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- The economy

Obviously there are more but the original joke circa 1999 was this. Made Y2K even more exciting.

The two most difficult things in software engineering...

Naming.

Timestamps.

Visited and when I clicked on Paris to select a different city, the music kicked in. I thought this was supposed to be lofi but I was met with what I would describe as basic midi. Immediately hit with loud hard piano and rhodes keyboard. The pixel art has an identity crisis. It's very much generated by AI. This entire thing is slop.

Because we do. The GPL isn't a suggestion. If you can take open source code and make private software out of it then what are we all doing? No, license requirements and agreement are law for a reason.

Seconded!! This doesn’t really help the well established codebases much that are already doing this on a platform specific path but in general this is much appreciated for the future.

The models themselves are an inherent risk. It’s amazing what they can do but at the same time you are no longer in complete control.

Solving the linear scheduling problem is welcome. Allowing each MSO/Content maker to profit is also welcome. Creating islands of content exclusive to that platform and then raise prices after record breaking profits and mergers to create a monopoly? Not welcome.

Cable companies purposefully enacted legislation more than a decade ago to prevent innovation until they could provide these streaming platforms for their oligarchs. Cable companies then sell to them and now are board members of the new platform.

they shipped 3. DK1, DK2, CV1.

This is what Grafana was made for...

I believe they were nearing completion and already had the ceremony when the Cylons attacked. It's been a while since I watched my favorite tv series.

but thanks to Baltar's firewalls and code obfuscation, just barely are able to escape after calculating the jump and having to literally wipe and reinstall all code on all systems.

There’s a scene in Battlestar Galactica (2004) where someone asks Captain Adama why the Galactica doesn’t have networked computers. So the cylons can’t hack the ship…

I'm convinced we have crossed a threshold where compute is no longer personal, it's platformed. "They" don't want you to have control over your machine as they don't trust you with it. They want you to buy the things they want you to buy, envy the people they want you to envy, submit your data to the collective, so they can control markets and industries for profit and greed.

Linux is our only hope and even that is plagued by corporate interests. I'm going back to 1994 days and only using tech for work. I have shunned social media, youtube, netflix, hulu. I have shunned subscription based SaaS. I'm tired boss.

It’s all a circle jerk in the JVM space

Solar and wind is extremely reliable. What isn’t reliable is deployment of it.

Energy storage is required along with solar farms.

Lobbyists lies a foot. “We can’t provide more power with these pesky regulations”

Full steam ahead towards greenhouse gases, climate change, and +5degree temperatures. Why not?

except for those pesky things called rights

Call 211

Not TCP (Takeoff Clearance Prohibited)

He loved the term “revolutionary”

Ahhh behavioral science…

“Just place all that corporate malware on the X, X marks the spot”

It's modern C++ so, a little of both I think. 20 years of it and I still have people saying "I should work on my fundamentals" so it's totally fine to be a bit of both.

I agree on all of that, and to add to it that the leaders of these studios that had good games were leaders because they made good games. Not because they were good at business management. They weren’t and they thought bringing in the big folks would provide that and it always turns out terrible for everyone involved.

If that were true, then Bungie post-Halo would still be Bungie post-Halo, a part of Microsoft. Not Bungie post-Activision... certainly not Bungie post-Sony...

It's not all the studio head's fault in some of these situations. It was larger studios/publishers like Microsoft Studios coming in and buying them out. The consolidation of these studios is what burned them.

Ubisoft, Bungie, id software…

Blizzard

It's not, AI labs and scalers are buying up all the mac mini's and mac studios.

Every game is a time sink, and RPG's are a time investment. Do you not understand this?