derpgon
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- Comment on Borderlands 4 Launches To Mostly Negative Steam Reviews Over Performance Issues And Crashing 4 days ago:
True, TT’s B&B was great. Shame the TT standalone game lacked that charm and any meaningful engame.
- Comment on Borderlands 4 Launches To Mostly Negative Steam Reviews Over Performance Issues And Crashing 4 days ago:
Let’s be honest, the only story missions we ever cared about were those starring Handsome Jack.
- Comment on Exactly Six Months Ago, the CEO of Anthropic Said That in Six Months AI Would Be Writing 90 Percent of Code 4 days ago:
Hell I am absolutely positive that any Windows code could pass as AI written, even some before AI was even starting to take off lol.
- Comment on Mercedes and BMW, eternal rivals on a race once again - this time to the bottom. 1 week ago:
BMW ass looks nice, combine it with the MB front grille in black and I won’t be too mad.
- Comment on Android’s most beloved launcher may be done for good 1 week ago:
To feed you ads, or make you pay for nothing special. Nova - the launcher from the article - is great, very customizable, and lightweight.
- Comment on How long do we have before PCs get locked bootloaders and corporations ban installation of "non-approved" software? (for context: Google is restricting sideloading worldwide on Android ETA 2027) 2 weeks ago:
Oh and leave a bad review so other people won’t make the same mistake!
- Comment on How did it come to be that only two companies supply all of the world's PC graphics chips? 2 weeks ago:
Rocking my second Thinkpad with full Linux, it has been a very pleasant experience both times. Sadly, had to switch a year back to from E15 to T16 because the keyboard started failing and it wasn’t servicable from my side. Still works with external one though.
- Comment on How long do we have before PCs get locked bootloaders and corporations ban installation of "non-approved" software? (for context: Google is restricting sideloading worldwide on Android ETA 2027) 2 weeks ago:
Linux is heavily used on servers. Losing server sector means a huge chunk of revenue.
- Comment on How long do we have before PCs get locked bootloaders and corporations ban installation of "non-approved" software? (for context: Google is restricting sideloading worldwide on Android ETA 2027) 2 weeks ago:
It is entirely possible to lock down computer parts to only run Windows and signed drivers. However, the sheer amount of available computer parts, open sourced hardware, widely understood technologies, and not enough monopoly makes this unfeasible for anyone to really try to implement (yet).
If Intel started doing Windows only, they would lose so much revenue from big corporations and data centers it would ruin them, and everyone would just buy AMD instead. Consumer market in computer sector is secondary.
For phones, you really do not have enough alternatives. You choose between evil and more evil. Think of it as Linux in it’s starting days - missing features that makes it unusable for the common folk. Linux phones haven’t matured yet, that’s why you have to choose between feature rich vs heavily degraded user experience, as opposed to minor inconvenience of not being able to run some apps.
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 2 weeks ago:
Realistic games do not quite count, because the controls are complicated by nature and learning them is the gameplay.
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 2 weeks ago:
Usually boils down to a given category and combination of main elements. Open world, survival, crafting, automation, FPS, rogue lite/like, RPG, inventory management, RTS, puzzle, first/third person, action combat, tat target, top down, isometric, etc.
Of course, there are heavy outliers, but those usually require heavy wiki / youtube use to even get into. Same with spreadsheet simulator games where mastery does not necessarily come with time but understanding of hidden mexhanics and synergies.
As an example, I used to play WoW a lot and raided a lot, then got back into GW2 after 10 years (where I didn’t do any dungeons or big raids, and if I did I couldn’t remember), and didn’t have problems with mechanics as others who were playing for several years. The mechanics just make sense, even when it is a new one - stay out of red circles, stack during attacks that split damage, damage phases etc.
When I got into Valheim, I already knew what would be needed without having to see any tutorials - build a house, make a farm, roughly where to look for what, and how to find info correctly.
There is not much I havent explored in my younger days, and throwing me into an FPS game I haven’t played would probably mean I’d be in the top quarter on my team in two or three games.
When started Helldivers 2, I could no problem take on diff 8 (out of likr 10 or 11) and stay up to speed with others way before I unlocked it, as lower difficulties did not pose much of a challenge besides not having the top gear unlocked.
Sure, I won’t know immediately what to do or how to control the character, but when I see a streamer struggling to clear content and see they throw points into defense on an attack character especially when it HIGHLIGHTS the recommended stats (looking at Clair Obscur), I just wanna tip my eyeballs out.
I am usually having a hard time with choices regarding optimization, like when I get to choose “do you want 1 level up or 10 attack power”, bitch I dunno. But we are back at spreadsheets.
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 2 weeks ago:
I played games all my life, and it always baffled me how some streamers can master one game over several years and then be completely unusable in another. Like bruh, it is still a game, it is not THAT different. Sure, they might suck because they didn’t master the mechanics yet, but struggling with basic controls for an hour? They gotta be playing it…
Throw me into a game, and if the controls make sense it will probably be second nature to me in 15 minutes for me.
- Comment on The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software 2 weeks ago:
I think the update is already installed, just waiting for the kill switch.
- Comment on Tesla sales plunge 40% in Europe as Chinese EV rival BYD's triple 2 weeks ago:
So does a lot of countries, and I am not sure if a car company has anything to do with decisions of politicians.
