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- 24 years later, Warren Spector offers more details about Deus Ex's cut 'Denver airport conspiracy' mission that was 'so crazy no one would believe it'www.pcgamer.com ↗Submitted 21 hours ago to patientgamers@sh.itjust.works | 9 comments
- Comment on The Price Is Right: a big ad space where the joy of winning is just a distraction from the true goal - to sell more products. 2 days ago:
And I’m okay with that.
- Comment on The PlayStation 2 5 days ago:
It was my go to console and my DVD player for years. Played so many JRPGs on there and made me a lifelong fan of ratchet and clank and one of the few games that my now wife could play (she’s terrible with video games). Still lamenting that Dark Cloud series never got the success o thought it should have.
Still have my PS2, still boots and all of it, including the mad catz controller, still works.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 now delisted in 177 countries 6 days ago:
Just corporate greed for more of you data to sell.
- Submitted 6 days ago to games@lemmy.world | 89 comments
- Comment on A YouTuber let the Cybertruck close on his finger to test the new sensor update. It didn't go well. 6 days ago:
It’s like you didn’t read or did read and didn’t actually complement what the article or linked video was actually taking about.
You sure would make a great fit at Tesla’ engineering team.
- Comment on A YouTuber let the Cybertruck close on his finger to test the new sensor update. It didn't go well. 6 days ago:
Found a member of the Tesla software safety team!
- Comment on A YouTuber let the Cybertruck close on his finger to test the new sensor update. It didn't go well. 6 days ago:
Because like you said, it’s a nice to have feature. I like me wife’s auto closing hatch for when I have a handful of boxes for that final grocery run and just walk away and it closes. It’s literally just really nice convenience feature and if it fails, you go back to closing it manually.
- Comment on What’s happening at Tesla? Here’s what experts think. 1 week ago:
And it’s be okay with that honestly.
Sure he’s an asshole, always was, but his money got the electric car competition started and now there’s actually viable cars and a somewhat competitive market that could survive the loss of Tesla.
- Comment on A YouTuber let the Cybertruck close on his finger to test the new sensor update. It didn't go well. 1 week ago:
Yeah, I’m an embedded software developer myself and yeah, when we architect our code we have safety critical sections identified with software safety reviews and we always go with the assumption that we’re going to run into that one guy who’s the living embodiment of Murphy’s law and go from there with that design to minimize the potential for injury and death.
Can’t imagine who the hell is in charge of the software safety reviews there that let that pass.
- Comment on A YouTuber let the Cybertruck close on his finger to test the new sensor update. It didn't go well. 1 week ago:
Judkins said that after the finger test, a lead cybertruck engineer at Tesla said he did the video wrong.
The engineer told him the frunk increases in pressure every single time it closes and detects resistance, Judkins said. It’s going to assume you want to close the frunk and maybe something like a bag is getting in the way, which would make it close harder.
Are you kidding me? You did the test wrong on a safety critical feature? No you dumbass engineer, you designed it wrong. Why in the holy fuck would you make a safety critical algorithm keep apply pressure on subsequent attempts???
- Comment on Many universities calling in police today also celebrate campus protests of the past 1 week ago:
This was back when colleges were still focused more on academics and critical thinking.
Now it’s about million dollar, MBA presidents, NCAA, alumni money, and the amount of money they generate.
- A Tekken 8 streamer spent almost a week using a one-button mashing bot to prove that Eddy Gordo is as big a menace as everwww.pcgamer.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to games@lemmy.world | 6 comments
- Comment on Elon Musk Laid Off Supercharger Team After Taking $17 Million in Federal Charging Grants 1 week ago:
This is why I fucking hate government grants to corporations. These assholes never put in safeguards to actually force these jackass companies to actually use it as intended.
- Comment on Come on, science! 1 week ago:
I have a galaxy S5 that you’d be interested in then. Science already solved it and even gave it water resistance to boot.
- Comment on Texas Attracted California Techies. Now It’s Losing Thousands of Them. 1 week ago:
You are being willingly obtuse when I have provided the study abstract that contains the methodology, the data behind it, and 30+ citations and sources.
Don’t come talking about ‘good faith discussion’ and asking for sources when you clearly didn’t even bother to read the information provided.
- Comment on Texas Attracted California Techies. Now It’s Losing Thousands of Them. 1 week ago:
So you’re just going to be willingly obtuse. Got it.
- Comment on Texas Attracted California Techies. Now It’s Losing Thousands of Them. 1 week ago:
itep.org/whopays-7th-edition/#income-taxes
This report identifies the most regressive state and local tax systems and the policy choices that drive that outcome. Many of the most upside-down tax systems have another trait in common: they are frequently hailed as “low tax” states, often with an emphasis on their lack of an income tax. But this raises the question: “low tax” for whom?
