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- Comment on Are Street Racers "bad people"? 3 days ago:
Sorry what? I couldn’t hear you because of the fucking
WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA NYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA FYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
outside
- Comment on Its all bots, isn't it? 5 days ago:
You’re clearly a bot
- Comment on New EA Owners Hoping AI Will Cut Costs And Boost Profits, It's Claimed 6 days ago:
A sucker is born every minute.
- Comment on The Video-Game Industry Has a Problem: There Are Too Many Games 1 week ago:
The problem they describe will self-correct; the “market” will drive that. But it might not be pretty. The things below are already happening, but will be further instigated:
New AAA non-franchise titles will be less common because return is less likely amongst the sea of new games coming out. Investors will continue to gamble on them, but they’ll be fewer and further between.
Mid-budget AA games not in a niche will disappear. You’ll still have your city builders, your milsim squad shooters, your competitive RTS games, but you won’t be seeing many new AA action platformers, multiplayer CoD style shooters, block puzzlers, adventure RPGs, etc. They’ll either be bare budget / indie or mega budget.
You’ll see dev cost continue to be driven down to mitigate this risk, making quality suffer. Asset flips, AI, and outsourcing will increase for most studios that don’t get recurring revenue from live service games.
Indies will continue to be random breakout hits, but their studios will die fast because followups to their breakouts often drown in the sea too.
Being an employee in the industry will probably mean jumping from company to company where you might only stick around for 1 - 2 titles before a major layoff. Contracting will get more common.
- Comment on Electronic Arts nears roughly $50 billion deal to go private, WSJ reports 1 week ago:
If EA weren’t already so bloated and full of suits, I might imagine this would allow them to pump the brakes on their scummy moneymaking policies.
- Comment on U.S. to impose tariffs on pharmaceutical drugs, kitchen cabinets, furniture and heavy trucks 1 week ago:
You can tell they’re bullshit made up political numbers. If there was a 68%, a 31%, you could convince me an expert may have at some point been involved. But exactly 100%? Someone pulled these totally out of their ass.
- Comment on Jesus was Jewish, but Christians aren't 1 week ago:
But like…would Jesus have been cool with that?
- Submitted 1 week ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 101 comments
- Comment on I'm stupid...how do I avoid wires when mounting things to the wall? 1 week ago:
I never have, never needed to, never will. I’ve stripped a couple over the years but they come in boxes of like 100 and I just take it out with a bigger phillips head and use a different one.
- Comment on I'm stupid...how do I avoid wires when mounting things to the wall? 1 week ago:
The stud finder sucks, those give false positives for electrical all the time. You’re probably fine if the wall isn’t riddled with outlets, switches, or has a breaker panel.
If you’re really concerned, drill through only until you’re past the drywall. It’s only about a half to five eighths of an inch thick. Wrap a little piece of tape around your drill bit as a depth gauge. Alternatively, there are drywall anchors that look like fat plastic white screws that don’t require a pilot hole. You can get those and avoid drilling entirely.
- Comment on Scam Warning: there's a false-flag crypto coin scam campain on GitHub right now 2 weeks ago:
Currency is just a debt marker. Person from 3000BC watches their friend’s kids for a bit while thet go on a hunt. Gives em an IOU, maybe it’s some fun looking shells. The markers evolved over time for convenience and counterfeit prevention.
- Comment on Coincidence 2 weeks ago:
No because Neil was short for Neilbert
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 18 comments
- Comment on The Unbearable Inefficiency of Fossil Fuels 2 weeks ago:
The efficiency of fossil fuel energy sources is in their energy by volume. That’s is and has always been their main benefit.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density
Sort and compare. Battery technologies, even state of the art ones, are an order of magnitude worse than fuels for energy density. This matters immensely in transport, less so in stationary energy.
Sorry, these sensationalistic headlines just irritate me. I’m all for avoiding the externalities of oil based energy.
- Comment on everyone talks about chip bags being 50% wasted space but no one talks about creamed corn cans being 50% wasted space 2 weeks ago:
Government trying to take away our cornographic material
- Comment on how do school shooters know how to use guns? 3 weeks ago:
Or alternatively (historically), expendable peasants that you don’t want to finance painstaking archery training on.
- Comment on how do school shooters know how to use guns? 3 weeks ago:
It’s not exactly hard to operate a firearm. They are designed to be used by the lowest common denominator of person - total morons.