- Comment on Tesla sales plunge 40% in Europe as Chinese EV rival BYD's triple 2 weeks ago:
On a side note, Audi and VW are both under the same owner.
Why are German cars a bad choice? I’d rather buy German than get another Citroen tbh.
- Comment on Computer Science, a popular college major, has one of the highest unemployment rates 3 weeks ago:
On oné hand, courses exist, but they can’t prepare you for company specific situations. Companies rely on people knowing everything because they had some course.
- Comment on Computer Science, a popular college major, has one of the highest unemployment rates 3 weeks ago:
Well said, I do enjoy my field and my employer. I worked for quite a few different companies. One I was all on my own and had to learn myself - my seniors hardly ever had time to explain shit to me so I was left alone with documentation and asking least possible amount of questions. Then, I had a team leader who was passionate about explaining stuff and telling me what to do, how, and why.
Everyone is different, do what you like, chase what you desire, and do the job you enjoy.
On the other hand, I am now in the boots of a senior, and I am desperately trying to show more junior colleagues how exciting it is to explore the work we do - nobody seems to care, nobody seems to implement whatever co shit I try to show them, nobody wants to change their ways, and I feel like fighting windmills.
If you want to be successful, you have to either be super lucky, or be passionate and constantly improve to reach new heights.
- Comment on Computer Science, a popular college major, has one of the highest unemployment rates 3 weeks ago:
It is not hard to hire someone, it is hard to hire someone who doesn’t give you more work than they solve. I am not against hiring juniors, but they have to show initiative that they are passionate and able to improve. I don’t want a person who will be junior for the rest of their career, because juniors usually require babysitting and that that away work and attention from competent people (the chads who actually build the core features and have to attend business meetings on why it is so good for customers to see additional offers during checking out).
It is a combination - incompetent HR, incompetent candidates, or bad hiring process. I am yet to apply to a company with a hiring process I’d call pleasant on all angles.
- Comment on Computer Science, a popular college major, has one of the highest unemployment rates 3 weeks ago:
We do look at GH history and activity - can’t say, out of about 50 candidates in the past two months that I reviewed, have any meaningful activity on GH.
Not saying I am proving you wrong, but finding a candidate that has anything to show publicly is hard. Hell, even I, having a very well paying job, have much to show off publicly. I can, however, share my personal stuff. I’ve got tons of opened issues tho 🤣
- Comment on Computer Science, a popular college major, has one of the highest unemployment rates 3 weeks ago:
As an undiagnosed autistic dev, I am starting to realize there are not many good non autistic devs. I wonder what is the reason.
- Comment on Computer Science, a popular college major, has one of the highest unemployment rates 3 weeks ago:
There I’d always free time to self educate. Being a programmer means constantly keeping up with the news, new technologies, and adapting to new standards to keep the code clean, maintainable, extendable, readable, and relatively fast.
- Comment on Computer Science, a popular college major, has one of the highest unemployment rates 3 weeks ago:
Not necessarily, it might mean it I’d an industry easy to get into, but hard to master. If I was short on people, and inexperienced person might actually make mistakes that require even more work to fix.
Everyone thinks they are Mr Robot after they let ChatGPT create a simple HTML page. No, they are not, and they won’t even pass as a junior. Surprise surprise, you have to know the basics.
- Comment on Microsoft's latest Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt your data 3 weeks ago:
Well, do it manually then! Without internet, you can’t send any tracking to the corporate, and without a working drive the data will be unreadable after you are done ;)
- Comment on Microsoft's latest Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt your data 3 weeks ago:
Just update, find a script to repeatedly write a 50gb file filled with garbage, and pray it kills your drive.
- Comment on MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing 3 weeks ago:
Management was planning implementing Google Vertex (AI search platform), but since we already have all our data in ElasticSearch and it supports vectors, I said why not try to implement it myself. With integrated GPU and a very small model, I could create a working POC and it is gonna be - not overexaggerating - 50 times cheaper.
- Comment on Plex server patching required 4 weeks ago:
That’s what you get for using anything that doesn’t work fully offline. Seriously people still defending Plex and not seeing that it will bite them back sooner or later are delusional.
Given that hardware doesn’t die, my Jellyfin will probably work until the heat death of the universe.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 4 weeks ago:
Finally got into Deathloop, it is not super long, but pretty cool concept with enough storytelling to not overwhelm but satisfying enough.
- Comment on The EU still wants to scan all your chats – and the rules could come into force by October 2025 1 month ago:
You don’t have to say everything on those apps, tho, just do basic stuff and for longer convos request an encrypted chat app.
- Comment on Tesla loses Autopilot wrongful death case in $329 million verdict 1 month ago:
Yep, can confirm works for my car too. If I press the gas pedal enough I can go faster than set cruise speed (for example, if I want to pass someone). If I lightly tap brakes, it turns kinda immediately.
- Comment on Atlassian terminates 150 staff with pre-recorded video, AI customer contact solutions rolled out 1 month ago:
I hate Jira, I hate how bloated and slow it is, and I fucking despise all the AI shoving up my face. Now they added a unclosable sidebar with all their apps nobody uses, but you can’t get rid of it.