If he did it on purpose, he's a supervillain, if he did it due to negligence, he's a hypocrite. No need to split hairs.
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Of course it's just about profit... the point is that he should be aware of its environmental impact and the hypocrisy of his investment therein.
I also think that these kind of insights are what would be needed for states to act on technologies that pose these threats, though I believe if regulation is applied there will be a lot, and I mean a lot, of backlash.
That's an opinion - one I tend to share - so feel free to disagree.
The author addresses the existence of Po[X]:
""" I’m sure you’re seeing the problem here- there is not a schema that doesn’t reward those who already are already wealthy, who are already bought in, who already have excess capital or access to outsized computational power. Almost universally they grant power to the already powerful.
This is also a climate issue. """
If can start on the agreement that we need to curb our environmental impact, then any new technology we embrace surely needs to be very useful to as many people as possible in order to justify any significant affect on the environment.
Neither do I, maybe you read my reply incorrectly. I said, feel free to extrapolate the criticism to all game devs who explicitly try to make the games addictive and hook people with micro-transactions. So your whole line of reasoning there kind of falls flat.
Use moral arguments to try to convince people that being a vegetarian is a more ethical choice.
I think the sentiment applies to vegans as well, even if the impact isn't as direct. If everyone started consuming non-meat/non-dairy products, the socio-economical and agricultural effects of things like soy, almonds, etc will be egregious as well.
We need to look at non-cruel and sustainable sources of food, but at the industrial level, not at the individual.
> I don't believe mobile games are any worse than other types of games when it comes to addiction. Just because mobile game addiction focuses on certain traits, games that are addictive but focus on other traits are not any better. To assign a negative moral character to mobile games alone is a mistake that people currently make that I disagree with.
If your biggest issue with the statement is that it unfairly focuses on mobile game devs, feel free to extrapolate the sentiment to all game devs who do this, I think most people do this extrapolation.
I re-read the rest of your responses to this thread, seems like your only issue is with how appropriate a joke is in technical documentation.
I am interested, given your world view, to know why you think a tutorial on encrypting saved game states isn't also inappropriate? In fact, isn't the technical documentation inappropriate in its entirety? Why should I be told how to use the game engine? Just because these "elitist" developers built the engine, doesn't mean they can tell me how I should use it?
If you want to go down the route that everything is subjective, we're not going to be very productive here. The mention of "capitalist oligarchy" is hyperbole, of course, though I don't know how you want to argue that the world isn't mostly run by capitalist forces. Again, if this is something you want to question I'm not sure we're going to get anywhere.
The factoid in the piece is that a lot of mobile games are built with the intent of being addictive and getting people to spend a bunch of money on micro transactions. Is this another thing that doesn't fit in your view of reality?
Most importantly though, if they added your joke instead I still wouldn't rally to have them take it down. I'd just think it's awkward and embarrasing.
To carry on with your intended meaning, what is the problem if the technical documentation is more than just technical documentation? We're talking about a paragraph here, maybe 0.1% of the documentation. Are you making a claim that at some percentage of non-technical content the documentation becomes illegitimate?
I'm honestly just trying to understand what you're getting at.
The content of your joke isn't as relevant (which also makes it less funny). You used an anti-science sentiment and threw in ECS to try to make it more suitable, but it isn't analogous with the original statement at all.
How exactly do you think a cynical take on something that occurs widely in the industry is equivalent to conspiracy theory level science denialism?
Full disclosure: Vegetarian for 10 years, eat fish occasionally and have recently been trying to cut out dairy (but it's tough).
The `run_config` one stood out the most. Isn't it perfectly feasible to have a `jobs` and a related `run_configs` table, instead of them only being objects? You could even put them in a separate database, much like one does with the auditing tables in a Rails application, or with reporting tables that need to be accessible by the likes of PowerBI. That separate database could have it's own light-weight GUI, something that just plugs your data structure into the interface, like Django's admin back-end.