Information to text ratio pretty low and assumes some background knowledge I don’t actually have about the current state of Steam hardware offerings but I gather it’s because they’ve introduced new, more expensive hardware and no longer wish to have a budget item whose price is too far off from it.

That’s the article’s assumption, although the new hardware has yet to announce its price so it’s yet to be seen how plausible the thesis is.

The more expensive hardware is Steam Deck OLED, available since about 2 years ago, it starts at $549

At the end of the day I think there's nothing wrong with the tool itself. The problem is that mocking and spies make it easy to not bother properly isolating the effects of a function for testing and then you end up having a test where 95% of it is setting up an elaborate array of mocks to create the condition you wish to test, which are completely incomprehensible to the next person trying to read it.

I used it mainly because the code I inherited was untestable as written. I made it testable via those methods. Then it got refactored.

Well sure you sometimes haven’t got much choice. But I’m talking about people write new code this way

This is actually really useful. A lot of people demand an "unprocessed" photo but don't understand what they're actually asking for.

They probably do know what they're asking for, they're just using an ambiguous word.

My mirrorless camera shoots in RAW. When someone asks me if a certain photo was “edited”, I honestly don’t know what to answer. The files went through a RAW development suite that applied a bewildering amount of maths to transform them into a sRGB image. Some of the maths had sliders attached to it and I have moved some of the sliders, but their default positions were just what the software thought was appropriate. The camera isn’t even set to produce a JPEG + RAW combo, so there is literally no reference.

> Will it report me if I try to discuss "The anarchist's cookbook" with it?

I don’t know. Weren’t you already running that risk with “download metadata”?

There is some real stuff in there if you scroll through but I don’t disagree with your point. But it is easier to perform/identify oneself with intellectual curiosity than to truly be intellectually curious.

Harry Potter apparently either the best book to read or the one with the most for engineers to learn from, I have to conclude.

There's EY's Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, which might generate cross-interest in Harry Potter for those who wouldn't have read it otherwise.

I think it has to do with the author generating controversy on this website for news discussion.

I don’t think I fully understand the use case for this. What would you use the card for?

A personal use case: my local gym that issues only physical barcode cards -- I used a different app (similar in this style) that allowed me keep it on my apple watch / iPhone instead

I see, so this is specifically you have a physical, eg, loyalty card that has a barcode, and you want to use the Apple Wallet?

my use case is a loyalty barcode for a major retailer here. they provided a digital version but you had to download their app or take a picture. apple wallet is convenient, u just double tap and the Wallet loads on screen with full brightness to make it easy to scan. i dont have to keep anymore.

but on apple wallet u can't create your own a pass from a simple scan. creatign the ".pkpass" need a signature from a apple developer account.

I have my library card in Apple Wallet so I don't need to bother with the actual card.

Well, they just love complaining. You won't find many who profess to like DLC, yet that sells.

They're better than one might expect at diagnosing issues from the error output or even just screenshots.

No. But most software products are nowhere near that sensitive and very few of them are developed with the level of caution and rigor appropriate for a safety-critical component.