- Comment on Marriage is FOMO 3 weeks ago:
Loser: “This person is legally bound to me so they can’t easily leave even if they want to”
Chad: “This person has no obligation to stay with me, but chooses to because they want to”
- Comment on OpenAI announces AI-powered hiring platform to take on LinkedIn 4 weeks ago:
Treading water figuring out how to make money somehow when ChatGPT by itself is a colossal money dumpster
- Comment on 'Ultrabroadband' 6G Chip Clocks Speeds 10 Times Faster Than 5G 4 weeks ago:
Is the range 10x shorter?
- Comment on The USA prided itself on a nation of immigrant, heck even the Statue of Liberty says it. When did immigrants (US citizens from the old world) become anti immigrant and why? 4 weeks ago:
Anti-immigrant sentiment in the US has been a thing for hundreds of years. Consider watching Scorcese’s “Gangs of New York” for a (fictionally dramatized) depiction of it in times past.
As for why mass deportations are possible today - - until the late 1800s, immigration to the US was essentially unregulated. The Chinese Exclusion Act and later systems of quotas and literacy tests introduced around the turn of the 20th century instituted the first national immigration policies.
I frankly don’t find it unfair or unreasonable that the US government’s executive branch has chosen to enforce existing immigration laws for political gain. Americans should change their immigration laws if they get upset when they’re actually enforced. If anything, the executive branch was utterly failing to enforce laws that representatives had placed and kept on the books for a long time. If you want more immigrants, make it easy and legal to receive more immigrants without tests, long wait periods, or country of origin quotas.
- Comment on If conditions on earth are perfect for life to form shouldn't have happened more than once? 5 weeks ago:
Life has been found deep in the Earth’s crust. Think about that in this context.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_biosphere
The conditions for deep biosphere life exist throughout the universe. While surface life is apparently very rare, most planetary bodies with a hot core and subsurface moisture should have some layer conducive to this sort of life.
Since we don’t fully how life arises from non-life, it’s speculation as to whether life really ks uncommon or not. But deep biosphere life should easily be the most common form in the universe. Estimates for it on Earth put it at about 90% of our biomass of archaea and bacteria.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Ten years from now, when you’re ready, you pull a Luigi. Go out a hero.
- Comment on If AI takes most of our jobs, money as we know it will be over. What then? 1 month ago:
Ever had an “AI” show up at 2AM on an emergency call to fix a gas leak? How about an “AI” to cook a breakfast sandwich? Maybe an “AI” is taking over babysitting while you’re out of town…? No?
“AI” doesn’t do anything. But if your job primarily revolves around words or pictures on a screen, maybe “AI” can help you with that.
- Comment on Battlefield 6 cheats day 1 of early access. Depite kernel level anti cheat, forced secure boot TPM 2.0 1 month ago:
Wall hacks could be defeated by the server only reporting the positional information about enemy players to game clients when it detects that the client player’s camera should be able to see some part of the other player’s silhouette. This is possible, albeit computationally expensive, but the main functional issue is latency. Nobody wants enemies magically popping into view when their view changes quickly because their ping was more than 6ms lol
- Comment on Xbox Drops Work on ‘Contraband’ Video Game After Four Years 1 month ago:
Microsoft is getting out of the games business.
- Comment on If CEOs think they can replace everyone with AI, why do they think Wall St. will need CEOs? 1 month ago:
As soon as shareholders, and the board, feel an LLM agent can reliably do all the work of a CEO, the CEO will not need to exist. But the problem is that LLM agents require human supervision or intervention at irregular intervals. Since neither shareholders nor the board work full time, there still has to be someone to supervise and be available. The role of the CEO might change, and LLM agents might end up taking on a lot of the work they do. Maybe someday the CEO will mostly just be an “idea guy” that networks with other similar people to drum up deals and gets the LLM agent unstuck every once in a while. But it’s very unlikely there will be no human in the loop during regular work hours.
- Comment on Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade website no-crawl directives 2 months ago:
Good job Cloudflare
- Comment on 2 months ago:
So I can finally abort those crying foetuses on my next plane flight depending on which state we’re over
- Comment on Robot Hand Could Harvest Blackberries Better Than Humans 2 months ago:
Well no shit, they don’t care if they get fuckin stabbed