This study finds that very few states achieve low tax rates across the board for all income groups, and those that do usually rely heavily on energy or tourism sectors that cannot realistically be replicated elsewhere. Alaska is the only state that ranks among the bottom 10 lowest-tax states for all seven income groups included in the study. New Hampshire and North Dakota are among the lowest-tax states for six of their seven income groups. Nevada, South Dakota, and Wyoming have low taxes for five of their income groups.
The absence of an income tax, or low overall tax revenue collections, are often used as shorthand for classifying a state as “low tax.” These two measures are, in fact, reliable indicators that taxes will be low for the highest-income earners, but they tell us next to nothing about the tax level being charged to low-income families.
Florida, Tennessee, Texas, and Washington all forgo broad-based personal income taxation and have low taxes on the rich, yet they are among the highest-tax states in the country for poor families. These states are indicative of a broader pattern. Using the data in this report, we find a modest negative correlation between tax rates charged to the lowest and highest income groups. In other words, if a state has low taxes for its highest-income earners, it is more likely to have high taxes for its lowest-income residents.
Similarly, we find that the overall level of tax revenue collected in a state has almost zero correlation with the tax rate charged to that state’s lowest-income families. Put another way, states that collect comparatively little tax revenue tend to levy tax rates on poor families that are roughly on par with those charged in other states. And, as a group, states collecting higher amounts of revenue do not do so with above-average tax rates on the poor.
For high-income families, on the other hand, overall revenues are highly correlated with their own personal tax bills. This suggests that high-income families receive a financial windfall when a state chooses to collect a low level of tax revenue overall, though that windfall comes at the cost of fewer or lower-quality public services.
- Comment on Texas Attracted California Techies. Now It’s Losing Thousands of Them. 1 week ago:
Good. Fuck Texas.
- Submitted 1 week ago to technology@lemmy.world | 28 comments
- Comment on You can drive for 1 minute in Hong Kong and cross a district. Your mind cannot comprehend this. 1 week ago:
I’d like to know exactly when you could get through driving through Wan Chai in a minute. Hell the ding ding would take a few minutes getting through it.
- Comment on ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say 2 weeks ago:
I mean I’d be all fucking for it and honestly take the rest of facebook with you if you could.
- Comment on Tesla Cybertruck turns into world's most expensive brick after car wash 2 weeks ago:
So I’ll push back and state that infotainment systems aren’t embedded systems, more akin to a phone OS with the wide array of UX applications.
But yeah these infotainment systems are often left running on newer cars for connectivity and other features and just like any other OS, leaving it up and running is going to slow and get unstable over time for to memory usage.
Like I said, mostly not a big deal unless you’re a Tesla and critical information is there and you didn’t regression test properly.
- Comment on Tesla Cybertruck turns into world's most expensive brick after car wash 2 weeks ago:
It’s just like in my model 3 or my wife’s Teluride, the info screen/software can lock up or get stuck in a weird state and both have a way to reset it.
Normally neither would be a big deal, I push a button(s) and the screen goes black, it comes back up, again no big deal but at least with the Teluride, there’s a the instrument cluster and heads up display to show your speed. I’m assuming the cyber truck is like my model 3 where the speed is only shown on the center screen. If it take’s five hours over the minute of downtime, well that’s going to be a problem. That said, in my model 3, I’ve only had to do this a handful of times on my model 3, mostly because the radio isn’t working and only once on the newer Teluride because the map was stupid.
- Comment on Tesla Cybertruck turns into world's most expensive brick after car wash 2 weeks ago:
Not even a water issue.
The advisor said that “it is a known issue in the Cybertruck that when you do a screen reset, instead of resetting in the standard two minutes, it takes five hours.”
This is crappy and lax software testing and verification testing.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to patientgamers@sh.itjust.works | 2 comments
- Comment on Older patient gamers: what is your preferred gaming platform? 2 weeks ago:
Still mainly my PC/steam deck but I mix in the switch in there for specific games and the xbox every once in a while for spider heck.
- Comment on We Love Katamari REROLL+ Royal Reverie for 8.96 US 3 weeks ago:
Dude, this was a deal from three months ago…three months ago.
Deals, like in life, moves on and changes.
- Comment on Star Wars Outlaws Requires The Internet To Install It 4 weeks ago:
They’re talking about DRM on the installer there so no, most other games don’t have that “feature”.
- Comment on Star Wars Outlaws' $110 and $130 editions prompt a collective sigh from potential players tired of season passes and ill-advised early access periods 4 weeks ago:
I mean welcome to social media?
You know you have options to block and filler what you see so you can live in your bubble of only positivity while the AAAA gaming industry continues to get worse.
Heck, I mean feel free to block me since I tend to post positive and negative stories of it bothers you so much, no skin off my back while I post positive stories about Arrowhead and Larian Studios until they start doing this that aren’t positive.