Unfortunately I have to agree with this take. This plus the anti-innovation and risk-averse culture is what drove me out of the country. Living in the United States now and enjoying the environment much more.
(source: born and raised in Germany, lived there for 30 years)
The last update video I watched from MattKC indicated they were still deciding how to approach this. Based on the commit dates in that tree, it looks like they must have completed it.
It has trouble with regaining focus at times. Try switching back and forth between the game and another tab/window and it will recover eventually (the hanging is just the game being paused when it goes out of focus)
Agree with this advice. Our consulting agency, also based in Europe, specializes in exactly this - bootstrapping software solutions for companies that lack the in-house experience to do so. After a successful launch our clients usually transition to hiring employees to take over our work - a transition we actively support. It works out quite well in our experience. (contact/website is in my profile if interested)
I've been working on a similar project (LEGO Island decompilation). We've developed an extensive set of annotations and corresponding tools that facilitate matching the assembly/binary:
> We've been considering creating a separate project/repository for the tools since they might be interesting for other projects such as yours as well.
Happy to use anything that makes my life easier! I myself also started to prototype some tools - https://github.com/krystalgamer/spidey-decomp/tree/master/to... - but didn't get much far. I see there's quite a bit of overlap so I might integrate them on my workflow
Curious to know about `patch_c2.py` it mentions a bugged warning. Is that patch just to remove the warning or something deeper?
Since the warning is relatively useless we opted to fix C2.EXE so that it is never emitted. It generates a lot of noise during compilation otherwise (if you are using templates).
Most likely since you are using a newly created account, and an automated system does this. Happened to me as well and kept happening even after months. Was fixed swiftly after I contacted the site admin about it :)
I believe when people 'vouch' for your dead comments, the issue will go away eventually.
I had a major issue with spam on FM and after some back and forth with support, I got some understanding of their system:
1. The bayesian filter updates only when you actually delete emails from the Spam folder.
2. There is a global and a personal spam filter. The personal one kicks in after 200 spam emails have been ingested/deleted. You need to break it in, like a pair of leather shoes.
3. Before this 200 email threshold, make use of automated rules to just mark stuff as Spam automatically, if like me, they have all a similar pattern. When your personal filter kicks in, you're golden and works as expected.
I don't have any spam issue anymore and I don't think I've ever seen a false positive either. So now it's smooth sailing.
I wish Fastmail documented this process, which was explained to me by their support after a dozen exchanges.
Funny aside: all the spam overwhelmingly comes from gmail.com accounts. Seems like Google needs to work on their terrible outgoing spam issue. They're the biggest spam sender now that no one runs open mail servers on the Internet anymore.
> all the spam overwhelmingly comes from gmail.com accounts.
Report it to google, and make the world a better place.
But, first check the first received header that was added by your mail provider's servers to make sure the spam really is coming from gmail's servers-- oldest received headers are at the bottom, newer as you go up (e.g., view message source, view headers, or some such option in your client; look for received: from...).
Add a short blurb at the top of your message about spam received from their domain, include the message with full headers as text at the end of the email message body (some clients like MS outlook break mail, so this may be the only way the recipient will be able to view the headers if the sender is using one of these broken clients. Also attach the original spam message as an attachment (this will provide something useful to the recipient when sent by most ?all? non-Microsoft mail clients).
Thanks for the advice. That said, there's hundreds of email addresses I get spammed from.
> Report it to google, and make the world a better place.
That's line is not gonna work on me. Google is a trillion dollar company that only cares about its bottom line, not a public good. They can sort it out themselves.
I have better things to do with my time than do Google spam team's job for free by reporting each spam email I receive manually.
I still report spam to all ISPs/mail providers, if they have a proper abuse@dom contact and I can spare the few moments it takes. And, also report the spam/scam mail contact reply-to: addresses to their respective email providers when they differ from the sender provider. When scam mails contain URLs, I'll report those to their domain registrar / webhost.
I've had good responses from most places. An Eastern European domain registrar has revoked several scammer domains after my notifications. Some ISPs are a waste of time to send reports to, e.g., a few in E. Europe, and Colo Crossing. But, it is usually worth it to report abuse. I have an emeritus email address from a former employer where I made it my project since the pandemic to report all spam/scam mail received to that address. I cannot state that this is the reason nor even the main reason, but the volume of spam to that address has gone from a firehose to a single spam/scam message every 1-3 weeks.
