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It's about $150 more than the original Valve Index, which given inflation and ram prices is honestly pretty good

I think you answered it. Everyone has their own moral compass and act accordingly.

The concept of “No Ethical Consumption Under Capitalism” and the moral framing of later seasons of The Good Place give good representations of how.

Ultimately each person makes a mark of what they can and cannot care about, and caring about literally everything is a fast-track to total impotence.

Some situations are (relatively) easy:

  * Harry Potter is a relatively isolated (though formative for many)
    franchise.

Some situations are way harder.

  * Nestle creates a HUGE amount of the food we eat.
  * Amazon powers half the internet
  * Microsoft is the backbone of a huge number of corporate sites.
    Excel makes the world go round.

Unfortunately, this is all up to you, and there are individual scales of “harm to the world by participating” vs “harm to you by abstaining” you have to personally weigh. There is no global answer.

People … say that all the time. *I* say that all the time. It’s true enough to be accurate in 99.9% of the cases; and we put barriers in place when implementing code (like configuring the hashing algorithm) to keep it that way.

Battery life is better.

> Longer Workout Battery Life and Faster Charging

Apple Watch Series 12 continues to offer up to 24 hours of everyday battery life9 and now offers up to 10 hours of battery life during an outdoor workout — 25 percent more than the previous model.10

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An increase to 10 hours of workout tells me battery life is better, but maybe not “better enough” to give the 24 hour number an increase (or the higher HRV checking frequency is eating the rest of the gains)

It has a Steam Review Score of 84%. What are you talking about?

I’m one of those weird people that liked the game from the very beginning, and I’ve bought it at least twice for myself (different systems). I played it like 50 hours at the start. I always wanted a simple, procedurally generated space exploration game.

They’ve done an incredible job fleshing out the universe, giving us new things we can build, simple city management for people that want that, and the same exploration system for those that wanted that.

It was sold as, is, and will always be a sandbox game with some simple, procedurally generated “missions” to get you going to the next point of interest or having the next, relatively low-stakes fight.

And that’s okay. People play Animal Crossing and Minecraft. People can play this. Some of us are happy to. Some of us see a $50 game and say “yeah, 50-100 hours of time in this is my money’s worth”. And some of us spend 3000 hours in the game because we love the creating and sandbox feel of it.

Some people like Farming Simulator 2020 - I’ll never understand it and it’s not for me, but plenty of people do. Some people like Powerwash Simulator.

It’s okay if No Man’s Sky wasn’t the *specific* game you were hoping for and if it hasn’t become it; but that doesn’t make it a bad game, it just makes it “not for you”.

I wish these threads weren’t always filled with people complaining about a game that wasn’t made for them. It’s been a decade. It’s time to move on.

Part of me is secretly hoping / assuming they’re releasing new features as a testing bed for the changes in Light No Fire. I’m also very hopeful for Light No Fire. *VERY* hopeful, but I have to assume all these updates are for their broader engine. I hope..

That’s fine, it has a sustained concurrent players online of > 7k every day for the last 6 months [0]. Few games on Steam achieve that.

While several people are complaining about a one-time-cost game with an absurd amount of updates that had a rough launch, thousands of people are continuously happy, the subreddit expresses joy. It’s okay to “not get it”; but at some level, this much hate and dogpiling over a game that’s not harmful and not fostering a toxic community is … embarrassing for those participating in the hate.

[0] https://steamcharts.com/app/275850#6m

If someone is that frustrated with AI, do they not just … switch to not using AI and doing it by hand, asking simpler next-step questions and hand-coding, instead?

But it’s *wildly* unhelpful. Would you talk to your coworker like that? “Half the site is blue” or would you laugh and go, “Uh, whoops, now both buttons are blue, just wanted the ‘Add to Cart’ button.”

Either that, or your coworker themselves would laugh and tell you about it later.

That’s also where this quiz lost me. I wouldn’t respond in either way, I’d say “all buttons look blue now. Can we make it so that just the Add to Cart button is blue? I’m okay with Add to Cart having its own class to make it easier.” or something.

I don’t have a specific example; but I don’t like the idea of an author, photographer, painter, songwriter, etc’s familt losing their copyright because their plane crashed the day after they recorded a record.

And again, to be clear, since apparently people think I’m defending life+70. I am abso-fucking-lutely not.

I want 14+14 or raw 28 back.

Edit: oh apparently I do, thanks Kagi Assistant.

Otis Redding Died in a plane crash literally 3 days after recording a famous track and his family earned a LOT after his passing.

I completely agree that life+70 is absolutely obscene, as my response to your parent post clarifies. I moved on from that since I thought my stance was clear (14 + 14 or 28 total), and moved on to “we should still honor the copyright even if they die, because heirs matter.”

NEVER have I argued for life+70 and I never will.

> We grant copyrights to encourage production of new works for the benefit of the public

Which includes giving creators royalty rights that can be passed on to their heirs, so the elder author can finish their manuscript on their deathbed as a gift to their family.

Original copyright was 14 years + 14 years - then it was changed to 28.

I'd love to see it brought back down to that again.

