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- Comment on Return to office is ‘dead,’ Stanford economist says. Here’s why 6 months ago:
Cons: *Added stress of fighting traffic for no reason *Added expense of gasoline for no reason *More burning of fossil fuels for no reason *Worse bathrooms that you have to share *Worse kitchen that you have to share *Worse dress code *Less ergonomic office chair *Worse monitors *Slower Internet (in my case, at least) *More annoying disruptions from coworkers *Less peace and quiet needed for concentration *Have to sit in traffic yet again after you get off work
Pros: *Managers get to feel more important when seeing all their little worker bees’ butts in their chairs. *Promotes shitty “office culture” *Corporate real estate owners get to keep collecting rent
- Comment on Sony’s PlayStation Portal gives a confusing first impression 7 months ago:
False.
- Comment on Sony’s PlayStation Portal gives a confusing first impression 7 months ago:
I’d like to get one of these to take on trips. It’s a shame it can’t be used on the plane, but it would still be nice in the hotel room.
- Comment on Sony Is Halving The Number Of PlayStation Live-Service Games That It Aims To Launch By March 2026 - GameSpot 7 months ago:
Read the room. Everyone hates these games.
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
I don’t know. Handhelds are nice for travel, but they can hardly match the raw power of a dedicated home console.
- Comment on Zelenskiy pushes US for more aid, invites Trump to Ukraine 7 months ago:
That might be the case, but I think Trump supporters will see the invitation as international recognition.
- Comment on Zelenskiy pushes US for more aid, invites Trump to Ukraine 7 months ago:
Inviting Trump makes me lose respect for Zelenskiy
- Comment on Google Fiber goes big with 20-gig plan 8 months ago:
I have their 1gbps plan, but I don’t see how I could utilize anything faster.
- Comment on AI in big budget games is inevitable, say dev vets from Assassin's Creed and Everquest 2: 'Developers hate it … the money is still going to drive absolutely everybody to do it' 8 months ago:
I like the idea of using it to give NPC’s intelligent things to say.
- Comment on I'm surprised there's not more cartoons with mimes as protagonists. It would probably cut down animation costs and you wouldn't need a voice actor. 8 months ago:
There have been plenty of silent (or mostly silent) cartoon characters, even if they weren’t actual mines.
- Comment on Another spoken word album is coming from Bill Shatner 8 months ago:
I saw him speak at a Comic Con. He seemed like he has an endless supply of anecdotes for us. It was very entertaining.
- Comment on So Far, AI Is a Money Pit That Isn't Paying Off 8 months ago:
Steve Jobs killed Flash. It was premeditated.
- Comment on Amazon's Alexa fumbles its facts by falsely claiming the 2020 presidential election was stolen 8 months ago:
You’re probably right. In this age of impressive AI, Alexa is still dumb as a polished rock.
- Comment on Meta's new AI assistant trained on public Facebook and Instagram posts 8 months ago:
If it’s trained on Facebook and Instagram posts, it will be a troll and an idiot.
- Comment on Anyone for text-based games? 8 months ago:
Very cool! This brings back memories of that time I was eaten by a grue.
- Comment on VR still makes 40-70% of players want to throw up, and that's a huge problem for the companies behind it 8 months ago:
I also cannot play 1st person games for this same reason. But oddly enough, VR games actually make me feel less motion sick than flat 1st person games do.
- Comment on IBM Software mandates in-office work for employees living within 50 miles | "Software Executive Focals" will be laying down the law 9 months ago:
Gotta justify all those facilities expenses!
- Comment on ChatGPT is losing some of its hype, as traffic falls for the third month in a row 9 months ago:
They definitely nerfed it. We will probably end up in a situation where corporations and the rich have access to god-tier AI, and everyone else has access to mediocre, ad-supported AI.
- Comment on Texas grid paid firm to stop mining crypto during heatwave 9 months ago:
I need to get into the business of being paid to not mine crypto. Sounds lucrative, and I have the skillset already.
- Comment on Google kills two-year “Pixel Pass” subscription after just 22 months 9 months ago:
Google cancelled a project?!?
/Shocked Pikachu face
- Comment on [deleted] 10 months ago:
It’s okay to be a purest.
- Comment on As Twitter destroys its brand by renaming itself X, Mastodon user numbers are again soaring | TechCrunch 10 months ago:
He has so thoroughly ruined Twitter that you can’t help but wonder if that was his goal from the outset.
- Comment on Is saying "Don't need to know hebrew to know the Holocaust was bad" antisemetic? 10 months ago:
No. It’s a fact. You also don’t need to know any other specific language in order to know that the Holocaust was bad.