepy so when the allegations came out I kinda thought “no surprise there” and didn’t pay much more attention

snake,

He had some ribs removed so that he could suck his own dick.

AngryCommieKender,

That’s an urban legend that started about Ron Jeremy.

Burninator05,

…Ron Jeremy.

Who himself went from a porn star to meme to being accused of raping dozens of women over 20 years.

Mnemnosyne, in If You Had to Worship or be the Champion of an Ancient Greek God/Goddess Which One Would You Pick?

I don’t know my Greek mythology that well, but my instinct is Aphrodite. She wouldn’t want her champion to be ugly, so she would make me beautiful (but not as beautiful as her).

Odo, in What is an obscure piece of media or videogame that you think nobody else here has heard of?

Ninja Bachelor Party. A goofy and mostly nonsensical home movie made by a few teenagers, including legendary comedian Bill Hicks way before he was famous.

TheDoozer, in What is an obscure piece of media or videogame that you think nobody else here has heard of?

My brothers and I had a handheld game in the 80s that was basically a star wars knock off. It even started each attack sequence with a fast version of a star wars theme. The enemies were all Tie Fighters (all digital pieces that lit up when active been off when not), and you shot them with lasers Galaga-style. If you died, it played part of Jupiter from The Planets by Gustav Holst.

It was called ASTRO Thunder.

foggy, in What is an obscure piece of media or videogame that you think nobody else here has heard of?

Ok I’m back with another but I have the answer to this one.

I sent $20 inside a greeting card to Amon Amarth back in like 2000 or so. I’m a melodic death metal nerd and Gothenburg really set the tone. anywho, I’d heard their drummer had a side project, called “Curriculum Mortis”

I got a burned CD from the band. Unmarked. I uploaded it to soulseek. The iPod it was on eventually died.

I went a solid decade with only memories of this band.

I recent found someone uploaded the whole demo to YouTube. Of you enjoy melodic death metal, especially older, grittier less.refined, and also know Amon Amarth, just know, you know something very few know about: youtu.be/H1JWaADbcsA

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