When trying to describe sizes and scale, having a reference that one of their readers would be able to go "oh, ... that size, huh?" is useful. There's a meme about "Americans will use anything but the metric system" when describing buildings as "100 school buses back to back" or "3 football fields"; but it's to make numbers real and relatable.

If the article said "500km", someone in the comments would go "that's about as wide as Germany!" or similar.

And, since it was km -> "state size", it was almost certainly for the American audience, since they would have used something like the size of Germany for a European, or "twice the size of South Korea" or something.

My guy, there’s more weird and niche indie games than there’s ever been. Not too long ago, even AAA studios like EA were trying super weird stuff, like It Takes Two.

Nostalgia glasses are real, and yeah we don’t have a Good and Evil game anymore, and we’re not in an RTS renaissance; but there are a LOT of VERY good games out there, even for your particular niche - and if there’s not, then Godot and Unity make it VERY easy for you to add to the pile, like hundreds of thousands of teams before you in the last decade.

I was going to say a comment about “back in my day”; but your account is from 2011, so you should know what video gaming was like in ye olden era. Did you mod in a Mew, or 256 Masterballs in Pokemon Red with a Game Genie? Why not? How about doing some weird stuff with Missing No?

What about loading in some rare items in Diablo 1 on your local save and them importing them into Battlnet? especially before Diablo 2, 1.10?

How about Early Minecraft - we’re talking Beta days. Did you test out those X-Ray block packs that helped you see diamonds?

Cheating literally only matters when there’s a PvP or leaderboard or whatever glory-theft that comes from it. It’s only really shamed on when it hurts other people’s gameplay experience - like screwing with a leaderboard at the “low pain” end and ruining a multiplayer experience in the middle end. For everything else, it’s an experience modifier or a difficulty slider for your own private game experience. Lots of games nowadays add in those difficulty sliders directly or add sandbox modes where there used to be “cheating” that stuff in.

Honestly, it sounds like you’re going to end up asking a ton of very specific functionality questions that Da Vinci Resolve and co do in their own ways.

Does OpenShot? For your specific use cases? I dunno, but it’s free, so give it half an hour or an hour and see? You’ll get more info than from many of us that probably don’t use this kind of software often.

And then you can report back your findings! :D

With enough time, love and leadership direction, any art-focused OSS can be the next Blender or Krita :)

I mean, AWS did just recently go down due to a vibe-coding / agent-run-amuck incident, didn’t it?

I think you underestimate the skill of more experienced mechanics. Tractor (as in 18 wheeler) and master mechanics tend to know what’s going on under the hood in detail.

I mean, from my training long ago, a good test suite is usually / always a few multiples in size of the codebase.

100k lines of app code? 300-500k lines of test, sort of thing.

Have you seen many of the replies in this thread and others? They’re not doing that. They’re putting it into production code. Their company’s thought leaders are trying to say that review itself is a waste of time, etc.

That’s not “disposable prototyping” that’s whole versions of the codebase written with barely a human in sight.

Route A seems genuinely horrifying to me - maybe not for small and/or helper scripts; but for anything substantial. For anything that bites you or someone else hard when things go bad.

I don’t want a vibe-coded, mass-produced diabetes tracking app, or banking tool, or tax management software. I don’t want a vibe-coded power grid analysis software.

I don’t care if a person’s little, local scripting thing is vibe-coded. I don’t care if an artist’s 0->1 game code is vibe-coded; but that’s not what a lot of the things we’re talking about here really are.

We’ve only been on this train for 3-4 years, and in that period, we’ve already invented terms for this kind of vibe-coded, highly-breakable crud. We’ve also had a few, relatively high-profile in their spheres bugs come out and hurt people’s real, lived experiences.

And that’s just the stuff where the house of cards failed quickly.

Why? You own the pager, I assume. You own the mental hit when something you let go live (especially with your name on the PR) leaks customer data or deleted someone’s work.

And if you’re not reading your own work, is someone else during the PR? Are you reading other people’s PRs?

How do you know what your product does and how it does it?

So, I admit that I'm finally getting into this "let Claude help you write code" stuff, and I'm enjoying it a bit for the stuff I, honestly, just don't want to write; but ... I still read it. I still review it. I still look at the code like I'm peer-reviewing it and go, "Uh ... I don't like this area at all. That's going to be really hard to debug at 3am" and so on.

I guess my thought / question is: this is your code. Why are you submitting the code to the git repo like that, with all the wrong text? I get making mistakes here or there; but ... everywhere? Enough that it's causing huge problems you can't quickly correct?

And ... aren't you lucky you still *have* the context in your mind? What if you hadn't caught it, or someone else had done that and you inherited that code with those wrong comments that you let through the PR and into the main branch?

I’m not entirely sure why you’re downvoted. Though I don’t expect “ancient aliens” or anything of the sort, translating from A to B is literally what LLMs were invented for.

They’d be very, very good at reading, discerning, summarizing, etc, vast quantities of text like this.

Obliged means he was doing something he didn’t want to do.

Others here are saying, like Ozzy, he might have been doing what he wanted to do.

To quote the poet, Dylan Thomas,

Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

This is the most recent of those videos:

https://youtu.be/vS6HEes8daw

(edit: seriously? Who downvotes this. The preceeding comment mentions a video, I share the source, wtf. Don't shoot the messenger.)