For a long time I thought the spam filtering was not very good, but what eventually led to that was my own mistake of setting "learn as spam" on the spam folder itself. In Fastmail's own words:
> Note: We recommend that you do not mark your Spam/Junk Mail folder to automatically learn as spam. This can create a false positive feedback loop. Imagine an email is incorrectly classified as spam, put in your Spam/Junk Mail folder, and then learned as spam. That means future emails that aren't spam are now more likely to be incorrectly marked as spam, sent to your Spam/Junk Mail folder, and learned as spam. Only mark folders to learn as spam if they're folders you manually move email to.
I have the exact opposite experience and find Fastnail's spam detection quite superior.
There is the occasional spam.email getting through - maybe 1 per day - despite the fact that I have quite a number of custom domains with catch-all email addresses.
At the same time I really never have to check my spam folder for false positive, everything in there is literal spam so I forget checking it for weeks on end.
Whereas on n Gmail I always need to check the spam folder, Google completely overdoes the filtering it and a lot of wanted emails end up in spam.
I always find it curious how people often have such a different experience with the same system. For my part, I've found Fastmail's spam filtering to be much better than GMail's, especially when it comes to those false positives: I would see ham in my GMail spam folder at least a couple times a week. I've mostly stopped perusing my Fastmail spam folder, as I still have yet to find any false positives there.
On the other end of things, GMail and Fastmail both miss about the same amount of spam that ends up in my inbox. Not a lot, maybe once or twice a week.
I wonder what it is about the emails you receive (vs. the emails I receive) that makes us see such different outcomes.
I think I’m up to two false positives after six years, neither of which was in any way important (in fact, I kinda agreed with its judgement), and I’m up to 175 false negatives in the last 5⅓ years (of which 32 are from the last twelve months, which suggests a fairly steady rate across the whole time; it comes to about one every eleven days).
Before that, I used Gmail (on the same address, for about six years), and my memory is that its false positive rates were around one every month or two, and some of them actually mattered; and its false negative rates varied: sometimes it’d go for a few months with none, then it might let through one or two per day for a few weeks. Certainly less consistent. In the last year I’ve also had to use Gmail via a couple of organisations on addresses with very low volume (less than one per day) which have never received any spam, and both have had at least two false positives.
I had the same experience and ended up leaving after my trial.
I contacted support and the just said "yup, those emails were suspicious and were correctly rejected." Err, no. If I'm the customer and day I want to receive an email you shouldn't be rejecting it.
I likely wouldn't have noticed if I didn't run a service that was emailing me. But after that I noticed other senders also being blocked. Adding to my address book also didn't work, I guess that whitelist runs after the accept/reflect decision.
I heard a rumour that a huge portion of messages that hit Google servers are outright dropped. Not the spam folder, gone forever. Apparently the dropped number was much closer to 50% than 0%.
You can connect FastMail to gmail and never look at gmail. Your employer may not approve if you hillary your emails like that though, but that's what I did at a previous employer where this wasn't an issue.
I like your usage of Hillary as a verb. I don't understand the affinity against Gmail though. With the fastmail forwarding service are you still not using Gmail spam service and have Gmail access to your email anyways (not that I'd believe they do unless wearing a tinfoil hat)
I just don't care much for gmail's UI; that's all there's to it. And having all email in one place is more convenient for me regardless – saves having to open/check another service.
You're still using gmail's spam checking; it just uses the API (or IMAP? I forgot) to sync the emails to FastMail.
Have you considered setting up a rule using the Snooze feature[0]? Using this it should be possible to delay all incoming work email until a time that is suitable for you.
Edit: If you want your work emails to arrive only during work hours and otherwise delay them, you can use a Sieve condition in your email rule similar to this:
That's technically correct, however much of the Greens' ideology has been gradually adopted by essentially all other political parties over the past 10-15 years, most likely since it's rather popular with the voters here.
There's no political party left you could vote for if you are in favor of nuclear.
Right and their ideology is to build more solar and wind. Which, even when factoring in the cost of batteries, is cheaper than nuclear or almost any other form of energy.
Well the plan was created >20 years ago but depended on the lifeline to actually develop enough renewables which got almost completely blocked by conservative governments in the last decade who still phased out nuclear. Don’t blame the Greens for that.
Solar and Wind power was completely blocked up by conservative governments all over the globe for the past 50 years. Consider Reagan, who removed solar panels from the roof of the white house just a few years after they were installed and not long after multiple oil supply crises in the 70s. Even if the solar panels being installed in the first place was only symbolic, removing them was also purposefully symbolic.
America at least had a great chance to invest in nuclear energy and completely end dependence on the middle east for it's energy, but it chose Reagan instead.
